Dimme Lucassen is a managing director and leads Evercore’s European real estate team, based in London. Mr. Lucassen has been involved in private real estate since 2002. He is responsible for originating, developing and managing the group’s mandates across funds, ventures, recapitalisations and secondary transactions. He is also involved with the coverage of institutional investors and asset managers globally. Prior to joining Evercore, he was European co-head of Standard Life Aberdeen’s real estate multimanager business, responsible for allocation, underwriting, structuring and capital raising. He started his career at Schroders in Amsterdam. Mr. Lucassen has a B.Sc. double degree in business administration from Hogeschool Holland/Mercuria Business School and a master’s in business economics from the University of Amsterdam.

Real Estate (Re)Development, Retail and Leisure expert. Ari Erlichman has a 13 years of real estate institutional investments experience. Ari started in French REITS as a real estate asset manager and then as an acquisition director, buying and repositioning large European malls (2bn Euros). Ari went on to create a company that introduces UHNWI to institutional investors, working from resort development in Brazil to deal structuring in France. Ari then joined Disneyland Paris as Head of Resort Development and Special Projects, working on maintaining DLP as the premier tourist destination in Europe by building hotels, a lifestyle center, an arena, a train station, and more. Ari now works for a start-up aiming to base real estate operations on customer experience, conceiving useful projects for communities. This includes winning public bids to (re)develop neighborhoods and developing mixed-used projects. Ari joined ULI in 2006, where he re-launched ULI Young Leaders France, served as Chair for several years, and helped create ULI NEXT France in 2018. During his time with ULI, Ari has joined several councils such as Europe Hotels and YL Europe. Ari’s main ULI achievements are the recruitment of dozens of YL members and the organization of many events including a YL summer school in Disneyland Paris and in Brussels.

Jules Barker is an Associate Partner in McKinsey’s Real Estate Team, based in London. Jules joined McKinsey in 2023 and is an expert in Real Estate technology and digitisation. Prior to McKinsey, Jules has worked both in PropTech, creating products for building developers, owners and operators, and in one of Europe’s largest REITs, where he set and implemented the strategy for using technology to make the portfolio more sustainable, efficient and experiential. Before this, he worked in another global consultancy, in the oil and gas industry, and as a tank commander in the British Army. Jules is fascinated by the changes technology is driving across the world and is a great believer that tech can change our world for the better, if we manage not to destroy ourselves with it first He holds a master's degree from Trinity College, Cambridge and is MRICS qualified

Sigrid Duhamel is a Trustee of ULI and has served the Institute in various roles (Global Trustee, Chair of ULI France, member of the ULI Europe Executive Committee, juror in the Global and European Excellence Awards). Duhamel is Chairwoman of the Board of Deepki, a technology and advisory company supporting real estate players in their transition net-to-zero and sustainability. In addition, she advises PE companies (BlackFin Capital Partners) in the real estate field. In her last executive role, Duhamel was CEO France of BNP Paribas REIM France (2017-2023) and from March 2020 also Global Chief Investment Officer of BNP Paribas REIM. In her capacity as Global CIO, she covered investments, divestments and asset management with a team of 110 people based in 8 locations in Europe. As CEO France, she supervised the development of investment solutions, capital formation, fund management, transactions, asset management, risk and compliance of over 17 b€ of AuM with a team of 180 people. Prior to that she was between 2014 and 2017, CEO of CBRE Global Investors France and member of the Executive Committee of CBRE Global Investors EMEA. Duhamel has been active in the real estate sector in a wide spectrum of functions ranging from investment management (BNP Paribas REIM / CBRE IM), construction on site (Bouygues), business development in Europe (Tishman Speyer), international real estate development (Carrefour Property) and corporate real estate (PSA Peugeot Citroën, now Stellantis). In addition, in her early career, she worked in the M&A field (United Technologies Corporation and Cap Gemini) and as consultant in executive search (Eric Salmon & Partners). Duhamel earned her MBA from INSEAD in 1995 and graduated with a Master in Sciences in civil engineering from ESTP (Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, Paris, France). Earlier NED roles include Covivio S.A., Selectirente, CNIM S.A. She has lived and worked in five European countries: Denmark, Italy, Belgium, France, United-Kingdom and speaks five languages. She is married with four children.

Arne is Co-founder and Managing Partner at AMAVI Capital, a pan-European investment platform operating at the intersection of Real Assets, Private Equity, and Technology. AMAVI backs and scales tech-enabled operating platforms that redefine how real assets are owned, used, and managed, driving both consolidation and innovation across the built environment. With over 15 years of experience across real estate development, venture capital, and private equity, Arne has developed a unique perspective on the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. His passion lies in creating and growing operational real estate platforms, where technology, capital efficiency, and operational excellence combine to unlock scalable and resilient business models. Prior to founding AMAVI, Arne was involved in building one of Belgium’s leading real estate development companies, gaining first-hand experience in how value is created and captured across the real estate value chain. Today, he applies that operational and strategic insight to AMAVI’s mission: bridging the gap between traditional real estate investing and the new generation of operating platforms shaping the future of the built world.