Sixth Annual

Forest Investment Conference

May 7-9, 2019

Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill Hotel - London, UK

Program

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Sustainable Investment: Mass Timber Seminar

Fastmarkets RISI/DANA in collaboration with Mass Timber Construction Journal is pleased to host this one day seminar prior to the main conference.

8:00am

Registration

9:00am

Welcome Remarks

9:15am

Why Mass Timber? A Global Overview

9:45am

The Rise of Mass Timber Construction

10:15am

Coffee and Tea Networking Break

10:30am

Frank Werling

Head of Technical, Engineering and Design

Metsä

City Above The City - Major Weight Advantages of Mass Timber Construction

11:00am

Cost vs. Value - A Comparisons Study

11:30am

Peter Wilson

Managing Director

Timber Design Initiatives Ltd.

Overcoming Barriers (Regulation, Fire and Durability)

12:00pm

Networking Lunch

1:00pm

Moderator

Bob Flynn

Director, International Timber

Fastmarkets RISI

Panelists

Franco Piva

Founder and Structural Engineer

Ergodomus Timber Engineering

Who Will Look After My Project?

1:40pm

Lloyd Scott

Professor

Technological University Dublin

Investing in Renewables - Triple Bottom Line

2:10pm

Rainer Strauch

Chief Technology Officer

Cree by Rhomberg

Case Studies of Successful Projects

2:30pm

Close of Seminar

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Site Tour

There is limited availability, and you must reserve your spot in advance.

2:30pm

Depart For Tour From Hotel

3:00pm

Mass Building Construction Sites in London

The tour includes seminal projects such as the Stadthaus (the first timber residential structure to exceed the height limits possible with platform timber frame), Bridport House, the Whitmore Road development, Wenlock Cross (an engineered timber/reinforced concrete and steel hybrid) and Dalston Works, the largest CLT building in the world at the time of its completion in 2017.

5:00pm

Buses Return to Hotel

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Day I

8:00am

Registration

9:00am

Bob Flynn

Director, International Timber

Fastmarkets RISI

Welcome Remarks

9:05am

Jerry Barag

Chief Executive Officer and Director

CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc.

Keynote: CatchMark Timber: Developing a New Timberland Investment Model?

9:35am

Phil Cottle

Head of Agriculture

Pardus Underwriters Ltd.

Reducing Risk - Insuring Forest Investments: Impact of Climate Change

10:05am

Mark Campanale

Senior Advisor

Consilium Capital

Are Major Investors Finally Exiting From Non-Sustainable or ‘Unhealthy’ Asset Classes: And If So, What Can Sustainable Assets Offer Instead?

10:35am

Coffee and Tea Networking Break

11:05am

Stephen Addicott

Managing Partner

Stafford Capital Partners

Stafford Timberlands and the Fund of Funds Approach to Timberland Investment

11:35am

Peter Rice

Executive Director

Te Arawa Tribe Federation of Maori Authorities Board (NZ)

An Indigenous People's Agribusiness and Forest Investment Strategy: a New Zealand Case Study

12:00pm

Enda Keane

CEO

Treemetrics

Digital Revolution in Forestry

12:15pm

Networking Lunch

1:30pm

Luiz Candiota

Founding Partner

Grupo Lacan, Brazilian Fund

Timberland Investing with Industrial Partners

2:00pm

Victor Haley

Co-head of Global Real Estate and Planning

Eversheds Sutherland

Global Timberland Investing and Legal Issues

2:30pm

Brent Keefer

Managing Director, Head of Timberland Investments

Hancock Natural Resources Group

Agriculture and Timber Investing

3:00pm

Coffee and Tea Networking Break

3:30pm

Petteri Seppänen

Director of Investment

Dasos Capital Ltd

Timberland Investing in Europe

4:00pm

Investment Projects Introduction

This panel will be a series of short introductions of companies developing forest investment projects around the world. We have chosen companies that represent a diversity of countries of investment and species focus to illustrate the wide variety of options that are open to timberland investors today.