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Address: Tobacco Quay, Wapping Ln, London E1W 2SF

It's never too late to grab your mat and join Stephen Marks for our serviced apartment yoga class!

Limited to 15 places with complimentary use of guest changing room facilities.

Confirmed attendees only will receive an online sign up form link, please fill in to secure your place. If you are registered and have not received the form, please email operations@internationalhospitality.media to resend the link

A great opportunity to take coffee and a pastry and network whilst meeting our exhibitors to discover innovative ways to grow your business.

STAY, LIVE, WORK and ENGAGE

PLENARY SESSIONS
• Welcome: Understanding the Urban Living markets - how do these match up within residential, commercial and other property asset classes? How have these asset classes grown in the last three years and where will they be in another three years time? Which Urban Living asset classes are growing fastest?

• The future of cities

• Changemakers:  The thinkers, the creators, the agitators. Sector innovators interview each other.

STAY

• Debate - The new hybrid master-lease investment, bubble waiting to burst?

• Distribution – beyond the OTAs. What will the distribution landscape look like in 2025? Will Google and Facebook be the dominant channels or is there a new wave of startups about to be unleashed?

• Investment case study

• Presentation - are short term rental and serviced apartment valuations closer to residential real estate or hotel real estate?

• Operations: Why invest in proptech?

• Presentation: How AI is going to affect hospitality

• Development case study

• Operations: Creating great guest experiences without hotel infrastructure

LIVE

• Benchmark: How are the BTR, student housing and assisted living asset classes performing, and what is the outlook for the future?

• Investemnt and development case studies

• Rebels with a cause: spotlight on the sector innovators

• Mixed-use megatrends: guests from 18 to 80 love to live, work and relax in a casual lifestyle environment.
What synergies can be generated from the new mixed-use components of co-living, co-working, hostels, serviced apartments, boutique and lifestyle hotels, student housing, offices and F&B outlets? What are the challenges in design, construction/financing and guest experience? What is the best approach for creating new sustainable micro cities with their own communities?

WORK

• Work mobility debate – with the growth of 'working on the move' culture, numerous co-working, private members clubs and hospitality options, does where we work matter any more?

• Better Together: Realising the vision of collaborative hotel, accommodation and shared office space

• Blurring the lines - what is blended space and what can it do for the workplace? Consider CSR; differentiating space; placemaking; employee experience

• Development and investment case studies

• The fate of the flex economy: Separating fact from fiction with all the recent media hype on coworking & flex workspace. A discussion on the aborted WeWork IPO & implications for heads of real estate. Explaining the role & value of flexible workspace in an enterprise real estate portfolio

PLENARY SESIONS

• ULF awards: The Urban Living young gun and The Urban Living innovator

• Mixed-use megatrends: guests from 18 to 80 love to live, work and relax in a casual lifestyle environment.
What synergies can be generated from the new mixed-use components of co-living, co-working, hostels, serviced apartments, boutique and lifestyle hotels, student housing, offices and F&B outlets? What are the challenges in design, construction/financing and guest experience? What is the best approach for creating new sustainable micro cities with their own communities?

• Debt financing and capital markets

• Space as a service V community