Speakers Café, March 2025

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Speakers Café is an informal get-together for women real estate professionals to practice public speaking, hear the latest market trends and meet peers.

Each session provides a relaxed platform to hone your skills, gain confidence and receive feedback in a supportive environment.

Join us to be on a panel, either as a panellist or moderator, or register as an attendee to support our speakers and hear the latest industry trends from fellow participants. During the session we provide tips and techniques on public speaking as well as feedback for the speakers.

Speakers Cafés is comprised of two panel discussions on market trends, moderated by a volunteer industry professional or Women Talk Real Estate co-founder and director, Andrea Carpenter.

Please consider joining us as a volunteer to practice participating in a panel discussion or as an observer.

Benefits

• Practice presenting in a group setting
• Gain constructive feedback
• Improve your public speaking skills
• Build self-confidence and self-awareness
• Networking in a supportive environment
• Discover industry trends
• Learn presenting tips from experts

Programme

08:30 Registration & networking breakfast

09:00 Welcome & Introductions

09:05 Panel discussion #1

09:30 Panel discussion #2

09:55 Wrapping up

10.05 Networking

10:45 Close

Registration

You are welcome to join Speakers Café sessions as either an active participant in one of the panel discussions/speaking slots, as a moderator or as an observer.

6 panel discussion and 2 moderator places are available for this session.

Attendance is free.

Speakers Café host

´´With thanks to our generous Speakers Café host:

Speakers Café moderator

Andrea Carpenter, Co-founder and Director, Women Talk Real Estate & Diversity Talks Real Estate

Andrea Carpenter is a Director of Diversity Talks Real Estate, and a writer and communications consultant in the property industry.

As a Director of Diversity Talks Real Estate, Andrea helps raise the visibility of under-represented groups in the industry through the stage and media. This includes training and other women-led initiatives through DTRE’s Women Talk Real Estate community.

On the writing side, her book about the history of the modern European property industry, High Rise and Fall, was published by Routledge in September 2018.

Andrea began her career as a journalist at Property Week before moving on to be editor of EuroProperty for seven years. Following this she worked for various industry bodies including the Urban Land Institute, INREV in Amsterdam, and its sister organisation ANREV in Hong Kong. On returning to the UK, she worked as Head of Marketing and Communications EMEA at CBRE Global Investors.

FAQs

What will the panel discussions be about?

The panel discussions will losely follow the theme of market trends and will focus on trends in the sectors/expertise areas of the panellists. This will allow the panellists to speak on a subject which they are familiar with and provide a broad and interesting discussion.

Do I need to prepare ahead of the event?

Volunteer panellists - we will arrange a 30 minute call with you and your fellow panellists ahead of the event to help prepare.

Spectators - if you are a general attendee (i.e. not a panellist), preparation is not required.

Who should attend the event?

This event is designed for women real estate professionals.

Further questions

Please contact [email protected]

About us

Women Talk Real Estate is part of Diversity Talks Real Estate, which aims to further diversity and inclusion in the European built environment industry by raising the visibility of under-represented groups. We have a particular focus on women experts and professionals of all genders from minority ethnic backgrounds but we also welcome individuals from other under-represented groups that wish to harness our platform.

Visibility brings opportunities, challenges stereotypes and provides role models. It also helps us to work towards a more diverse and inclusive industry that would best serve the cities and communities in which we work.

Women Talk Real Estate focuses on delivering public speaking training courses and other programmes that offer women professionals an opportunity to practice these skills.

www.diversitytalksrealestate.org

Host or Publisher Women Talk Real Estate