Connecting American capital to global real estate
The PERE Network’s 19th annual America Forum in November 2024 will enable you to refine your investment strategy for global real estate markets.
Discuss market challenges and opportunities with North America’s most influential gathering of institutional investors, fund and asset managers, developers, and strategic partners:
- Redefine your real estate portfolio and position yourself for future investments
- Understand how elections around the world will impact the commercial real estate market
- Discuss ever changing investor appetite and decarbonization efforts across the industry
- Learn how to manage distressed assets in struggling sectors
- And more …
Buy your PERE Network membership today and join us at the America Forum this November.
Our keynote speakers
Practical implementation of AI in real estate investment
Join Dr. Mohammad Rasouli, a Professor at Stanford University, to have an insightful discussion on the implementation of AI in investment decisions. The discussion will cover the exploration of AI’s past applications and its impact on investment outcomes. Moreover, there will be an interactive discussion allowing participants to share their current AI implementation status, plans, and challenges. The session will also provide valuable insights on effectively incorporating AI into investment portfolios while managing costs.
Dr Mohammad Rasouli
Professor
Stanford University
Whitepaper: North American real estate investors:commitments and strategies
Our latest comprehensive report explores fundraising in the American real estate sector and the strategies and investments preferred by institutional investors, both domestically and internationally.
Download the full version to read more.
Expert speakers in 2024 include:
Apply for complimentary access to the PERE Network to be able to attend the America Forum in November 2024.
Apply for complimentary access
A limited number of complimentary passes are available for allocators and institutional investors to join the event.
Complimentary investor passes are limited to foundations, endowments, trusts, insurance companies, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.
Apply for access and a member of our team will follow up with you to secure your pass.
Thought leadership, branding and networking opportunities
Be part of thought-provoking discussions with leading institutional investors, investment, fund and asset managers, developers, advisers, and strategic partners.
Sponsorship offers you:
- Thought-leader speaking opportunities
- VIP access for you and your team
- High-profile branding before, during and after the Forum
- And much more …
For exclusive sponsorship packages for 2025, contact Charlotte Hung, our Global Business Development Manager of Real Estate at charlotte.h@pei.group
Thanks to our 2024 sponsors
View the key conversation topics
Download the agenda to see the trends shaping North American investors’ allocation strategies and markets across the region. These topics will shape the discussions at the PERE America Forum 2024.
Have a topic that you would like to discuss on the agenda? Contact Ben Moss today.
Agenda
Day 1 - Equity Day - Wednesday 13th
Registration and networking
Institutional investor breakfast briefing (invite only)
Join your investor peers to examine real estate as part of a wider portfolio, key real estate trends and the opportunities facing investors as we move into 2025. Share challenges with your peers in an off-the-record environment.
Welcome address and view from the commentary box
Opening keynote
Keynote panel: private real estate in a year of geopolitical and macroeconomic change
- How are private real estate markets reacting to a world impacted by multiple elections?
- How optimistic are US managers and investors? What does that mean for equity commitments?
- What are the driving indicators affecting private real estate strategic decisions?
Moderator:
Michael J. Rishty, Partner, Davis Polk
Panelists:
Kim Hourihan, Chief Investment Officer, CBRE Investment Management
Jamie Weber, Head of Americas, QuadReal
Broderick Storie, Co-Head of Real Assets, PAG
Coffee and networking break
Manager panel: Which risk-return profiles will be most effective in the current market?
- Given interest rates are coming down, what are the implications for private real estate’s various risk-return profiles? What does appetite look like for private real estate credit?
- Who will be the most prolific investors in the current setting? How is the fundraising and lending landscape looking?
- Sector breakdown: is it still all about sheds and beds? Has retail become viable again? Is the damnation of office over? What is the right way to play data centres?
Moderator: Kevin Ehrhart, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
Tim Newington, Managing Director, Macritchie Group
Adam Berns, Chief Investment Officer, US, GLP Capital Partners
Mark Fischer, Global Head of Real Estate and Co-Founder, Qualitas
Matt Jackson, Co-Portfolio Manager, U.S. Real Estate, Angelo Gordon





Panel: Evaluating investor real estate exposure and looking ahead
- How have investor real estate portfolio’s changed given considerable market pressures on the asset class? What appetite is there for so-called “niche” sectors like data centres and others?
- Which factors will bring investors back to the table and begin looking to allocate once more?
- What does the real estate portfolio of the future look like to ensure resiliency against market factors, climate change and geopolitical turmoil?
Moderator: Gregory Dool, Editor, PERE
Diego Lopez, Managing Director, Global SWF
Margaret McKnight, Partner, StepStone
Ankit Bhatt, Senior Managing Director, US Investments, Oxford Properties
Ed Lerum, Global Head of Logistics, Norges Bank





Lunch and networking break
Driving down operational costs through decarbonization
- Understand how decarbonization efforts have led to reduced operational costs
- What challenges face real estate owner/operators in decarbonization?
- How can North American real estate owners learn from European counterparts?
- How are fund managers, banks and other key stakeholders financing decarbonization?
Moderator: Thomas Stanchak, Managing Director, Sustainability, Stoneweg
Chris Gray, PhD, PE, CEO, EcoSmart Solution
Megan Saunders, Senior Managing Director, ESG, Kayne Anderson
Facing the mood music – what is the industry really talking about?
Presentation by Hiten Santani, Editorial Director, The Promote followed by a panel.
- What is keeping private real estate professionals up at night these days?
- How is a market in the doldrums impacting sentiment within the workforce?
- What aspects about private real estate are most interesting to the younger generation?
Hiten Samtani, Editorial Director, The Promote
Amir Abdu, Principal, U.S. Investments, BentallGreenOak
Emarie Bohanon, Senior Director, Tishman Speyer
Tom Cox, Vice President, LaSalle Value Partners
Nylz Reyes, Independent Consultant
Coffee break
Fireside chat: the mind behind the message
Blackstone has made a mission of getting ahead of the narrative. Its leaders are regularly speaking on television, social media and to the press about its views on the market. Meet the woman conducting what they say.
Moderator: Jonathan Brasse, Editor-in-Chief, PERE
Christine Anderson, Global Head of Corporate Affairs, Blackstone
Practical implementation of AI in real estate investment
- Data discussion: Understand where AI has been used to make better investment decisions and the measured results
- Audience poll & discussion: Where are you in your AI implementation and what are your implementation plans and challenges?
- How can you implement AI into your portfolio cost-effectively?
Speaker: Dr Mohammad Rasouli, Professor, Stanford University

Closing address: Bloomberg’s Jack Sidders
Jack Sidders is an award-winning senior reporter at Bloomberg News where he has been covering real estate since 2016. Prior to that he wrote for trade magazines focused on the real estate and construction industries. Over the past 14-years he has broken news on many of the highest profile property deals across Europe and beyond and published investigations and analysis examining the forces shaping the industry.
Jack Sidders, Senior Reporter, Bloomberg News

Networking drinks reception
Agenda
Day 2 - PERE Credit Day - Thursday 14th
Registration and networking
PERE Credit workshop (open to all)
Join PERE members to discuss macro real estate challenges, the changing face of real estate debt, the lending environment and more in an off-the-record discussion group.
Welcome from Chairperson
Chairperson: Nathalie Paladitcheff

Opening keynote address: The future is debt
Join Brookfield CEO, Real Estate Brian Kingston as he discusses how regulatory changes, market dislocation and an ever-changing lending landscape led him to make a bold prediction for his business.
Moderator: Samantha Rowan, Editor, PERE Credit
Brian Kingston, CEO, Real Estate, Brookfield
The changing face of real estate lending
- Who are the non-traditional lenders joining the senior debt market?
- What is the opportunity they see and what are their challenges?
- What role does their equity portfolio play to inform their debt strategy?
- How have the traditional lenders relationships to the industry changed?
Moderator: Samantha Rowan, Editor, PERE Credit
Tim Sloan, Vice Chairman, Head of Commercial Real Estate Debt, Fortress Investment Group
Jim Dunbar, Partner and Head of Real Estate Lending, Värde Partners
Adam Sklar, Co-Portfolio Manager, Co-head of Real Estate, Monarch Alternative Capital




Coffee and networking break
The private real estate credit revolution
- Data discussion: exclusive PERE data on real estate debt fundraising and lending in 2024
- How are alternative lenders bridging the lending gap and what is the long-term outlook for alternative lenders, are they here to stay?
- How will alternative lenders expand their platforms?
Moderator: Stuart Wood, Managing Director, Alter Domus
Andy Field, SVP, Investment Credit, Oxford Properties
Alberto Agazzi, Head of GRE International, Generali Real Estate
Stan Mullikin, Senior Managing Director, Crow Holdings
Harris Neuberg Managing Director, Fund Services, Affinius Capital





Networking lunch
What does a debt portfolio look like today?
- What sectors and regions are attractive to debt investors?
- Where are there opportunities in distress?
- As the market starts to recover, what will their role look like moving forward?
Moderator: Marshall Saffer, Managing Director, Fund Services, CSC
Prashant Raj, Managing Director, US Debt Investments, QuadReal
Jake Kramer, Senior Managing Director, Real Estate Debt, Kayne Anderson
Liza Crawford, Portfolio Manager, TCW
Fireside chat: Blackstone and the global real estate debt markets
Join Blackstone’s Global Head of Real Estate Debt Strategies in a 1-1 fireside chat that will discuss:
- Today’s market compared to last year, particularly to do with interest rates and the reality of real estate portfolios
- What are the opportunities and challenges when balancing one of the world’s largest real estate debt portfolios?
- How difficult is capital deployment when you operate at the immense scale of Blackstone?
Moderator: Randy Plavajka, Deputy Editor, PERE Credit
Tim Johnson, Global Head of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies, Blackstone
Closing keynote fireside chat
Conference close
2024 speakers
PERE America Forum brings together C-level executives and industry thought-leaders to speak about the latest macroeconomic trends and insight impacting your strategies and plans in the region. Download the 2024 agenda to learn about the sessions to be discussed at the Forum.
Please contact Ben Moss at ben.m@pei.group for a discussion on key topics and speaking opportunities at the PERE America Forum 2024.