Smart, Connected And Green: A Symposium On Innovation In Commercial Real Estate

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Maastricht , The Netherlands

Maastricht University's European Center for Corporate Engagement and the MIT Center for Real Estate are joining forces for an event to explore the economic drivers for innovators in the smart, connected and green buildings of the future. During the event you will hear from the innovators themselves, top researchers from ECCE and MIT and from leading initiators of the most sustainable and connected cities and buildings. Four topics will be discussed:

Benchmarking Innovation
Smart
Connected and green building value
Role of the innovator in meeting the space demands of today and the supply of innovative space for tomorrow

Some of the speakers are David Geltner of MIT, Christopher Durbin of Cisco, Karsten Spengler of ARUP, Ronald Rovers of SBS, Martin Haas of Haas Cook Zemmrich, Peter Hobbs of IPD, and Quinten de Gooijer of Temphousing and Thies Lindenthal of MIT.

Maastricht is looking forward to receiving you on Tuesday March 25th, 2014 in the Karl Dittrich hall at Maastricht University, the Netherlands for this exciting symposium on innovation in commercial real estate.

The registration fee is € 145,00. If you would like to attend this event, please follow this link to the registration page http://visitors.cngrs.com/smart_connected_green/register.aspx

For more information on the conference, please go to the European Center for Corporate Engagement website http://www.corporate-engagement.com/research/110 or see details after the jump.

Please do not hesitate to contact Els van Aernsbergen (e.vanaernsbergen@maastrichtuniversity.nl) if you have any questions.

With warm regards,

Prof. Dr. Piet Eichholtz (Maastricht University & ECCE)
Prof. Dr. David Geltner (MIT Center for Real Estate)
Dr. Nils Kok (Maastricht University & ECCE)
Dr. Andrea Chegut (Maastricht University & ECCE)

Conference Program

08:30 Registration opens

09:00 Introductory remarks

Piet Eichholtz, Professor of Real Estate Finance, Maastricht University

09:15 Benchmarking innovation
A discussion on innovating in measurement and measuring innovation.
Chair: Piet Eichholtz, Professor of Real Estate Finance, Maastricht University
David Geltner, Professor of Real Estate Finance, MIT
Peter Hobbs, Head of Business Development, IPD
Elsbeth Quispel, Head of Sustainability, Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Smart, connected and green: the value of innovation
A discussion on the market demand for innovation today.
Chair: Jaap Bos, Associate Professor of Real Estate Maastricht University
Andrea Chegut, Post-doctoral Fellow, Maastricht University
Christopher Durben, Designer, Smart and Connected Communities, Cisco
Dirk Brounen, Professor of Real Estate Economics, Tilburg University

12:45 Lunch

14:00 The innovators
A discussion on meeting the space demands of today.
Chair: Rob Bauer, Professor of Institutional Investors, Maastricht University
Karsten Spengler, Associate Director, ARUP
Ronald Rovers, Director, SBS Sustainable Building Support Center
Quinten de Gooijer, Director, Tempohousing

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Innovation in the built environment
A discussion on the supply of innovative space tomorrow.
Chair: Piet Eichholtz, Professor of Real Estate Finance, Maastricht University
Martin Haas, Co-Founder, Haas Cook Zemmrich Studio 2050
Thies Lindenthal, Post-doctoral Fellow, MIT
Nils Kok, Associate Professor of Real Estate Finance, Maastricht University

17:45 Day Closing

18:00 Cocktail reception and hors d'oeuvres

19:00 Evening closing

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