Mike Phillips is UK editor at Bisnow, the world's largest commercial real estate media business. His previous roles include stints as editor of Property Week and Europroperty.

Gareth has over 20 years multi-disciplined experience across the UK, European and global real estate sector. He leads PwC’s real estate thought leadership and research on behalf of the European firm, including PwC/ULI Emerging Trends in Real Estate European and Global reports. Having worked originally as a real estate advisor for EY in London and New York, he spent a number of years as an industry representative for the British Property Federation (BPF), European Public Real Association (EPRA) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). During his 5 years at EPRA, he represented the European REIT sector in their engagements with governments, regulators and global investors. At PwC, Gareth helps real estate businesses in the development and execution of their real estate strategy/operations and drives PwC’s knowledge and insight relevant to real estate businesses.

James McCaffrey, Eastdil Secured Managing Director, Head of UK-Europe and Board Member, joined the company in February of 2007, opening the Boston office for the firm. This followed a six-year career at Trammell Crow (Boston) as Principal and fifteen-year career with Meredith & Grew (Boston) where he was a partner. In the course of his career, Eastdil Secured, "The Global Real Estate Investment Bank”, has been involved in over £1.3 trillion in real estate capital markets transactions since 2007. Eastdil Secured now has UK-European offices in London, Frankfurt,  Paris, Dublin and Milan. James is a graduate of Holy Cross College and was an NBA draft pick of the Phoenix Suns. He sits on a number of charitable boards both in the US and UK.

As chief executive of ULI Europe, Lisette van Doorn is responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 250 local meetings and events across 14 countries. She is responsible for working with ULI’s staff both locally and globally to deliver more high profile content and reports; coordinating Advisory Services panels and Urban Plan; and expanding the Institute’s thought leadership across Europe. Van Doorn joined ULI in January 2015 from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation and portfolio structuring. Prior to this, van Doorn was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a €1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy and fund manager of two shopping centre funds (€ 1.3 billion) with assets in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Before joining CBRE Global Investors, van Doorn was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles for four and a half years. Van Doorn started her career at ING Investment Management, where she held account manager and assistant controller positions before being made managing director of research & strategy for ING Real Estate Investment Management Europe.