The ULI meeting will feature five general sessions, 43 councilmeetings with 2,200 members, a full-day ULI/Stan Ross Real EstateTrends Conference and more than 50 concurrent sessions. Included inthe roster of keynote speakers is former President Bill Clinton,speaking on A Global Outlook in the Wake of the PresidentialElection, and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,speaking on Leading for Today and Tomorrow.ULI and NAREEhave also scheduled three joint media briefings. The first briefingwill be with ULI chairman Harry Frampton, who will discuss hisviews on smart growth. The second briefing will address the jointULI/PricewaterhouseCoopers' report, Emerging Trends in RealEstate 2005, which will be released to the media immediatelybefore the opening of Real Estate Trends Day. The third briefingwill be with affordable-housing developer Richard Baron, the 2004recipient of ULI's J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in UrbanDevelopment.

Real Estate Trends Day will also bring Meet the Press-Turningthe Tables: Insights from Real Estate Editors and Writers. Theevent will feature, among others, NAREE president Michael Desiato,editor-in-chief of Real Estate Media, GlobeSt.com's parentcompany.

NAREE's fall meeting also includes a tour of the Time WarnerCenter, which held its grand opening in February. During thegroup's awards dinner, new board members will be elected andinstalled, Kimball adds. Desiato, who Kimball describes as "atremendous force in NAREE," will serve as chairman of the boardnext year.