GIREM to be first Urban Development and Real Estate Industry Summit with Open Debates amongst Industry Stalwarts & Leaders. Corporate users will get visibility on emerging business destinations across India.
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, August 6, 2008 (PRESSbooth.ORG) -- Triple Tree Exhibitions & Sports Pvt. Ltd. a propriety event management firm based in Bangalore announced India’s first mega event focusing on urban development and real estate - "GIREM, Urban Planning And Real Estate Leadership Summit" -to be held on September 18-20, 2008 at Goa. The event will be bring together over 700 delegates and super delegates including leading lights including Policy Makers, Urban Development, Real Estate majors, Hospitality, IT & ITES sectors, Retail, Investors amongst others.
GIREM is support by Cushman & Wakefield as knowledge partners, JLLM as support partners, Asipac as associate partners, IFMA and NASSCOM in various forms.
The summit would include various discussion forums through its various specialised platforms like Leadership Talk – talks by Gurus of Urban planning and Real estate sector, Leadership Focus –discussion forum on various business sectors, Urban Planning - panel discussions focused on critical matters of growth of urban India.
The 3 day summit will host a Leadership Awards which would felicitate the most coveted achievers of 2007 -08 in 13 categories in the realm of urban planning and development and real estate.
“GIREM is a summit for leaders in Urban Development and Real Estate industry to discuss issues and pledge support; opportunity to learn and discuss leadership challenges, trends and future business interests and partnerships with clear focus on proactive planning and meticulous execution to support the economic growth of India and its people.” Said Shyam Sundar, Executive Director, Triple Tree Exhibitions and Sports Pvt Ltd.
“GIREM has been designed to address the real issues of ‘Today’ head on. The various forums of the summit have been tailored to examine the past and debate on solutions for ‘Future’. It will bring together the best of minds to discuss issues ranging from refurbishing cities to building new cities to conventional housing to specialised housing for different segments of the population, building world class office space to the role of rentals in the India growth story.” Said Mr. Sundar.
“The formats of GIREM are uniquely designed – to ensure that it is mostly interactive with scope of debates and open house discussions involving cross-sections of the industry,” said Asipac Group Chairman Amit Bagaria, “the Feature Session BUILDING NEW CITIES will focus on the Why, Where, What and How of Building New Cities (including SEZs), in an open debate format, as India is for ‘We, The People’ and the future is in our hands.” This is based on the fact that current Indian cities are choking, there is urban decay everywhere; and to continue with high economic growth and provide a decent life to young India, the only answer is to build new cities. The private sector has to take the lead, with unrestricted support from central and state governments."
GIREM will also be the first show in India to focus on showcasing Business destinations. Over 1000 commercial and retail space will be showcased at GIREM. This will also be the first time that Corporate India will be able to review major developments under process under a single roof for them to make buying decision including Office space, Retail space, Hotels & Resorts, Townships, Airports, SEZ's, Warehouse, Residential, Products and Services. The consumers of commercial and office space have been accorded SUPER DELEGATES status, which entitles them to have all access of GIREM for FREE.
Anurag Mathur, Joint Managing Director, India, Cushman & Wakefield says “Rapid growth of the Indian economy has made it essential for all aspects of corporate India to contribute to the growth and development of the largely fragmented real estate sector. The responsibility should no longer lie singularly on a specific section of development, whether government development agencies or a private developers. It is important for corporate India to make effective contribution in alignment with developers and other development agencies (private sector and public sector) to achieve superiority in infrastructure, convenience and business conduciveness. GIREM will play a pivotal role in bringing various sectors of real estate development to a unified platform of decision, and address concerns faced by the real estate sector. ”
Amongst eminent people expected to attend the summit include Shri Kamal Nath, Union Minister for Industry & Commerce, Shri Jaipal Reddy, Union Minister for Urban Development, Shri Praful Patel, Civil Aviation Minister, Shri YSR Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Shri Digambar Kamat, Chief Minister of Goa, Mr. K G Krishnamurthy, CEO, HDFC Realty Ventures, Mr. Hafeez Contractor leading architect of India, Mr. Peter Barge, Chairman, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels and CEO, JLL Asia Pacific, Mr. Jerry Koh, Partner, Allen & Gledhill LLP, Mr. Rick Woods, Director of Real Estate, IBM and Mr. Ramachandra Guha, writer, historian.
About Triple Tree:
Triple Tree Exhibitions & Sports Pvt. Ltd. is a propriety event management firm. The objective of Triple Tree is to conceptualise and develop international trade shows that promote and nurture the industry and create opportunities for sports to excel. The Board of Directors includes people with varied experience from across industries with a vision to create and nurture the India today to become a vibrant and confident India tomorrow.
Contact:
Kiran Kumar,
Director,
Triple Tree
+91 98867 48322,
kk @ tripletree.in
Cerin Pathrose,
Equator Communications
+91 98867 22101,
erin @ equatorpr.in
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