Unlocking Growth, Affordability and Community in
Australia’s Land Lease Living Market
7 May 2026 | Doltone House Darling Island, Sydney
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Land Lease Communities Summit is a national event dedicated to exploring investment, development, and operational opportunities in Australia’s rapidly expanding land-lease sector. It will convene leading investors, developers, operators, financiers, planners, valuers, and policymakers to address the sector’s economics, planning frameworks, consumer demand, ESG expectations, and future investment pipeline.
30+ speakers, case-studies, interactive panel discussions, innovation talks and more.
Exhibition floor featuring suppliers and solution providers involved in supporting the land lease sector.
Participate in both informal and structured networking activities where you can find customers & partners.
Join talks with industry peers. Share ideas, make connections, and find new partners.
EVENT THEMES
Investment & Capital Flows
How institutional investors are repositioning land lease as a stable, inflation-hedged income play.
Planning, Design & Delivery
Overcoming zoning, infrastructure and construction barriers to accelerate project viability.
Consumer & Lifestyle Evolution
Understanding what modern residents value — community, design, affordability, and sustainability.
Operational Excellence
Harnessing data, technology, and ESG frameworks to drive retention and long-term profitability.
Partnerships for Scale
Exploring JV models, financing mechanisms, and infrastructure integration to expand faster.
Development & Construction
Site identification, and overcoming construction cost constraints: Examining new approaches like modular/offsite and optimal labour force issues to realise the full spectrum of opportunities in an increasingly competitive landscape.
Land Planning, Regulation & Acquisition
How are Federal, State and Local Governments impacting the industry? What can Banks and Government do to further open the sector up to developers, investors and residents to make it a more attractive proposition?
Innovation & Technology
Examining the innovative projects and technologies that integrate renewable energy systems, EV charging networks, smart mobility, and shared amenities to create more connected and sustainable neighbourhoods.
EVENT THEMES
How institutional investors are repositioning land lease as a stable, inflation-hedged income play.
Overcoming zoning, infrastructure and construction barriers to accelerate project viability.
Understanding what modern residents value — community, design, affordability, and sustainability.
Harnessing data, technology, and ESG frameworks to drive retention and long-term profitability.
Exploring JV models, financing mechanisms, and infrastructure integration to expand faster.
Access to conference streamed sessions
Session recordings and presentation slides
No access to interactive round table and networking sessions
Access to all conference sessions
Session recordings and presentation slides
Access to interactive round table and networking sessions
Australia is emerging as a key player in the global life sciences sector, with rapid growth driven by research innovation, government support, and an increasing demand for specialised real estate. Explore how Australia’s life science ecosystem is expanding, how developers and investors can capitalise on emerging opportunities, and better understand the key factors that will shape the future of life science real estate in the region. Attendees will gain insights into the unique challenges and opportunities in Australia’s life science real estate market and learn how to position themselves for success.
Queensland has a long history and science driven innovation and the next phase of this journey is the evolution of the Knowledge Corridor and opportunities at the Boggo Road Precinct which will play a critical role in shaping the state’s future as a magnetic for the innovation driven economy. This presentation will explore how these developments are fostering collaboration between researchers, industry, and investors, creating a thriving ecosystem for new solutions across, the health of people. Health of the planet and emerging technologies.
As Australia’s life science sector expands, the demand for purpose-built real estate is accelerating, creating new opportunities for investors, developers, and industry stakeholders. This panel will explore the critical strategies needed to develop world-class life science precincts. Experts will discuss how to unlock real estate potential, navigate policy and regulatory landscapes, and foster collaboration between key players to drive long-term growth.
Join industry leaders and innovators in the life science sector as we tackle some of the most pressing challenges and exciting opportunities facing the industry today. In this interactive session, you can choose a focus group that aligns with your interests, allowing for deeper engagement on topics that matter most to you. Don’t miss this chance to connect, collaborate, and innovate with peers in a supportive environment!
Round Table 1: The Rise of Health Innovation Precincts in Australia
Moderated by: Lance Chia, (Former) Director Investment & Innovation, Liverpool Innovation Precinct
Round Table 2: The Future of Lab Space & Biotech Incubators
Moderated by: Andrew, Co-Founder, CoLabs Australia
Round Table 3: Public and private investment and contributions to precincts
Moderated by: Stephanie Wood, Senior Program Manager, Sydney Biomedical Accelerator
Round Table 4: Designing for Discovery: Universities Government and Developers Building the Future of Australia’s Life Sciences ecosystem
Moderated by: Melissa Ryan, Director – Incubation & Entrepreneurship, Macquarie University
Round Table 5: Future-Proofing Lab Spaces: Designing for Flexibility, Compliance & Growth
Moderated by:Orlando Kennard, Head of Client Experience, Evoke Projects
As traditional commercial real estate faces market fluctuations, life science real estate has emerged as a resilient and high-growth asset class. Investors are increasingly allocating capital to this sector, drawn by its long-term leases, strong tenant retention, and premium rental rates. This session will explore the current and future investment appetite for life science assets, dissect the financial fundamentals driving returns, and examine how institutional investors, private equity, and superannuation funds are approaching the sector. Panelists will discuss the barriers to entry for new investors, how offshore capital is shaping the market, and strategies to mitigate risk in an evolving investment landscape.
The success of life science real estate depends on a deep understanding of what occupiers need at every stage of their growth journey—from startups in incubators to global pharmaceutical firms scaling up advanced manufacturing. This panel will explore the range of real estate solutions required by life science companies, including wet and dry labs, R&D hubs, biomanufacturing plants, logistics and cold storage facilities, corporate offices, and innovation precincts. Experts will discuss how occupier needs evolve as companies move from early-stage research to full-scale production and commercialisation, and what developers, investors, and landlords must consider to deliver facilities that attract and retain tenants. The conversation will also address how to design flexible, future-proofed real estate solutions that can support the sector’s rapid innovation and changing demands.
Life science precincts are becoming essential hubs for fostering research, innovation, and commercialisation in Australia’s biotech, medtech, and pharmaceutical sectors. These precincts bring together industry, academia, and government to drive scientific discovery and economic growth. But what makes a great life science precinct? This panel will explore the critical elements of a thriving precinct—from strategic location selection and infrastructure planning to the partnerships that enable success. Experts will also examine the role of flexible facility design in supporting the evolving needs of life science companies while ensuring compliance with Australia’s regulatory landscape.
As Australia seeks to lift its global competitiveness in research and development, the opportunity for place-based innovation centres to drive commercial outcomes has never been greater. Drawing on the success of the ARM Hub and global models like the UK Catapult and Manufacturing USA Institutes, this session explores how strategically located innovation centres—co-located within precincts—can de-risk commercialisation, accelerate advanced manufacturing, and enhance property asset value by anchoring vibrant ecosystems. The model offers real estate developers a blueprint for attracting high-impact tenants, activating precinct infrastructure, and aligning with sovereign capability priorities.
As biotech, medtech, and digital health evolve at an unprecedented pace, life science real estate must be built to adapt. Facilities designed today need to support future technological advancements, shifting tenant requirements, and sustainability standards. This panel will explore emerging investment opportunities, next-generation facility design, and the role of AI, automation, and ESG in shaping the future of life science real estate. The conversation will discuss how flexible infrastructure, smart building technologies, and resilient design strategies can ensure facilities remain competitive, efficient, and aligned with evolving industry needs. The conversation will also address where Australia’s next major life science hubs are emerging and how developers can position themselves for long-term success.
As biotech, medtech, and digital health evolve at an unprecedented pace, life science real estate must be built to adapt. Facilities designed today need to support future technological advancements, shifting tenant requirements, and sustainability standards. This panel will explore emerging investment opportunities, next-generation facility design, and the role of AI, automation, and ESG in shaping the future of life science real estate. The conversation will discuss how flexible infrastructure, smart building technologies, and resilient design strategies can ensure facilities remain competitive, efficient, and aligned with evolving industry needs. The conversation will also address where Australia’s next major life science hubs are emerging and how developers can position themselves for long-term success.
2 day in-person and virtual event
The Life Sciences Real Estate Summit presents unique annual opportunities across a number of channels, all designed to deliver business development and leadership opportunities.
Establish pre-eminence amongst your peers
Multiple opportunities exist before, during and after the event
Lead a roundtable of industry professionals in this powerful, interactive format
Impress the world with your team and hospitality
New business opportunities from a highly targeted audience
The exhibition is the place to showcase and build new business connections
Doltone House Darling Island
48 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
Evoke Projects are a compassionate team of design, culture & construction specialists who create healthcare and workplace environments. We exist to set more people up for success, through the creation of considered holistic environments.
Our approach to designing for healthcare practices begins and ends with understanding the people it’s for. We believe people are the product of their environment. The better catered for they are, the bigger the effect on wellbeing. From practitioner to patient, the needs are different, but of equal importance.
We create holistically in collaboration with a community of industry experts to build places that inspire confidence and comfort from first ‘welcome’ to ‘see you next time’.
Learn more: evokeprojects.com.au
With a proven track record established more than 125 years ago, Knight Frank Australia is part of a global property powerhouse that shares the resources, knowledge, and insights of more than 25,000 professionals spanning 604 offices. Our 1,100+ strong Australian team make up our national footprint of 31 metro and regional offices delivering an unrivalled network of property expertise and an in-depth understanding of local market subtleties that enables us to identify opportunities others don’t so our clients can move forward with certainty. We are your Partners in Property.
Learn more: knightfrank.com.au
Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. The Schneider Electric and Planon partnership is significantly enhancing buildings with workflows that leverage real-time analytics to improve building sustainability, efficiency and resiliency, and the workplace experience..
Learn more: www.se.com
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Snack Proud is a female-founded company that provides healthy snacks, beverages and pantry suppliers to top employers across Australia. We make it easy, affordable and fun for teams to engage over the afternoon tea break and enhance their energy through the later part of the day.
Snack Proud procures its delicious products from local, up-and-coming brands as well as manufacturing many ourselves, offering wholesale prices to businesses.
At Krema, we understand that the workplace is no longer just a space for productivity. The modern office environment needs to encourage Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation.
That’s why we believe your coffee machine should be more than just a necessity—it should be an accessory that complements your office and improves your workplace experience.
Krema offers more than just coffee and water for your office; we help you create a social hub. A space where your team can gather, engage in conversation, and build the connections that cultivate a positive workplace culture.
Our user-friendly machines offer a wide range of drink selections to cater to all tastes and our systems are backed by our world-class KremaCare program, that provides comprehensive support and maintenance to ensure smooth operation.
Ready to learn more? We look forward to meeting you at REwork and discovering how we can work together to brew a better workplace.
Learn more: krema.com.au
As Australia’s most loved catering platform, we transform workplaces into vibrant, food-filled hubs.
EatFirst revolutionizes office catering, lunches, events, and pantry services for culture, admin, and facilities teams.
Our advanced technology ensures efficient ordering and minimal waste, while partnerships with over 650 suppliers guarantee the biggest range of high-quality menus.
EatFirst is your go-to solution for delivering exceptional culinary experiences, supporting local businesses, and optimizing costs. It’s the only platform you need to keep your office food program running seamlessly.
Find out more at https://www.eatfirst.com.au/en-au
Flexible Workspace Australia is the peak body for coworking and flexible workspace providers and partners across all cities and regions of Australia.
We connect all stakeholders of the flexible workspace industry in Australia to create a healthy ecosystem and community that encourages idea and resource sharing, allows talents to develop and innovate, and foster beneficial partnerships.
Visit us: www.flex.org.au
Delivering premium coffee solutions for workplaces, Nespresso Professional designs meaningful coffee experiences that connect, delight and inspire. With a large range of sustainably sourced coffee blends to savour at any time of the day, and a range of commercial coffee machines to suit any business needs, Nespresso Professional is the catalyst for the moments where ideas are shared, and memorable connections are made.
Evolving alongside the ever-changing workplace of the future, the new Nespresso Momento Coffee & Milk delivers high quality coffee experiences that bring people together, improve productivity and create added business value. At the touch of a button, enjoy a delicious range of barista-quality milk-based coffees like lattes, cappuccinos and flat whites with ease. Or go touch-free and simply scan the QR code with your own device. Either way, the future of the workplace starts here—with the first cup of the day
Veldhoen + Company is the leading international consultancy for new ways of working. We are the founders of Activity Based Working, delivering workplace transformations around the world.
We strive to create workstyle concepts that support a workforce to be empowered to work anywhere, anytime with a focus on employee autonomy and accountability.
Our purpose is to create a better work of work. Where a sense of belonging brings out the best in people and the environment enables them to flourish. Where the physical and virtual worlds connect people to a level of consciousness with their choices in how they work.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. For over 16 years, AWS has been delivering cloud services to millions of customers around the world running a wide variety of use cases. AWS has the most operational experience, at greater scale, of any cloud provider.
Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, end user computing and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine.
With AWS, you can leverage the latest technologies to experiment and innovate more quickly. We are continually accelerating our pace of innovation to invent entirely new technologies you can use to transform your business.
To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
Yellowbox is an Australian founded technology company providing corporate clients with integrated smart workplace locker solutions. Utilising our IoT technology, yellowbox both automates locker management and logistics for facility managers, whilst providing staff with a seamless and enjoyable digital experience. Yellowbox is at the forefront of how the hybrid workplace looks and operates.
Jands is an Australian owned company founded in 1970. The company distributes some of the world’s most recognised brands in Audio, Lighting and Staging. Jands works with passion servicing Australia’s integrated systems, retail, and professional entertainment industries. With headquarters in Sydney, an office in Melbourne and representation in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and New Zealand. Jands employs over 80 people and are well known in the industry for their outstanding product knowledge and support.
MRI Software, LLC is a provider of real estate and investment management software to real estate owners, investors, and operators.
Flexiworks, part of Officeworks, is a brand new intuitive and insightful platform designed to help you support your team wherever work happens.
A tailored online experience, Flexiworks allows you to fund your employees to purchase everything they need to productively and safely work-from-anywhere.
Provide each of your employees with their own account and remove all of the admin burden related to expense claims and processing work related invoices, and allow them to shop from the entire 40,000+ Officeworks product range.
For more information visit www.flexiworks.com.au
JLL Technologies is a division of JLL, a world leader in real estate services, that helps organisations transform the way they acquire, operate, manage, and experience space. A first-of-its-kind team combining builders of high-growth tech companies and commercial real estate experts, JLLT delivers a comprehensive technology portfolio of purpose-built solutions and leading edge, venture- backed companies to meet and exceed the industry’s demands for better business intelligence, workplace experience, and smart building platforms.
Learn more at www.jllt.com
M Moser has specialised in the design and delivery of workplace environments since 1981, with clients from the corporate, private healthcare and education sectors. With over 1,000 professionals collaborating across 23 global locations, M Moser provides a holistic approach to transformative physical, social and digital workplace environments, integrating expertise in architecture, interior design, sustainability & wellness, workplace strategy, digital infrastructure, MEP engineering, project management, procurement and construction management.
As a leading global design partner, M Moser delivers holistic, innovative projects that capture visions and enhance the way people work to achieve objectives of business, people, space and brand.
