The conference will open for registration from 7 a.m. and will kick off at 8:10 a.m. with opening remarks by Michael Desiato, group publisher and editorial director of Real Estate Media. The first session, at 8:15 a.m., will be a keynote address on emerging real estate issues by Stan Ross, chairman of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, which will be followed by the first panel of the day. The panelists will tackle the question of how economic forces, financial markets and political developments will affect commercial real estate.