Matt Abeles

Co-Founder

Matt Abeles is co-founder and managing director of BuiltWorlds Media, an online media and events company that burst onto the scene in 2014, disrupting the built environment and all those who work and innovate within. As a thought leader on real estate, finance, and the fast-moving technologies transforming design, construction, and development, Abeles oversees BuiltWorlds' expanding outreach to established and emerging industry players committed to pushing our industry forward. A frequent public speaker, moderator and event organizer, he has played a leading role in events across the U.S. for the Construction Owners Association of America, the Mechanical Contractors Association of America, the AEC Hackathon, World of Concrete, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Northwestern University, the University of Washington, Texas A&M and more. Those dozens of events, mostly at BW headquarters in Chicago, but also on the road in Seattle, New York, California, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, have afforded Abeles continuing opportunities to spread the BW gospel -- advocating for a more collaborative, constructive and creative way of ensuring a more sustainable, efficient, and smarter future.