16th Annual Trends Days
Join ULI Arizona for the 16th Annual Trends Days. This year’s virtual program will be three mornings of deep-dive content, bringing together 25+ top industry experts from across the globe to discuss the most current real estate trends, with a focus on what to expect in the future, where the best opportunities can be found, and how these components affect both public and private sector partners. ULI Arizona’s Trends Day is recognized as the third largest ULI program globally…this is the not-to-be-missed event of the year.
DAY 1 – April 20, 2021
8:00-8:45am
Predictions for the US Economy, or Life in the Canary Watch Box
Sponsored By: SRP | The Grand at Papago Park
Dr. Peter Linneman, esteemed author, educator and real estate investment strategist, will share his insights and research into the US economy amidst COVID recovery under the new Biden administration, including observations regarding the hardest hit sectors of the real estate economy. How worried should we be about government debt and deficits, and are we headed into an inflationary economy? What about US Treasury yields? Will Forbearance be the name of the lending game long enough to sustain CRE recovery? So many canaries in the watch box! Listen and learn from this renowned expert!
Dr. Peter Linneman, Founding Principal, Linneman Associates LLC; Chief Executive Officer, American Land Fund; Chief Executive Officer, KL Realty
8:45-9:15am
Fireside Chat: The Long Game: Waging the War on Coronavirus
Sponsored By: Gammage & Burnham and Sunbelt Holdings
Even though most of the public focus is on limiting the spread of Covid-19 and on increasing our ability to receive the vaccination, experts are also focused on what changes we will need to make in our work spaces and public gathering spots to combat the disease and mitigate the effects going forward . Dr. Keim will share the advanced diagnostics of infectious disease targeting both the pathogen and the host responses in an attempt to understand the origins, transmission and future protocols as it pertains to the Coronavirus.
Steve Roman, Founding Partner (Ret.), FirstStrategic Communications and Public Affairs– Interviewer
Dr. Paul Keim, Executive Director, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute; Regents Professor, and Co-Director of TGen North, Northern Arizona University
9:15-10:00am
Concurrent Session #1 – Office in Flux: Which Way is Up?
Sponsored By: Gensler
COVID has accelerated certain office trends and also brought new issues to light which may or may not have lasting impacts on the use and value of different types of office space. Join our esteemed panelists as they share their worldwide experience handling the immediate challenges they have to address during these uncertain times, as well as discuss how they are re-imagining the existing space and their views on trends in the future. An owner/developer, an architect and a tenant, all with both national and international perspectives, will discuss their reactions to questions of long- and short-term trends for design and use, flight to the suburbs, employee security/safety and remote work.
Paul Komadina, Senior Managing Director and Market Leader, CBRE – Moderator
Chris Anderson, Senior Managing Director, Hines
John Paul Bruno, Vice President, Global Real Estate and Procurement, Workday, Inc.
Janet Pogue McLaurin, Principal, Global Workplace Research Leader, Gensler
Concurrent Session #2 – The Explosion of Single Family Build-for-Rent
Sponsored By: Walker & Dunlop
Are you making offers on land and losing to build-for -rent developers, yet you don’t even know what build for rent really means? Are you in the homebuilding business or multi-family space and thinking about delivering a build-for-rent community but haven’t done one before? Is your municipality getting zoning applications for build-for-rent communities but you aren’t sure what the long-term impacts will be if you approve the project? This expert panel of national and local build-for-rent experts will illuminate the ‘what, where and why’ of these powerful new communities that are taking the real estate market by storm.
Margaret Whelan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Whelan Advisory – Moderator
Jay Byce, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, ResiBuilt Homes
Erik Heuser, Executive Vice President, Chief Corporate Operations Officer, Taylor Morrison
Keaton Merrell, Managing Director, Walker & Dunlop
10:00-10:45am
ROUNDTABLE BREAKOUTS
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DAY 2 – April 21, 2021
8:00-8:30am
Capital Markets Keynote: Show Me The Money!
Sponsored By: Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie
Are you wondering about the availability of capital and how and where that capital is being deployed? Curious about how developers and equity investors are getting deals done? Do you want to know how providers of debt and equity are interacting in the current lending environment? With a view to the near term, this keynote will answer those questions for you and much, much more.
Mary Ludgin, Ph.D., Senior Managing Director and Director of Global Investment Research, Heitman
8:30-9:15am
Arizona’s Explosive Growth in Manufacturing
Sponsored By: AVAILABLE
Grace O’Sullivan, Vice President, Corporate Engagement and Strategic Partnerships, Arizona State University – Moderator
Laura Matz, Ph.D., Vice President, Planatization, EMD Performance Materials
Jim Rounds, President, Rounds Consulting Group, Inc.
9:15-10:00am
Concurrent Session #1 – The Industrial Evolution
Sponsored By: Landmark Title Assurance Agency
The industrial real estate ecosystem has seen tremendous evolution over the past decade with the growth of e-commerce demand driving the rise of cold storage, last mile facilities and distribution centers. This panel will be a candid discussion between national industry leaders on the state of industrial real estate, high level trends driving the asset class boom, and the trends that will transform the industry.
Robert Thornburgh, SIOR, CCIM, CPM, FRICS, Chief Executive Officer, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) – Moderator
Jon Levy, Executive Vice President – Industrial Development, Patrinely Group
Kim Snyder, President, U.S. West Region, Prologis
Cathy Thuringer, Managing Director and Market Leader, Trammell Crow Company
Concurrent Session #2 – Reimagining the Future of Tourism and Entertainment
Sponsored By: Holualoa Companies
In the last 10 years, large indoor, destination entertainment had become the norm in many metropolitan communities. Fast forward into a world forever changed and the increased demand for outdoor, recreational, highly curated and amenitized health and wellness tourism. Sunbelt states like Arizona are finding themselves perfectly acclimated to take advantage of these opportunities.
Megan Trummel, Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Visit Phoenix – Moderator
Matt Cooley, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cloth & Flame
Brian Friedman, AICP, Director of Economic Development, City of Glendale
Donald Leadbetter, Tourism Program Manager, National Park Service
10:00-10:45am
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DAY 3 – April 22, 2021
8:00-8:45am
Leadership in Times of Transition
Sponsored By: Willmeng
Opportunities to truly lead are often born from the most difficult of circumstances. The challenges of 2020 created such an opportunity. This discussion will explore leadership during difficult transition and chaos, and the consequences of remaining true to ones values and ideals during such difficult times.
Jeff Flake, Former Senator, United States Senate
Bob Worsley, Entrepreneur, Author and Former Arizona State Senator, NZ Legacy, LLC; ZenniHome, LLC; NovoPower, LLC
8:45-9:15am
Fireside Chat – Leadership: Engagement, Equity and Community Development
Sponsored By: CBRE
True leadership should challenge us to focus on community growth and community wellness. Today, we will hear how it is the responsibility of all leaders, especially those in a development capacity, to harness the tools for thoughtful community building and equitable development. Through his stewardship, Omar Passons uses engagement and inclusion to assess the issues facing his community and challenges us to build the bridge to economic equity.
Omar Passons, Esq., MPH, Director, Division of Integrative Services, County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency; Chair, ULI San Diego/Tijuana Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
9:15-10:00am
Concurrent Session #1 – The Climate Paradigm, a Discussion about Risk and Opportunity
Sponsored By: Pivotal Group
Spencer Glendon is the quintessential renaissance man, with degrees in Industrial Engineering and Economics, and extensive training in finance, history and language. His scientific study of the investment risk imposed by climate change is astonishing and deeply compelling. You will not want to miss this insightful discussion of his Probable Futures, which he founded and developed in partnership with Woodwell Climate. Listen and learn about adjusting to a future that will indisputably be altered by climate, in terms CRE investors will appreciate and understand.
Spencer Glendon, Founder, Probable Futures
Concurrent Session #2 – Biotechnology Leading Innovation
Sponsored By: Maricopa IDA
The healthcare and biotechnology market sector has seen tremendous growth in Arizona since the economy re-emerged from the Great Recession. While Arizona has long been a healthcare delivery destination, the field of bioscience has evolved to complement healthcare. With increased collaboration among the three state universities, and partnerships between higher education and healthcare providers, this market is poised as a leader in economic innovation. This panel discussion will focus on biotechnology market growth in Arizona and how the business community can support the market to be a leader on the national and global stage.
Joshua LaBaer, MD, Ph.D., Executive Director, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University – Moderator
Joan Koerber-Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arizona Bioindustry Association
Jian Zuo, MD., Ph.D., Chair, Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University
10:00-10:45am
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