{"id":16409,"date":"2026-09-10T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/?page_id=16409"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:25:19","slug":"cref-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/cref\/cref-events\/","title":{"rendered":"CREF events"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head>\n<\/head><body><p>The Center for Real Estate and Finance promotes, sponsors, and supports a variety of events where students, faculty, and practitioners interact and exchange ideas to direct the future of the real estate and finance industry. Some of these events include the Women in Real Estate and Finance Panel Discussion, Real Estate Investment Speaker Series, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Conference, Western Financial Association Summer Symposium, and Environmental, Real Estate, and Urban Economics workshop series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past events that CREF has supported include: Cornell International Real Estate Case Competition, Cornell Regional Real Estate Competitions in the UK\/Europe and Asia, Retail Real Estate Case Competition, and Titans of Real Estate.<\/p>\n\n\n            <section class=\"list-events global-margin--10x text-margin-reset bg--clear\" aria-label=\"List of events\" id=\"upcoming-events\">\n        <div class=\"grid-container\">\n            <div class=\"grid-x grid-margin-x\">\n                <div class=\"cell medium-6\">\n                    <div class=\"list-events__header\">\n                                                    <h2 class=\"list-events__heading\">Upcoming events<\/h2>\n                        \n                                                    <div class=\"global-spacing--1x\">\n                                <div class=\"intro-text\">\n                                    <p>The Center for Real Estate &amp; Finance has events throughout the year. Check to see how you can get involved.<\/p>\n\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        \n                                                    <div class=\"global-spacing--1x button-row\">\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/events.business.cornell.edu\/month\/tags\/Center%20for%20Real%20Estate%20and%20Finance\" target=\"_self\" class=\"btn\" aria-label=\"\">All upcoming events<\/a>\n                            <\/div>\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n                <div class=\"cell medium-6\">\n                                            <div class=\"list-events__list\">\n                                                            <div class=\"list-events__datetime\">\n                                    <h3 class=\"list-events__datetime__heading\">September 22, 2026 at 9:00am<\/h3>\n                                    <div class=\"list-events__datetime__events\">\n                                                                                    <div class=\"list-events__event\">\n                                                <h4 class=\"list-events__event__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.business.cornell.edu\/centers\/event\/20836-real-estate-professionals-program-david-mei-94\" target=\"_self\" class=\"stylized-link--dark\">Real Estate Professionals Program: David Mei &rsquo;94<\/a><\/h4>\n                                                                                                    <p class=\"list-events__event__excerpt\">David Mei &rsquo;94, Vice President, Global Capital Investments &amp; Transactions,IHG Hotels &amp; Resorts Lending CMBS Brand&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; launches Integration&hellip;<\/p>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <div class=\"list-events__datetime\">\n                                    <h3 class=\"list-events__datetime__heading\">September 23, 2026 at 9:00am<\/h3>\n                                    <div class=\"list-events__datetime__events\">\n                                                                                    <div class=\"list-events__event\">\n                                                <h4 class=\"list-events__event__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.business.cornell.edu\/centers\/event\/20835-real-estate-professionals-program-david-mei-94\" target=\"_self\" class=\"stylized-link--dark\">Real Estate Professionals Program: David Mei &rsquo;94<\/a><\/h4>\n                                                                                                    <p class=\"list-events__event__excerpt\">David Mei &rsquo;94, Vice President, Global Capital Investments &amp; Transactions,IHG Hotels &amp; Resorts Lending CMBS Brand&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; launches Integration&hellip;<\/p>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <div class=\"list-events__datetime\">\n                                    <h3 class=\"list-events__datetime__heading\">September 24, 2026 at 9:00am<\/h3>\n                                    <div class=\"list-events__datetime__events\">\n                                                                                    <div class=\"list-events__event\">\n                                                <h4 class=\"list-events__event__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.business.cornell.edu\/centers\/event\/20819-real-estate-professionals-program-rob-kline\" target=\"_self\" class=\"stylized-link--dark\">Real Estate Professionals Program: Rob Kline &rsquo;84<\/a><\/h4>\n                                                                                                    <p class=\"list-events__event__excerpt\">Robert Kline &rsquo;84, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, The Chartres Lodging Group Hospitality and Real Estate Investment Hospitality Asset Management&hellip;<\/p>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <div class=\"list-events__datetime\">\n                                    <h3 class=\"list-events__datetime__heading\">October 4, 2026 at 11:00am<\/h3>\n                                    <div class=\"list-events__datetime__events\">\n                                                                                    <div class=\"list-events__event\">\n                                                <h4 class=\"list-events__event__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.business.cornell.edu\/centers\/event\/20839-real-estate-professionals-program-kara-randall\" target=\"_self\" class=\"stylized-link--dark\">Real Estate Professionals Program: Kara Randall<\/a><\/h4>\n                                                                                                    <p class=\"list-events__event__excerpt\">Kara Randall, Chief Development Officer, Luxury, North America, Accor Luxury Hospitality Development Hotel Real Estate &amp; Investment Deal Execution &amp;&hellip;<\/p>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <div class=\"list-events__datetime\">\n                                    <h3 class=\"list-events__datetime__heading\">October 24, 2026 at 1:00pm<\/h3>\n                                    <div class=\"list-events__datetime__events\">\n                                                                                    <div class=\"list-events__event\">\n                                                <h4 class=\"list-events__event__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.business.cornell.edu\/centers\/event\/20838-real-estate-professionals-program-kara-randall\" target=\"_self\" class=\"stylized-link--dark\">Real Estate Professionals Program: Kara Randall<\/a><\/h4>\n                                                                                                    <p class=\"list-events__event__excerpt\">Kara Randall, Chief Development Officer, Luxury, North America, Accor Luxury Hospitality Development Hotel Real Estate &amp; Investment Deal Execution &amp;&hellip;<\/p>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <div class=\"list-events__datetime\">\n                                    <h3 class=\"list-events__datetime__heading\">October 29, 2026 at 9:00am<\/h3>\n                                    <div class=\"list-events__datetime__events\">\n                                                                                    <div class=\"list-events__event\">\n                                                <h4 class=\"list-events__event__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.business.cornell.edu\/centers\/event\/20834-real-estate-professionals-program-zachary-fischer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"stylized-link--dark\">Real Estate Professionals Program: Zachary Fischer &rsquo;06<\/a><\/h4>\n                                                                                                    <p class=\"list-events__event__excerpt\">Zachary Fischer &rsquo;06, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley CRE Lending CMBS Trading Meet with Zachary<\/p>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Real Estate and Finance promotes, sponsors, and supports a variety of events where students, faculty, and practitioners interact and exchange ideas to direct the future of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":2017,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"leadership":[],"class_list":["post-16409","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Center for Real Estate &amp; 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