James Agar is Head of Real Estate Origination at Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) a specialist insurer of UK Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes with a portfolio of c.£50bn, which has significant real estate investments in Build-to-Rent, long income, and affordable housing. Key recent projects include the GPA Hub at First St- Manchester, Millars Quay- Wirral Waters, New Victoria- Manchester a 520-unit BtR scheme next to Victoria Station and HABIKO- a Joint Venture between PIC, Muse Places and Homes England investing in low carbon low, energy affordable housing. Prior to joining PIC, he was Head of Residential at Schroder Real Estate Investment Management.

Dan Hyde is the Development Director at MEPC, the asset and development manager for NOMA, a 20-acre mixed-use neighbourhood in central Manchester. His role at MEPC is focused on overseeing the delivery of the new business district at NOMA, including 4 Angel Square, a 200,000 sq ft office development which was the first building in Manchester to achieve industry-leading NABERS Design for Performance Target Rating of Five Stars. It has also achieved: Net Zero operational carbon as defined by the UK Green Building Council, EPC A Rating, BREEAM Outstanding, WiredScore Platinum, SmartScore Gold and ActiveScore Platinum. He has overseen the resurgence of NOMA as Manchester’s growing neighbourhood - with Bank of New York Mellon, IBI Arcadis, Allpress, Adanola and Skof among the recent newcomers. He joined MEPC from Kier Property, where he was a senior development manager and helped deliver numerous landmark office projects such as 3 Sovereign Square in Leeds and Eleven York Street in Manchester. Before Kier Property, Hyde had held senior roles at GVA Bilfinger and Knight Frank.

Imogen is the UK Executive Director for Urban Land Institute, a best practice built environment organisation that brings together industry experts to tackle the critical issues of our time. By background, Imogen is an experienced urban planner, specialising in large-scale regeneration projects and complex urban programmes. She has led the business case development, strategic planning programmes, communications strategies, and stakeholder strategies for multi-billion-pound major growth, regeneration, and infrastructure projects, and secured over £1 billion worth of funding/investment in transit-oriented growth strategies and infrastructure bids to enable regeneration and transit-oriented development.