Future of Peninsula Life Sciences & Innovative Developments Summit

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Future of Peninsula Life Sciences & Innovative Developments Summit

Name: Future of Peninsula Life Sciences & Innovative Developments Summit
Start: 2024-10-02T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-02T11:00:00-07:00
Location: Greater Stanford Innovation Cluster

Balancing Supply and Demand, Leasing Activity, Prominent Construction and Design Trends and Transformative Projects Attracting Top Biotech Tenants

Wednesday October 2 2024 @ 8:00 AM PDT

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What's Next? Future of Peninsula Life Sciences Real Estate

Discussing Supply and Demand Dynamics and Drivers, Development Pipeline, and What the Future Holds for Peninsula Life Sciences

Joydeep Ganguly

Joydeep Ganguly serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Operations at Gilead Sciences. In his current role, he is accountable for several strategic functions, including corporate engineering; capital and infrastructure strategy; corporate real estate; risk management; operations research and global procurement. Serving as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the organization, Joydeep also leads Gilead’s environmental sustainability strategies globally. He is a member of the company’s executive ESG committee, as well as a Board member of the Gilead Foundation. Prior to Gilead, Joydeep spent 10 years at Biogen, in roles of increasing responsibility in the areas of process sciences, manufacturing and supply chain. In his role as Vice President and Global Head of Biogen’s Technical Operations function, he oversaw the company’s multi-scale biologics and small molecule operations, as well as led general operations for the company’s presence in North Carolina, Denmark and Switzerland. A past board member of the North Carolina Biosciences Organization (NCBIO) and the North Carolina Museum of Life and Sciences, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bay Area Council, Biocom,  and is a trustee at Town School for Boys. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for Culture Biosciences, as well on the Advisory Council for NC State University’s Supply Chain research program. He earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.B.A. from North Carolina State University, and an MHA from Cornell University where he received the prestigious Sloan award. Joydeep has been recognized by the National Diversity Council as a Top 50 Diverse Leader in California, awarded the Leadership Excellence Award by the California Diversity Council, and was recently named as one of the Top 3 leaders in Climate Science within the Biotech industry.

Gilead Sciences

SVP, Global Operations, Chief Sustainability Officer

Joydeep Ganguly

SVP, Global Operations, Chief Sustainability Officer, Gilead Sciences

Peter Conte

National Director - Lab + Life Sciences, Transwestern

Geoffrey Sears

Partner, Wareham Development

Innovative Developments Shaping Peninsula Life Sciences Real Estate

From Site Selection and Construction Trends to Unique Design Features and Tenant Attraction Strategies, Discover the Key Factors Driving Development Trends in the Region

Sara Andersen

Sara Andersen is Director of Real Estate Management, part of Workplace Effectiveness at Genentech, the organization responsible for ensuring the work environments support desired business outcomes for the business units at Genentech’s South San Francisco site and beyond. Sara’s role at Genentech allows her to exercise her passion for providing healthy, sustainable, financially performing environments which allow people to do their best work. As a Real Estate and Financial services professional with more than 25 years of experience, she has focused on setting overall business strategy for her group, running business units, building relationships and developing cross functional teams. Her engagement with Genentech began in 2012, through design (Perkins + Will) and program management (CBRE), which resulted in Genentech’s most successful building to date. The building is a success because of the emphasis on the social engagement of the employees, user friendly technology that allows a “work anywhere” philosophy, and a healthy and sustainable work environment. Her ongoing work focuses on using workplace to support business initiatives, measuring success in faster time to market vs. square foot per person.. Prior to joining Genentech as an employee, she led the CBRE Occupier Strategy team in San Francisco, translating client business objectives into real estate strategy, informing lease sizes, terms and execution. She led vision sessions with senior executives to align goals across business units, spearheaded the development of solution scenarios with client and brokerage partners and ensured successful project delivery through strategic planning, design process, budget and schedule management, and the integration of IT, HR and communications. Prior to CBRE, Sara held positions as a Principal, Director of West Coast Interiors for Perkins + Will; Managing Director (Atlas Capital Strategies); and ran her own project management practice with clients such as SAP Labs and TD Waterhouse. Sara is educated and licensed as an architect, her education includes a Masters in Architecture from Washington University with an undergraduate degree from Lehigh University in Architecture and Computer Science. She was honored as a Northern California Real Estate Woman of Influence by the San Francisco Business Times and has spoken at both CoreNet and NeoCon.

Genentech

Head of Real Estate and Workplace Effectiveness

Sara Andersen

Head of Real Estate and Workplace Effectiveness, Genentech

Ryan Payne

SVP, Trammell Crow Company

Peter Banzhaf

Managing Principal, Helios Real Estate Partners

Jesse Swafford

Principal, GCI General Contractors

What You'll Learn:

What You’ll Learn:

What’s next for the Peninsula's life science real estate market? With the exponential demand for lab space that the Peninsula received in 2022 and 2023, and the oversupply it caused in 2024, what does the future hold for the Peninsula’s life science market in 2025 and beyond?
Hotspots of life sciences development: What markets in the Peninsula are seeing the most activity in life sciences development and leasing, and why?
Despite the market slowdown, South San Francisco remains home to the largest biotech cluster in the world, with over 200 companies and a life sciences workforce drawn from nearby academic institutions. How are leading developers creating lab spaces that attract top biotech companies in the region?
- Which amenities are currently in high demand for life science users?
Successful life sciences developments: Uncover the keys to successful life sciences developments in the Peninsula, tailored to accommodate various companies and their diverse lab space needs.
- Examine the design elements that command the highest demand, steering leasing activity in the life sciences sector.
Considering the changes in office leasing activity, how are industry leaders converting and repurposing office buildings into life science properties?

Major Projects to be Discussed:

How You’ll Do More Business: The birthplace of biotech, the Peninsula has undergone a transformative real estate cycle, with vacancy rates soaring from 3% to over 20% within just 18 months. Despite these challenges, the region continues to attract leading biotech firms, top talent, and innovations driving industry growth. Join us for an exciting event where we bring together prominent life science real estate leaders to discuss the supply and demand imbalance, innovations in construction and design, site selection alternatives, and transformative developments shaping the future of the real estate market in the Peninsula.

Who You’ll Meet During Networking: Owners, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants and bankers.

Why You Should Attend This Session: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to help you identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than we do.

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our event producer, Bora Altunay, at bora.altunay@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact rachel.sundin@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.

Venue

Greater Stanford Innovation Cluster

4055 Bohannon Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025

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Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM 9:45 AM	Innovative Developments Shaping Peninsula Life Sciences Real Estate From Site Selection and Construction Trends to Unique Design Features and Tenant Attraction Strategies, Discover the Key Factors Driving Development Trends in the Region
9:45 AM 10:00 AM	Networking Break
10:00 AM 10:45 AM	What's Next? Future of Peninsula Life Sciences Real Estate Discussing Supply and Demand Dynamics and Drivers, Development Pipeline, and What the Future Holds for Peninsula Life Sciences
10:45 AM 11:15 AM	Closing Networking

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