Seattle Life Sciences Conference 2024 | Bisnow | 30 May 2024 | Hilton Motif Seattle, 1415 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

What You'll Learn From This Commercial Real Estate Summit:

• Discover the factors behind the Seattle area's remarkable third-ranking nationwide for life sciences employment growth, witnessing a 25% increase in recent years. Delve into the prospects of • • • • • Seattle's promising life science cluster.
• Explore how Seattle's biotech ecosystem cultivates a culture of innovation and the unique factors contributing to its success.
• Understand the current development, investment, and leasing activity in South Lake Union, a hub for life science development and innovation, as well as other growing clusters like Capitol Hill in Seattle.
• Uncover the keys to a successful life sciences development 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.
• Explore the influence of regulatory changes on sustainability, development, design, and construction in Seattle.

How You’ll Do More Business From Attending This Conference:
Despite the slowdown in deals, funding, and developments compared to previous years due to the macroeconomic environment, Seattle's life science market consistently secures its top 10 position nationally for VC and NIH funding, along with patents issued. This underscores its role as an innovation hub, backed by some of the world's largest philanthropic organizations. Join us for an engaging event featuring insightful panel discussions led by industry trailblazers. They will delve into exciting developments, investments, leasing activities, upcoming biotech start-ups, and VC funding in the region.

Who You'll Network With At This Discussion:
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.

2024 Speakers

MODERATORS:

Annette Jannotta
Creative Director, SABArchitects

Josh Osborn
Senior Project Executive, McKinstry

SPEAKERS:

Jeff West
Vice President, Facilities & Campus Operations, Fred Hutch

Ken Horenstein
Founder & Partner, Pack Ventures

Penn DiJulio
Vice President, Development & Construction, Touchstone

Greg Hadsell
Education & Science Director, U.S. West Region, HDR

Megan Coffland
Project Executive, BNBuilders

Danielle McGuire
Science Practice Director, SOM

Chris Angus
SVP, Development, Unico Properties

Ben Rosenfeld
SVP, Development, PMB

Dan Seng
Practice Leader, Science & Technology, HOK

Ian Klein
Principal, Westlake Consulting Group

Eldon Kiel
VP, Preconstruction, Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Company

Marc Cummings
President and CEO, Life Sciences Washington

Ashlee Esteban
Associate Director, CoMotion Labs, University of Washington

Alison Beason
Director, Life Science & Global Health, Washington State Department of Commerce

George Ward
President & CEO, Aldrich & Associates

Vickie Cleator
Vice President, Research Service Line Operations, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Shanna Braga
Director of Facilities and Operations, The Institute for Systems Biology

Steve Brooks
President, UMC

2024 Sponsors

• AES Clean Technology, Inc.
• HDR
• Hanson Lab Solutions
• UMC
• Aldrich
• SOM
• City of Shoreline
• KONE
• Albireo Energy
• HOK
• Howard S. Wright
• Gallagher
• BNB
• GPS
• Sellen
• Westlake Consulting Group