Verco announced as session partner for UKREiiF 2025
The UK Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) has announced its lineup of session partners for 2025. Verco is pleased to be among them.
Every year, the UKREiiF forum brings together real estate, investment and infrastructure professionals, making space for meaningful connections and highlighting the latest trends, challenges and solutions in the sector.
The 2025 forum is taking place in Leeds on 20th-22nd May. With over 60 stages, 1,250 expert speakers, 150 exhibitors and a predicted 16,000 attendees, it’s sure to be a key event for professionals working within the built environment. The latest hot topics shaping the future of real estate and infrastructure – such as ESG, net zero and artificial intelligence – will be discussed and debated in panel discussions and presentations.
Verco will host a panel discussion
As part of the event programme, Verco will host a panel discussion on Wednesday 21st May at 11.00-12.00 on the Newsroom Stage.
Accelerate your net zero delivery with digital and AI.
In this panel session, we will be discussing how the real estate sector is using digital solutions to tackle the net zero challenge. With a focus on the delivery of net zero and the application of AI to accelerate the journey, our experts will provide examples of their own experiences.
The discussion will be chaired by Tilly Shaw, Associate Director of Real Estate at Verco. Panelists from La Salle, CQuel, BIP and Invesco will join her to explore this timely topic.
The panellists
HOST: Tilly Shaw, Associate Director, Real Estate, Verco
Tilly is a Chartered Environmentalist with a background in building physics and energy efficient design. During her career, Tilly has engaged with a wide variety of projects across the public and private sectors, including product carbon footprints; low-carbon retail outlets; operational carbon footprints for large corporates, and embodied carbon assessments. She has also worked as the national energy manager for a major supermarket chain. At Verco, Tilly provides strategic direction for several client accounts, and guides Verco's specialist data analytics and reporting team.
Brett Ormrod, Net Zero Carbon Lead, Europe, LaSalle
Brett is responsible for providing technical guidance to the European business in the development and delivery of asset-level NZC pathways. He is involved in a number of cross-industry working groups (WG), including co-chairing the Better Building Partnership’s Investor Engagement WG, and both the GRESB NZC WG and UK NZC Building Standard WG, where he leads on defining the standards for measuring operational carbon. Brett is Chartered Engineer through the Chartered Institute for Building Service Engineers (CIBSE).
Matthew Penton, Director, Google Data & AI, BIP Group
Matt has a long history of working in data & AI consultancy and more recently on Google Cloud for the largest Google only provider in EMEA. His passion is in all things data and taking organisations on the digital transformation journeys in what is the most exciting era in terms of volumes of data and the most powerful tooling to make sense of it.
Pal Hauff Hvattum, CEO and Co-Founder, CQuel
Pal Hauff Hvattum is the CEO and co-founder of CQuel, an implementation platform for net zero retrofits currently operating in the UK and Germany. Before CQuel, Pal built online marketplaces and decarbonisation software in Mexico, Latin America and various European countries, both for Adevinta and Otovo. Pal is Norwegian by origin, lives in Barcelona and manages an international team primarily based in the UK.
Stefana Moroianu, Associate Director, Sustainability Real Estate, Europe, Invesco
With six years of dedicated service at Invesco, Stefana leverages her background in asset management to oversee the ESG strategy implementation across Invesco's European Real Estate portfolio. In her role, Stefana collaborates closely with asset managers and transaction managers, providing essential guidelines and establishing standards to uphold the highest sustainability practices within the business.
Looking forward to the event
Dave Worthington, Verco’s Managing Director, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with UKREiiF this year. We look forward to our panel session where we will be discussing how the real estate sector is tackling the net zero challenge. UKREiiF is such a great opportunity for industry insight sharing and face-to-face conversations.”
Location: Leeds City Centre – Royal Armouries & Leeds Dock, LS10 1LT
Date: 20th-22nd May 2025
Time: 08:00 – 17:00
You must obtain a ticket for UKREiiF to attend this event.
Meet with one of our experts at UKREiiF
If you would like to meet with one of our team to explore your net zero challenges and discuss how we can guide you on your journey, click the link below and we’ll be in touch to arrange a suitable time and place.
