Melissa Marsh, Associate Director, DEGW

Winston W. Wright, Head of Flagship Retail Operations - Americas Global Retail & Trade Marketing, Nokia

Susan J. Barron, Specialty Retail Development, Cushman & Wakefield

For companies that don't have a lot of "retail" space in their portfolios, Cushman & Wakefield has developed Realsite as a way to re-direct advertising and marketing budgets into real estate to get a better result for less money. Companies like Nokia have used Realsite to create a new experience for their customers - differentiating them in a highly competitive marketplace.

Find out how to integrate real estate with corporate marketing strategies:
• Working with partners in the core business to lead corporate branding efforts through high profile real estate
• Merging iconic architecture and retail space (i.e. the Apple Computers building in London)
• Putting advertising, real estate, project and property management together to cost effectively implement global branding strategies

Faye Davis, VP, Sprint Nextel

Thomas R. Kurtz IV MCR, Workplace Resources, The Hartford

Chris Calhoun, Director Facilities & Real Estate, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

Madeline Caliendo, Associate Administrator for Civil Rights, U.S. Office of Civil Rights

Susan Mitchell-Ketzes, Senior VP, HOK

Using a focus on people as a guiding principal, panelists representing a variety of organizations will share tools, case studies and metrics for creating workplaces that have not only improved employee performance, but have added value to the bottom line.

Learn the principles for strategic workplace strategy that achieve results:
• Socializing workplace strategies and "selling them up"
• Creating strategies that result in employee behavior changes
• Learning how dramatic work environment change can impact customer service and corporate image

Amit Ramani, SVP Global Strategies and Operations, NELSON

Katherine Andreasen, SVP Human Resources, Orbitz

Meg Osman, Principal, Corporate Interiors Practice, OWP/P

Orbitz has designed its workplace to attract a new generation of young, energetic professionals, who demand more from the companies they work for. The company also has implemented forward-thinking workplace strategies - including flexible working hours, high levels of in-person and virtual collaboration, and promoting corporate social responsibility - to keep them.

Learn how finding and keeping talent is possible through innovative workplaces:
• Creating "best places to work" and cutting churn costs
• Supporting new Workstyles through design and technology
• Bringing in talent by connecting people to brand

Rick Page, Principal, GVA Williams Chicago

Sundar Nagarajan, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte

Jamie Clark, Human Capital, Deloitte

Paula Edwards, Workplace Strategist - Innovation, Herman Miller

Mark Gribbons, Senior Associate, IA Interior Architects

Employee retention is forecasted to be one of the biggest business challenges over the next 50 years as steadily rising demand meets flattening birth rates and baby boomer retirement. Presenting organizations Deloitte and Herman Miller will share the new ways they have sought to keep the talent they have.

Investigate strategies for keeping the talent you have:
• Understand what truly impacts employee satisfaction
• Learn seven key principles of people-centered design
• Incorporate changes in the choices employees make about how they want to work into workplace location and design strategies

Kate North, Director Global Ideation, Haworth

Dave Ziel, Chief Development Officer, Urban Outfitters, Inc.

Jeffrey Scherer, Founding Principal, Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle

Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters met the challenge of consolidating their corporate offices in Philadelphia in a daring new way by renovating eight turn-of-the-century warehouses at the abandoned Philadelphia Navy Yard. The move has been embraced by the employees, who view it as supporting the Urban Outfitters culture and brand. The move also inspired other companies to locate at "The Yard."

Transform your next workplace project into a talent strategy by:
• Branding your organization as socially responsible and risk-taking
• Achieving buy-in from employees that increases connection to company and place Being a leader in innovative renovation projects across the U.S. and globally

Chris Calhoun, Director of Facilities & Real Estate,
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

Joel Ratekin, Director Corporate Real Estate, Capital One Financial

Michael Brendes, Regional Partner, Enterprise Real Estate and Facilities, Northrop Grumman

John Vivadelli, President, AgilQuest

Arnold Levin, Director Workplace Strategy, Gensler

In an open dialogue "Talk Show" format, information will be shared between a panel of experts and audience participants on the mobile and changing workplace: why, when, and how the three P's of Workplace (People, Process and Place) work effectively together; and why, when, and how they do not.

Increase the effectiveness of your employee mobility strategy:
• The importance of aligning organizational design with workplace strategy design
• Keeping mobile workers "connected" to the organization
• Adapting workplace design to support the changing needs of the workforce

Dennis Donovan, Principal, WDG Consulting

Rene Buck, Principal, Buck Consultants International

Dennis Meseroll, Managing Director, Tractus Asia

Andrew Kolen, Senior Director of Corporate Real Estate, ADP Development, Inc.

Roger Nesti, Manager Corporate Real Estate, Kennametal, Inc.

In this timely session, expert location advisors and corporate real estate professionals will describe the underlying forces that necessitate an allshore perspective, including how representative countries - by region - fit into the global location picture and provide the rationale for locating in both developed countries and emerging nations.

Be exposed to the latest thinking on global location strategy:
• Keys for successfully implementing an allshore strategy and avoiding the pitfalls
• Metrics for determining if a company's location choice has lived up to expectations
• Tips for avoiding market over saturation when siting a new facility

Limited to 150 Participants

Tim Venable, Program Director and Editor, The Leader Magazine, CoreNet Global

Don Schjeldahl, The Austin Company; Dennis Donovan and Katie Burdorf, WDG Consulting; Jay Biggins and Robin S. Ronne, Biggins Lacy Shapiro; Kate McEnroe, Kate McEnroe Consulting; Gene DePrez and Roel Spee, IBM Global Business Services; Rene Buck, Buck Consultants International; Jeanette Goldsmith, McCallum Sweeney Consulting; Chris Steele, TranSystems; J. Michael Mullis, J. M. Mullis, Inc.

Attend this discussion-oriented and highly interactive session to hear the views of corporate real estate executives and location consultants - as well as your peers in economic development - on critical questions related to location and site selection.

Discuss the issues relevant to you:
• How is the corporate site selection process changing?
• What really matters most to companies as they consider potential locations?
• How can communities prepare themselves today to be ready for tomorrow's opportunities?

Rebecca Ryan, Founder & CEO, Next Generation Consulting

Are you exporting your youngest, brightest minds to other cities? You're not alone. What are the causes of "brain drain," and how can your community reposition itself to attract young talent? Acclaimed consultant Rebecca Ryan takes you inside the minds of the next generation to evaluate your community through their lens.

What will participants learn in this session?
• Why "brain drain" happens in your community
• How YOUR community scores in the seven indexes young professionals use to evaluate "cool communities"
• How some communities are taking an aggressive approach to poaching your talent
• How your community can design a clear, authentic strategy to attract and retain talent.

Josh Leonard, Partner, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP

Dale Johnson, Regional Lease Manager, Wells Fargo

Keturah Henderson, Valuation Director, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP

Steve Rothman, Executive Director Corporate Real Estate, Morgan Stanley

Scott M. Silver, Founder and Principal, LeaseAudit$avings, LLC

Maximizing recoveries of over billings through lease audits is a goal of every corporate real estate executive. This panel discussion, including representatives from Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo, and lease auditors Deloitte FAS and LeaseAudit$avings, LLC will focus on emerging best practices that support successful lease audits.

Learn new strategies for managing relationships and maximizing recoveries:
• Strategic teaming and increased collaboration between vendor and client
• Understanding the lifecycle of the lease audit, and lease audit rights
• Managing potential conflicts of interest
• Breaking through the stall tactic and getting the audit into the negotiation phase

Alan Edgar, Work Group Program Manager, OSCRE Americas

John Serri, Project Manager & Solutions Architect, Manhattan Centerstone Software

Laurie Green, Director of Project Management, Famis Software

Tim Dunn, General Manager Software Services, VFA

John Seckman, Product Manager, VirtualPremise

To address the growing need to manage the increasingly complex network of suppliers and other stakeholders, OSCRE's Work Request/Work Order Fulfillment Standard is designed to enable End-Users, Owners and Operators to more easily connect best of breed software applications, resulting in significantly greater Efficiency, Consistency and Transparency of information - three critical elements necessary to achieve operational excellence.

Learn how adopting the new OSCRE standard can impact your bottom line:
• See a demonstration of how differing software applications can operate seamlessly, using the OSCRE standard
• Understand how using the standard can cut time and cost from transferring work order requests from requesters to service providers to vendors and back again
• Increase your organization's efficiency, consistency, and transparency

Richard S. Bertasi, VP Global Real Estate & Facilities Management EMEA, Johnson Controls

Charemon Tovar, National Portfolio Strategy Manager, Sprint Nextel

Brian Jordan, Director Transactions & Portfolio Services, Sprint Nextel

Responding to a growing need for enterprise-wide perspective on real property assets to meet diverse business needs, Sprint Nextel Enterprise Real Estate developed and implemented a revolutionary program called MOSSAIC (Market Optimization Strategy with Spatially Intelligent Capability). MOSAIC uses geospatial technology to align business unit strategies and customer information, enabling real-time site selection decisions that are objective, fact based and data-driven.

Learn about emerging portfolio optimization strategies:
• Leveraging the advantages of linking all real estate asset classes
• Using new geospatial technology to assist with site selection decisions
• Aligning business unit goals more closely with real estate strategy

Eric Bowles, VP, CoreNet Global

Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief, Building Design + Construction

Ben Breslau, VP, Director of Occupier Research, Jones Lang LaSalle

John Schinter, President, Energy and Sustainability Services, Jones Lang LaSalle

Greg O'Brien, SVP, Transwestern Energy and Sustainability Services Group

Susie Tilson-Spivey, Associate, Sustainable Design Specialist, TVS

Recently, CoreNet Global partnered with Jones Lang LaSalle and Building Design + Construction Magazine to survey corporate real estate practitioners and other building industry professionals about their attitudes around sustainable design and construction. This session includes a discussion on the survey findings, as well as overall perspectives on the rate of adoption of sustainable building practices.

Gain insights into the increasing velocity of change in the green building movement:
• Who is implementing sustainable building practices and why
• Where is the change happening most rapidly
• What are the implications for CRE as the acceptance of sustainability accelerates into the mainstream

Jim Hartzfeld, Managing Director, InterfaceRAISE

Brian Schwagerl MCR, VP Corporate Real Estate, The Hearst Corporation

Lou Nowikas, Director of Operations, The Hearst Corporation

The Hearst Corporation's new LEED® Gold rated headquarters in New York is not just a model of environmentally sustainable office tower design. Through a program called "Be Well" - aimed at encouraging building occupants to live healthier lives both during the workday and at home - Hearst increased productivity on the job by creating a workforce that is happy, proud, and energized.

Going beyond greening the building can have significant bottom line benefits:
• Create a workforce that is connected to the business in new and powerful ways
• Reduce churn and sick time
• Address post-occupancy issues of maintaining the building's environmental goals in creative ways that engage employees

Keith Perske, VP, Group5 Consulting

Dr. Wolfgang Wagener, Head of Real Estate, Design and Construction, Cisco Systems

The Connected Workplace at Cisco successfully reconciles business realities with environmental responsibility. Cisco's redesigned headquarters in San Jose has reduced per capita materials and equipment consumption, improved energy efficiency, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and reduced space requirements for employees and IT infrastructure - while increasing employee satisfaction, comfort and productivity.

Understand how environmentally sustainable workplaces can positively impact your business:
• Bottom-line savings and employee satisfaction can be achieved through environmentally sustainable practices
• Corporations can make a significant difference to the environment by encouraging its customers to take similar measures

Tony Cortese, VP People Services, Herman Miller

Vanessa Carey, Organizational Development Director, West Corporation

Sean Carman, Director of Research, CB Richard Ellis

Kristin Beatty, Associate Director, Consulting Labor Analytics Group, CB Richard Ellis

West Corporation, in partnership with CB Richard Ellis, has used employee segmentation modeling to target potential employees in specific markets with specific traits that have been identified as desirable. As a result, West has reduced recruiting time and helped attract higher-quality employees, translating into lower training costs and increased productivity, revenues, and customer satisfaction.

Save time and money by targeting the best employees:
• Learn how to apply segmentation analysis to new site selection, market assessment, and employee recruitment
• Minimize recruiting efforts and costs, while gaining employees that best match specific performance needs
• Rank your current markets for actual production and key operating metrics

Del Boyette, Principal, Boyette Levy

Sarah K. Abrams, President, Fidelity Real Estate

Rick Mitchell, SVP, Fidelity Personal Investments

In today's competitive employment environment it is incumbent upon real estate to more closely align with the business of the business. For Fidelity Personal Investments, long-term demographic trends are driving location decisions for their "Contact Centers of the Future," including the launch of Fidelity's first contact center facility in 10 years.

Improve your organization's strategic advantage:
• Find out how demographic data should shape your location decisions
• Understand how long-term demographic trends will impact business' ability to locate sustainable labor markets
• Learn how the evolution of the business creates new demands for different types of workers

Martha O'Mara, Lecturer, Harvard University

Donal O'Connor, Senior Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Bruce Simoneaux, Applied Research Consultant, Steelcase

John Hughes, Applied Research Consultant, Steelcase

To avoid the "brain drain" that organizations face when older workers prepare to retire, PricewaterhouseCoopers focused on using its space as a tool for encouraging transfer of knowledge from one generation of workers to the next. PWC has implemented several workplace design options, including "mentor pods" - spaces specifically created for senior people to coach younger employees - with positive results.

Stop the "Brain Drain" in Your Organization:
• Understand how to promote and encourage interaction between older and younger generations of workers
• Use design to foster collaboration
• Support younger workers through mentoring and communication

David K. Foot PhD, Author and Professor, University of Toronto

Building on his Tuesday morning Mega Session address, Dr. David Foot will explore the impact of the changing makeup of the workforce on business. In this highly interactive session, Foot will talk about the "spiral" career paths younger workers are taking, as opposed to the more "vertical" paths of older workers. He will also answer questions from the morning Mega Session.

Enhance your knowledge of:
• The connection between global demographic shifts and the changing nature of work
• The rise of "Echo Boomers" - who they are, and what they want out of their careers
• How to prepare for, and take advantage of, the coming changes in the makeup of the workforce

Julian Diaz III PhD, Chair, Real Estate Department, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University

Monna Nevils, VP Talent Systems, Jones Lang LaSalle

Sharon Krohn, President, Sharon Krohn Consulting

Jason Aldrich, Executive Director, Robinson College of Business Career Management Center, Georgia State University

Chuck Alexander, Regional Director, Wachovia Corporate Real Estate

In a highly interactive format, a panel of practitioners representing the various stages of the talent lifecycle will discuss the current trends in education, training, recruitment, and placement of real estate talent, and will offer insights into what to do to get the talent you need.

Get ahead of the competition for real estate talent:
• Learn about the current skill set "gap" - the difference between what real estate organizations are looking for and what the currently available talent pool offers
• Hear examples of how organizations are changing how they locate and recruit talent
• Understand the competition for real estate talent from other sectors

Mark E. Gorman MCR, Leader Global Real Estate, Nortel

Lydia Jacobs Horton, Director Global Facilities and Real Estate, Procter & Gamble

Pete Bulgarelli, Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle

Courtney Mentzer, Global HR Manager, Jones Lang LaSalle

As competition for real estate talent continues to grow, Procter & Gamble and Jones Lang LaSalle have created a comprehensive employee development and succession program that fosters retention, motivation and growth of key outsourced employees - with impressive results.

Win the race for talent by protecting the talent you have:
• Realize significant bottom-line savings by minimizing recruiting, hiring and training expenses
• Foster motivated and loyal employees by developing their skills and preparing them for the "next step" within your organization
• Understand how to assess skills and implement a succession plan for key roles

Brandon Forde, Senior Managing Director, CB Richard Ellis

Alex Darrah, Senior Managing Director, CB Richard Ellis

Scott Riley, Properties & Corporate Real Estate, Regions Bank

Peter Icely, Senior Director - Strategy and Research, CIBC

During this session, a panel of senior professionals who have "made the jump" between internal corporate real estate (CRE) and outsourced solution providers will discuss why they made the changes they did, and will share their observations about the shift in mindset, skills, and priorities required by their new roles.

Shape your career choices by:
• Understanding the motivation behind professionals who have made the switch between internal CRE and solution provider organizations, and vice versa
• Gaining insight into how the industry shift toward greater interdependence between organizations will affect your professional development
• Identifying where the opportunities can be found that best align with your career goals

Karen Ellzey, Executive Managing Director, CB Richard Ellis

Joel Ratekin, Director Corporate Real Estate, Capital One Financial

Daniel P. Boutross, SVP Corporate Workplace, Bank of America

Sharon Krohn, President, Real Estate Executive Search

Participate with real estate professionals to examine the art and science of effectively positioning and communicating strategic CRE opportunities. Hear first hand experiences, strategies, tips, and lessons learned from RE leaders who have devised successful strategies for communicating with multiple stakeholders about strategic RE opportunities and initiatives to drive change. Panelists will discuss strategies, tools and techniques that have helped them to successfully communicate and gain buy-in for transformational ideas and elevate real estate's role in key business issues.

Improve your personal effectiveness by:
• Understanding what effective communication really is and how to use it
• Creating influence within your department
• Positioning real estate's value within the enterprise

Mark E. Gorman MCR, Leader Global Real Estate, Nortel

Ben Pugh, Senior Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield

Stephen Binder MCR SLCR, Senior Advisor, Cushman & Wakefield

Pat Crumley, Chief Services Officer, The Staubach Company

John DeCouto MCR.h SLCR, Senior Partner, Bryant Commercial Real Estate Partners

Neil Uebelien, President and Principal, nVision Consulting

Have you been thinking about getting your MCR, but want to know more about it before signing up? This fast paced, high energy session will give you an opportunity to experience how the MCR can help you achieve your career goals. At the end of the session, a complimentary MCR class registration will be given away.

Attendees will have the opportunity to:
• Participate in up to three small group "mini" classes given by highly-rated MCR faculty.
• Interact with the faculty and with the other participants as they would during an actual MCR class.
• Hear from other MCR's about how gaining the MCR designation has enhanced their knowledge of the industry and furthered their careers.

Mert Livingstone, VP Global Operations, Johnson & Johnson

Timothy McDermott, Senior Director Global Facilities, Wyeth Research

Ara Krafian, President, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates

Charles Pappalardo, Corporate VP Global Facilities Management, Charles River Laboratory

Matthew J. Powers, VP Life Sciences, Murphy & McManus

Life science research enterprises must accommodate rapid growth even as they compete to recruit and retain the best and brightest researchers. Learn how one real estate team applied their understanding of the science environment to set aside traditional approaches to workplace design to create a lower-cost, higher-efficiency workplace that fosters collaboration and improves employee satisfaction.

Utilize specific industry knowledge to create highly functional workplaces:
• Understand the drivers of workplace satisfaction for specific workers' needs
• Design spaces based on similarities between functional groups, not differences
• Overcome perceptions that more space is the answer to accommodating business growth

Dennis Meseroll, Managing Director, Tractus Asia

Keith Wilkie MCR, Director International Real Estate Acquisitions & Dispositions, U.S. Department of State

Following the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, The U.S. Department of State Overseas Buildings Operations launched a 15-plus year initiative to replace more than 80 percent of U.S. embassy and consulate facilities, developing methods to effectively conduct multiple searches for sites in many different countries simultaneously.

Discover new methods of siting overseas facilities:
• Using site evaluation tools to rate multiple sites based on essential decision drivers and positive attributes
• Developing specialized RFP's to identify and cultivate the right services in local markets
• Overcoming the challenges of siting a new facility in underdeveloped and immature markets