CRE: Annual Convention - Featured Programs

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Monday, October 29

Market Watch: A Real World View
RREEF is renowned in the industry for combining systematic research with bottom-up market knowledge. The result? A deep and thorough understanding of local and global market.conditions. Where do the next rounds of profit potential lie? How can risk be mitigated as asset classes reach their peaks? What’s next for the property sectors?
Speaker: Alan Billingsley, CRE - Head of Research, North America - RREEF

Market Watch Response Panel: Strategies for Out Performance
In addition to their unbridled passion and competitiveness, how do the masters of out-performance translate market conditions into investment strategies? Michael Torres, Jeffrey Weber and Barry DiRaimando discuss they way they “listen to the markets” and achieve extreme results.
Speakers: Jeffrey Weber, Managing Director - Eastdil Secured
Michael Torres, Chief Executive Officer – Adelante Capital
Barry DiRaimondo, President – Legacy Partners
Moderator: Richard Maine, CRE

Institutional Investment: When Residential Real Estate Brings the Highest Yields
As an asset class, residential real estate has provided outstanding, non-stop, and long-term performance records for pension funds. What's next? Institutional investment thought leader Geoffrey Dohrmann brings together the leading California pension fund pioneers and innovators for a dynamic discussion on yields, policy initiatives, the social impacts of residential investment, and fund asset allocations.
Moderator: Geoffrey Dohrmann, CRE, President & CEO – Institutional Real Estate, Inc.
Panelists: John McClelland, CRE, Principal Investment Officer, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association; Roy Schneiderman, CRE, Principal - Bard Consulting; Jennifer Glover, Vice President, Risk Management - MacFarlane Partners

Luncheon Presentation: Win/Win Solutions for Divisive Land Use Projects
When controversial land use projects need community support, Debra Stein comes to the rescue. A sought-after advisor known for her powers of persuasion and battle-proven tactics for finding common ground, Stein is the author of Winning Community Support for Land Use Projects and Making Community Meetings Work. Find out how she speeds up decision making and manages the art of collaboration.
Speaker: Debra Stein, President – GCA Strategies

Business Issues Forums (concurrent sessions)
Talk, argue, question, and consider. Through facilitated discussions, the Business Issues Forums provide an opportunity for CREs with similar specialties and interests to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and build professional bonds.

Corporate Real Estate: What’s Keeping You Up at Night?

Coordinators: Herbert Hafter, CRE – CB Richard Ellis; Dennis DeSantis, CRE – Gateway Commercial – A Cushman & Wakefield Alliance
Roundtable Leaders: Kathi Ridley, Senior Manager of Real Estate and Planning, Marvell Semiconductor; John Vallor, Senior Director of Corporate Real Estate, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company.

Sustainability: Going for the Silver LEED
Get an insider’s look at the San Francisco Federal Building, the recipient of a Silver LEED rating from the USGBC. A group discussion and Q&A session will follow the tour.
Coordinators: Theddi Wright Chappell, CRE – Pacific Security Capital; Brent Palmer, CRE – NewTower Trust Co.
A maximum of 25 individuals can be accommodated for this tour, and preferences will be given to attendees who pre-registered for the event. Please note: Your photo ID will be required for security clearance at the Federal Builiding.
Tour Leader: Laura Rodormer, Commercial Green Building Coordinator, San Francisco Department of the Environment

Litigation Services: Better Witnesses, Better Business
Coordinators: Robert McKennon, CRE – Appraisal Associates; Deborah Haskell, CRE – FTI Consulting
Speakers & Discussion Leaders: George Powell, CRE, Attorney, Duane Morris LLP; Douglas Sullivan, Attorney, Folger, Levin & Kahn LLP

Capital Markets: Measuring Directions and Navigating the Credit Crunch
Coordinators: James Lee, CRE – Kensington Realty Advisors; Julie McIntosh, CRE – The Integral Group
Speakers: Larry Souza, CRE, Managing Director, Index Services, Charles Schwab Investment Management; Marc Louargand, Ph.D., CRE, Principal, Saltash Partners LLC; Jeff Haskell, Northmarq Capital; Michael Jameson, Prudential Mortgage Capital; Marc Thompson, CRE, Bank of the West; and Kurt Altvater, Countrywide Commercial

Public/Private Partnerships: Yerba Buena Center
The group will walk to the Four Seasons Hotel (on the terrace level) to discuss the Yerba Buana Center Redevelopment Block. The group will then visit parts of the development.
Coordinators: William Norton, CRE – Norton Asset Management; Karen Williams, CRE – Lane Powell, PC
Participants will meet in the lobby of the hotel and walk to the Four Seasons Hotel Terrace, which overlooks the Yerba Buena Center Redevelopment Project, an 87-acre project on land that was formly an area of dilapidated hotels, commercial and industrial buildings and open parking lots. The project is located adjacent to the San Francisco downtown office and retail districts. Following the discussion, participants will be able to visit one or two sites on the development.
Speaker & Tour Leader: Amy Neches, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency

Tuesday, October 30

International Caucus
Counselors who practice -- or seek to practice -- in the global arena discuss the obstacles and rewards of counseling across borders. What are the latest issues that CREs face in the international marketplace?
Coordinator: Marc Louargand, CRE - Principal, Saltash Partners LLC

Everything You Wanted to Know About the CRE Real Estate Dispute Resolution Program but Were Afraid to Ask.
Find out more about the CRE Dispute Resolution program from members of the Management Committee.
Panelists: Philip Cottone, CRE, President - Property Trust Advisory Co., LLC; Arthur Mazirow, CRE - Real Estate Arbitrator; Gerald Levy, CRE, President - Gerald M. Levy & Co., LLC; Steven Leader, CRE, President - Leader Realty Advisors, Ltd.

The Long Cycles: How Does Real Estate Measure Up to the Stock Market?
Real estate scholar and icon Ronald Kaiser provides an in-depth historical perspective of the long cycles of the real estate market versus the long cycles of stocks and bonds. How do their dynamics work? What are the lessons learned for managing performance and risk?
Speaker: Ronald Kaiser, Co-Founder & Chief Investment Strategist – Bailard Inc.

Cycles Response Panel: The CRE “Legends” Speak
In the wise words of philosopher George Santayana, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Given the past real estate and capital markets cycles, what prognostications can be made for today?
Panelists: Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy, CRE, President – Buzz McCoy Associates, Inc.; Anthony Downs, CRE, Senior Fellow - The Brookings Institution
Moderator: William Ramseyer, CRE, Managing Director - Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, LLC

The Asian Markets: So Far Away, So Close You Can Feel the Heat
As migration and urbanization define the Asian property sector over the long term, investors are drawn to the extraordinary promise and potential of real estate and infrastructure investment. What about volatility? What about transparency? What about range of risk? Can you get in and not get burned?
Speakers: Robert Taylor, CRE, President - The REMM Group; David Tang - K & L Gates, LLP; Wayne Foss, CRE, President - Foss Consulting Group
Coordinator: Steven Navarro, CRE – The Furman Co.

Mission Bay Development Tour
Coordinator: Michael Wenzell, CRE – Prologis, Walnut Creek, CA.

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