September 9, 2026 · Fredericksburg, Texas
A convening of developers, surveyors, planners, engineers, attorneys, and industry professionals for a focused conversation on the pressures shaping development across the Hill Country.
Today's Schedule
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Cody Musick, RPLS — CEO, Waymaker Land Advisors & Surveyors
CJ Musick — COO, Waymaker Land Advisors & Surveyors
Water & Development in the Texas Hill Country
Title, Easements and Energy Leases
Coffee & conversation
A Developer's Guide to Hill Country Groundwater
Stop Marshall Creek Solar Farm & Battery Storage — Community Response
Networking, door prizes & closing remarks
Your Hosts
A licensed Registered Professional Land Surveyor, Cody leads Waymaker's land advisory and survey services across the Texas Hill Country and founded the Hill Country Developers Forum to convene the industry around the region's most pressing development challenges.
CJ leads HR, people systems, team culture, and organizational development at Waymaker. With two decades of college-level instruction, communication, and mediation experience, she focuses on leadership development and helping small businesses build high-capacity teams.
Emily runs the Hill Country Developers Forum day to day, from securing speakers and coordinating logistics to writing and editing the Developers Digest newsletter. She leads all marketing, scheduling, and sponsor relationships that keep the forum running each quarter.
In her role at the Hill Country Alliance, Marisa works with local partners, grassroots advocates, and elected officials to promote policies and projects that advance water supply resilience and protect groundwater and surface water flows. She got her start in Texas water as a program strategist for the Texas Water Foundation and currently serves as an alternate for the Water Conservation Advisory Council and Region L Regional Water Planning Group. Marisa received her Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment, specializing in water resource management and policy; her graduate research focused on Texas groundwater management and community water planning.
Nathan has over 20 years of experience in real estate and energy, representing property owners and leveraging prior in-house roles with development companies. His practice focuses on land use and development for property owners, including acquisitions and divestitures; resolving easement, encroachment, and title issues; oil and gas leasing; pipeline rights-of-way; renewable energy leasing for wind, solar, and battery storage; and data center land transactions. Nathan spent eight years developing wind, solar, and battery energy projects in-house with independent power producers, and has spent the last two decades negotiating pipeline right-of-ways and leases. A sixth-generation Texas landowner whose ancestors settled in Texas over 180 years ago, Nathan applies pragmatic, creative problem-solving to help landowners assess the best use of their property and resources.
Kaveh has over 26 years of experience in the water resources industry. He holds a B.S. and M.S. from The University of Texas at Austin and founded WRGS in 2002 to provide high-level hydrogeological services to clients across Texas. He has designed hundreds of public supply wells throughout the state — including large-scale well fields — and has conducted thousands of groundwater studies and investigations. Kaveh is a Past President of the Texas Ground Water Association's Groundwater Sciences Division and is a licensed fixed-wing pilot through the FAA. He raises Texas Longhorns on his ranch in the Hill Country.
David is a Texas native, born in Brenham and raised in Bellaire. He graduated from Bellaire High School and earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University. In 1985, David began a 35-year career with Houston Lighting & Power Company, which later became CenterPoint Energy — with utility experience spanning nuclear power, fossil power, electric distribution, gas distribution, and customer service. He retired in 2023. Today, David is spearheading the Stop Marshall Creek Solar Farm & Battery Storage Project, a community effort focused on the proposed 1,000-acre Marshall Springs Solar Farm and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) between State Highway 16 North and Lower Crabapple Road, and Country Creek Lane and Old Willow Road.
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Hill Country Developers Forum · September 9, 2026 · Texas Wine Collective, Fredericksburg, TX