The MIPIM Press Events Programme

PARIS, March 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 

Tuesday, March 06

• -- MIPIM Asia Press Conference

3.00 pm, MIPIM Press Club, level 01, aisle 1, Palais des Festivals

Filippo Rean, MIPIM Director, Justin Chiu, Executive Director, Cheung Kong Holdings Limited (Hong Kong) and Francis Li, Vice Chairman – Greater China, DTZ (Hong Kong), will share their understanding of the Asian market. Filippo Rean will unveil what's new at MIPIM Asia, to be held from 7 to 9 November 2012.

• 'Building Innovation' and 'Industrial & Logistics' Pavilions' presentations to the press

4.30 pm, level 01, aisle 2, Palais des Festivals

MIPIM organises a press presentation of the pavilions:

• 'Building Innovation' which puts buildings centre-stage, and highlights innovative initiatives that enhance the value of a real estate portfolio.
• 'Industrial & Logistics' which promotes logistics real estate, a fast growing sector in complete evolution.

If you are interested, please confirm your attendance by email to Caroline Caouren.

• MIPIM Opening Cocktail Party

7.30 pm, Carlton Hotel

Germany, MIPIM 2012 Country of Honour, will take centre stage at the opening cocktail.

Thursday, March 08

• Keynote of Joschka Fischer followed by a press conference

Grand Auditorium, level 1, Palais des Festivals

10.00 – 11.00 am, Keynote of Joschka Fischer

11.00 – 11.30 am, Q&A session for the press with Joschka Fischer

Joschka Fischer, Germany's former Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2005, will discuss the challenges of the European financial crisis that are so critical for the future of real estate. This keynote will be followed by a Q&A session for the press to go into details on key issues.

• Final MIPIM 2012 press conference: Update of the market

5.15 pm – AGORA room, level 01, aisle 1, Palais des Festivals

Speakers:

• Filippo Rean, Director of MIPIM, Reed MIDEM
• Dr. Thomas Beyerle, Managing Director and Head of CS & Research, IVG Immobilien AG, Germany
• Stephen Hubbard, Deputy Chairman, UK & EMEA, CBRE, UK

• The MIPIM Awards Ceremony

6.30 pm – Grand Auditorium, level 1, Palais des Festivals

This event will start with a red carpet entrance of the finalists and a cocktail, followed by the prize-giving ceremony at 7.30 pm in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.

Friday, March 09

• 'Wrap-up keynote address' with Mark Roberts and Pr. François Ortalo-Magne

10.30 – 11.30 am – Salle Le Corbusier, level 01, Palais des Festivals

After four days questioning investors, developers, end-users and local authorities attending MIPIM, Mark Roberts, Managing Director, Global Head of Research, RREEF Real Estate (USA) and Pr. François Ortalo-Magne, Albert O. Nicholas Dean, Wisconsin School of Business (USA), will assess the general mood about the global real estate situation among the industry's key players, and then summarise their outlook for the future.  

Click here to find the detailed programme of events and conferences.

For editors:

Founded in 1963, Reed MIDEM is a leading organiser of professional, international tradeshows. Reed MIDEM events have established themselves as key dates in professional diaries. The company hosts MIPTV, MIPDOC, MIPCOM, and MIPJUNIOR for the television and digital content industries, MIDEM for music professionals, MIPIM, MIPIM Asia  and MAPIC for the property and retail real estate sectors.

Reed MIDEM is a division of Reed Exhibitions, the world's leading events organizer, with over 500 events in 39 countries. In 2011 Reed brought together six million active event participants from around the world generating billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa and organized by 33 fully staffed offices. Reed Exhibitions serves 44 industry sectors with trade and consumer events and is part of the Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider and a FTSE 100 company.

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