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Monday
03:40pm - 04:30pm EDT - December 6, 2021 | Room: Tower 1/2/4/6/7
Total Minutes: 50
There is light at the end of the tunnel. Is it coming from an oncoming train? This presentation supplies economic data and analysis juxtaposing the pre-pandemic and pandemic world, and then supplies a forecast for the post-pandemic one. Among the areas of focus are labor markets, financial markets, real estate, construction, consumer spending, business investment, international trade and government finances.


Objectives:
  • Discover the manner in which COVID-19 impacted global, national, and regional economies
  • Distinguish likely long-term structural shifts facing key economic segments
  • Analyze the likely pace of economic recovery in 2021 and beyond
  • Identify the primary policy responses to the crisis
  • Distinguish several critical sources of future economic risk
  • Analyze several key demographic implications, including those related to housing market dynamics
Tuesday
11:05am - 12:20pm EDT - December 7, 2021 | Room: Tower 1/2/4/6/7
Total Minutes: 75

This session will provide an inside look at Washington, D.C. and its continued dysfunction, and what the spending decisions, tax debate, and infrastructure proposals mean to companies competing to be profitable in the construction industry. Matt Turkstra of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) looks at the construction policy agenda in Congress and the Biden Administration and how actions in Washington will impact the industry in 2021 and beyond.



Objectives:
  • Understand political trends driving decision making in Washington, DC and beyond.
  • Identify policy priorities of the Biden administration and Congress.
  • Understand the impact of 2021 fiscal policies on construction employers.
02:20pm - 03:10pm EDT - December 7, 2021

Tuesday
02:20pm - 03:10pm EDT - December 7, 2021 | Room: DaVinci 3/4
Steve Kaplan, ​Speaker - Virtual
Total Minutes: 50

If you watch CNBC or read the Wall Street Journal, I am sure you have heard the term SPAC. They have dominated the financial news for the last 18 months. In this presentation we will explain to you what a SPAC is, how one works and why they are important for companies considering raising capital.


04:10pm - 05:25pm EDT - December 7, 2021

Tuesday



Listen to top real estate executives to discuss COVID’s effect on, values, operations, personal and business processes. The session will be a panel discussing what action plans these companies implemented to push forward in light of COVID and what the future now looks like for gaming, bioscience real estate, office and multifamily. Have your questions ready for this panel of experts!



Objectives:
  • Identify examples of best practices from financial and operational executives in dealing with the fallout of COVID
  • Recognize how COVID changed your business plans based on futue predictions
12:10pm - 01:00pm EDT - December 8, 2021

Wednesday
12:10pm - 01:00pm EDT - December 8, 2021 | Room: DaVinci 3/4
Louis Bladel, ​Speaker - Virtual; Daniel Gleisner, ​Speaker - Virtual
Total Minutes: 50

About a quarter of corporate breaches are related to insiders, who have much more access to information than in the past thanks, in part due to cloud collaboration tools and a proliferation of platforms adopted across an organization. This discussion will feature industry experts who have developed insider threat programs for both government and corporate clients. The discussion will cover both the current state of insider threats, contemporary case examples, and effective steps for building your own insider threat program.



Objectives:
  • Understand the risks from insider an organization
  • Discuss useful practices for mitigating insider risk
  • Develop effective legal and regulatory responses to insider risk matters
01:30pm - 02:45pm EDT - December 8, 2021

Wednesday
01:30pm - 02:45pm EDT - December 8, 2021 | Room: DaVinci 3/4
Carmen Magee, CPA, ​Speaker - Virtual; Arpan Grewal, ​Speaker - Virtual
Total Minutes: 75

This session provides an introduction to key ESG concepts and an overview of ESG reporting trend, regulatory update, specifically for the real estate and construction industries.



Objectives:
  • Recognize key ESG concepts and terminology specifically for Real Estate
  • Describe the ESG reporting trend and regulatory update
  • Explain the challenges of ESG reporting and roles of accounting professionals in ESG reporting
03:45pm - 04:35pm EDT - December 8, 2021

Wednesday
It is important that real estate space planning be highly responsive to workforce planning. Pre-pandemic, many organizations over-provisioned space and operated in a business-as-usual approach when it came to facility planning. Innovative real estate solutions are rooted in a thorough understanding of the workforce and are designed to reflect how an organization needs to work to be successful. The pandemic has revealed that a greater level of job flexibility is sustainable and desirable for many, meaning that workplace strategies will account for a broad spectrum of work locations and arrangements moving forward. With this added complexity, conducting workforce segmentation analysis is a key first step toward a more defined plan for real estate needs. This session will provide examples of how organizations have leveraged the segmentation process to better understand the demand for space and accurately evaluate footprint requirements and long-term strategies.


Objectives:
  • Discover the value of workforce segmentation.
  • Distinguish the different methodologies used to gather input and formalize segmentation strategy.