This panel session will propose a comprehensive framework for resilience across the real estate continuum, illuminating the various components that contribute to a robust and adaptable real estate strategy. Our distinguished panelists will delve into key areas fundamental to building resilience. Sustainable practices enhance long-term resilience, including strategies for energy efficiency, carbon reduction, and climate risk mitigation in real estate portfolios. Resilient strategies are crucial to mitigate supply chain risks, ensure business continuity, and drive value in an uncertain global market. Flexible and adaptive workplace strategies contribute to organizational resilience, including the impact of hybrid work models and employee well-being.

This panel will explore how AT&T turned a critical boardroom level challenge into a strategic victory through innovative real estate management. Learn how underutilized assets, once a drain on operating budgets, became a value-generating engine built for future growth. Our experts from AT&T and JLL will discuss:

• The Challenge: An aging portfolio of centralized offices, originally built for AT&T's legacy copper network, harboring critical infrastructure but plagued by vacancy and high operational costs.
• The Opportunity: With plans to phase out the copper network by 2029, AT&T needed to reimagine its extensive real estate assets.
• The Solution: A landmark $850M+ real estate strategy that required unprecedented board-level approval, marking AT&T's largest-ever property transaction. cy space. Speakers will emphasize how to align sustainability plans with existing capital plans, including renewable energy strategies such as on-site renewables, off-site renewables and energy hedging.