Melissa is a seasoned global real estate executive who currently serves as the Global Occupancy Planning & Management Operations Leader within Workplace Management at JLL, overseeing a business line of over 800 professionals spanning 70 countries. In this role, she delivers strategic occupancy planning products, solutions, and technology tools supporting a diverse portfolio of more than 100 real estate clients occupying over 900 million square feet of space.

A 14-year JLL veteran, Melissa brings more than 30 years of corporate real estate experience to her leadership role. She previously held key positions in the U.S. and U.K., advising international corporate occupiers on real estate strategies to manage and maximize portfolio efficiency. As a former Global Account Director for JLL, she managed multi-disciplinary teams across 60 countries in North and Latin America, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Melissa's track record includes leading significant corporate real estate initiatives, such as managing client company bifurcations involving hundreds of lease actions and related portfolio activity. She has directed process improvement and standardization projects for global clients, including real estate operational efficiency initiatives that resulted in more than $100 million in operational savings.

Before joining JLL, she held leadership positions in corporate real estate at Telcordia Technologies (Ericsson), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, and Prudential. Her comprehensive expertise encompasses site search, building analysis, lease negotiations, construction management, facilities management, occupancy and master planning, project management, workplace experience and strategy, technology implementation, contract negotiation, and vendor management.

Nic Halverson is CEO and co-founder of Occuspace, an occupancy intelligence platform that measures how physical space is actually used. Occuspace measures occupancy across corporate real estate portfolios, campuses, and government buildings in North America and Europe, including a five-year agreement covering 180 million square feet of federal workspace.

An engineer by training and entrepreneur by instinct, Nic is focused on bringing the rigor of digital analytics into the physical world. Occuspace's sensors measure occupancy anonymously – no cameras, no personal data – giving real estate and facilities teams defensible evidence for lease, consolidation, and capital decisions that have historically been made on intuition.

A recognized voice in space utilization, Nic has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on ABC and NBC. As a speaker, he brings a practical operator's perspective on moving from intuition to measurement and from space data to real financial impact.

Linus Grasel is the co-founder and CIO of Occuspace, a leading occupancy intelligence platform for the built environment. Leveraging AI-driven technology, Occuspace delivers real-time occupancy insights to create more efficient, high-performing and people-centric spaces for corporate real estate, government, and higher education institutions across North America and Europe. With a background in IoT and AI, Linus is a lifelong technology enthusiast always looking for ways to leverage data and analytics to enable smarter buildings and more efficient and engaging workspaces. As a proptech leader, Linus envisions a future where buildings will be managed as dynamic structures, with data as the central nervous system powering intelligent decision-making.

Enid Maran is Head of Customer Success at Occuspace, the leading occupancy intelligence platform. She helps owners and managers of physical spaces make data-informed decisions to drive OpEx savings, achieve sustainability goals, improve space utilization, and enhance experiences for occupants. 

Enid has spent her career in leadership roles at data and technology companies. She spent 13 years at Nielsen where she co-founded the Non-Traditional business, launched the Out-of-Home currency audience measurement product, and ultimately led the Advertiser Solutions practice in the U.S. and Canada. She went on to lead Customer Success & Operations at Onclusive, where she transformed the company’s approach to driving value for customers and developed strategic partnerships. She got her start as a digital product manager at VNU, where she managed Billboard.com and Backstage.com, among others