1. *Panel Discussion: Return to Office? Work from Home (WFH) and Its Effects on the Future of NYC’s Economy The new world of work continues to shift the paradigm of physical corporate office space and its role in the employer-employee relationship. While the complexity of hybrid workforces and permanently remote workforces have led to large companies downsizing their footprint, some younger firms have actually expanded their physical office space. What does this mean for the local economy? What does the office market forecast for the rest of 2022 look like for our neighborhoods?

Dr. Sam Chandan Professor of Finance and Director, Center for Real Estate Finance, NYU Stern School of Business. Dr. Chandon leads the school’s applied real estate and urban research initiatives, industry and policy engagement, and undergraduate and MBA real estate programs, ranked #2 among business schools by U.S. News and World Report.

Kevin Fagan, Senior Director and Head of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Economic Analysis, Moody’s Analytics Fagan is responsible for research, product development, and strategic initiatives for the MA CRE group. He was formerly director of research on the Moody’s Investors Service CMBS team for ten years.

Charlie Robinson, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, The Malin a new co-working space in SoHo with five additional locations opening in the U.S. later in 2022. Robinson is the former U.S. head of Servcorp, the publicly-listed Australian company known as the premium flexible workspace operator over the last 40 years.