# NACTO Designing Cities Conference 2027

> NACTO's 15th annual Designing Cities Conference in Nashville, the main gathering for city transportation department staff.

May 11-16, 2027 (2027-05-11 to 2027-05-16).
Location: Nashville, TN.
Organizer: National Association of City Transportation Officials.
Official site: https://nacto.org/events/about-the-designing-cities-conference/
Canonical: https://its-feed.com/events/nacto-designing-cities-2027/

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NACTO holds its 15th annual Designing Cities Conference on May 11-16 in Nashville. It is
the association's main gathering for city transportation department staff, with
programming across street design practice, curb management, safety and the data cities use
to run and evaluate their networks. NACTO says registration information will be posted in
late 2026. The venue is not yet published.

## Why it matters for the data layer

Municipal practice standards get set in this crowd, and NACTO's curb, bike and transit
street guidance shapes what cities end up collecting and publishing about their own
streets. A design guide that assumes an inventory implies someone has to build the
inventory.

Curb data specification and policy conversations have historically run through these
rooms, which is reason enough for a data-layer reader to watch the program when it posts.
Treat the 2027 listing as provisional until registration opens: the dates here come from
an archived copy of NACTO's own conference page rather than a live fetch.

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