Jaime McKenna, Managing Director & Group Head, Real Estate Fengate Asset Management
Ted Willcocks, President & CEO, Triovest

What was the greatest challenge that you faced this year? As you look forward to 2021, what do you foresee on the horizon?

Donald Clow, President & CEO, Crombie REIT
Michael Emory, President & CEO, Allied Properties REIT
Shenoor Jadavji, Founder & President, Lotus Capital Corp.
Brett Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Canderel
Laurence Vincent, Co-President, Prevel

Benjamin Tal, Deputy Chief Economist, CIBC World Markets Inc.

Commentary:
Jon Love, Chief Executive Officer, KingSett Capital

OVERVIEW OF THE OFFICE, RETAIL, INDUSTRIAL AND MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL MARKETS: INVESTMENT, LEASING AND DEVELOPMENT

An overview of how the apartment, industrial, office, and retail markets have performed across Canada during the past twelve months from leasing, investment and development perspectives. Where are the market fundamentals trending at this time, e.g. vacancy rates, absorption rates, cap rates?

Amy Erixon, Principal & President, Global Investment Management, Avison Young
Colin Johnston, President, Research Valuation and Advisory, Altus Group

A SERIES OF THREE THOUGHT LEADERSHIP PRESENTATIONS

Introduction:
Daniela DeTommaso, Vice President, Residential Lending Solutions, Product Transformation & Data Strategy, FCT

KEYNOTE ADDRESS  

THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE: AN OPTIMIST'S GUIDE TO THRIVING IN A WORLD BEING TRANSFORMED BY TECHNOLOGY, GLOBALIZATION CLIMATE CHANGE AND AN UNPRECEDENTED PANDEMIC

Thomas Friedman, bestselling author of The World is Flat and New York Times foreign affairs columnist renowned for his direct reporting and accessible analysis of complex issues shaping the world. Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, Vanity Fair called him “the country’s best newspaper columnist.” His many other bestsellers included The Lexus and the Olive Tree called “simply the best book written on globalization.” Ranked #2 on The Wall Street Journal's list of “influential business thinkers” and named to the 2011 Thinkers50 and the 2013 list of Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers, Friedman is considered one of “America's Best Leaders” by US News & World Report. He will also comment on the outcome of the 2019 U.S. elections held on November 3.

Commentary:
Jon Love, Chief Executive Officer, KingSett Capital

AS COVID-19 IS ONE OF THE GREATEST CHALLENGE OF OUR LIFETIMES, HOW IS IT CHANGING HUMAN ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS? HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC AFFECTED ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR CULTURE?

COVID-19 is one of the most unprecedented and significant global events in our lifetimes. As such, it is changing various human attitudes and behaviours, and consequently forcing organizations to respond accordingly to the needs of their individual employees and teams. However, the need to respond will not end whenever the virus’s immediate threat eventually recedes. Imagine that things are back to normal. We can meet face to face. Travel is possible. All goods are easy to buy. However, to what extent has COVID-19 forever changed the experience of being a customer, an employee, a citizen, and a person? Will we see behaviour change for some time to come as a result? Has there been a change in the way we think? How will that affect the way we design, build and manage the various services that people need and want? The answers to these questions will lie in the way people react and how individuals, families and social groups—all sources of creative innovation—evolve to new ways to live.

Sir Cary Cooper, Professor, Director & Founder of Robertson Cooper, 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology & Health, MBS Manchester University. The world's leading expert in social well-being.

Interviewed by:
Stephen Sender, Trustee of various REITs

Introduction:
Dale Ponder, Co-Chair, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

INSIDE THE MIND OF STEPHEN POLOZ: IN CONVERSATION WITH BLAKE HUTCHESON ON ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TRENDS

An exceptionally unique discreet and candid discussion with the former Governor of the Bank of Canada on some of the most significant monetary policy decisions that he faced. What was the background, for example, to the quick and coordinated decisions that the Governor made when the potential severity of the pandemic and its implications became clear in March? On the political front, the U.S. elections will have been held on November 3rd. What are his perspectives on the outcomes and their impacts on trade, Canadian economic policies, and on relations in general between the two countries? A conversation not to be missed.

Stephen Poloz, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Special Advisor, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Interviewed by:
Blake Hutcheson, President & CEO, OMERS

Commentary:
Jon Love, Chief Executive Officer, KingSett Capital