CEO Connection periodically offers special benefits to its members. I am thrilled to announce that we have secured 10 free tickets to Knowledge@Wharton’s Real Estate Forum, “Investing in the Global Real Estate Rebound.” The event will be held at the New York Stock Exchange on December 11, 2009, and will feature high-caliber speakers such as Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group; Sam Zell, Chairman, Equity Group Investments LLC, USA; and Peter Linneman, Principal of Linneman Associates and Wharton professor of Real Estate, Finance and Public Policy.

The Forum is an annual event organized by Knowledge@Wharton, the Wharton School’s award-winning online journal of business and research analysis. It brings together investors, academics and developers in real estate and finance for sessions on investing in distressed property, emerging sources of funding, and niche opportunities in housing and commercial markets, among other topics. This year’s forum focuses on how property markets around the globe are staging a gradual recovery -- even though they remain far below the heights reached during the boom years. To learn more about the event, please visit: www.knowledge-events.com .

To book your spot at the Real Estate Forum, please sign up via the following link: www.ceoconnection.com/store.html?show_item=1053 . The registration deadline is November 25, 2009. Tickets are normally $499, so they will go quickly.