The current global economic environment is as challenging as it has ever been, and it changes every day. The effects of the recession in the United States and Europe are being felt in Asia now, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. Asian economies have experienced a slowdown for the first time in a decade, and corporations are facing a different outlook from what was envisioned a year ago. Increasingly, they are looking to corporate real estate to provide significant cost savings and immediate portfolio realignment.

The challenge facing corporate real estate is this: how do you respond to the new business reality of slashed budgets, shrinking portfolios, and reduced workforces, and still keep your workplace strategy on track? What new trends are likely to emerge during the recovery? How do you manage for today and plan for tomorrow? Are there opportunities that are available to you now to position your company for future growth, even in the face of increasing pressure to cut costs?

At the 2009 CoreNet Global Summit Asia in Macau, we will come together to explore the ways that corporate real estate can transform today's challenges into tomorrow's growth. We will discuss practical ways of approaching cost savings, as well as areas where corporate real estate can provide leadership in an increasingly uncertain environment.