Allianz Real Estate at MIPIM 2016: investor, award nominee, host and opinion leader when it comes to digital

MIPIM has been a key exhibition, conference, networking and transaction event in the agendas of the world's top real estate players since 1990. With 21,500 delegates from 90 countries, including 4,800 investors meanwhile registered MIPIM continues to be the leading annual gathering of the world's real estate industry. Innovation and evolution as key driver of our time, fosters the central theme of the 2016 edition, "Housing the World."

François Trausch being at the helm of Allianz Real Estate since beginning of the year comments: "For us MIPIM is one of the key industry events during the year: it provides the perfect platform not only for networking and to test the waters but also to further position ourselves as one of the leading global real estate investment and asset management companies and to set the ground for new deals in order to meet our investment targets in 2016."

Best chance to win the MIPIM-Award

After having been honored with the Special Jury Prize in the Best of SIMI awards some months ago Laennec - the prestigious development in the French real estate portfolio - has been nominated for the MIPIM Awards in the category, Best Refurbished Building. The historical property in Paris was renovated by the architect, Benjamin Mouton, who also led the renovation of the Notre-Dame cathedral or the Invalides in Paris and is rented at the luxury group, Kering. The result will become public at the Awards Ceremony on 17 March, 2016 at 18.30.

Panel shaped by the digitalisation

On March, 15th ARE has the pleasure to host the panel, "The digital innovation in real estate: focus on retail and office", putting the attention on how digital innovation at different stages, is constantly in the middle of the real estate discussion. It takes place in the Green Room of Innovation Forum starting at 17:00.

Introduced by a general overview regarding how digitalization is impacting the real estate environment, the talk has the further scope to examine the current innovation process in two different dimensions, retail and office, while focusing on the various stakeholders: landlords, tenants and consumers and the products and services involved. More in depth, the analysis will drive to understand how the retail innovations have changed the dynamics between consumers and retailers, and how the office spaces are rapidly changing its design rules to respond properly to users' needs.

"Our industry is facing a digital disruption and needs to anticipate tomorrow's uses. By hosting this panel we want to contribute and share our views, vision and ideas with the panelists and the audience. I am looking forward to a lively debate with the panelists out of real estate experts not only from the traditional but as well "new" world and to confront their visions and define the Real Estate 3.0", says François Trausch.

The discussion moderated by Melanie Epp and Marina Jestin (AZ representatives), will be introduced by François Trausch's keynote, and continued with the contribution of distinguished panelists as, Adrien Kerbrat, COO and co-founder of PopUpImmo, Martin Plocica, Director, Hammerson UK & Ireland, Sebastien Chémouny, Head of Asset Management, Allianz Real Estate France, Henrie W. Kötter, CIO, Managing Director Development, ECE Projektmanagement and Wills Terri, CEO, World Green Building Council.

A networking cocktail organized in the "Café Architecture", Innovation Forum, will conclude the event.

On March, 16th Allianz Real Estate has invited journalists to the Press Breakfast Conference in the 6th floor of the ARE Lounge, 2, rue Bivouac Napoléon. François Trausch, CEO, Oliver Téran, CIO, and Roland Fuchs, Head of Real Estate Finance will look back into 2015 and give an outlook of Allianz Real Estate in 2016.

For more details about the ARE agenda at MIPIM 2016 click here