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401 North Michigan

401 North Michigan

Located at the epicenter of where the business district and Chicago’s high-end retailers meet the city’s booming tourism; 401 North Michigan, featuring the City’s largest plaza (Pioneer Court), connects the Magnificent Mile to Millennium Park and the Loop.

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What Do Tenants Really Want?

Attracting the Workforce back to the Office & Increasing Employee Engagement in the Workplace

Scott Phillips

Scott Phillips

Senior Director, Global Workplace Solutions

Salesforce

Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown

Principal

Sterling Bay

Howard Meyer

Howard Meyer

EVP

Zeller

Jack Kim

Jack Kim

Founding Partner

KORE Investments

Carrie Szarzynski

Carrie Szarzynski

Sr. Managing Director, Head of Management Services

Hiffman National

Tyler Kethcart
Moderator

Tyler Kethcart

Director of XM, Property Management

JLL

Scott Phillips

Senior Director, Global Workplace Solutions

Salesforce

Scott Phillips is Senior Director, Global Workplace Solutions on Salesforce's Real Estate and Workplace Services team. Phillips is responsible for guiding global workplace strategy and change enablement aligning to the company's approach to the future of work for over 75,000 employees.

Prior to Salesforce, he spent over eight years as Director of Corporate Real Estate for McDonald's Corporation where he was responsible for an office portfolio of over 2M square feet and successfully led their Global Headquarters relocation project in 2018. He has nearly 30 years of Corporate Real Estate experience with workplace strategy, transactions, project and facilities management.

Phillips graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and lives in the Greater Chicago Area.

Jessica Brown

Principal

Sterling Bay

Jessica is responsible for office and retail leasing across Sterling Bay’s portfolio, including securing high-profile tenants in prominent Chicago projects such as 110 N Carpenter, Fulton West, 333 N Green, Prudential Plaza, 600 W Chicago, 330/360 N Green, 1200 W Carroll and all of Lincoln Yards. Jessica has served as an integral member of the team specializing in the overall asset redevelopment strategy, lease negotiation and retail placemaking of the company’s assets. Prior to joining Sterling Bay in 2015, Jessica worked at CBRE on the Urban Retail Team. Jessica earned a BBA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and is an active member of ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) and WIRL (Women in Retail Leasing).

Tyler Kethcart

Moderator

JLL

Tyler currently leads business development efforts for Experience Management (XM). In this role, he partners with a wide range of owners to creatively activate their assets. He works closely with a number of REITs, institutional investors, private owners and occupiers in all U.S. markets

Experience. Tyler has nearly a decade of real estate experience with JLL. He began his career in accounting, and immediately began working with a variety of REITs and investors around the country. Eventually changing his specialty over time, Tyler has spent the majority of his career with JLL in various assistant general manager and general manager roles. Most recently, he had the responsibility of overseeing a $70M redevelopment in downtown Chicago. Throughout his career, Tyler has embraced his role as a leader, and was recognized by his peers in 2019 when he received a Gold Circle award as BOMA Chicago’s Emerging Leader of the year. Also in 2019, BOMA International featured Tyler as one of the year’s four Rising Stars of commercial real estate. In 2011, Tyler received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, and majored in accounting at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a member of BOMA Chicago and is a licensed real estate broker in the state of Illinois.

Sustainability and Wellness

An Inside Look at Designing and Developing In One of the Top Spots for LEED and WELL Certified Buildings

Brian Atkinson

Brian Atkinson

Managing Director

Hines

Rafael Carreira

Rafael Carreira

EVP

Riverside Investment & Development Company

Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan

CGO

Arch Amenities Group

Benjamin Skelton

Benjamin Skelton

CEO and Founder

Cyclone Energy Group

Chet Kondas
Moderator

Chet Kondas

Director, Investment Brokerage

33 Realty

Mike Flanagan

CGO

Arch Amenities Group

Mike joined Arch Amenities Group after acquisition of LifeStart to lead the firm's growth.

Working with national and regional leadership and leading the new business development

team, Mike focuses on maintaining, enhancing, and growing client relationships across the

portfolio.

Experience

Mike has more than 30 years of experience in fitness and real estate operations.  Mike most

recently served as Chief Operating Officer for LifeStart’s portfolio of 100 properties. He had

direct oversight of the management divisions of their fitness and hospitality platforms. He

lead operations, design, construction, sales and marketing, growing the management

portfolio from 29 sites to 100.

The main catalyst of growth was the added scope of full-building programming and amenity

management. LifeStart helped Tishman Speyer launch their ZO program in the Chicago and

Boston Markets and subsequently started providing Community Engagement and hospitality

management solutions for groups like Zeller, MBRE, Shorenstein, Brookfield, Silverstein and

CIM.

Education and affiliations

Mike received a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise and Rehabilitation from the Illinois

State University, a Master of Science in Exercise Science from Illinois State University and a

Master of Education from University of Illinois Chicago.

Benjamin Skelton

CEO and Founder

Cyclone Energy Group

Benjamin founded Cyclone Energy Group in 2012 with a vision of making the world more

efficient by bridging together design, construction and ongoing operation of high performance

buildings. With his background in building design, energy modeling, commissioning and retro-

commissioning, he has established and runs the 20 person Chicago-based consultancy which

has earned international recognition for both its projects and team members.

Over his career, he has helped create some of the most energy efficient and unique buildings in

the world. Projects include super-tall high-rise buildings, net-positive energy designs, LEED

Platinum and WELL Certified buildings. He has earned the prestigious ASHRAE International

Design Award for the Walgreens Net Zero Energy Store. In 2015 he was named 40 under 40 by

Consulting Specifying Engineer Magazine.

Chet Kondas

Moderator

33 Realty

Growing up, Chet and his family moved 5 times and ended up in a south suburb of Chicago. His family’s buying and selling of houses during his childhood started his interest in real estate. At 33, he works as an investment broker and focuses on land for redevelopment, multi-family, mixed use, and retail. In addition, he is a member of our distressed asset team with the role of a court appointed receiver and manages properties for the court involved in foreclosure cases.

Over his professional career he has gained experience in sales, marketing, strategic planning and financial analysis that he now applies to investment brokerage. Before joining 33, Chet had been involved in real estate financing and development projects both in Chicago and Northern Indiana. Prior to real estate, he worked in the media and telecom industries in both sales and marketing roles. He started his career at Accenture in management consulting after earning his M.B.A.

Also, Chet served 5 years in the Marines as an artillery officer following college. He attends industry networking events and is a member of the Edgewater Uptown Builder's Association, Chicago Area Realtors Association, Illinois Association of Realtors, and National Association of Realtors. Chet earned a B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

WHY THIS MATTERS

What You'll Learn:

  • How to implement best practices for facility health and safety to meet the changing demands and priorities of the future of the office.

  • How are Chicago firms redefining what a return-to-office strategy looks like by putting health and safety first?

  • How are offices leveraging their workplace as an attraction and retention tool by activating strategies that showcase commitment to prioritizing health and wellness? What impact is this having on leasing efforts?

  • How are Chicago developers making their buildings sustainable, and LEED and WELL certified? And what ROI can be anticipated as a result?

  • What are developers and owners focusing on in order to attract investors and tenants to their buildings?

     

How You'll Do More Business: 

As workers are returning to the office, wellness and health are no longer a luxury - it's a sought-out amenity, demanded by top companies and clients. Learn more about today's best practices for implementing positive health and wellness strategies into your buildings. Join industry leaders in Chicago as they discuss how owners and developers are capitalizing on the changing demands in Chicago. Find out where there is room for opportunities, and where to capitalize on these trends. Join us and the region's best as we dive deep into the market and analyze the trends impacting its growth.

Who Attends: Brokers, owners, developers, investors, construction, designers, architects, financial institutions, government officials and more!

Why You Should Attend: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us. Join Bisnow as we jump into the market in Chicago to analyze its strengths and strategize on its areas of opportunity.

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our senior event producer, Elliot Dvorin at elliot.dvorin@bisnow.com.

Venue

401 North Michigan
401 N Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611


 Valet parking garage attached to building - early bird special/in before 8:30am/$20; 0-1 hr/$21; 1-3hrs/$32; 3hrs-Close/$37

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Agenda

Time Activity
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
Pre-Event Networking
2:00 PM
2:45 PM
What Do Tenants Really Want?

Attracting the Workforce back to the Office & Increasing Employee Engagement in the Workplace

2:45 PM
3:30 PM
Sustainability and Wellness

An Inside Look at Designing and Developing In One of the Top Spots for LEED and WELL Certified Buildings

3:30 PM
4:15 PM
Post-Event Networking

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR SAFETY

We hosted more than 72,000 attendees live, in-person around the globe in 2021. Our commitment to safety is no different in 2022. Our events follow all local Covid-19 regulations and protocols. In the interest of the safety of all our guests, we recommend taking a rapid or PCR test for proof of negative results before attending any gathering. 

We will update attendees should any regulations be updated before this event is held. We look forward to hosting you soon to do what we do best: network, connect, and engage to do more business.