Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026
Check-In: 4-7pm Venue Lobby
Sponsored by Diamond Pro Apartment Experts
Registration and Event Address is provided in your confirmation email after ticket purchase.
Our team will bein the venue lobby from 4-7pm, ready to greet you with excitement and smiles!
You’ll be required to show your EVENT TICKET to gain entry. Tickets will be provided to paid attendees prior to the event via text message and email.
Be sure to come see us, get your Summit goodies, and get ready for a great 2 days!
2026 SUMMIT SCHEDULE
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026
8:00am - Wildflower Ballroom
Registration and Check-In Sponsored by Diamond Pro Apartment Experts
Registration and Event Address is provided in your confirmation email after ticket purchase.
Show up on time, come dressed to impress, and be ready to meet and greet your new industry best friends.
Check-in will be in the Wildflower Ballroom where you’ll be required to show your EVENT TICKET to gain entry. Tickets will be provided to paid attendees prior to the event via text message and/or email.
We can’t wait to see you!
8:30am - 11:00am - Wildflower Ballroom
Morning Networking Experience Sponsored by Inhabit®
The Multifamily Women® Summit begins here.
This is not a traditional conference check-in or a room full of forced small talk. It is a welcoming, high-energy morning designed to help you settle in, meet people naturally, reconnect with friends, and start the Summit feeling like you are already part of the experience.
A live band, fresh from a summer tour alongside some of country music’s biggest names, will set the soundtrack for the morning with familiar covers while you explore everything happening throughout the ballroom.
Our fun and encouraging line dance instructor will teach a simple dance that anyone can follow. No experience is needed. Complete beginners are welcome, experienced dancers can jump right in, and no one needs to worry about getting every step right. The goal is to laugh, loosen up, and share a memorable moment with the women around you.
You will also be among the first to experience the Multifamily Women® Hat Bar. Every attendee will receive an MW hat and can customize it at no additional cost with the patches that best match her style.
Prefer to ease into the morning at your own pace? Tables will be set throughout the room for conversation, coffee, catching up with old friends, and meeting new ones. There will also be plenty of opportunities for selfies, group photos, and the kind of spontaneous connections that often become the most valuable part of the Summit.
Whether you arrive ready to dance or would rather start with a conversation at a table, there is a place for you in this experience.
This is the official opening of the 2026 Multifamily Women® Summit and an essential part of the event. Please plan to arrive by 8:30am and participate in the full morning experience. The relationships, energy, and shared moments created here will shape everything that follows.
A special thank you to Inhabit® for sponsoring this signature experience and helping us create a morning attendees will be talking about long after the Summit ends.
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Networking Lunch
This isn’t a grab-and-go moment. It’s a curated experience designed to fuel both your mind and your momentum.
Our Networking Lunch is your chance to sit down, connect with fellow attendees, and continue the high-level conversations sparked throughout the morning. Whether you’re swapping ideas, sharing strategies, or just laughing over shared experiences, this is where meaningful relationships deepen.
Enjoy a thoughtfully prepared lunch in a setting that’s designed to keep the energy flowing - and the ideas, too.
Because at the Multifamily Women® Summit, even lunch moves you forward.
1:00pm - 1:15pm
Opening Remarks
Welcome to the Multifamily Women® Summit.
By the time this session begins, you will have already experienced something that feels different from a typical conference. The conversations are more honest and the energy in the room is different. People show up here as themselves, not just as their job titles.
This Summit was built with intention. The goal is simple. Bring together women who are actively building teams, scaling portfolios, and leading organizations, then create an environment where they can learn from each other and return to their companies with stronger strategies and clearer direction.
During these opening remarks, Carrie Antrim will welcome attendees and set the tone for the experience ahead. She will share why this community was created, what makes this room unique in the multifamily industry, and what participants can expect as the Summit unfolds.
Over the next two days, attendees will hear from leaders who have built remarkable careers across multifamily. Their stories and insights are grounded in real operating experience and are designed to help attendees strengthen leadership, improve performance, and grow within the industry.
1:15pm - 2:15pm
Keynote - Building Leadership Legacy Through Strong Team Performance
With Melanie French, CEO of RR Living
Inconsistent teams cost you results every single day.
Melanie French is a nationally respected multifamily executive, keynote speaker, and mentor with more than 30 years of experience shaping operations, leadership development, and organizational strategy across all asset types.
As the first Chief Executive Officer of RR Living, she leads with a people-first philosophy focused on sustainable growth, talent development, and creating communities where residents truly feel at home. Known for her gritty yet approachable leadership style, Melanie is widely recognized for developing strong teams and advancing women in the industry, with insights grounded in real-world operating experience.
Over her career, Melanie has led teams across portfolios ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of apartment homes nationwide. She played a key role in scaling Cortland’s management platform from approximately 9,000 units to more than 50,000 units while overseeing more than $200 million in renovations, and previously supported operations and organizational development across a national portfolio exceeding 200,000 homes at AIMCO.
Having started her career as a leasing consultant and advanced to CEO, she brings practical leadership strategies leaders can apply immediately to strengthen teams, improve performance, and navigate today’s complex operating environment.
Melanie French has spent 30+ years fixing that at scale, and she brings the playbook to the main stage.
Why Melanie:
- First Chief Executive Officer of RR Living
- Helped scale Cortland's management platform from roughly 9,000 units to more than 50,000
- Oversaw $200M+ in renovations and supported a national portfolio exceeding 200,000 homes at AIMCO
- Started as a leasing consultant and advanced to CEO
You'll leave with:
- Practical strategies to strengthen teams you can apply the week you return
- A people-first approach to sustainable growth and talent development
- Leadership tools built for today's operating environment, not a textbook
2:15pm - 2:30pm
Networking Break
Grab some coffee, tea, or water and take a quick break before we dive back in!
Use this opportunity to continue networking and building relationships.
2:30pm - 3:30pm
My Stage, My Story™: Life-Changing Stories from Women in Multifamily
At the Multifamily Women® Summit, the most powerful moments often happen in the hallways, over coffee, or in late-night conversations among peers. My Stage, My Story™ brings those moments out of the shadows and onto the main stage.
This program gives multifamily women the microphone for five unforgettable minutes each - to share a personal story that shaped them, challenged them, or propelled them forward. No pitches. No company talk. Just real, human stories of resilience, discovery, and growth.
Last year, we heard from:
A woman who turned a season of instability into a career that gave her family a future.
A leader who found strength after loss and rebuilt her life with clarity and purpose.
A single mom whose first leasing job became the foundation for her daughter’s career as well.
A woman who realized she wasn’t broken at all, she was simply patterned, and learned how to rise with confidence.
Stories of opportunity, perseverance, mentorship, and women creating their own path forward.
Every talk is exactly five minutes. Every talk is personal, inspiring, and real.
Get ready for goosebumps, laughter, and takeaways that will stay with you long after the Summit.
3:30pm - 3:45pm
Networking Break
Grab some coffee, tea, or water and take a quick break before we dive back in!
Use this opportunity to continue networking and building relationships.
This will also be your opportunity to grab photos with The Freemans and, if you have their book, get some autographs!
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Leadership That Increases Accountability and Results
Many leaders struggle with inconsistent performance, missed expectations, and teams that require constant follow-up. Accountability is often talked about, but not always clearly defined or consistently applied. Strong leaders know how to set expectations, create ownership, and build environments where people follow through without micromanagement.
This session focuses on practical leadership approaches that improve clarity, strengthen accountability, and drive better outcomes across teams. Attendees will learn how to communicate expectations more effectively, address performance gaps earlier, and develop team members who take responsibility for results. The goal is simple. Stronger accountability, better execution, and more consistent performance.
Attendees will learn how to:
• Set clear expectations so team members understand exactly what success looks like
• Address performance issues early before they impact results or culture
• Create accountability without constant follow up or micromanagement
• Build ownership within teams so individuals take responsibility for outcomes
• Communicate feedback in a way that improves performance rather than creating defensiveness
• Develop leaders within the organization who hold their own teams accountable
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Cocktails & Alpacas Sponsored by PetScreening, REBA, and Chamberlain
Before everyone heads off to dinner, we’ll wrap up the first day of the Summit the way this community does best. Together.
Grab a cocktail, reconnect with the people you met today, and continue the conversations that started in the sessions and hallways.
This is the moment when business cards get exchanged, new friendships form, and the energy of the day carries into the evening.
We’ll also take a moment to recognize our keynote speakers and the incredible women who shared their stories during My Stage, My Story.
Red carpet photos. A professional photographer. And yes, the alpacas will be back for anyone who needs a picture to prove this Summit really is different.
Friday, Sept. 11, 2026
9:00am - 9:15am
Opening Remarks
Before we dive back in, we are taking a few minutes to reconnect, laugh about yesterday, and get ready for another full day. Because at this Summit, networking should feel a lot more like brunch with your power squad than a conference hallway.
9:15am - 10:45am
Keynote: The Three Things Standing Between You and Your Next Role
With Vickie Rodgers, SVP, Cox Communities
Vickie has spent decades inside the industry. Most of that work has stayed behind the scenes, building the infrastructure multifamily owners and operators depend on. The part of her career that matters most to senior executives is not on the resume.
There was a moment where Vickie was doing everything right, and the role she had earned went to someone else. What she learned from that moment, and the three pivots she made over the years that followed, took her from $7 an hour to seven figures.
At the Multifamily Women® Summit, Vickie takes the main stage to walk through those three pivots:
- Advocacy. What it actually takes to be positioned for the next role, and what an advocate does that performance reviews do not.
- Brand. How leaders find out what their internal brand really is, not what they assume it is.
- Critical thinking. The piece most senior leaders are missing, and how it changes the way you read a portfolio, a team, and the calls you make under pressure.
For the leader doing the work and quietly wondering why the next role keeps going to someone else, this is the session.
10:45am - 11:00am
Networking Break
Grab some coffee, tea, or water and take a quick break before we dive back in!
Use this opportunity to continue networking and building relationships.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Leading Teams That Are Stretched Thin to Combat Burnout
Many leaders are carrying more responsibility than ever before while teams remain lean. The result is decision fatigue, burnout risk, and declining engagement.
This session explores how to lead effectively when resources feel limited and pressure is high.
Attendees will learn:
• How to prevent leadership burnout while maintaining performance
• Delegation and accountability frameworks that create clarity
• Coaching strategies for overwhelmed teams
• How to rebuild energy and motivation across an organization
• Practical ways to support high performers without losing them
This session addresses the human side of performance that directly impacts results.
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Networking Lunch
Lunch will be served in the main event space so we invite you to enjoy this time to continue to connect with each other and the speakers.
Use this opportunity to continue networking and building relationships.
1:00pm - 1:45pm
The AI Conversation You Cannot Afford to Get Wrong
Every leader is being asked what they are doing about AI, and most are sitting in the same quiet truth: it feels daunting, the pressure to act is real, and there is no clear plan in sight. Where do you even start. The honest answer is rarely the tool. It is whether your foundation, your data, your roles, your priorities, is organized well enough to build on at all.
This session is the conversation leaders are not getting anywhere else. Senior operators work through what is actually creating results, what is just expensive noise, and how to plan the year ahead with a real sense of where to begin. The value is the range of voices. A CFO, a marketer, and an operator each see the same shift differently, and that mix is where clarity comes from, not from the technical experts alone.
There is a quieter layer too. The people you lead are wondering whether they still matter in an AI world, and how you answer that shapes everything. You will leave more valuable to your organization, thinking more clearly, carrying the right questions and a real place to start. That alone is worth the trip.
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Multifamily Executive Conversation Examining Leadership in Practice
Listen closely to a candid conversation with respected multifamily leaders who have spent years building teams, navigating market cycles, and making decisions that shape organizations.
In an industry that is constantly evolving, the most valuable insights often come from leaders who have experienced both the challenges and the breakthroughs firsthand. This discussion will explore what it really takes to grow teams, scale operations, and lead effectively in today’s multifamily environment.
Expect practical leadership insights, honest reflections, and lessons learned from real experience.
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Networking Break
Grab some coffee, tea, or water and take a quick break before we dive back in!
Use this opportunity to continue networking and building relationships.
2:45pm - 3:45pm
My Stage, My Story™: Life-Changing Stories from Women in Multifamily
At the Multifamily Women® Summit, the most powerful moments often happen in the hallways, over coffee, or in late-night conversations among peers. My Stage, My Story™ brings those moments out of the shadows and onto the main stage.
This program gives multifamily women the microphone for five unforgettable minutes each - to share a personal story that shaped them, challenged them, or propelled them forward. No pitches. No company talk. Just real, human stories of resilience, discovery, and growth.
Last year, we heard from:
A woman who turned a season of instability into a career that gave her family a future.
A leader who found strength after loss and rebuilt her life with clarity and purpose.
A single mom whose first leasing job became the foundation for her daughter’s career as well.
A woman who realized she wasn’t broken at all, she was simply patterned, and learned how to rise with confidence.
Stories of opportunity, perseverance, mentorship, and women creating their own path forward.
Every talk is exactly five minutes. Every talk is personal, inspiring, and real.
Get ready for goosebumps, laughter, and takeaways that will stay with you long after the Summit.
3:45pm - 4:15pm
Accelerating Success by Turning Insight into Action
Before we close the Summit, we will take time to turn the ideas from the past two days into clear next steps.
Over the course of the Summit, you have heard new strategies, challenged assumptions, and had conversations with leaders who are solving many of the same challenges you face. The value of those insights comes from what happens next.
In this facilitated session, attendees will identify the ideas, leadership shifts, and practical strategies they plan to take back to their teams and organizations.
Participants will take a few minutes to reflect and capture their key takeaways, discuss them with their table groups, and surface the most valuable ideas for the room.
Together, we will highlight the strategies and insights that will help leaders return to their organizations with greater clarity, stronger execution, and renewed momentum.
Because accelerating success starts with deciding what you will do differently.
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Closing Connections: Cocktails & Alpacas Sponsored by PetScreening, REBA, and Chamberlain
As the summit winds down, we’re turning up the connection.
Join us for one final gathering to celebrate new relationships, powerful takeaways, and the momentum you’re taking home. This relaxed, elevated networking experience is the perfect way to close out two transformational days - with cocktails in hand and conversations that matter.
Whether you’re sealing a new partnership, swapping numbers with your next collaborator, or simply toasting to everything you’ve gained - this is your moment to soak it all in and say, I was here.
Because at the Multifamily Women® Summit, we don’t just learn - we build something lasting.
Cheers to what’s next.
