The Jersey City Summit for Real Estate Investment, Placemaking & Innovation will return to the waterfront in 2025 for its 10th anniversary.

Presented by roundtable&advisory, the May 15 conference will again take place at Harborside with venue partner The 601W Cos.

Organizers expect another sell-out crowd of more than 1,250 regional investment, real estate and placemaking leaders at this spring’s event – now a standard for investors, developers and other related firms working in or eager to enter the Hudson County hotspot. Highlights from this year’s agenda include confirmed speaker Jersey City Mayor, and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, Steven Fulop; a fireside chat with Kushner Cos.; and more (see below).

Encompassing the entire fourth floor of Harborside 1, the daylong summit will offer Manhattan skyline views as a backdrop to a day full of networking, exhibitors and panel discussions.

The 2025 event will include city, master-planning and placemaking leaders. Working locally as well as in the larger region, speakers will discuss transformative, new projects; innovative collaborations; capital markets predictions; and more.

NJBIZ will once again be on the scene, holding court on the exhibit floor. Additional event details and registration information is available here.

Located in Exchange Place, live-work-play neighborhood Harborside is well into a generational transformation to make it the epicenter of the Hudson waterfront.

roundtable&advisory’s second annual Newark Summit returned last December. The event featured another gubernatorial hopeful, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, among others.

Topics on the agenda for the 2025 Jersey City Summit include: 

• Office – Owner, Occupier, Future, Workplace
• Capital Markets, Finance, Tax & Incentives
• Affordable Housing
• Placemaking / Arts & Culture
• Innovation & Technology
• Related Cos. Fireside Chat
• Multifamily
• Emerging Markets & Region
• Office – Future | Workplace

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Additional confirmed speakers include:

• Bruce Beal, president, Related Cos.
• Timothy Henkel, CEO and principal, Pennrose
• Stephen Cea, executive director, Jersey City Housing Authority
• Melanie Walter, executive director, New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency
• Annisia Cialone; housing, economic development & commerce director, City of Jersey City
• Paul Silverman, co-founder & principal, Silverman
• Laurent Morali, CEO, Kushner Cos.
• Nicole Kushner Meyer, president, Kushner Cos.
• Michael Sommer, chief development officer, Kushner Cos.
• Eugene Paolino, senior partner, Genova Burns
• Adam Silfen, president and COO, LeFrak
• Joseph Panepinto Jr., president, Panepinto Global Partners
• David Von Spreckelsen, president, Toll Brothers City Living
• Christopher Albanese, president, The Albanese Organization
• Adam Frazier, president and CEO, Columbia Property Trust
• Thomas Stevens, partner, CrossHarbor Capital Partners
• Jamie Block, partner, Kushner Real Estate Group (KRE)
• Joshua Kirkham, executive managing director and co-head of North American RE, Sculptor Real Estate
• Kim McKee, regional executive – Commercial Real Estate and senior vice president, U.S. Bank
• Frederick Cooper, senior vice president – Strategic Partnerships, Toll Brothers
• Liz Simon, COO, Industrious
• Jeffrey Gural, chairman and principal, GFP Real Estate
• Luke Robinson, president-North America, WeWork
• Anil Erdem, head of U.S. asset management & proptech investments – managing director, BGO
• Kenneth Pasternack, executive chairman and CEO, KABR Group
• William Rosato, managing partner, Alpine Residential
• Diana Jeffrey, executive director, Jersey City Redevelopment Agency
• Jeffrey Sica, president and CEO, CircleSquare Alternative Investments
• Diego Hodara, founder and CEO, Titanium Realty Group
• Murat Mutlu, founder and Principal, INOA Architecture
• Donald Pepe, partner, Scarinci Hollenbeck
• Abe Naperstak, partner and COO, G&S Investors
• Grant Jaber, managing director, Hines
• Frank Monterisi, executive vice president, Related Cos.
• Wasseem Boraie, managing principal, Boraie Development
• Jay Minchilli; senior vice president, Operations & Asset Management; Veris Residential
• Drew Fletcher, president, Greystone