Chapter Meeting Recaps
December Chapter Meeting // Thursday, December 13 // San Mateo
Taming Adrenalin: Surefire Strategies for Overcoming Speaking Anxiety
On December 13th at Medallia in San Mateo, the Chapter hosted an exceptional professional development program focusing on presentation skills with author, keynote speaker and founder of SpeechSkills, Cara Hale Alter. The audience of nearly 100 CoreNet members and guest were treated to a powerful interactive workshop entitled: Taming Adrenalin: Surefire Strategies for Overcoming Speaking Anxiety.
Hale Alter addressed the topic with warmth and humor and offered practical, real-world solutions for bringing speaking anxiety under control. She provided insight into discovering how to avoid common “tells” of nervousness, reduce adrenaline levels in minutes with four physical behaviors, control your mindset so that fear doesn’t get the best of you, break the cycle of nervousness-feeding-nervousness and train for the conditions to assure future success.
Key topics included:
1. Recognize the symptoms of adrenaline (how you feel)
2. Become familiar with the “tells” of nervousness (what you show)
3. How to minimize physical symptoms
4. Manage your mindset
January Chapter Meeting // Thursday, January 17th // Foster City
Annual Market Forecast
The Chapter held its annual economic forecast event on January 17, 2019 at VISA’s Headquarters in Foster City. Wayne Best, VISA’s Chief Economist gave a command performance delivering another entertaining and informative presentation to the crowd of over 200 members and guests. He shared his predictions including continued yet slower economic growth in 2019 given that late cycle dynamics are at play. Additionally, he indicated that he believes 2020 will be our most vulnerable year.
Key topics included:
1. As major economies slow, the global economy is turning downward
2. US fundamentals remain strong in 2019, but slowing down
3. Oil production and prices
4. Trade Issues
5.
Labor market remains very tight
6. Wage Growth
7. Personal savings in 2018 were better than predicted
8. Consumer spending
Housing still concern
9.
Interest rate hike cycle nearing an end
10. Problematic Government Debt
11. Indicators to watch for signs of downturn
12. Key events that create risk for US economy
13. Factors keeping economists up at night
Young Leaders Recap
YL Holiday Party // Wednesday, November 28 // San Francisco
CoreNet Young Leaders celebrated the Holidays in true SF style at Natoma Cabana, a fabulous Loft bar with views of the new Transbay Terminal. The event was a jam packed with a lot of new and old faces celebrating a successful end to a busy and fun filled year for the YL’s.
YL Membership Drive // Wednesday, January 23 // San Francisco
Current and prospective CoreNet members came together at the Membership Drive hosted at the Golden Gate Tap Room in San Francisco. The venue made for a fun evening with games to break the ice, setting a great tone to kick off 2019.
Women of CoreNet Update
Women of CoreNet February Program // Wednesday, February 27 // Sunnyvale
Building your Own Door: A conversation with Leaders Iris Gai, Shawn McLean-Bergel and Helen Vu
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
As the final program in our See It, Be It” series, Women of CoreNet offers a panel discussion among distinguished local leaders in our industry who will share their personal stories, highlighting the paths they’ve forged and the opportunities they’ve created in their successful careers. Our guests are Iris Gai, VP of Real Estate & Workplace from VMWare; Shawn McLean-Bergel, Founder & Principal, McLean Bergel Design; and Helen Vu, Director of Global Strategic Portfolio Planning – Real Estate at Google. Our panel will be moderated by Andrea Traum, Senior Project Manager and Senior Associate at Kleinfelder.
Venue: NetApp: 1375 Crossman Ave Building 2, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Schedule: Registration: 3:30p // Program: 4:00p // Reception: 5:30p
Cost: Member: $25 // Non-Member Service Provider: $85.00 // Non-Member End User: $50
February Chapter Meeting // Thursday, February 21 // Santa Clara
What Makes Commercial Real Estate a Top Target for Hackers - and What You Can Do About It
According to the FBI the real estate sector has been a top target for cybercriminals since 2015. What has the experience of CRE victims been and how did they recover? What can be done to avoid their fate? Come to our presentation and panel discussion of this timely topic to hear about this and more including:
Why CRE owners, tenants, agents and suppliers are high profile targets
What you can do immediately to defend yourselves both personally and professionally
Resources for handling future challenges
Presenter & Panelists:
- Cynthia James, CEO of Cyberus Security, a certified Women's Business Enterprise by the WBENC, the nation's largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women
- Don Goldstein, CEO of 5Q Cyber LLC with 20 years of experience in CRE and holds a Chief Information Security Officer certification from Carnegie Mellon University
- Julie Rogers, cybersecurity law expert
Venue: Oracle: 4030 George Sellon Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95043
Schedule: 3:30p: Registration // 4:00p: Program // 5:30p: Reception
Cost: Member: $35.00 // Non-Member End User: $60.00 // Non-Member Service Provider: $85.00