Networking and Registration

Opening Remarks

Keynote Address with San Francisco City and County Treasurer, Jose Cisneros

Influential Bay Area Power Players

This session will highlight the icons of the Bay Area across the entire region and discuss who’s driving the industry. Topics will include disruptors and trend setters; those pushing the market forward; activity in finding opportunities; maneuvering a competitive environment, top deals and megaprojects, and which areas are becoming more active than others.

Networking Break

Deal Flow Across the Capital Stack: It’s Complicated

The Bay Area’s current investment climate in commercial real estate has been described as optimistic with a touch of uncertainty. Real estate players across the buying, lending and selling space will address critical issues including where investors are finding higher yield; public vs. private REITS; preferred investment strategies; the role of foreign investors; the growth of non-bank lenders, and diversification into nontraditional property types.

Trends and Challenges in Live, Work, Play

Panelists will debate the current trends and disruptors of the Bay Area’s CRE climate—from Oakland, to San Jose to Palo Alto to San Francisco. Pressing topics will include office demands and today’s work environments; investment activity and strategies; maneuvering the heated tech space; a surge of housing and multiuse megaprojects; transit demands and last-mile solutions; shifting demographics, and opportunities in the growing submarkets.

Networking Break

Focusing on Opportunity Zones in the Bay Area

Commercial real estate experts will address the current Opportunity Zones landscape and areas to watch including Oakland, San Jose and Silicon Valley; identify economic and demographic characteristics; highlight potential tax incentives, and discuss what this means for investors, developers, and the community.

Closing keynote with Lydia Tan, Managing Director of Real Estate, Oakland Athletics

Closing Cocktail Reception and Networking