The spirit of mass timber is the ethos of Portland; there’s no better place for this conference than the City of Roses. For the eighth year in a row, the world’s largest gathering of mass timber experts and stakeholders assembled for the 2024 International Mass Timber Conference (IMTC) at the Oregon Convention Center. Pre-conference events held on March 26 provided context for the two-day agenda to follow, with local building tours and crash courses in both mass timber basics and recent advancements in research.