Educational sessions are an essential part of the CoreNet Global Summit experience. At the CoreNet Global Summit Denver, you will once again have the opportunity to learn about the latest trends that affect your business. Organized into nine high-level tracks - from driving sustainability to emerging workplace strategies - learning opportunities exist for every member at every level.

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Diane Stegmeier, President, Stegmeier Consulting Group, and author, Innovations in Office Design: The Critical Influence Approach to Effective Work Environments^tm

Participate in a facilitated discussion concerning the "hot button" issues of workplace strategy implementation. Diane Stegmeier will introduce results of a 10-year research initiative analyzing the 14 Critical Influences^tm that impede workplace strategy success.

Jennifer Dresback, VP Global Corporate Services, CB Richard Ellis

John Messall, Director of customer Finance Services, Sprint

Chris Carrington, CEO and President, Alpine Access

Attracting and retaining customer service talent while keeping costs down is a struggle for corporations. Learn how companies are implementing virtual call centers or home-based agents as a way to meet this challenge. Alpine Access, a leading outsource provider of virtual call centers, will share their experience supplying a wide range of call center applications across industry sectors. Sprint will share insights gleaned and lessons learned implementing home-based call center strategies.

Roy Cloudsdale, VP Corporate Clients, Johnson Controls

Jay S. Wallace, Facilities Architect, Boeing

Michele Ponicsan, Principal, BurkettDesign

John Whitcomb, President and CEO, Stellar Vision

Learn how Boeing used a relocation project as an opportunity to employ an innovative program to make their space as effective and productive as possible. Using the Lean Office Principles concept and a comprehensive collaborative change management program, Boeing and their project partners BurkettDesign and Stellar Vision brought together disparate operational groups into one integrated workplace.

Tim Venable, Editor, Corporate Real Estate Leader, CoreNet Global

Hear what corporate real estate executives and location consultants have to say about the evolving processes of corporate site selection. Learn how communities are preparing themselves for tomorrow's opportunities. The program will be discussion-oriented and highly interactive. Key findings will be published in the CoreNet Global Knowledge Center Online and will be used to guide programming in location strategy and economic development.

Mark Gorman MCR, Leader, Global Real Estate, Nortel

Michelle Cleveland, Knowledge Manager, WIRED West Michigan

Len Pilon, Director of Workplace Strategy, Herman Miller

James Ware, Executive Producer, Work Design Collaborative

Charles Grantham, Executive Producer, Work Design Collaborative

WIRED (Workforce Innovation for Regional Economic Development) is a federally- funded initiative that focuses on the role of talent development in driving regional economic competitiveness. Learn about the implications of such initiatives for both corporate real estate professionals and economic developers as the global economy increasingly becomes knowledge-based and location-independent.

John Krug, VP Business Development, Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission

Jim Harbaugh, Senior Director Corporate Real Estate, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Jay Biggins, Executive Managing Director, Biggins Lacy Shapiro

Bristol-Myers Squibb recently announced the selection of a former Army base in Devens, Massachusetts for its new biologics manufacturing plant. An extremely fast track, engineering complexity, site acreage, and the sheer scale of the investment (over $1 billion) combined to create a project that demanded a new approach to site selection and public-private partnering. Hear how the unique challenges presented by this site were overcome. (For more information on the enabling legislation for this kind of public-private partnership, see Session #16, Federal Agencies and Public-Private Partnerships, on Monday at 2:00 p.m.).

David Clute, Board Chairman, OSCRE/CCRE Practice Lead, Cisco Systems

Andy Fuhrman, CEO, OSCRE

Lora Muchmore, Director, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations & Environment)

Whitney Peyton, Senior Managing Director, Brokerage Services, CB Richard Ellis

Douglas Curry, CEO, Xceligent, Inc.

Streamlining the flow of information among key business processes results in significant reductions in labor resources, custom data integration & scrubbing, manual data entry, and operating costs, among other benefits. Learn how streamlining information flow can promote the integrated situational awareness necessary to manage networks of networks - of people, places and things.

Representatives from these major organizations will be on-hand describing their experience as members of the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE), including how they developed the recently released Commercial Information Exchange Standard, and will discuss plans for its implementation. The standard, for the interoperable exchange of commercial property listings, will be highlighted, along with the Real Property Unique Identifier, said to be the glue that binds the industry together. This is a non-technical discussion for all levels and a must-see event.

Todd P. Anderson SLCR, Senior Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield

Denis DeCamp, Director Global Real Estate, Rockwell Automation

R. J. Brennan, Director Strategic Workplace, IA Interior Architects

Daniel R. Jacobson, VP Properties and Corporate Services,
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennessee

Steve Clem, Principal, TVSA

Two very different organizations - Rockwell Automation and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee - were each driven by bottom line management concerns and a strong need to effect workplace change. Hear how each company responded to a demand for cost savings and real estate consolidation with a variety of new approaches to workplace strategy and integrated change management - achieving transformational results.

Stan Kaczmarczyk, Acting Principal Deputy Associate Administrator,
Office of Governmentwide Policy, U.S. General Services Administration

Bruce Richards MCR, National Portfolio Manager, Australia Post

Traditionally, corporate real estate provides a property solution that supports the core business and nothing more. Learn how Australia Post re-invented its approach to the analysis of its assets employing a portfolio-wide methodology that determines the extent to which each asset is performing - from the business unit's point of view. The initial review generated over AUS $27 million.

Keith Perske, VP, Group 5 Consulting

Mark Tamburro, VP Workplace Resources, Nokia

Robert Fitzgerald, Manager, Process and Tools Development,
Nokia Workplace Resources

Philip Wales, Principal, eBusiness Strategies LLC

Nokia has successfully implemented an integrated workplace management system (IWMS) to support the full lifecycle of its real estate and drive workplace decisions. Learn how the need for increased collaboration and better access to strategic information resulted in a web-based tool to integrate and automate all functional components of the real estate lifecycle.

Del Boyette, Principal, Boyette Levy

Sarah K. Abrams, President, Fidelity Real Estate

Brian Johnson, EVP Staffing and Strategic Initiatives, Fidelity Investments

Demographic trends in the U.S. will impact the size and location of the skilled workforce, making it critical that corporations develop a long-term location strategy that will provide them with access to sustainable labor markets. Fidelity Real Estate has championed the endeavor to convince senior management of the benefits of incorporating demographic trends into their long-range strategic planning, and the costs of not doing so.

Karen Stephenson Ph.D., President, NetForm International

David Fik, Manager of Workspace Strategies, Haworth

Pam Armstrong, VP Human Resources, Haworth

Margaret Serrato Ph.D. AIA ASID LEED® AP, Strategic Planner, TVS Interiors

Rick Harris, Senior Director, MTV Networks CORE Services

Workplaces that foster collaboration, improve communication, reinforce brand, increase productivity, and attract and retain employees - these are the goals of the workplace strategist. Are they achievable? Two leading organizations -Haworth and TVS Interiors - will discuss their research and implementations of collaborative workplace designs for both internal and external customers. This thought-provoking discussion will be led by Dr. Karen Stephenson, a leading researcher in the area of human networks.

Jim Hartzfeld, Managing Director, InterfaceRAISE

John Saclarides, SVP, Bank of America

John Lijewski, SVP, Bank of America

Bob Fox, Principal, Cook + Fox Architects

Scott Frank, Partner, Jaros Baum & Bolles

Jean Savitsky, Senior VP, Jones Lang LaSalle

Corporations and developers alike are building green on a huge scale; "green skyscrapers" are appearing in every major city. Learn about one of the most progressive examples of this trend: the new Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York, the first high-rise office building to strive for the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED® Platinum rating.

Colin Coyne, Chief Operating Officer, Melaver

Ken Hagaman, Director of Real Estate Services, Anixter International, Inc.

Jack Rizzo, Managing Director Global Development, Prologis

Steve Hess, Senior Director, Real Estate Development, Exel

Ken Hall, Managing Director Global Development Europe, Prologis

Corporations are recognizing that "going green" extends beyond the buildings they occupy - in order to truly incorporate sustainable practices, they have to think outside their own four walls to their supply chain partners. Hear how Anixter International and Exel (a division of DHL) have each embraced sustainability as core to their businesses, and have chosen to partner with ProLogis to provide warehouse and distribution facilities that align with their overall corporate goals. In addition to operating more efficiently using the most current sustainable building technologies, this partnership reinforces their commitment to socially responsible corporate practices with their customers and shareholders.

Eric H. Bowles, Director Global Research, CoreNet Global

Greg Franta FAIA, Principal Architect & Team Leader Built Environment, Rocky Mountain Institute

Aalok Deshmukh LEED® AP, Senior Consultant Built Environment, Rocky Mountain Institute

Stephen Smith FBIFM MIoD, Global Head of Facilities Management & Sustainability, ABN AMRO

Stuart Carron, Director Global Facilities & Real Estate, JohnsonDiversey, Inc.

Theddi Wright Chappell CRE MAI FRICS AAPI LEED® AP, Managing Director Advisory Services, Pacific Security Capital

Buildings represent 40% of total energy consumption, yet companies fail to take advantage of many of the low cost and no-cost solutions to reduce energy utilization. Find out what companies are doing to overcome barriers to improving energy efficiency, and how to assess the potential impact energy efficient strategies may have on the value of your portfolio.

Doug Gatlin, Director of LEED®, U.S. Green Building Council

Randy Knox III, Director of Real Estate, Adobe Systems

William Dugan, Managing Director Client Solutions Group, Cushman & Wakefield

George Denise, General Manager, Cushman & Wakefield

In response to massive increases in energy costs in 2001, Adobe Systems set out to reduce their energy consumption. Over the past five years this single initiative has grown into a series of projects that have earned them the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED® Platinum rating for all three of its headquarters towers. Hear how Adobe Systems decreased energy use per employee by 35%, natural gas use by 41%, domestic water use by 22%, and landscape irrigation by 76%, one project at a time.

Peter J. Miscovich, Partner, Deloitte Consulting

Jim Hartzfeld, Managing Director, InterfaceRAISE

Mona Amodeo Ph.D., Senior Partner, idgroup

Dan Heinfeld FAIA LEED® AP, President, LPA

Learn how two very different companies - one a major carpet manufacturer, one an architectural firm - have created organizations that are committed to environmentally responsible practices from the inside out. InterfaceFLOR and LPA will each share their stories of progress towards sustainability and the positive impact their practices have had on their employees, their clients, and the bottom line.

Doug Gatlin, Director of LEED®, U.S. Green Building Council

The USGBC's portfolio program, currently in pilot phase, is an innovative LEED®-based program that provides cost-effective portfolio solutions to improve the environmental performance of participating companies and organizations. Learn how permanent integration of green building and operational measures into the standard business practices of companies and organizations makes it easier and more cost-effective to improve portfolio performance and demonstrate environmental and social responsibility.

H. Frances Reaves MCR, Director Business Development, ADP Tax Credit Services

Barbara E. Hampton BCCR SLCR, VP Workplace Resources, The Hartford

Ronald P. Zappile, President, United Technologies Realty, Inc.

Daniel Leonardi MCR, Customer Business Director, Johnson Controls, Inc.

What do you do when your service provider is bought by your competitor? How do you avoid conflict and service interruption? In the constantly changing landscape of client-service provider relationships, it has become inevitable that your company will face this challenging situation. Listen as this panel explores the impact, compromises and agreements involved when a merger or acquisition forces you to cooperate in this new environment.

Stephen Binder MCR SLCR, Senior Advisor, Cushman & Wakefield

Randy Smith, VP Global Real Estate & Facilities, Oracle

Elliott Farber, Senior VP, Equis

Martin Woodrow, EVP, Equis

In 2004, Oracle prepared to acquire Peoplesoft. At over $10 billion, it was the largest M&A within the software industry. Learn how Oracle's VP of Real Estate worked with Equis to develop a detailed M&A tool kit that lifted a significant burden from the CFO by bringing critical data and process to the table.

Through this collaboration, Oracle saved costs and accurately scaled the diligence effort by leveraging institutional knowledge and internal resources rather than relying on a consultant. The M&A team accepted CRE's analysis and reserve number recommendation, which one year after the merger stood within 5% of the original recommendation.

Stuart Carron, Director Global Facilities and Real Estate, JohnsonDiversey, Inc.

Jack Hallman, Director of Global Capital Projects, General Motors Worldwide Facilities Group

Robert J. Mauck AIA PE, VP Advanced Technologies, GHAFARI Associates

2006 CoreNet Global Innovator's Award finalist General Motors' 3-D Enabled Lean process has radically changed the way GM designs and constructs its manufacturing plants. Using many of the same technologies their colleagues use to design cars, the GM Worldwide Facilities Group implemented a collaborative Design/Build 3-D virtual modeling process - significantly improving supply chain efficiencies and bottom-line metrics with faster, better, safer, and lower cost construction.

Kevin Wayer, Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle

Angela Donatelli, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget

Stephen C. Roth AIA MCR, Manager, Realty Asset Management, U.S. Postal Service

Paul Macpherson, Chief, EUL & New Business, Air Force Real Property Agency

Edward L. Bradley III, Director, Investment & Enterprise Development Service, U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs

The President's Management Agenda has mandated the re-use and/or disposal of surplus government property, and many federal agencies are taking advantage of innovative legislation that has provided them with the authority and incentive to partner with the private sector to maximize government property values. Learn from case studies how these arrangements have benefited the government by transforming underutilized property into income-generating assets. (To see how this legislation is impacting the private sector, see Session #18, Bristol-Myers Squibb's State-of-the-Art Location Decision, on Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.)

FEATURING: Scott Hunter, author, coach

Nearly everything of significance we accomplish is done in cooperation with other people. Join sought-after coach Scott Hunter as he describes how we can create and maintain rich, meaningful, quality relationships with others.

FEATURING: Scott Hunter, author, coach

Successful partnerships are dependent upon the quality of the relationships that exist between the human beings in the partnership, not upon the quality of the legal documents that establish them. Listen as celebrated corporate coach Scott Hunter returns to the CoreNet Global Summit with fresh insights on partnership strategies that work.

TBA

Marlyn Walton, Future Insight Group Lead, Herman Miller

Shelly Brown, Researcher, Herman Miller

Ginny Baxter, Workplace Knowledge Consultant, Herman Miller

Facilities decisions being made today will have effects extending beyond the parameters of today's workplace. How well will your facilities support the work and employees of tomorrow?

The Kaleidoscope^SM Experience is an interactive, facilitated session grounded in research on the future of the workplace - a stimulating process intended to aid your planning for an uncertain future.