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Capital Raising & Investor Relations
December 2-3 | Dallas
Agenda items include:
- Annual General Meetings: Approaches Across Firms
- Continuation Vehicles: Best Practices on Creating a True Win-Win for All
- What’s in Your Tech Stack (Including AI)?
- Capital Raising: Deep Dive Into Seasonality of The Job
- Investor & Consultant Rapid-Fire Panel
AI & Its Implications on Workforce Strategy
January 13 | Virtual
Topics to be addressed include:
- What firms are experiencing with AI and how they are planning for staffing and skills needs amid rapid change?
- Where firms are seeing productivity gains across functions?
- How firms are using AI productivity gains to support growth, improve quality and service, or manage headcount and costs?
- How firms are training employees, from analysts to senior leaders, and adapting hiring, roles, career paths and leadership development, including demand for specialized talent and skills sought in junior hires?
NAREIM Highlights
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Beyond Compliance: Managing AI, Investor Expectations & Emerging Risks
At NAREIM’s Legal, Compliance & Risk Meeting, members exchanged practical approaches to navigating evolving responsibilities, protecting investor interests, and balancing innovation with effective oversight.
Across discussions, one message emerged: The role of legal and compliance professionals is expanding beyond reviewing policies to helping shape how investment managers operate, adopt technology, and make decisions.
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AI Adoption: Balancing Business Value, Costs & Risks
NAREIM’s annual Data & Information Management Meeting in Chicago opened with attendees choosing from a dozen topics for discussion during the morning Windy City Chat.
Overwhelmingly, the room gravitated toward artificial intelligence, dedicating the entire hour to the topic before revisiting it in subsequent sessions throughout the day.
The overarching takeaway? Data and IT professionals within real estate investment management firms are grappling with how to leverage generative AI to deliver measurable business value while controlling costs, managing risk and encouraging employees to embrace new ways of working.
“There’s AI for the masses, which is a general productivity tool, and then there is AI to help turbocharge the real estate investment management business.”
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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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