Key Takeaways
- • Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) scheduled its 2019 Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Americas conference for January 22-24, 2019 at the Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad, California, under the theme "Evolution and future of winning cities."
- • The agenda centers on how technology, urbanization, demographics and public policy are driving future real estate demand and returns, with sessions on capital flows, subscription financing, proptech, U.S. demographics and workforce housing and senior living.
- • Speakers include executives from QuadReal Property Group, Cambridge Associates, Lionstone Investments, Cross Harbor Capital Partners, Clarion Partners, StepStone Group, Wells Fargo Securities, Moody's Analytics/Reis, DWS, Green Street Advisors, Brookfield, BlackRock and Nuveen Real Estate, among others.
- • Subscription financing is one of the named discussion topics, with panelists asked to address its benefits, conflicts of interest and alignment of interest between investors and managers.
- • The event is positioned as an invitation-oriented industry forum for investment managers, investors and consultants, with IREI's FundTracker capital flow data presented as a framing element.
Summary
Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) published its agenda for the 2019 Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Americas conference, held January 22-24, 2019 at the Park Hyatt Aviara in Carlsbad, California. The conference theme, "Evolution and future of winning cities: How technology, urbanization, demographics and public policy are driving future demand and real estate returns," frames a three-day program of keynotes, panels and roundtables. Geoffrey Dohrmann, IREI's President and CEO, moderates several sessions, including a global perspective session drawing on the publication's editorial board meetings, and Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, and Jonathan Schein, Global Head of Business Development, also lead sessions.
The programming covers capital markets and investment strategy. A U.S. Capital Flow Trends session features IREI's FundTracker, which provides a macro overview of capital flows into equity and debt real estate funds, followed by a panel with Richard A. Flohr of Cross Harbor Capital Partners, David Gilbert of Clarion Partners and Alison Hawkins of Artemis Real Estate Partners. A dedicated subscription financing session asks panelists from StepStone Group, Crow Holdings Capital Partners, Wells Fargo Securities and The Townsend Group (an Aon company) to weigh the benefits, challenges and conflicts of interest of the practice. Other sessions address proptech and the future of work, with panelists including MetaProp, Moderne Ventures and the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer, and U.S. demographics, with economists and strategists from Moody's Analytics/Reis, Canyon Partners, DWS and Green Street Advisors.
The agenda closes with a session on workforce housing and senior living, featuring Maxwell Drever of Drever Capital Management, Bridge Investment Group, Fillmore Capital Affordable Housing and Avanath Capital. A second-day program on U.S. macro trends, led by Sarah Quinlan, and a "Cities of Tomorrow" session covering Asia, the Americas and Europe, with speakers from Nuveen, Brookfield, JLL and BlackRock, extend the focus to global urbanization. The publisher describes VIP Americas as its flagship event, attended by investment managers, investors and consultants.
The programming covers capital markets and investment strategy. A U.S. Capital Flow Trends session features IREI's FundTracker, which provides a macro overview of capital flows into equity and debt real estate funds, followed by a panel with Richard A. Flohr of Cross Harbor Capital Partners, David Gilbert of Clarion Partners and Alison Hawkins of Artemis Real Estate Partners. A dedicated subscription financing session asks panelists from StepStone Group, Crow Holdings Capital Partners, Wells Fargo Securities and The Townsend Group (an Aon company) to weigh the benefits, challenges and conflicts of interest of the practice. Other sessions address proptech and the future of work, with panelists including MetaProp, Moderne Ventures and the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer, and U.S. demographics, with economists and strategists from Moody's Analytics/Reis, Canyon Partners, DWS and Green Street Advisors.
The agenda closes with a session on workforce housing and senior living, featuring Maxwell Drever of Drever Capital Management, Bridge Investment Group, Fillmore Capital Affordable Housing and Avanath Capital. A second-day program on U.S. macro trends, led by Sarah Quinlan, and a "Cities of Tomorrow" session covering Asia, the Americas and Europe, with speakers from Nuveen, Brookfield, JLL and BlackRock, extend the focus to global urbanization. The publisher describes VIP Americas as its flagship event, attended by investment managers, investors and consultants.
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