Optional precharge activities, discover something new about your fellow RECHARGERS - designed to invigorate and set you up for the day ahead!

07.30am - 5km run with your tour leader George Sell (we've got you and your January resolutions!) around the city centre of Porto!
07:30am - yoga class (max 15 places)

Grab a coffee and pastry and reconvene with your peers, along with our sponsors and speakers to reconnect and do business.

RECHARGE is both the event’s manacle and its energetic spark - what do you want of your event? ask your host.

• Piers Brown, CEO, International Hospitality Media
• Nuno Trigo, co-founder and co-CEO, Feel Group

Keynote speech - a snapshot of Porto's regeneration and the role of the living, workspace and hospitality sector's roles within the process.

• Ricardo Valente, city councillor for economy, employment and entrepreneurship (tbc)

A panel of investors and developers discuss the challenges and opportunities they are facing in buying, funding, delivering and operating real estate across the living and hospitality sectors.

Topics:

• Funding sources
• Regulatory hurdles
• Market analysis
• Development challenges
• Sustainability initiatives

 Moderator: George Sell, editor, Urban Living News
• Antionio Fragateiro, director of real estate, Portugal, numa

30 minutes to freshen up, grab a coffee and get ready for the morning's second half

Presentation: The growth of the living sector in the Iberian Peninsula

Topics:

• Demand drivers
• Investment opportunities
• Growth markets
• Emerging asset classes (eg. coliving, student housing)

Presentation: Case study - vertical living

Topics:

• Economic viability
• Design 
• Sustainability 
• Tenant demand
  
  Ana Sousa, general director, Vertical Coworking

Panel: The art of mixed-use development

Moderator: Rui Santos, co-founder and CEO, Feel Discovery

Panellists:
• László Varga, founder and CEO, SpaceWorks; co-founder, Heden

Topics:

• Urban planning and zoning regulations
• Community engagement
• Best practices
• Future trends
  
  

Lunch

Hospitality market performance review

Topics:

• KPIs (occupancy, RevPAR, ADRs)
• Market segmentation
• Regional variations
• Six month forecast

• Ryan Bains, Senior Account Manager, Industry Partners – STR

A deep dive in to M-ODU, a new mixed-use quarter which combines the reuse of historical buildings and new construction to deliver workspace, cultural, leisure and F&B spaces.

• Pedro Ramos, chief business development officer, Mota-Engil Real Estate Management/Emerge

Case study: Adaptive reuse of Porto's wine warehouses

Topics:

• Preservation of heritage
• Architectural challenges and design solutions
• Tech integrations
• Community benefits
• Lessons learned

Afternoon port

It’s 5pm somewhere in the world! A tasting session sampling a variety of local port.

Monetising the guest or tenant journey

Hosted by Matthew Prosser and Paul Finch of Agilysys.

Rather than looking solely at income streams from the space in assets, how can owners, developers and operators think about additional revenue streams from their end users, and what is the role of technology in enabling these new revenue streams?

The attendees will be split in to five groups and each given a fictional asset in Porto. Their role will be to devise a series of extra revenue streams generated from the end user of each asset.

The assets will be:
• A boutique hotel
• A student accommodation building
• A serviced apartment building with ground floor workspace
• An apartment block used for vacation rentals
• A coliving building 

Workshop part 2

The group leaders feed back their ideas to the room.

Closing remarks

An overview of the day’s key learnings by IHM’s AI bot, Aida.