Top Commercial Real Estate Events to Attend in 2024

Uniting as an industry to connect, learn, and relish the collective experience, conferences and tradeshows hold paramount importance in the realm of commercial real estate. These events are invaluable for individual professional growth and are equally vital for the commercial sector to forge ahead and embrace innovation. Dedicated to sharing ideas, hands-on learning, engaging with vendors, and fostering healthy debate, these critical occasions also provide an opportunity for enjoyment and networking on a personal level, fostering stronger connections among colleagues. Encouraging leaders and their teams to actively participate in these industry events is imperative. Commercial real estate conferences empower leaders to cultivate a comprehensive understanding of how their businesses integrate into the industry ecosystem, sparking ideas for improvement and enhancing competitiveness.

Below, we’ve listed 4 Commercial Real Estate Events that can strengthen your connections with the industry community in 2024.  Let us know if you’ll be in attendance.

New York Build

• When: Feb 13-14, 2024
• Where: Javits Center, NYC
• Where to connect: LinkedIn

Why you should attend:

New York Build is attended by thousands of AEC & real estate professionals. The FREE to attend show features: 500+ incredible speakers across 12 tracks and AIA CES approved workshops, 400+ exhibitors, the USA’s largest meeting of Women in Construction, Diversity in Construction, business networking parties; live music, entertainment and more! They create the ultimate platform for you to make long-lasting business connections, with an agenda to tie in with everyone’s busy workloads.

RETCON

• When: April 1-3, 2024
• Where: NYC
• Where to connect: LinkedIn

Why you should attend:

RETCON is one of the industry’s fastest growing in-person conference with a mission to unite the country’s top owners, operators, developers, investors, media, PropTech startups, and technology & service providers and create the only must-attend event for the global CRE technology movement. Join for two and and a half days in NYC – the global epicenter of real estate – as we unite the industry’s best & brightest to facilitate technology adoption & innovation within the real estate industry. Together, let’s build the future of real estate.

BOMA International

• When: July 13-16, 2024
• Where: Philadelphia, PA
• Where to connect: Linkedin

Why you should attend:

The 2024 BOMA International Conference & Expo is your go-to source for cutting-edge solutions that give you a new (and confident) outlook on what’s next. Get expert insights on the latest decarbonization and sustainability initiatives, and trade ideas with your peers on popular occupant amenities. Then use all this information to develop practical strategies for employing the innovative tools and technologies you’ll find on the Expo Floor. Is this the event where you’ll acquire knowledge that empowers you? There’s no question about it.

CREtech

• When: November 13-14, 2024
• Where: NYC
• Where to connect: LinkedIn

Why you should attend:

CREtech – the world’s leading built world innovation and sustainability conference series. Attend one of the largest commercial real estate events and network with industry leaders, hear about commercial real estate tech trends and discover the most innovative startups. CREtech New York brings the CEOs of the biggest real estate companies and leaders in academia, government, venture, real estate, and technology to its stages. Join 3,000+ attendees with never-before-seen presentations on their legendary stages.