Mingtiandi founder Michael Cole opening the forum on Tuesday
More than 200 industry leaders attended the Mingtiandi Singapore Forum 2024 on Tuesday, making the event the company’s biggest ever.
Attendees at the forum heard top leaders from Bain Capital point to special situations opportunities in Japan and China, learned of Brookfield Asset Management’s plans to expand its real estate investment platforms in Asia Pacific, and witnessed representatives of some of the world’s largest real estate investors point to their favourite strategies.
The forum also featured senior leaders from PAG, Gaw Capital Partners, ESR and Ivanhoe Cambridge speaking in panels on commercial, industrial, residential and hospitality markets, as well as a session on Singapore’s growing role as a regional capital hub.
All eight discussions at the forum, which was sponsored by Yardi, are being covered in dedicated stories published on Mingtiandi on Tuesday and Wednesday, complete with full-length recordings of each segment. Highlight images from the forum are presented here for those unable to attend in-person
The People
The Programme
Data Centres in October, Tokyo in November
With the Singapore Forum concluded, Mingtiandi has prepared an MTD TV event series in October focused on investment in Asia’s digital infrastructure sector.
The Mingtiand Asia Data Centre Forum 2024 is the company’s fifth annual edition of the online event series, with this year’s programme featuring a spotlight interview with Digital Realty Asia Pacific chief executive Serene Nah.
In addition to that interview on 15 October, a panel discussion on 8 October will cover opportunities in Asia’s hyperscale market with speakers including Jing Zhou, senior director for alternatives and strategic transactions at Nuveen; Michael Tanujaya, head of investments and strategy for ST Telemedia Global Data Centres and Baker McKenzie partner Edwin Wong.
A panel on data centre strategies for Southeast Asia on 10 October features Ai Leen Tang, a partner with Baker McKenzie member firm Wong & Partners, with additional speakers to be named later.
The forum will conclude on 17 October with a panel on opportunities in Japan and Korea’s data centre markets, with the session featuring Diarmid Massey, CEO for Data Centres at ESR, with additional speakers to be named later.
Following the data centre forum, Mingtiandi will travel to Tokyo for the company’s first event in Asia’s hottest major market.
The Mingtiandi Tokyo Forum on 12 November includes speakers from Warburg Pincus, GLP Capital Partners, ESR, Axe Management, Alyssa Partners, Tokyo Trust Capital and more.
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