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The Next Phase of Life Sciences in Southern California: Pivoting Through Market Uncertainty
Sector Evolution, Demand Shifts & The Rise of Flexible Lab Environments
Allan Glass
Co-Founder
HATCHspaces
Bob Nowak
SVP
BioMed Realty, A Blackstone Portfolio Company
Robert Fagnant
Associate Partner
Syska Hennessy Group
Trevor Wells
Principal
HGA
Brenna Underwood
Senior Project Manager
HITT Contracting
Travis Jeffries
Senior Counsel
Cox, Castle & Nicholson
Building the Space Science Needs: Designing & Future-Proofing Tomorrow’s Lab, R&D & Biomanufacturing Facilities
Conversions, Tenant Improvements, Retrofits & AI Integration
Sarah Williams
VP, Design & Construction
Breakthrough Properties
John Pittman
Education and Science Principal
HDR
Habiba Manjurr
Senior Project Manager
Clune Construction
Amanda Pritchett
Project Executive
DPR Construction
Kurt Lindorfer
Founding Principal
PARADIGM Structural Engineers
Capital, Risk & Return
Navigating Capital Markets, Funding, Investment, Acquisitions & P3 Opportunities in a Constrained Market
Tom Lam
Principal
Luminous Capital Management
Jenner Smith
Senior Director, Real Estate Acquisitions & P3
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Miguel Motta
VP
Biocom California
Bill Hunter
Managing Director
Perceptive Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Why You Won't Want To Miss This Conference:
What You'll Learn:
Mapping the Next Frontier of Growth: How Southern California’s biotech, pharma, therapeutics and medtech industries are evolving, and which markets are maturing fastest.
Commercial Real Estate Outlook: How landlords, developers and owners are adapting to laboratory and biomanufacturing requirements in a rapidly advancing industry.
Funding & Investment Conditions: Who is investing, what types of science attract capital today, and how financing is shifting in 2026.
Commercialization & Scaling: How startups are moving from discovery to proof-of-concept, early manufacturing and commercial deployment—plus how real estate plays into that journey.
Technology & Infrastructure Innovation: How AI, data science, robotics and automation are influencing design requirements and operational decision-making.
Institutional Partnerships: How universities, research institutions and government are shaping growth through capital, workforce pipelines and innovation accelerators.
How You'll Do More Business From Attending This CRE Event: Southern California life sciences market is driven by an expanding biotech startup ecosystem, a surge in late-stage developments, a diversified talent pool, and accelerating commercialization of research coming from world-class institutions. San Diego, Orange County, and Greater Los Angeles are providing new territory for investors, developers, property owners, and operators to capture market share. Join leaders across biotech, R&D, real estate, investment, and government as we explore the forces shaping the next decade of SoCal’s life sciences sector, and identify where opportunities are emerging across development, investment and more.
Notable Projects, Assets & Deals:
DPR Construction: Neurocrine Biosciences Campus, Buildings 1-4 TI ///// Aperture Del Mar Phase 2 ///// Chi-Huey Wong Laboratories for Biomedical Research
HDR: Cedars-Sinai Biomanufacturing Center //// Cedars-Sinai Innovation Center ///// The Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory ///// Sam Farr United States Crop Improvement and Protection Research Center ///// Salk Institute Joan and Irwin Jacobs Science & Technology Center
Why You Should Attend This Session: 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.
Who You'll Network With At This Discussion: Biotech & Life Sciences Leaders, Owners, Developers, Investors, Architects, Construction, Designers, Brokers, Lawyers, Financial Institutions & Government Officials.
For questions, recommendations, comments or press inquiries please email our event producer, Samantha D'Angelo at samantha.dangelo@bisnow.com.
DON'T MISS OUR PREMIER LIFE SCIENCES & BIOTECH EVENT THIS FALL: Announcing our fourth annual Bisnow International Life Sciences & Biotech Conference, September 1st and 2nd in San Diego, CA. Learn more about our largest event of the year by clicking here.
Interested in Sponsorship?
Contact avery.warren@bisnow.com to get information on sponsorship, pricing and availability at this event.
Venue
Hilton San Diego Mission Valley
901 Camino Del Rio South
San Diego, CA 92108
Ballroom Name/Floor: Cortez Ballroom
Self parking at $7 per car
Agenda
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4:00 PM
5:00 PM
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Networking, Coffee & Breakfast
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5:00 PM
5:45 PM
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Capital, Risk & Return
Navigating Capital Markets, Funding, Investment, Acquisitions & P3 Opportunities in a Constrained Market |
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5:45 PM
6:15 PM
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Networking Break
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6:15 PM
7:00 PM
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Building the Space Science Needs: Designing & Future-Proofing Tomorrow’s Lab, R&D & Biomanufacturing Facilities
Conversions, Tenant Improvements, Retrofits & AI Integration |
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7:00 PM
7:45 PM
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The Next Phase of Life Sciences in Southern California: Pivoting Through Market Uncertainty
Sector Evolution, Demand Shifts & The Rise of Flexible Lab Environments |
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7:45 PM
9:00 PM
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More Networking
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