8:00 AM
Welcome
General Breakfast Reception
8:10 AM
Track C - 3rd Floor, Sutton Place
The Best Year Ever: A Guided Meditation for Success!
As women, we define success in a multitude of ways: professional power, financial status, personal relationships, a healthy body image — and the list goes on. What defines success for you? How do you measure success?
Beth Finegan Reynolds, Sales Manager for TitleVest Insurance Services and the founder of NRG Power Group, will explore these questions through a unique exercise. Employing guided meditation, participants are invited to mindfully create their best year ever. By engaging self-awareness and accessing information that lies within, participants are encouraged to look inside for their own best answers. This powerful and thought-provoking exercise will be one of both reflection and growth.
Due to the nature of the quiet space that is required, please be on time. There will be no admittance to the room after 8:10am.
Beth Finegan Reynolds
Sales Manager
TitleVest
8:55 AM
Main Stage: Grand Ballroom
Welcome from Event Emcee
Amanda Powers, Event Director, Real Estate Women’s Forum
9:00 AM
Main Stage: Grand Ballroom
Morning Keynote
Wendy Mann
CEO
CREW Network
Keynote
9:30 AM
Main Stage: Grand Ballroom
Urban Innovation: Turning Challenges into Opportunities in Development & Construction
Development and construction across New York City shows little signs of slowing down yet the building in this region is one of the most complex in the country due to ever-changing regulations, permit process, and government requirements. In addition, labor is in short supply and costs continue to rise. Yet, there is an abundance of innovation taking place across the development and construction process which makes the impossible possible. What are major developers and heads of construction using as part of their tool box to move projects forward and turn challenges into opportunities?
- At your fingertips: the best technologies to use to stay on time and on budget
- State of the market: Key economic drivers impacting the city
- Up, up and away: lessons from mega projects and midsize projects
- Fostering community: Unique approaches to culminate a neighborhood
- Millennials are changing: How this aging population continues to change the live and work environment
Luise A. Barrack
Managing Member
Rosenberg & Estis
MODERATOR
Amy Korte
Principal
Arrowstreet
Andrea Kretchmer
Principal
Type A Projects
Colleen Wenke
Senior Vice President
Taconic Investment
Debra Tantleff
President & CEO
TANTUM
10:15 AM
Main Stage: Grand Ballroom
Navigating the New: Leading and Succeeding in the 21st Century
One of the most challenging aspects of leading is dealing with the ambiguity and scariness of the unknown. Never has this been truer than in the 21st Century where the fast, hyper-connected and constantly changing world has made every aspect of business harder than ever before.
Leadership means creating new ideas to make things better for your people, customers and communities. Then you have to convince others to try out those ideas, without anyone knowing whether they will succeed or fail.
Walls of resistance will rise in response to untested new ideas because of the discomfort their uncertainty causes. The greatest resistance can come from leaders themselves. Dodging discomfort may provide short term relief, but it will impair long term growth. Learning to push through discomfort moves organizations into the future and builds careers.
Drawing from Julie’s experiences of navigating the new as Amazon’s first real estate executive and her many years of working with executives, this session will help its participants to:
- See the scariness that comes with trying out new ideas as an asset, not a liability.
- Learn four core principles for navigating the unknown to build success for their organizations.
- Recognize the opportunities that come from embracing the unknown for their own leadership paths, and how not to get it their own way.
Julie Benezet
Author of The Journey of Not Knowing
Amazon’s first real estate executive
KEYNOTE
10:45 AM
Networking Area
Networking & Meetups
10:45 AM
Networking Area
Mentorship Program: Investing in Your Future through the Power of Relationships
When you’re stuck in the weeds of the daily grind it can be hard to think about signing yourself up for one more aspect that further eats into your greatest commodity – time. Yet, experts time and time again repeat you’re only as good as your network and you are responsible for your destiny.
REWF is pleased to announce its first Mentorship Program. Mentors and mentees will hear a valuable panel discussion followed by open networking where mentees and mentors will seek matches.
During the panel discussion you’ll hear from female power players on how they foster their network, continue to expand it and what they’ve learned over the years.
Moderated by Michele O’Connor, Principal, Past President, CREW NY
Panelists:
Charlotte Sturgis, Head of Construction, Rose Associates
Allison Robin, Principal, Levien & Company, CREW NY
Kathy Kaye, President, Sotheby’s.
Michele O’Connor
Principal, Past President
CREW NY
MODERATOR
Allison Robin
Principal
Levien & Company, CREW NY
Charlotte Sturgis
Head of Construction
Rose Associates
Kathy Kaye
President
Sotheby’s International
11:40 AM
Track A: Grand Ballroom
Next Gen Offices: Technology, Design & Spaces that Boost Workforce Effectiveness
Office space has become the latest weapon being used by major corporations in the war for talent. Seeking every advantage possible, major companies are seeking high-quality office space in attractive locations and investing in top-notch, employee-friendly amenities. With competition for highly skilled employees at a fever pitch, tenants are seeking every advantage that may make the different with a highly skilled workforce. What do today’s office tenants want and what does the leasing environment look like?
- In-demand Office Space: What’s leasing, what’s not and why
- Big big or go small: Advantages to the shrinking office footprint trend and how urban versus suburban office space requirements differ
- Magnetic appeal: Amenities and communal spaces that attract the largest tenants
- Roaming: Adaptable spaces for the remote workers
- Flex your muscles: Flex spaces and flex leases that pencil out
Natalie Diaz
Chief of Staff
Time Equities
MODERATOR
Ann Bamesberger
Head of Workforce Effectiveness
Genetech
Julia Goldberg
VP, Real Estate, Facilities & Security
BuzzFeed
Suzanne Heidelberger
Senior Vice President of Global Real Estate & Workplace Enablement
American Express
11:40 AM
Track B
One Step Ahead: Innovation & Technology in Property Operations
Residents and tenants are more discerning than ever because they have choices and don’t have to stay unless their robust needs are met. This new reality has owners and operators working vigorously to differentiate. Yet, as consumers become more sophisticated so do expectations and keeping up while controlling costs requires sound decisions with where and what to invest in.
- Master the ratings game: Managing your reputation in a social-media, Google+ savvy building
- Pricing strategies: Methods that work for hotels could work for you
- Delivery: What Amazon package lockers may mean for your building
- Serve it up: Creating improved work-from-home environments
- Paw-friendly: Design trends for pet owners
Patricia Simone
President
Simone Development
MODERATOR
Joy Habian
Vice President of Marketing
Durst Organization
Michelle Berliner
Managing Director
Emet Capital Management
Susan Curtis
Senior Property Manager
RXR Realty
Lesley Lisser
Director Asset Management
Invesco Real Estate
12:45 PM
Track A
A Tale of Two Stories: The Foreign & Domestic Investment Landscape
The United States real estate market remains appealing to international investors and the abundance of capital flowing in is driving up prices. The international landscape has changed whereby investors would only comfortable with local or regional investments are now open to investments anywhere around the world. At the same time, markets are toppy and there are new entrants. Where is capital coming from, what’s attractive and where are deals getting done? What product types and markets are domestic investors most interested in?
- Out with the old: The changing face of international investors
- In with the new: Who are the new entrants in the market?
- What’s hot, what’s not: The product types and markets that are most appealing today
Kristen Lonergan
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig
MODERATOR
Gentry Ashmore-Hoit
Partner & Head of Business Development
GreenOak
Susan Stupin
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Prescott Group
Lisa Sexton
Vice President of Lodging Development, Full Service Brands
Marriott International
12:45 PM
Track B
Supercity Status: Trends that Will Dictate Design in New Developments & Redevelopments
New York City has always been a city that’s prided itself in being a front runner in innovation and sustainability. Whether it’s battery powered buses, wifi enabled telephone booths or becoming a technology hub. How will the emergence of shared cars, the changing job landscape and the state of brick and mortar retail have on commercial real estate? The challenge for owners, investors and developers is finding the right balance in design, aesthetic and costs that appeals to their customers now and in the future.
- Push and pull: How the online and offline shopping environment will impact the activation of sidewalks and the design of buildings
- Future proofing: creating today with the idea of retrofitting later
- In a New York minute: How to design and construct buildings that are resilient to natural disasters?
- Retrofitting: Evolving existing building to bring them into the next generation
- Next gen jobs and workforce: What the rise in technology and advanced manufacturing jobs means for the region
Laurie Stanziale
Partner
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin
MODERATOR
Claire Thielke
COO – Investment Management
Hines
Melissa Burch
Executive GM, Development
Lendlease
Samantha Sax
Chief Marketing & Design Officer
Elad Group
Lisa Kirsch
Senior Vice President, Development
Brooklyn Navy Yard
12:45 PM
Track C
Leadership Workshop with Julie Benezet (Invite Only)
Julie Benezet
Author of The Journey of Not Knowing
Amazon’s first real estate executive
Keynote
1:05 PM
Networking Lunch
Networking Lunch
1:05 PM
Networking Lunch: Track B
Decision Makers: CEO Perspectives
CEO Roundtable (Invite only)
Sue Ansel
CEO & President
Gables Residential
Toby Moskovits
Chief Executive Officer
Heritage Equity Partner
Diane Ramirez
CEO
Halstead
1:55 PM
Main Stage: Grand Ballroom
Life In the Boardroom: Viewpoints from Female Power Players
Although the real estate industry is rapidly changing, women remain a small percentage in a full room. While other male dominated industries have seen a fast growing number of women in leadership positions, the real estate industry seems to lag most major industries despite the number of opportunities available in the fast expanding industry.
- Propelling your career: How can more women advance into leadership positions?
- Gender neutral: How can the industry attract more women into typically male dominated sectors such as development or construction?
- At the helm: Once on top, how to manage legacy environments and pave a new path?
- Your advantage: How turn being a woman into a greatest asset
Susan Bands
Sales Manager
Marcus & Millichap
MODERATOR
Kate Hemmerdinger-Goodman
Co-President
ATCO
Diane Ramirez
CEO
Halstead
Alicia Goldstein
Senior Managing Director and President of Sales & Marketing
HFZ
Julie Zuraw
Chief Operating Officer
Argo Management
Terri Adler
Partner
Duval & Stachenfeld
2:40 PM
Main Stage: Grand Ballroom
Afternoon Keynote
Fireside Chat
Toby Moskovits
CEO
Heritage Equity Partner
INTERVIEWER
Sue Ansel
President & CEO
Gables Residential
Keynote
3:10 PM
Networking Area
Wine & Cheese Cocktail Reception