Bianca is a real estate and asset management assurance partner at PwC with over 20 years of accounting and finance expertise in Australian and international listed and unlisted real estate and asset management. Her experience includes providing assurance and advisory services on her clients’ ongoing businesses, complex transactions (including mergers), acquisitions and disposals, internal control frameworks and due diligence for debt and capital raisings and IPOs.

Christian is Head of HOME, Australia’s leading creator operator of apartment communities exclusively for rent. HOME recently opened its first assets HOME Southbank and also HOME Richmond in Melbourne. Prior to being part of the team that established HOME in 2017 he was National head of apartments for a major listed Australian developer, working on award winning residential and mixed use urban renewal projects in Australia and the UK. Christian is passionate about the built environment, public policy and the property industry. He is a former Victorian President of the Property Council and presently the Chair of the Property Council’s National BTR Roundtable, and also Chair of the Victorian BTR Taskforce.

Sameer is Head of Pacific Research. Sameer joined CBRE in 2021 from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was head of Australian Research. Sameer has a Bachelors of Commerce (Hons) from the ANU and a MBA from Insead (France).

Dug Pomeroy OAM, Executive Chairman of Pomeroy Pacific, embarked on his career in the building and construction industry by starting his own company 53 years ago. During that time, Dug has delivered over $30 billion of real estate projects, ranging from private residences, hotels, multi-storey office buildings, special use facilities such as aquatic centres, a flight simulator (Qantas), wind tunnels (CSIRO), TV studio (ABC), public art galleries, sporting complexes, fast food outlets, consulates, wineries, residential towers, industrial complexes, institutional and educational facilities, shopping centres and other specialised facilities. With more than 53 years experience in delivering development projects, Dug’s detailed and widely respected knowledge, networks and industry insight is highly sought after. He is a qualified builder with dual unlimited building licences in commercial and domestic construction. As Executive Chairman of Pomeroy Pacific Pty Ltd, Dug epitomises the expertise that his project management company is known for. Dug has served as President, Chairman and Director on boards of several not-for-profit organisations and a government building advisory committee. He is a current Director of a not-for-profit organisation supporting medical research initiatives. In 2021 he received an OAM for his philanthropic endeavours and for his contribution to the building industry.

Peter Holland Director, Grant Advisory , Melbourne, Australia. Now semi retired but previously Director of Property Economics at Cistri the fully owned consultancy subsidiary of Urbis in Australia. Peter has 40 years’ experience consulting in property and retail economics to a wide and impressive range of clients. He has a strong interest in the shaping of the built environment and most of his work involves large property projects. Peter had specialist skills in the retail, entertainment, office, residential and hospitality sectors Over the past two decades most of Peter’s consulting was devoted to assignments in Asia and the Middle East in both mature and emerging markets. Peter now splits his time between not- for -profit work and consulting for Cistri and The One Atelier. He is currently a Global Trustee for ULI and sits on the advisory board for the Melbourne University School of Design. Peter is a graduate of Melbourne and Harvard Universities (December 2011)