WINDY CITY PLAYS HOST TO CORENET GLOBAL SUMMIT
May 15-19 Event Focuses on Enabling Work in a Networked World

ATLANTA- February 24, 2004 -More than 3,000 leaders of the world's corporate real estate industry are scheduled to gather May 15-19 in Chicago for the CoreNet Global Summit. This year's event features former U.S. President Bill Clinton as well as many other keynote speakers focusing on how business models are changing and how real estate and workplace management can influence those changes.

CoreNet Global is the only association to convene the entire corporate real estate industry, including corporate real estate executives, service providers and economic developers. The Global Summit, described as "the Super Bowl of corporate real estate," is a prime channel to bring together the geographically and professionally diverse industry base and represents a high-profile opportunity for Chicago and Illinois to showcase the region to corporate executives who influence corporations' strategic location decisions.

The Chicago Global Summit will feature programming on the following topics:

• Corporate Real Estate 2010: Enabling Word in a Networked World
• The Changing Nature of Work and the Workplace
• Integrated Resource and Infrastructure Solutions (IRIS)
• Enterprise Leadership: Skills and Competencies for Successful Corporate Real Estate and Infrastructure Leaders
• Asset Management and Portfolio Optimization
• Solutions Delivery
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
• The Role of Technology and the Web
• Analysis of CoreNet Global's Gallup survey on Corporate Real Estate 2010

In addition to a comprehensive education agenda of more than 40 concurrent sessions and seminars and the opening address by former President Bill Clinton, the following keynote speakers will deliver addresses: Gary Hamel, who Fortune magazine calls "the leading strategy expert in business today"; and Larry Downes, prolific writer, educator and speaker on developing business strategies in the age of new technology.

CoreNet Global is also introducing new programs at the Chicago Global Summit that target:

• Financially-oriented CREs in a special session with former Novel CFO Dennis Raney
• Senior-level corporate real estate executives in an exclusive strategic forum with keynote presenter Gary Hamel
• Government agency and workplace managers seeking to add strategic value
• Project Green sustainability focus as part of the Corporate Real Estate Expo held in conjunction with the Global Summit

CoreNet Global will also introduce the industry's first-ever Global Compensation Survey Report during the Global Summit. The precedent-setting report sponsored by PECO Energy of Pennsylvania will include salary, benefits, incentive and related information for North America, Europe and Asia/Australia to assist corporate real estate executives in their salary benchmarking and budgeting needs.