Fall Board Meeting and Trends & Strategies Conference 2008
Please refer your non-Board member colleagues to the Trends & Strategies Conference to register for the Conference only.
Thursday, November 13
2:00-6:00pm - Registration
2:30-4:00pm - UF Real Estate Advisory Board meeting
- Director search update
- New member introductions
- Presentations
- Strategic plan update
- Scholarship update
- Report from Bergstrom Center Board of Directors
4:00-5:30pm - Undergraduate career panel, hosted by John Crossman
4:30-6:00pm - Speed Networking (Board members and MSRE students)
6:30-8:30pm - Cocktails and networking dinner buffet (Board members and spouses/guests, MSRE students, UF-FARE captains)
Friday, November 14
8:30-10:00am - Networking breakfast
8AM-9:30am - Board meeting
- Real estate program update
- MSRE student intros
9:30-10:00am - Break
10:00am - Conference Welcome
- News & announcements
- Open Forum Discussion, moderated by Steve Cohen, Advisory Board Chair
- UF Friends & Alumni of Real Estate briefing
11:30am - RETAIL discussion panel (participants TBA)
12:30pm - Lunch buffet in Albert's restaurant
2:00pm - Award presentations
- Alumnus of the Year
- Industry Leader of the Year
2:30pm - RESIDENTIAL discussion panel (participants TBA)
3:30pm - Networking break
4:00pm - Break-out sessions
- Legal issues (foreclosure/bankruptcy issues)
- Current state of finance
- Case study (St. Joe Company)
- Case study (TBA)
5:30-6:30pm - Cocktail reception (Board members and spouses/guests, MSRE students, UF-FARE captains, conference registrants)
6:30-7:30pm - MSRE reunion poolside (MSRE/MARE alumni). If you are a graduate of UF's masters degree program in real estate, please register for this additional event and join us after the conference for a poolside get-together and dinner buffet with your classmates. (Please email if your spouse and children will accompany you, so we can have the right amount of food.)
Saturday, November 15
Golf at the University course - open to Board, MSRE students, and UF-FARE members
