2024 CoreNet Global Summit | Washington D.C.

People Are Complex: Workplace Shouldn't Be

How do we authentically engage with our workforce, and how do we sculpt workplaces that honor the nuanced interplay between individual autonomy and collective collaboration?

A New Social Contract Drives Realignment Between Mission, Culture, and Workplace

The panel will share their experiences and perspectives on how their organizations are steering value creation and in-turn recalibrating corporate culture and the physical workplace to stimulate the human connection.

AI & FM – How AI Empowers Employees and Can Drive the Workplace Experience

This session will engage the audience on the growing importance of an employee-centric approach to sustainability in corporate real estate and the goals that employers are setting to create sustainable workplaces.

Building Genuine Connections: Women in CRE and the Power of Mentorship

Mari Cabiladas of Colliers and Angela Sainato of Viasat share how their friendship began at a CoreNet Global Summit and discuss the importance of mentorship, empowerment, and genuine connection within corporate real estate. Listen in as they reflect on meaningful session takeaways, from advancing women in leadership to fostering an inclusive post-pandemic workplace culture.

Centralized Planning in a Decentralized World – Nestle’s Globalized Portfolio Strategy Approach

Explore Nestle's shift from decentralized to centralized real estate planning. Learn key components for effective CRM and portfolio management, and how to apply them in your organization.

Co-Creating Strategies to Boost Equity in the Workplace

Much of the literature on workplace equity underscores its significance for business success, rather than the impact it can have on employee experience. As the workplace continues to evolve, organizations are discovering ways to better support individuals in bringing their authentic selves to work and performing at their best.

CoreNet Global Academic Challenge 16: Final Presentations

Student teams from universities in Africa, the Americas, and Europe were invited to compete in a competition in which they are playing the role of an internal CRE team to develop an enterprise level strategy.

Corporate Real Estate 2030 – A Brief Reveal of the Findings

Join us and get a sneak peek of the upcoming reports from this transformative Corporate Real Estate 2030 research initiative.

CRE Team Organizational Design

The purpose-driven CRE team with the right structure and governance enables performance, effectiveness, future planning, efficiency, and cost stewardship. This model requires the right skills and adaptability.

Creating Marquee Moments: Elevating the Employee Experience Through Service Design

Join leading thinkers in experience strategy, service design, and design thinking to learn how they elevate the employee experience through human-centric design approach.

Data-Driven Transformation in Real Estate: Adapting to Client Needs

Savills Global Occupier Services CEO, Rick Schuham, and team discuss the evolving demands of corporate real estate. They explore how data-driven strategies and customized client service models support diverse organizations, from high-growth ventures to stable firms, in navigating today’s complex real estate landscape.

Designing High-Performing Workplaces for Top Performers: Which Actions by CRE Leaders Matter Most?

Gensler will share highlights from their 2024 Global Workplace research exploring performance at an individual, team, and organizational level and what makes a high-performing workplace—both onsite and nearby.

Epic Debate Battle - North America

We have Epic Debate Battle for those who “love to argue” and want to make their voice heard. Lively discussions about timely topics – all in good fun.

Exploring Workplace Evolution and Connection at the CoreNet Global Summit in North America

Christina York, designer and workplace strategist, introduces her new podcast, Create a Place, from the CoreNet Global Summit, focusing on the evolving workplace and balancing business goals with employee needs.

Foundation for Connection and Innovation

Competitiveness requires a unique perspective on evolving influences of technology on people flows to connect multi-disciplinary teams for rapid iteration and decision-making cycles essential to innovation.

From Perspectives to Priorities: Unlocking the Essence of a People-centric Organization

We all are panelists in exploring a people-centric organization! At the core of successful people-centric organizations are meaningful relationships built on trust.

Future Workplace Ecosystems: Hybrid Work at the City Scale

This dynamic panel of urban planners, developers, clients, and workplace designers will discuss their POVs on what today’s workplace ecosystems looks like, and how they might inspire a shift in how work is reimagined.

Global Capability Centres & India's Rise as the Global Office of the World

Audience will get valuable insights on trends on Global off-shoring and emergence of GCCs as one of the most prominent trends in CRE space and how it is impacting different industries.

Green Connections: Empowering People-Centric Spaces Through Decarbonization and Intelligent Design

GSA's Workplace Innovation Lab

Learnings, past, present and future, from the implementation and execution of GSA’s Workplace Innovation Lab.

Handprints over Footprints: Building Net-Positive Enterprises by Social & Environmental Stewardship

The session will equip participants with the knowledge and tools to transition from merely reducing negative impacts to actively creating positive environmental and social contributions within their enterprises and projects.

Hey Landlord, Let’s Talk: Collaborating to Cut Carbon Across Your Leased Spaces

This session will dive deeper into measures you should take to best decarbonize your leased spaces, focusing on improving energy efficiency and reducing operational costs.

How – and Why – Amazon Rolled out a Global Indoor Air Quality Program

This session will explore how Amazon approached this issue and successfully rolled out a real-time IAQ monitoring system across its global corporate real estate portfolio.

How CRE Departments Implement ESG to Support Human Connections and Drive Organizational Success

This session will focus on best practices and lessons to implement or expand on inclusive and sustainable operating practices and strategies into your real estate business goals and objectives.

Infection Risk Management for Healthy Buildings – The New ASHRAE Standard for Indoor Air

ASHRAE Standard 241 establishes new minimum requirements for the control of infectious aerosols in buildings. Learn how to determine if your occupants are at risk and what you can do about it.

It’s Time to Build an Ark to Strategically Weather the Weather

Extreme weather events – wildfires, floods, prolonged heat, intense cold, droughts, and storms – are impacting commercial real estate portfolios from an insurance, operating, uptime, comfort, and valuation perspective.

Lessons Learned from Modernizing City of Toronto's Facilities Management Service Delivery

The panel will discuss the facilities management operations inherited by the operational directors at the City of Toronto, the strategic decisions made considering the constraints, and the solutions that worked.

Modernizing Workplace Metrics for Data Driven Real Estate Strategies

The speaker will share learnings from a data analytics program developed for Takeda and have a candid discussion on whether the assumptions and approaches to new measures, metrics and KPIs developed are reasonable and valid.

Moving on Up

The changes we saw to the workplace and workforce during the pandemic have only continued to accelerate. Join this session to understand the impact on the real estate ecosystem, from the office to the city.

Navigating Complexity: Balancing People and Sustainable Goals in a Connected World

The panel will touch upon challenges and innovative routes employed by global companies with offices in diverse geographies as they navigate today’s connected world.

Navigating Global Real Estate Dynamics

Join Michelle Needles, Savills’ Global Head of Enterprise Solutions, and her guests as they explore the complexities of global markets. From local nuances to talent migration trends, this episode dives into what it takes to make strategic real estate decisions across diverse regions.

R&D’s Impact on Corporate Real Estate & Leasing Strategies

Through this session learn how life sciences organizations have blended design typologies creating prosperous scientific campus ecosystems that reinforce business objectives, while creating a network of their own.

Redefining Human-Centric Service Excellence for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations - North America

Inspired by Einstein, we explore, how time, changes service quality related perceptions for the stakeholders we engage with and strategies towards excellence. Welcome to Planet Sigma!

Reflections on CRE 2030: A CoreNet Global Conversation on the Future of Real Estate

Michelle Needles of Savills leads a thought-provoking conversation on CoreNet Global’s CRE 2030 initiative, exploring the transformations reshaping the real estate profession. With insights from global leaders in the profession, this episode covers key topics like data-driven strategies, the impact of technology, and the evolving role of real estate in today’s rapidly changing landscape.

Re-ignition 2025 – Breaking down the Siloes, and Bringing It All Together!

No successful workplace program meets the needs of the organization and workforce without addressing the 4 pillars of Enterprise Alignment - people, place, process and tools. A holistic approach is required for success.

Renew vs Relocate: The Sustainability Implications of a Real Estate Decision

The panel will share tested best practices for evaluating the environmental impacts of different real estate lease decision scenarios that they can apply to their own portfolios.

Resilient Real Estate: A Disaster Is a Hazard You Didn't Prepare For

This session will provide an introduction to the growing practice of property resilience assessment, and how to use it to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities, while improving the resilience and performance of buildings.

Rethinking the Office Sector for People

The office landscape is changing. Modern, sustainable spaces are in demand, making older buildings obsolete. Future offices must be flexible and community-focused.

Service Delivery & Outsourcing: Key Market Insights

In this presentation, EY leverages experience and market research to address how organizations can improve CRE service delivery quality, operational efficiency, and cost optimization.

Shaping Future Leaders in AEC: Expectations, Challenges, and Opportunities

Future leaders must understand that a building isn’t just walls and windows; it’s a vessel for human stories. Join this dynamic discussion that ignites a spark in fueling human connections in the next generation.

Skipping the Onsite Retail and Gym in Favor of More Office Focus Space

What is the balance that corporate occupiers and building owners need to strike to ensure that workplace amenities have the expected impact, while keeping cost in mind? Learn more through this session.

Solution for Corporations with Vacant or Underutilized Office Buildings

Speakers will discuss the potential for the corporate real estate team to transform underutilized office buildings.

Space Management and Smart Buildings - Solutions and Tools for Future-Proofing Workspaces

Learn how Space Management for Smart Buildings will help meet the demands of today’s workforce and the ever-changing role of buildings in supporting and driving employee engagement and the human experience.

SpeakerSlam - North America

This is a 10-minute, TEDx-style storytelling opportunity. Apply for a coveted slot to share your personal stories on the “Power of Human Connection.”

State of Play: Understanding Commercial Real Estate Markets and Investors

This session will explore the ongoing distress in the capital markets caused by inflation and rising interest rates, which continues to put tremendous pressure on corporate real estate owners.

Staying Stuck in the Past Will Not Get Us to the Future

The old ways of working don’t work. Learn about new frameworks that will allow for better teams, better culture, and better employee effectiveness.

Storytelling: A How-to Business Experience

Join this interactive workshop where you’ll learn to identify how stories work, how to develop your storytelling capability and how to put stories to work in your role and organization.

Strategies for Addressing Underperforming Office Assets

Join this session for a discussion on key considerations in navigating the challenges and opportunities associated with an uptick in conversion activity from office to residential.

Tackling New Headquarters and Other Mega Projects

Global experts from CBRE and Turner & Townsend will share thoughts on key considerations including location, cost, design and constructability, amenities, sustainability, and flexibility.

The Delight Factor: Quantifying the Competitive Strength of Your Workplace

Learn more about the Delight Factor, a quantitative measurement, that scores a workplace on how it makes people feel—complementing measures like cost per square foot with a building’s experiential qualities.

The Extended Office: Cognitive Ergonomics in a Hybrid World | Washington D.C.

Until recently, the impact of the built environment on our cognitive functioning has been largely speculative, however, new technologies have unclosed insights into how our minds work with real-time accuracy.

The Five Trends Transforming the Workplace

Attend this session to learn how data, AI, tech tools and more can empower your real estate team to redefine the workplace, see the big picture faster, and stay ahead of the curve.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Workspaces in the Contact Center Capital of the World

What’s the impact of AI on the contact centers of the world? Learn more through this analysis of the impact on Philippines.

The Intersectionality of Customer Service and Corporate Real Estate

Each career takes its unique path, and what we learn and bring to each new job is based on our past experiences/successes/challenges. This session will delve into how customer service, in its many forms, and CRE intersect.

The Leading Edge – Professional Service Sector Moving Forward

Join us as we explore how professional service firms are designing the workplace of the future, to attract, and retain a new generation and build on their successes.

The New Merger & Acquisition Paradigm: People Centric Portfolio for Compatible Beliefs and Values

Since a disconnected culture can disrupt a merger or acquisition, organizations should focus on the needs of employees who will form the new company, and identify how to strengthen relationships between merging teams.

The Next Era of Work: Why you Need an Outstanding Workplace in a Hybrid Working World.

Leesman and the International WELL Building Institute merge forces in this session on the importance of redefining space based on people and the role an outstanding workplace can play in employee experience.

The Power of Bursting Your Own Bubble

Lisa Reed, Director of Strategic Accounts, shares her journey of exploring new cultures, embracing discomfort, and finding growth in unexpected places. From trekking in Nepal to building a life and career in Los Angeles, Lisa reflects on how stepping outside her comfort zone has shaped her perspectives and passion for global citizenship. Listen in to discover how expanding your own boundaries can enrich both life and career.

The Production Floor Is a Workplace, Too. Enhancing Human Experience to Improve Production Outcomes.

This panel will explore how competition for talent, AI, and continued economic, productivity, and quality pressures, are building the case for renewed investment in the production employee experience.

The Psychology of the Office

Empathy is crucial to our ability to interact with others and work together as a society. Are we at risk of losing this essential resource with the increase in remote work and online presence?

Total Worker Health Fills the Gap Between Good and Great Workplaces

How can the principles of Total Worker Health help guide the design and operation of space to unlock the power of people by building safe, empowering, productive, and health-enhancing workplaces.

Towards a New Relationship-based Design Model | Washington D.C.

Until recently, supporting activity-based work was considered cutting-edge workplace strategy. While this still may be an appropriate approach, the value of the workplace today is more nuanced.

Towards Zero Waste: Transforming Office Furniture Sustainability and Value Capture

The session will highlight how users have managed existing furniture assets to create measurable economic value and environmental benefits through remanufacturing.

Unleash the Power of Scent for Wellness: Aromatherapy Redefined in Commercial Real Estate

With the wellbeing of building occupiers and guests in mind, this session will delve into hospitality from the lens of sustainably creating experiences using the transformative power of scent.

Women in Real Estate: How to Grow and Support Women's Advancement in CRE

Women make up more of the real estate workforce than ever before. Learn how can we support their leadership and growth in an inclusive and forward-thinking way.

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