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With less than three weeks remaining before the event, Mingtiandi’s 2025 Singapore forum is set to be the company’s biggest ever, with more than 220 senior executives having registered for the gathering.
Taking place at the Conrad Centennial hotel in Singapore on 13 May, the Mingtiandi Singapore Forum is now expected to attract more than 250 real estate industry leaders on the day of the event, surpassing the 208 who attended the 2024 edition of the event. Another 400 are expected to watch the live video stream on the company’s MTD TV video platform.
More than 30 speakers have already confirmed their appearance at the full-day event, which is sponsored by Yardi, with KKR principal Jeremy Chee having recently confirmed his participation in a panel on hospitality investment alongside Calvin Sin, KEO and director of CREAL Asia, and Gisle Sarheim, vice president for feasibility and investment analysis in the real estate and asset management division for Asia Pacific at Hilton.
Tickets for the event are still available at the link above with supplies limited.
Living Sector in Focus
The programme for the forum includes three spotlight interviews and eight panel sessions, with five out of the 11 total sessions focused on living sector strategies, including the hospitality panel.
A panel on global student housing strategies will include Matt Walker, chief executive for student housing at Mapletree; Tjarko Edzes, chief capital officer for Australia’s Scape; Victor Lor, head of investment management for Asia Pacific at the UK’s Global Student Accommodation and Wee Ping Goh, chief investment officer with Wee Hur Holdings and chief executive of the SGX-listed company’s Wee Hur Capital investment affiliate.
A spotlight interview session with Stephen Gaitanos, managing director and group chief executive for both Scape Australia and rental residential platform Rent to Live Co, will explore both the student housing and mainstream rental residential markets in Australia, while revealing future steps for the founders of Asia Pacific’s largest student housing provider.
With Australia standing out as Asia Pacific’s fastest growing market for rental residential, a panel focused on the living sector Down Under will feature Matt Berg, founder and Co-CEO of Macquarie-backed Local: Residential and Sam Bisla, founder and managing director of Warburg Pincus-backed Kio Investment Management, with additional speakers to be named in the coming days.
Taking a look at the living sector across the broader region will be the APAC Residential Investment Outlook panel, which features Jonathan Umali, chief investment officer of Arch Capital Management; Ho Lip Chin, chief investment officer for SGX-listed Centurion Corporation and Kelvin Lim, executive chairman of LHN Limited and founder of Singapore’s largest co-living operator, Coliwoo.
India, Infrastructure and Cross-Border Flows
In addition to the spotlight interview with Scape’s Stephen Gaitanos, the programme features an interview with Bart Price, chief executive of life sciences platform Vita Partners, who will be appearing alongside Tag Yuxiang, a principal at US private equity giant Warburg Pincus, which set up the joint venture platform together with Lendlease, and veteran CBRE advisor Rimon Ambarchi.
A third spotlight interview brings together Nicholas Bischoff, chief executive of Stonepeak-backed logistics platform Equalbase with Jon Sim, investment director with the company’s fund management affiliate Northmod.
Other sessions at the event will focus on Singapore’s growing role as a global capital hub, India investment strategies and industrial and infrastructure investment.
A keynote panel which brings together the region’s largest investors and most experienced advisors will feature Alessandro Fiascaris, head of Asia Pacific with Oxford Properties, George Agethen of CDPQ, Knight Frank Singapore chief executive Galven Tan and Hilton Asia Pacific president Alan Watts.
