Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

8:00 AM - 8:25 AM : Breakfast & Networking

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM : Leveraging Creativity & Experience to to Overcome Challenging Capital Markets

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

11:10 AM - 11:45 AM : Capitalizing on a Closing Window: Time-Sensitive Lending & Investment Opportunities

CRE is facing another definitive moment that is likely to result in a new class of dominant deal
makers. With the interest rate environment shifting and various lenders retreating, there is a
limited window for savvy market participants to add to their portfolios, fill voids in the
marketplace and capitalize on distressed opportunities, but “limited” is the operative word here.
Hear experts discuss strategies for transacting in this once-in-a-cycle moment that can
maximize ROI if you’re looking to add to your portfolio.

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

11:45 AM - 12:20 AM : Deep Dive into Lender Appetite Across Asset Classes

The first half of the decade has seen more twists and turns from asset classes and the “tried
and true” investment safe havens than even the most expert analysts could have predicted. Will
the multifamily and industrial sectors remain the sweetheart asset classes of the 2020s? Are
signs of office, hotel and retail recoveries longstanding, and what does that mean for deals
coming through the pipeline? You don’t want to miss this discussion as top lenders break down
asset class performance, their preferences, their trouble spots, and share which sectors are ripe
with opportunity today and and attracting plenty of lender appetite.

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

12:20 PM : Event Concludes 

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

8:30 AM - 8:50 AM: Opening Remarks

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

10:25 AM - 10:50 AM : Networking Break

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

8:50 AM - 9:10AM : Fireside Chat 

TIM JOHNSON

Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Real Estate Debt Strategies

Blackstone

ROBERT VERRONE

Principal

Iron Hound

SIDDHARTH SHRIVASTAVA

Managing Director, Investment Banking

Goldman Sachs

GRANT FRANKEL

Managing Director

Eastdil Secured  LLC

MARK FAWER

Partner 

GreenSpoon Marder 

MODERATOR

LEO LEYVA

Co-Chair of the Litigation, Real Estate & Real Estate Special Opportunities Departments 

Cole Schotz 

MODERATOR

TONY FINEMAN 

Senior Managing Director, Head of Originations 

ACORE Capital 

MODERATOR 

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

9:10 AM - 9:45 AM :  Real Estate Finance Forecast: Comfort Levels Amidst New Changes

The industry felt a wave of new optimism at the close of 2023, spurred from the Fed’s winter
meetings, but as Q1 unfolds, there is still much debate among economists and experts as to
whether we’ll see a soft landing. Join this must-attend session to hear what has come to fruition,
what lingering issues remain in the market, how the interest rate environment is impacting
lending, and what Q1 data indicates for the year to come.

LAUREN HOCHFELDER

Co-Chief Executive Officer & Head of Americas

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investments 

STEN SANDLUND 

Chief Executive Officer

The Peebles Corporation /Willowbrook Partners

JAY NEVELOFF

Chair, Real Estate 

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

MODERATOR 

Corporations around the globe are competing for top talent and a major aspect of that is creating buy-in through culture. As companies increasingly embrace flex spaces, hybrid working, digitally bookable spaces and more geographically distributed teams, technology is central to maintaining streamlined operations and a cohesive, empowering culture. Learn more about how proptech is one of the differentiators in the creation of company culture. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the frictionless innovations creating new efficiencies and luring top talent.

RICHARD MACK

CEO, Co-Founder
Mack Real Estate Group

9:45 AM - 10:25 AM ET: Shifting Lender-Borrower Dynamics & Getting Capital Stacks in Line

With the Fed teasing relaxed interest rates, the real estate industry beckons lenders and
investors to come off the sidelines and to deploy capital in 2024. The industry is desperately in
need of a jumpstart to greater transactional volume, requiring firms to get their equity in line and
bridge the gap for capital needed to get projects done. Get a firsthand temperature check on
lending and capital availability and hear how new investment partnerships are reigniting real
estate deal volume.

ADAM SCHWARTZ

Senior Managing Director 

Walker & Dunlop

NISHANT NADELLA

Managing Director, Head of SASB and Transitional Lending

3650 REIT

MATT PESTRONK 

Co-Managing Partner  

Post Brothers

ADAM PIEKARSKI

Managing Director & Co-Head of Real Estate Credit

BDT & MSD Partners

KATHLEEN MYLOD

Partner

Dechert LLP

MODERATOR

MORRIS BETESH

Senior Managing Director

Meridian Capital 

DENNIS SCHUH

Chief Originations Officer

Starwood Capital Group 

ELLIOT MARKUS

Vice President in the Real Estate Private Credit Group

Cerberus Capital Management 

ROBERT ROTHSCHILD

Senior Vice President

InterVest Capital Partners

JOSEPH LANZKRON

Partner

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

MODERATOR

MICHAEL HOFFENBERG

Founder & Managing Principal

Trevian Capital

YORICK STARR

Managing Director & Investment Officer 

Invesco

MARK SILVERSTEIN

Senior Managing Director, Proprietary Products

NewPoint Real Estate Capital

LAURA RAPAPORT

CEO & Founder 

Northbridge

CATHERINE CHEN

 Managing Director of Real Assets

Apollo Global Management

CATHY CUNNINGHAM 

Executive Director 

Commercial Observer

MODERATOR

MAX HERZOG

Executive Managing Director

IPA Capital Markets

ZACH HOFFMAN

Director 

AllianceBernstein LP