February 18, 2026 10:00 am ET | 16:00 CET
Webinar | February 18, 2026 10:00 am ET | 16:00 CET
The 2026 real estate leadership playbook: strategies for public & private sectors
Join Nakisa and Deloitte Canada for an executive fireside chat on 2026 real estate strategies across public and private sectors. Hear from industry leaders to learn about the latest best practices, gain practical insights, and unlock hidden value in complex portfolios with AI-driven automation.
Why attend this fireside chat
This 1-hour fireside chat will provide real estate and finance leaders with a forward-looking perspective on how to navigate market challenges, optimize portfolios, and drive value across both public and private sectors. Through real-world examples and moderated discussion between Nakisa and Deloitte Canada, we’ll explore how people, processes, and technology come together to enable an effective real estate operating model in 2026 and beyond.
During this session we’ll cover:
Market outlook and dynamics: Explore the latest trends, opportunities, and challenges shaping corporate real estate across public and private sectors. Explore how AI can be applied to your real estate portfolio data, accelerating insights, simplifying complexity, and enabling confident strategic decisions.
Strategies for an effective real estate operating model in 2026 and beyond: Discover how organizations optimize operations by aligning people, processes, and technology, with perspectives on sector-specific approaches.
Public & private cross-sector learning: See key lessons that public and private sectors can share to improve transparency, governance, agility, and overall portfolio performance.
Real-world use cases: Examine practical examples of how organizations leverage best practices and technology to optimize portfolios, enhance decision-making, and drive efficiency.
Meet the presenters
Kevin RadfordÂ
National Real Estate Leader and Partner at Deloitte Canada
Kevin is the Deloitte National Real Estate Leader in Canada and a Partner focused on providing real estate advisory services to public and private sector clients. He has strong program delivery credentials on operational business transformation, centralization, optimization, and quality/timeliness improvements in service delivery nationally. Prior to joining Deloitte, Kevin was a high performing senior executive in the Government of Canada with experience in large-scale Real Estate, Information Technology and Security Operations.
Kevin has extensive project experience with all levels of government managing large, complex ($B+) real estate, IT, and capital equipment procurement as well as in strategic project management delivering consistently outstanding results. Federally, he has strong leadership in building and focusing national teams on program optimization, service delivery excellence, client engagement and management maintaining disciplined oversight and performance management of $25B+ of assets nationally including multi $B+ service contracts. Since joining Deloitte 6 years ago, he has taken that experience to multiple clients in both public and private sectors with great success.
Robert Nardi
Chief Operating Officer at Nakisa
As Nakisa’s Chief Operating Officer for nearly five years, Robert Nardi has been instrumental in scaling operations, driving product innovation, and supporting global enterprise clients across real estate, finance, and HR. He ensures Nakisa delivers actionable solutions that help organizations optimize portfolios, improve decision-making, and achieve operational efficiency.
Prior to joining Nakisa, Robert spent over 25 years at Deloitte advising CEOs and enterprise organizations. He led technology clients as managing partner of Deloitte’s Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) industry group, helping organizations navigate growth, mergers and acquisitions, and business strategy.
Ashwath Muralidharan
Sr. Director, Business Development & Strategy
Ashwath Muralidharan is a Real Estate Technologist with over a decade of experience in the Commercial Real Estate space. Currently, he oversees Business Development and Strategy for Nakisa’s Integrated Workplace Management products, with a particular emphasis on Real Estate Portfolio Management. Before joining Nakisa, he dedicated over six years to Ernst & Young, where he spearheaded substantial technology transformation projects for Real Estate, Finance, and Facilities functions at Fortune 1000 companies.
His expertise lies in technology strategy, process design, and new product development. He is also a certified Product Manager and has played hands-on roles in developing two innovative enterprise SaaS applications from the ground up.
About Nakisa
Nakisa is a leading enterprise software provider for Real Estate, Finance, and HR teams. Built on a cloud-native platform, Nakisa combines unmatched configurability and AI-driven automation to support complex global operations and drive efficiency across all entities.
We proudly serve some of the world’s largest enterprises. Trusted by Fortune 1000 companies, Nakisa delivers innovative, intuitive software and deep expertise to help organizations achieve lasting success.
Nakisa IWMS
Nakisa IWMS is a purpose-built, AI-powered solution for real estate and finance teams to assist them with portfolio management, lease accounting and compliance, capital projects planning and execution and facility maintenance.
Recognized by Gartner, Nakisa IWMS meets the needs of global retailers with advanced AI-driven automation, a centralized data repository for cross-functional collaboration, native ERP integration and APIs, as well as robust analytics and reporting. It comprises four product suites:
How Nakisa stands out
- Innovative cloud-native architecture delivering unparalleled configurability, pace of innovation, and extensibility through developer tools.
- Advanced AI-driven automation: from automated workflows and calculations to Nakisa AI Assistant, specialized AI Agents, and agentic decision intelligence, embedded across Nakisa products.
- Dedicated value advisory team supporting business process mapping, ROI analysis, and business case development.
- A robust real estate and lease accounting engine purpose-built for global scale.
- An integrated platform with a centralized data hub, enabling cross-team collaboration and advanced analytics.
- Native bidirectional ERP integrations (SAP, Oracle, Workday) and robust open APIs.
- Secure and compliant with GDPR, SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and full ITGC controls.
- Client-centric 24/7 support and dedicated account management.
About Deloitte Canada
At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters. We exist to inspire and help our people, organizations, communities, and countries to thrive. Our work underpins a prosperous society where people can find meaning and opportunity. It builds consumer and business confidence, empowers organizations to find imaginative ways of deploying capital, enables fair, trusted, and functioning social and economic institutions, and allows our friends, families, and communities to enjoy the quality of life that comes with a sustainable future. And as the largest Canadian-owned and operated professional services firm in our country, we are proud to work alongside our clients to make a positive impact for all Canadians.
Deloitte provides industry-leading consulting, audit and assurance, tax, advisory and managed services to nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500® and thousands of private companies. We bring together world-class capabilities, insights, and services to address clients’ most complex business challenges.
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