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SIOR Fall World Convenes in PDX

The 2019 SIOR Fall World Conference, presented by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, is set to kick-off tomorrow in Portland. Nearly 1,000 commercial real estate professionals are expected to gather in the Rose City for an opening keynote by Ben Stein, an entertaining American writer, lawyer, actor, and commentator on political and economic issues.

Among the slate of panels on Thursday afternoon include ‘Industrial Occupiers: A View from the Inside’, where occupiers of warehouse, distribution, and production space will discuss their own front-line view of the challenges, trends, and opportunities they are facing in current market conditions.

Another key panel on Thursday is titled, ‘Smart Building Platforms’, which will dive into the technologies that integrate all systems, captures tenant patterns, and takes building environmental data and outside data to learn and grow smart.

Also planned on Thursday are panels titled, ‘Global Cities – Challenges & Opportunities: Impact on Real Estate’; as well as NAR’s ‘Investment Property Market’ overview promises to prepare attendees for today’s and tomorrow’s investment opportunities.

Friday, Oct. 18th’s top panels include a general session featuring Prologis’ Martin Lindstrom, who will dissect the role data plays today in a presentation titled, ‘Forget BIG Data – Small Data Defines the Future’.

Other key sessions Friday include ‘Underwriting & Due Diligence of Investment CRE Deals’; ‘Run Your Brokerage Like a CEO;’ ‘AR/VR: Real Estate’s New Reality’; and ‘Valuing Your CRE Services Company and ‘Succession Planning’.

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Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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