Mark Your Calendar
EXECUTIVE OFFICER
September 23-25 | Dallas -Fort Worth
Agenda items include:
- Innovation Summit (add-on to Executive Officer meeting)
- The Existential Crisis of Real Estate Allocations: Where is the Capital Headed?
- Building an Enduring Real Estate Investment Manager: What the Market Rewards & What Gets in the Way
- Leading Through Change: Decision Velocity as a Competitive Advantage
- What's on Your Mind?
Data & Information Management
October 6-7 | Chicago
Agenda items include:
- Windy City Chat
- Your Data Strategy IS Your AI Strategy
- Build vs. Buy: A Practical Framework for Technology Decisions
- Building Trust in Data: Governance, Standards & the Path to AI Readiness
- Rethinking the Operating Model: Efficiency & Business Transformation
NAREIM Highlights
A quick snapshot of what’s happening at NAREIM. Explore meeting summaries, pulse survey results, member-authored thought leadership.
NAREIM Announces Jeff Barclay Fellows Class of 2026-2027
NAREIM celebrates the next generation of commercial real estate leaders through the NAREIM Jeff Barclay Fellows program.
Named after the late Jeff Barclay, former NAREIM Chairman, Managing Director and Head of Acquisitions at Clarion Partners, and Head of Goldman Sachs’ Real Estate Group, the NAREIM Jeff Barclay Fellows award is given to outstanding graduate students with the goal to provide insights into the future of real estate investment management.
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The New Development Toolkit: Technology, Data and Better Decision-Making
NAREIM’s Architecture, Engineering & Development meeting brought industry leaders to Boston to examine how technology, data and technical expertise are changing the way real estate teams evaluate risk, manage assets and plan for the future.
From artificial intelligence and due diligence technology to building envelopes, data centers and one of Boston’s largest waterfront developments, the focus kept returning to something more fundamental: making better decisions.
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NAREIM Appoints Andy Walburger as Chief Executive Officer
Walburger brings more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience cultivating executive relationships and facilitating high-level peer exchange. Prior to joining NAREIM, he held senior commercial roles across leading real estate data, analytics, and technology platforms, including Green Street, Juniper Square, and Ten-X.
His work has consistently focused on partnering with institutional investment managers and supporting their strategic and operational priorities.
“Throughout his career, Andy has been dedicated to serving institutional real estate investment managers and creating opportunities for senior leaders to learn from one another,” said Kristin Renaudin, Chair of the NAREIM Board of Directors and Chief Financial Officer of Stockbridge. “His experience across the industry, combined with his success building executive peer networks, makes him uniquely well suited to lead NAREIM.”
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