2050: Trends and Disruptions in Real Estate.
| Date & Time: | March 13, 2024 8:00 am | Add to Calendar (.ics) |
| Venue: | Savills |
‘2050: Trends and Disruptions in Real Estate’
What does the future of real estate look like, and how do we prepare for it? The Silver Street Group invites you to a breakfast panel discussion based on the theme of the 2024 magazine, 2050: Trends and Disruption in Real Estate. It is no secret that we face profound challenges of increasing complexity in the built environment over the coming decades. The impacts of the climate crisis, technological change, an uncertain economic and political outlook, energy transitions, and demographic shifts, to name a few, are far reaching. But there is also immense opportunity to understand and augment the richness of our cities and buildings so that we will all thrive better in the places where we live and work. Our panellists will be discussing their hopes and reservations on the future of real estate, and how we might prepare for these transitions.
This event will be chaired by Nicky Wightman, director of emerging trends at Savills.
Panellists:
Jack Sibley, Head of PropTech & Innovation at Argent and Related Argent– Jack’s role is dedicated to engaging with the PropTech ecosystem and creating scalable processes to identify, pilot and scale up innovative solutions across the business and its real estate projects. Immediate priorities include reducing operational carbon through smart building technologies as well as future proofing the company’s asset management strategies over the longer term. He has over seven years’ experience in the PropTech ecosystem, having led on innovation and technology strategies at other real estate investment firms and startups.
Dr Katherine Gunderson, CEO/Founder of Grand Bequest LTD– Grand Bequest is a Property Technology B-Corp based in Glasgow, Scotland making mass empty building regeneration a reality. Katherine believes that introducing data analytics and innovative technology to the heritage and construction sectors will help empower and mobilise our local communities to bring vacant, empty and/or at-risk buildings finally back into use. She was awarded Female Founder of the Year 2023, while Grand Bequest most recently received both the Social Impact and Environmental Impact awards from UKPA, and Green Startup of the Year – Scotland 2023.
Georgios Askounis, Associate Director in Savills Earth– Georgios’s focus is on sustainable design, actively shaping a sustainable built environment through a low-impact, even regenerative lens. He is a Passivhaus Designer and specialises in minimising the operational and embodied carbon in real estate. Recently he has been involved in the sustainable design and retrofit of complex existing and new buildings, such as laboratories and factories.
Gabriella Peerman, Assistant Portfolio Manager at Schroders Capital– Gabriella’s focus is on the Schroders Capital UK Real Estate Impact Fund, which focuses on tackling social inequality and the housing crises in the UK through place-based impact investing, whilst delivering an appropriate financial return. Gabby is also a committee member for The Association of Real Estate Fund’s ESG and Impact Investing Committee, focused on driving the education and standardisation of social impact investing and measurement across the real estate industry.
