The Art of Finding, Negotiating and Financing Your Next Opportunities
- Security and Real Estate
- Self-Directed Investments and Real Estate
- Risks and Rewards of Investing in Distressed Real Estate
- Finding Tenants in the Internet Age
- Research for Intelligent Decisions
- Finding Promising Opportunity Zones – Are They For You?
- How Millennials are Changing Real Estate
- Informed Predictions: Find Out Where the Next Gentrification Will be In Southern California
- Escaping Taxes by Moving to Nevada? Know the Advantages and Rules
- Psychology Behind Successful Real Estate Development
- Can the Detroit Miracle Work in Los Angeles?
- HUD Update: 80% LTV – 35 Year Term – 35 Year Amortization – Low 3% Fixed Interest Rates- Non-Recourse – Assumable – 10-Year Stepdown Prepay – Agnostic to Location

Keynote Speaker
Michael Fabiano
VP & General Manager Americas Media
Associated Press
Staying Relevant: What the Real Estate Industry Can Learn From a 173 Year Old Media Company that Survives and Thrives in Age of Innovation

Fred Hameetman
Chairman
American Group

Sam Freshman
Chairman
Standard Management Company
Chairman Emeritus, Stanford Professionals in Real Estate
As Featured in Think Realty

Robert N Ruth
President
The Ruth Group

Valerie Fitzgerald
Coldwell Banker
Residential Global Luxury
President
The Valerie Fitzgerald Group

David Landsberg
Chief Financial Officer
Panda Restaurant Group

Barry Johnson
Rock Ventures
Executive Advisor to the Chairman
What Can Los Angeles Learn from Detroit?
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Dr. Erroll G. Southers
USC
Sol Price School of Public Policy
Professor of the Practice in National & Homeland Security
Director, Safe Communities Institute
Director, Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies

Christine Lu
Cross-border
Chinese Business & Investment Trends

Ian P. McFarland
Director
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Carole Ellis
Editor-in-Chief
Self Directed Investor Magazine

Bryan Ellis
Host
Self Directed Investor Talk

Gabrielle Bodow, Ph.D
Clinical Psychologist

Sunny Han-Jeon
Senior Vice President, Regional Manager
First Choice Bank

Victor Paz
Senior Vice President / Principal
Leisure Werden & Terry Agency

Tracy Hernandez
Founding CEO
LA County & Central Valley Business Federations
(BizFed)

Craig Lawson
Craig Lawson & Co., LLC
Land Use Consultants

William Schumann
Acquisitions Analyst
Standard Management Company

Ben Stock
Stock Life Settlements
Life Insurance Cash Strategies

Jason King
Urban Designer, Planner & Parametric/Computational Designer
IBI Group

Glenn A. Sonnenberg
President/CEO/IR
Latitude Mgmt Real Estate Investors Inc.

Chad Hagle
Founding Board Member and President of Stanford Professionals In Real Estate
CEO of Aventine Development

Michael B. Cohen
Vice President,
Advisory Services
CoStar Group

Stephen Turanchik
Attorney
Paul Hastings LLP

Linda Koffman
Gipson Hoffman & Pancione

David Rosenthal, MAI, FRICS
President & CEO
Curtis-Rosenthal, Inc.

Sam Shar
Valerie Fitzgerald Group

Jill Felicio
Director of Advancement
Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education

Mark J. Quann
Founder
REMii Group, Inc.

Ellen Haddigan-Durgun
Senior Executive Director, Hospital Initiatives
UCLA Health Sciences Development
