ULI Poland Conference 2025: Back to the Future

When

2025-04-09 - 2025-04-10

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    Watch the space! We will be announcing first programme highlights soon. For partnership or sponsorship inquiries, please reach out to us at [email protected].

    Pricing

    Early Pricing Until March 15 Members Non-Members
    Private €310.00 €412.00
    Public/Academic/Nonprofit €155.00 €206.00
    Student €78.00 €103.00
    Under Age 35 €155.00 €206.00
    - JOIN & GO option for new members – ULI membership and conference fee at a hugely discounted rate (see the bottom of event description)
    - Businesses with Polish NIP (Tax ID) may register with no VAT added to the fee
    - Attendees without Polish Business NIP (private individuals, non-Polish businesses) are subject to 23% VAT that will be added to the registration invoice

    The ULI Poland Annual Conference will take place in Warsaw on 9 – 10 April 2025.

    This event will foster open dialogue, feature keynote presentations, and offer thought leadership sessions with real estate and urban development leaders from Poland, CEE and Baltics region and beyond, backed by the ULI global network of over 48,000 members.

    Join ULI members alongside a professional community of developers, investors, urban planners, designers, public officers, and other influential figures as we shape the future of the built environment to drive transformative community impact worldwide.

    CONFERENCE FEES

    ➡️The conference fee covers 2 days programme: Opening Dinner on April 9 and conference sessions on April 10.

    ➡️Not a member yet? JOIN & GO fee for new members! The fee covers 12 months of ULI Associate Membership and conference fee at a hugely discounted rate. Current membership fees can be found here.


     ➡️ Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in Join & Go fee or for partnership or sponsorship inquiries.


    Speakers

    Keynote Speaker

    Marcin Piatkowski

    Professor of Economics , Kozminski University

    Prof. Marcin Piatkowski is Professor of Economics at Kozminski University in Warsaw, the highest ranked business school in Central and Eastern Europe, and a Program Leader at the World Bank in New Delhi. Prior to that, he was Chief Economist and Managing Director of PKO BP, the largest bank in Poland, economist in the European Department of the IMF and Advisor to IMF's Executive Director. He also served as Advisor to Poland's Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance. He holds a Ph.D. and habilitation in Economics from Kozminski University and an M.A. in Finance and Banking summa cum laude from the Warsaw School of Economics. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, London Business School and the OECD Development Center. He has published extensively on economic development, innovation and competitiveness. He authored a book on “Europe’s Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland”, Oxford University Press 2018, which has been reviewed by the Financial Times, endorsed by the world’s top economists, and awarded a prize of the “Best Book in Economics” in 2019 by the Polish Academy of Sciences. His personal website is at www.marcinpiatkowski.com. He tweets at @mmpiatkowski.

    Speaker

    Sophie Chick

    Sophie Chick is a Vice President of ESG Programmes at ULI Europe. She runs the C Change and other ESG programmes for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in Europe. C Change is a programme to mobilise the European real estate industry to decarbonise. We’re a movement empowering everyone to work together for a sustainable future. Prior to joining ULI, Sophie was the head of department for Savills World Research team and the lead researcher on ESG in the Urban Environment. Working across all property sectors, she delivered market leading research on global real estate markets and the international forces that shape them.

    Marcin Juszczyk

    Managing Partner, Capital Park sp. z o.o.

    Chairman of Urban Land Institute in Poland since October 2023. Managing Partner and Vice President of the Board of Capital Park Group with over 20 years of professional experience in the real estate sector and with over 10 years experience in running of the company listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE:CPG). Played strategic roles in Capital Park since its formation in 2003, starting as CFO and then as Head of Investment Department since 2006. Within Management Board responsible for areas of strategic business development, M&A, joint ventures and finance areas. Took part in over 100 transactions involving properties all across Poland, secured over €700m in bank financing and raised over €100m in bonds and shares issues on Polish capital market. Local partner to leading Private Equity Real Estate fund managers such as Patron Capital Partners and Madison International Realty on Polish market. Developer of Norblin Factory in Warsaw - the winner of ULI European and Global Awards for Excellence in 2022. Before joining Capital Park - CFO in Communication One Group / Call Center Poland SA – a leading Polish call/contact center outsourcing group. Until 2001 worked as management and information systems consultant and project leader. Member of the REIT Poland Association, the Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate (PINK) and the Foundation for Education and Research on REITs. Interested in large scale sustainable urban development projects, mixed-use, premium residential, conversions, brownfield regeneration and revitalization projects.

    Moderator

    Dorota Wysokinska-Kuzdra

    Senior Partner, Colliers Poland sp. z o.o.

    Dorota joined Colliers in 2018 as Director and Senior Partner, Head of Corporate Finance and Living Services for CEE. She leads a team of real estate professionals with proven experience gained in private equity and investment banking as well as broader living sector. Dorota is responsible for comprehensive financial advisory, including debt financing, mezzanine financing, raising capital and gaining capital partners, and offering support in acquiring companies and entering the stock exchange. Heading living services department, she specializes in advisory, transactions and operations targeting apartments for sale (Built To Sell), flats for rent (Built To Rent) private dormitories (PBSA), co-living, senior living, micro apartments, serviced apartments and other types of housing schemes. Under Dorota’s leadership Colliers was part of all major living and equity transactions in Poland and CEE. Before joining Colliers International, Dorota Wysokinska-Kuzdra spent 11 years as Senior Partner at Griffin Real Estate, where she was responsible for the Group’s management and investments, and for the first mezzanine fund operating in Poland. Recently, she has been involved in the creation of a logistics platform co-managed by Griffin. Earlier, as CEO at Griffin Premium RE, the first REIT fund, she successfully launched the fund on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. She was a member of the team responsible for acquiring shares in Echo Investment SA, one of the biggest transactions on the Polish real estate market, in which she was responsible for due diligence and financing the acquisition. Before joining Griffin, for over 10 years, she held director positions in the HypoVereinsbank / UniCredit Group, and in their subsidiaries, monitoring real estate investment banking and managing real estate. Dorota Wysokinska-Kuzdra has graduated from SGH Warsaw School of Economics, the University of Cologne and the University of Duisburg-Essen. Dorota was chairperson in the Polish branch of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) between 2018-2021 – the international non-profit organisation that supports responsible planning and developing of cities, which functions as a platform of knowledge exchange between experts and participants in the real estate market, both in Poland and abroad. In 2020, in addition to the Polish role, she has been elected to join the Executive Committee of ULI Europe and is now creating ULI CEE HUB. She is a Global Governing Trustee for ULI Global.