Scholarships, shared vision and collaboration are key to the successful 6 year working relationship with University of Washington’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies and the Washington State Chapter. This exceptional partnership has grown and in the Fall of 2017 a new Department of Real Estate (undergrad and graduate programs) will be launched. Discover the steps taken by the Chapter to support this growth and the placement of graduates in several CRE departments of large corporations locally and internationally.

For many financial institutions, retail banking changed dramatically over the last 10 years. At Citizens Bank, time and innovation stood still. Being wholly owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, there was little focus on nearly 1,200 branches. Following an IPO, they became independent and changed 180 degrees! Discover how CRE is collaborating with retail banking to change the way their customers’ bank and how colleagues interact with them.

Creating the Healthy Workplace

Learn more about how to create a healthy workplace, improve the well-being of your employees and boost the bottom line in the process as Tim Venable, SVP of CoreNet Global, interviews best-selling author Leigh Stringer, LEED AP, who leads workplace strategy for EYP, a global provider of high-performance building design, research, and consulting services.

Creating the Healthy Workplace

Learn more about how to create a healthy workplace, improve the well-being of your employees and boost the bottom line in the process as Tim Venable, SVP of CoreNet Global, interviews best-selling author Leigh Stringer, LEED AP, who leads workplace strategy for EYP, a global provider of high-performance building design, research, and consulting services.

Will the Corporation of the Future need the Workplace of Today?

Business and work are being organized in new ways. Artificial intelligence, while still in its infancy, is growing up fast. How will this impact the skill sets of the next generation of workers? What will corporations look like in the future? Discover all this and more as Kay Sargent, SVP of HOK interviews Peter Andrew, Senior Managing Director, Workplace Strategies, Asia Pacific, CBRE for his insights on work and workplace trends in Asia and beyond.

Will the Corporation of the Future need the Workplace of Today?

The conversation continues as Kay Sargent and Peter Andrew discuss workplace as a service, Artificial Intelligence, and workplace trends in Asia.

Space Reimagined: Verizon’s Transformation

Legacy corporations, fighting to stay relevant in today's quickly changing environment, often struggle with an out dated/outmoded real estate portfolio. Verizon leverages the budding Space as a Service trend to activate space, modernize small and medium offices, enhance culture, reduce costs, future proof and access the pulse of technology and talent. This discussion explores its Flexible Office Solution (FOS) and how it fits into the overall strategy of Verizon.

Space Reimagined: Verizon’s Transformation

Verizon’s shift from at telecom to a tech and media company and the impact that has had on the real estate portfolio continues. This discussion focuses on the co-working incubator Verizon developed to foster talent from within its portfolio, implementation, change management, challenges, and success

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