4:00-4:30pm Registration & Networking
4:30-5:30pm Main event/speaker
5:30-6:30pm Networking
Cost: Members & Young Leaders $20, Non-Members $60
Non-Member EarlyBird Discount $40 Available until 8/31/12
Hors d'oeuvres & Drinks Served
Featured Speaker: Mindy Glover is the Regional Manager, Group Property, Americas for Rio Tinto. Mindy’s professional experience includes over 15 years as a Facility Manager, Project Manager, and Corporate Real Estate Manager. She has worked in the non-profit, education, financial services and industrial sectors. Her accomplishments include managing FEMA reimbursements for UCLA's Business Enterprises Division after the Northridge Earthquake, overseeing the build-out or renovation of more than 20 retail branch locations, and overseeing major corporate relocation projects in Los Angeles, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Montreal. Mindy currently manages a real estate portfolio of approximately 1M square feet across the Americas.
Title: Insights and Introspections:
A Local Perspective on Global Real Estate
The term “globalization” has an imposing connotation. When people hear “global”, they tend to think big, complex, and convoluted. However, diversity and opportunity are also important implications of globalization. This presentation is intended to provide an overview of the real estate function at Rio Tinto, a leading international mining company. Rio Tinto employs more than 77,000 people in 40 countries around the world and is the Official Precious Metals Provider to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Mindy Glover, Regional Manager, Americas, Group Property has been involved in the real estate function since its creation in 2006, and will share stories, insights, and introspections as part of a very small global team at a very large global company. Topics include the integration and alignment of business, real estate and workplace strategies as well as the role of technology and the pace of change in corporate real estate.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand the challenges, opportunities, key learnings and best practices for a 130 year old global company with a relatively new corporate real estate function.
- Understand when size matters and when it doesn’t in the corporate real estate function.
- Understand the role of technology and the pace of change in corporate real estate.