More than 1,000 leading commercial real estate professionals areexpected to attend the daylong conference, which will be followedbyan evening deal-making session. The keynote address will bedelivered byTimothy H. Callahan, president and CEO of Equity OfficePropertiesTrust, the Chicago-based REIT that is the nation'sbiggest officebuilding owner.

Other featured speakers include K. Dane Brooksher, chairman andCEO ofProLogis, the nation's largest owner of industrial property;Rick Campo, chairman and CEO of Camden Property Trust; GlenL.Carpenter, chairman and CEO of Pacific Gulf Properties Inc.;VictorColeman, president of Arden Realty Inc., and David J. Contis,EVP andCOO of the Macerich Co.

In addition to his role as editorial director of GlobeSt.com,Desiato isgroup managing director of New York-based Real EstateMedia Inc.--theparent of GlobeSt, Real Estate Forum magazine andfive regionalcommercial real estate publications. At theconference, he will moderatean investors panel that includes topexecutives from Colony Capital LLC,Lend Lease, Morgan Stanley RealEstate Fund, Merrill Lynch InvestmentBanking, Apollo Real EstateAdvisors, RREEF and Secured Capital Corp.