Trends and forecasts for EMEA's industrial and logistics market.

Cassidy Turley predicts that because of steadily improving employment reports, the rising ISM manufacturing index, increasing corporate profits and other indicators, the office real estate market will see better demand in the immediate future.

While Ukraine and Russia top the list of expected GDP growth, the situation for Greece is much more dire. Reduced banking activity will impact real estate investment in the region.

Moderator: Chris Hood, Managing Director, Workplace Innovation, CB Richard Ellis Panelists: Tony Wong, Director of Workplace Resources, Asia Pacific and Japan, Cisco Sanjay Dutt, CEO-Business, Mumbai, Jones Lang LaSalle Richard Middleton, Executive Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Cushman & Wakefield After such positive response, we wanted to continue the global economic conversation initiated at the Paris Global Summit. This session examines the impact of the current economic environment on corporate real estate, particularly in the increasingly important emerging markets of India and China. Hear directly from leading CRE executives in each of these markets as they share strategic insight into the challenges and opportunities now and in the future. Key Takeaways Understand the latest market upheavals and effects already being felt by corporate real estate markets around the world Explore how the gap between advanced economics and emerging countries could disappear in China and India within the next two decades.

Moderator: René Buck, President, Buck Consultants International Speakers: Marie Puybaraud, PhD, Director, Global WorkPlace Innovation Johnson Controls, Inc. Roland Openshaw, Global Lead, Workplace Solutions, Pfizer Kate North, VP Global Development, e-Work.com By 2020, high performance project spaces will be widely used and will rely on the exponential power of the cloud, a highly scalable computing infrastructure, enabling an "elastic" structure to our collaborative networks. The workplace will be radically transformed and reshaped. How should FM and RE embrace this change in the workplace? What challenges lie ahead of us and how should our industry respond to this? Johnson Controls, Inc. initiated the Collaboration 2020 research program and identified "Top 10 Findings" that will help businesses organize and orchestrate the collaborative, networked enterprise of the future. Key Takeaways Understand how companies should position themselves towards 2020 to take advantage of current and future technologies and collaborative practices Learn how to boost productivity and innovation in order to create sustainable competitive advantages in a networked, global economy.