Modern corporate real estate is shifting from a facilities function to a strategic capability that influences agility, productivity, risk, and experience. Yet many organizations still operate CRE through fragmented data, manual processes, and siloed decision-making, creating a gap between what leadership expects from the workplace and what current operating models can deliver.

This roundtable is designed as a peer dialogue for CRE and IT leaders to align on what modern CRE looks like today, the building blocks of modern CRE, how maturity evolves from manual operations to predictive and orchestrated workplace management, and the steps that help organizations progress without waiting for perfect certainty. Participants will compare approaches to governance, data readiness, and value measurement. They will also map the intelligent workplace ecosystem (what needs to connect) across CRE, IT, HR, Finance, and operational systems, so modernization is anchored in end-to-end workflows and defensible outcomes (not point solutions). The goal is to leave with a clear set of questions and near-term actions that support CRE–IT alignment and a stronger C-suite narrative beyond cost alone.