The nation’s top engineers from business, government and academia gathered in Washington, D.C. Jan. 30-31 for ASCE’s Civil Engineering Forum for Innovation (CEFI) conference to discuss innovations to address the world’s complex infrastructure crisis and how to anticipate tomorrow's challenges to make the structures of today sustainable for the future. Presenters addressed the current unsustainable state of our economic development and anticipating what will be needed for an undefined future.