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EXECUTIVE OFFICER
September 23-25 | Dallas -Fort Worth
Agenda items include:
- Innovation Summit (add-on to Executive Officer meeting)
- The Existential Crisis of Real Estate Allocations: Where is the Capital Headed?
- Building an Enduring Real Estate Investment Manager: What the Market Rewards & What Gets in the Way
- Leading Through Change: Decision Velocity as a Competitive Advantage
- What's on Your Mind?
Data & Information Management
October 6-7 | Chicago
Agenda items include:
- Windy City Chat
- Your Data Strategy IS Your AI Strategy
- Build vs. Buy: A Practical Framework for Technology Decisions
- Building Trust in Data: Governance, Standards & the Path to AI Readiness
- Rethinking the Operating Model: Efficiency & Business Transformation
NAREIM Highlights
A quick snapshot of what’s happening at NAREIM. Explore meeting summaries, pulse survey results, member-authored thought leadership.
NAREIM Appoints Andy Walburger as Chief Executive Officer
Walburger brings more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience cultivating executive relationships and facilitating high-level peer exchange. Prior to joining NAREIM, he held senior commercial roles across leading real estate data, analytics, and technology platforms, including Green Street, Juniper Square, and Ten-X.
His work has consistently focused on partnering with institutional investment managers and supporting their strategic and operational priorities.
“Throughout his career, Andy has been dedicated to serving institutional real estate investment managers and creating opportunities for senior leaders to learn from one another,” said Kristin Renaudin, Chair of the NAREIM Board of Directors and Chief Financial Officer of Stockbridge. “His experience across the industry, combined with his success building executive peer networks, makes him uniquely well suited to lead NAREIM.”
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Leading Through Change: How Organizations Are Redefining Leadership, Employee Experience & the Future of Work
Artificial intelligence may be changing how work gets done, but throughout NAREIM’s Talent Management Meeting, held in Chicago this week, one message remained remarkably consistent: the future of work is still fundamentally about people.
Across discussions on executive coaching, total rewards, AI transformation, and leadership development, attendees explored how organizations are adapting to an increasingly complex workplace. While every organization is on a different path, the conversations revealed a common priority: preparing leaders, employees, and workplace cultures to navigate rapid change.
The discussions made clear that while technology continues to accelerate transformation, lasting success will depend on organizations that invest in the human side of work.
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To Leverage Generative AI, Managers Must Be Willing to ‘Rebuild the Factory from the Ground Up’
“AI-native firms” built around generative AI technology from day one could gain an advantage over competitors trying to adapt legacy processes, attendees heard last week during NAREIM’s Virtual Exchange Series: Technology, Data & AI Survey Analysis.
Yet established firms possess something newcomers will struggle to replicate: the trust of their investors, which they have spent years nurturing.
“AI-native firms that will compete the best will be those that pull people together from legacy firms, so they have that incumbent trust that’s there, but they are going to be rebuilding that factory from scratch.”
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