You attend meetings to network. At NAREIM, we honor the investment of your time by ensuring our networking, activities and content is focused on helping you build personal relationships with peers, who are facing the same challenges and opportunities as you.
The NAREIM Sustainability meeting is just the place to build genuine relationships and friendships, where small group discussions and roundtable sessions provide not only detailed and relevant topics and education - but also networking opportunities with peers.
And of course, NAREIM is about candid conversations. You come to NAREIM to learn - and share. NAREIM is about the sharing of best practice ideas, solutions, challenges and opinions. It's a place to explore new ideas among peers and friends. That is no different in 2023.
As we work to develop our roundtable and group discussion content, we are committed to ensuring your time is well-spent. We invite you to come join fellow Sustainability peers in March.
Attendance limits: Please note, owing to demand and space constraints, no more than two attendees will be allowed per investment manager member. We also ask that underwriting members send no more than one person.
Registration fee: $775
meeting schedule
Tuesday, March 5: Networking dinner
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Location: South City Kitchen Buckhead, 3350 Peachtree Rd NE Suite 175, Atlanta, GA 30326
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6-9pm ET
Wednesday, March 6: Meeting
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Location: Stockbridge Capital Group, 3550 Lenox Road NE, Lobby Floor, Suite 525, Atlanta, GA 30326
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8am: Breakfast
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9am: Meeting content, roundtables, workshops
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4pm: End of meeting
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AGENDA
The NAREIM Sustainability planning committee is hard at work developing a sophisticated and highly interactive agenda. Please keep checking here for updates.
Tuesday, March 5
Attendees are invited to reconnect with peers and create new connections at our networking dinner in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood.
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Location: South City Kitchen Buckhead, 3350 Peachtree Rd NE Suite 175, Atlanta, GA 30326
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Time: 6-9pm ET
wednesday, March 6
8am Breakfast
8:50am Welcome comments & NAREIM Sustainability committee update
NAREIM's Sustainability committee co-chairs will provide a short update on the industry, as well as key issues to be addressed through the following peer discussions.
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Co-Chair: Brittany Ryan, Head of Sustainability, Americas, Nuveen Real Estate
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Co-Chair: Hannah Tillmann, Vice President, Sustainability, Berkshire Residential
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NAREIM: IvyLee Rosario, Meeting Director
9am Transition risk planning
How are you managing and monitoring transition risk? How are you prioritizing efficiency across the firm's portfolio? Members will workshop best practices on these questions, as well as discussing valuations, regulations/legislations and what they are doing now and how.
Session leaders:
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Hannah Tillmann, Vice President, Sustainability, Berkshire Residential
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Arielle Birenberg, Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio Operations and Sustainability, Stockbridge Capital Group
Format: Polling, roundtable exercises and whole-room best practices sharing. - 1 hour
10am Break
10:15am Enhancing due diligence
Data collection, greening process, tools: what are the logistics, where are firms getting their information and what is done with those findings? Members will discuss what they place into their own business planning, as well as what questions are appropriate to ask sellers, vendors, and third parties.
Session leaders:
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Brittany Ryan, Head of Sustainability, Americas, Nuveen Real Estate
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Tony Liou, President, Partner Energy Inc.
Format: Polling, presentations and whole-room best practices sharing. - 45 mins
11am Break
11:15am Net Zero audits
Managers share how they are prioritizing budgets and what needs review at their properties, how to calculate progress, and navigating benchmarking and audit requirements.
Session leaders:
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Jim Landau, Head of Environmental, Social & Governance, MetLife Investment Management
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Anne Peck, Vice President, Head of ESG+R, TA Realty
Speaker:
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Brady Mills, Strategic Advisor - Climate & Energy, RE Tech Advisors
Format: Polling, case study presentations and whole-room Q&A throughout. - 45 mins
12pm Lunch
1pm Navigating insurance challenges
How can you utilize climate risk data to better inform insurance strategies across the firm? Managers will share best practices on how to respond to the volatile insurance market, how to advise and work with deal teams and market signals to be aware of.
Moderators:
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Cassandra McFadden, Global Head of Sustainability, Cortland
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Irena Stankovic, Director, ESG Strategy, Tricon Residential
Speaker:
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Kevin Madden, Managing Director - Real Estate Practice Leader, Aon
Format: Whole-room Q&A and discussion. - 45 mins
1:45pm Break
2pm Promoting tenant/resident engagement
Managers will share emerging ideas to sell sustainability attributes to drive NOI and how to work better with your tenants and residents to get them onboard when it comes to data sharing and aligning sustainability goals.
Session leaders:
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Megan Billingsley, Senior Associate, Fund Accounting, Pennybacker Capital
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Lauren Winkler, Senior Director, ESG & Innovation, The Green Cities Company
Format: Roundtable exercise and whole-room best practices sharing. - 45 mins
2:45pm Break
3pm Measuring the economic/financial impact of ESG initiatives
Member case studies and discussion on how to quantify the value of ESG, factoring in sustainability initiatives into asset valuation, and how to meet your fiduciary responsibilities while doing so.
Moderator:
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Karen Mahrous, Senior Vice President, Head of ESG, Clarion Partners
Speakers:
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Jill Brosig, Managing Director, Chief Impact Officer, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital
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Harris Markowitz, Senior Vice President, Asset Management, Clarion Partners
Format: Case study presentations and whole-room Q&A throughout. - 1 hour
4pm End of meeting
LOCATION
Stockbridge Capital Group
3550 Lenox Road NE
Lobby Floor, Suite 525
Atlanta, GA 30326
NAREIM does not have a hotel room block for the Sustainability Meeting. Below are some nearby hotels.
The Whitley, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Atlanta Buckhead
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Atlanta Buckhead
Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta - Buckhead
Waldorf Astoria Atlanta Buckhead
Hotel Colee, Atlanta Buckhead, Autograph Collection
2024 committee members
Co-chair: Brittany Ryan, Nuveen
Co-chair: Hannah Tillmann, Berkshire Residential
Karen Mahrous, Clarion Partners
Cassandra McFadden, Cortland
Lauren Winkler, The Green Cities Company
Jill Brosig, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital
Izzy Ballet, LaSalle Investment Management
Jim Landau, MetLife Investment Management
Tony Liou, Partner Engineering and Science
Megan Billingsley, Pennybacker Capital
Arielle Birenberg, Stockbridge Capital Group
Anne Peck, TA Realty
Irena Stankovic, Tricon Residential
Past Agendas
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