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Realcomm | IBcon 2019 Digie Award Finalists Announced!

Realcomm has been presenting the Digie (short for Commercial Real Estate Digital Innovation) Awards since 1999 to recognize those outstanding companies, real estate projects, technologies as well as the people who have gone "above and beyond" to positively impact our industry through the intelligent application of technology, automation and innovation.
Commercial, corporate, government and institutional real estate involve an inordinate amount of information, systems and business processes to operate the business. This data intensive, manual, mostly disconnected environment provides the perfect opportunity to radically transform how we do our business. For this reason, we continue to recognize those who are leading the charge for a more efficient, effective and profitable industry.
In 2012, we created separate award categories for Realcomm and IBcon to more clearly address the difference between automating real estate business processes and creating intelligent building systems, portfolios and cities.
This year’s Realcomm Digie Award categories are:
Best Use of Automation
This award is given to those companies in the following categories who have applied an extraordinary level of automation, technology and innovation to their business processes:
Best Tech Innovation Commercial | Corporate Real Estate
This award is given to two companies who’ve introduced new products to the market that strive to re-engineer our very manual and disparate industry through the creation of innovative automation solutions.
Realcomm Julie Devine Digital Impact Award
It takes vision, determination, tenacity and commitment to keep this industry moving in the right direction. This award will acknowledge two such individuals who saw things ahead of their associates, had the courage to leave the mainstream and the tenacity to keep standing up after possibly many failed attempts.
Young Innovator Award
This year, we are adding the Real Estate Technology Young Innovator Award. This award will focus on young professionals who are beginning to make significant impact to our industry through the use of technology.
This year's IBcon Digie Award categories are:
Most Intelligent Building Project
This award will go to those extraordinary examples of buildings, projects and communities that best demonstrate smart, connected, high performance intelligent building concepts in the following categories:
Best Tech Innovation Intelligent Buildings
This award will recognize two of the most innovative new ideas/technologies/products/services for the smart, connected, high performance, intelligent building marketplace.
IBcon Julie Devine Digital Impact Award
Again, it takes vision, determination, tenacity and commitment to keep this industry moving in the right direction. This award is designed to acknowledge two special individuals who saw things ahead of their associates, had the courage to leave the mainstream and the tenacity to keep standing up after possibly many failed attempts.
Following are the 2019 Realcomm Digie Award finalists:
BEST USE OF AUTOMATION
Property | Facility Management
1. CBRE
2. AMP Capital
3. Urban Edge Properties
Commercial Services
1. SVN
2. Cushman & Wakefield
3. Colliers
Commercial Real Estate
Two awards will be given in this category
1. Boxer Property
2. Hines
3. Boston Properties
4. Dexus
5. Carr Properties
6. Blackstone
Retail
Two awards will be given in this category
1. Oxford Properties
2. Brookfield Properties
3. Woolbright Development
4. The Related Companies
5. Vicinity Centres
6. Inland Real Estate Group
Corporate Real Estate
1. ExxonMobil
2. Deutsche Bank
3. Oracle
Investment Management
1. Nuveen
2. Washington REIT
3. PGIM Real Estate
Architecture
1. Zaha Hadid
2. Gehry Partners
3. KPF
BEST TECH INNOVATION COMMERCIAL | CORPORATE REAL ESTATE
Two awards will be given in this category
1. NTrust Infotech
2. Anaplan
3. Okapi
4. Reonomy
5. PremiseHQ
6. Dealpath
JULIE DEVINE DIGITAL IMPACT AWARD
Two awards will be given in this category
1. Rudy Reagin
2. Rob Teel
3. Clint Osteen
4. Art McCann
5. Patrick Ghilani
6. Tom Taddeo
Young Innovator Award
1. Joe Fasone – Pilot
2. John Fitzpatrick – Blackstone
3. Max Verteletsky – Spaceti
Following are the 2019 IBcon Digie Award finalists:
MOST INTELLIGENT BUILDING PROJECT
Office Building
1. EY Tower 100 Adelaide West – Toronto
2. 30 Hudson Yards – New York
3. 151 North Franklin – Chicago
Office Portfolio
1. Lendlease
2. Dexus
3. Kilroy Realty
Corporate Headquarters
1. LinkedIn – Sunnyvale
2. Bee’ah – Sharjah
3. Warner Media – New York
4. Intel SRR4 Smart Building – Bangalore
5. ExxonMobil – Spring, TX
6. Oracle – Redwood City
Retail
1. Alibaba
2. Macerich Portfolio
3. Amazon
Specialty
1. Thyssenkrupp Test Tower – Rottweil
2. Crown Melbourne – Melbourne
3. Jewel Changi Airport – Singapore
Industrial
1. GLP
2. Prologis Portfolio
3. CenterPoint Properties
Multi- Family | Residential
1. Jackson Park – New York
2. Tribeca – St. Louis
3. Arboretum at Barber Station – Boise
Mixed Use Project
1. Quayside – Toronto
2. Water Street Tampa – Tampa
3. Dania Pointe – Dania Beach
Higher Education Campus
1. University of Sydney
2. The University of Iowa
3. University of British Columbia
City | State
1. New York City
2. London
3. Hong Kong
BEST TECH INNOVATION INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS
Two awards will be given in this category
1. ThoughtWire
2. Microsoft Azure IoT
3. EasyIO
4. Aquicore
5. Xandar Kardian
6. Join
JULIE DEVINE DIGITAL IMPACT AWARD
Two awards will be given in this category
1. Ken Sinclair
2. Paul Maximuk
3. Ted Houck
4. Gerry Hamilton
5. Leroy Walden
6. Charles Meyers
The Digie Awards will be presented to the winners on Thursday, June 13 during the Realcomm | IBcon 2019 conferences at the Nashville Music City Convention Center. The award ceremony will be held at 6:00pm at the Conference LIVE stage located on the Expo Floor and will be streamed live. We’ll also be presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award during the General Session at 8:30am on Thursday, June 13 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall. Please join us and congratulate the finalists and the winners for 2019!
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UPCOMING REALCOMM WEBINARS
Top GLOBAL INNOVATIONS Impacting Commercial and Corporate Real Estate - 12/12/2019
2020 will likely be another year of great innovations for the Commercial and Corporate Real Estate industry. With a multitude of new companies and ideas being funded by an insatiable appetite of investors, the traditional workflows and processes of Real Estate are challenged daily. Add to this a desire by the established marketplace to also innovate and the pressure of change increases. This webinar will bring together some of the industry’s most prolific prognosticators who will discuss and debate the state of innovation in our industry. For those firms that are leaning into the change brought about by technology this is a perfect opportunity to hear about the leading solutions, case studies and best practices.



Founder of Realcomm Conference Group, an education organization that produces Realcomm, IBcon and CoRE Tech, the world's leading conferences on technology, automated business solutions, intelligent buildings and energy efficiency for the commercial and corporate real estate industry. As CEO, Jim interacts with some of the largest companies globally pertaining to some of the most advanced and progressive next generation real estate projects under development.


Edward Wagoner is Global CIO, Corporate Solutions at JLL. He is globally responsible for all aspects of JLL’s technology for corporate occupiers, including the business strategy, marketing, development, deployment and support.



Jeff Chulick is the Technology and Innovation Leader for EY Real Estate Services. He leads a global team of professionals focused on the identification, innovation, design and realization of technology solutions that greatly enhance the workplace experience. His areas of focus include digital strategy, smart workplace, IoT, visual communications, workplace management, physical access and audio/visual technology. Jeff has over 20 years of enabling workplace strategies and delivering innovative solutions for EY and external clients across many different industries.

Marc is a pioneer in leading the Intelligent/Smart Buildings and M2M movements pushing the industry forward and has contributed to transforming and changing the Intelligent Buildings and M2M (now IoT) industries. As Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Lynxspring Marc leads corporate and product marketing, strategy, brand management, public relations and communications that support the company’s strategic and growth initiatives.
Craig Stevenson is President of AUROS Group, a technology company based in Pittsburgh, PA. He is widely known for his role in establishing Pittsburgh as a leader in "Evidence-based Performance" for the built environment. Evidence-based Performance uses technology to bridge the gap between "hoping" a building is performing as designed to "knowing" a building is meeting its performance goals. He is credentialed in virtually all known building performance standards. As a result, Craig focuses solely on owner's performance requirements for their building(s).


John Dulin is a 30-year global telecom and enterprise executive and has held senior positions in product management, marketing and sales in the areas of fiber optics, wireless and new technology development. Currently with Corning, John is focused on introducing its fiber optic and wireless innovations to the commercial real estate market.


As Chief Innovation Officer, Jeff Clark leads the development and delivery of new offerings at RF Connect, properly positioning the company and our clients for the critical trends of technology convergence that define our era in telecommunications. Since joining RF Connect in 2016, he has introduced our software-defined wide area mesh network that provides industry-leading monitoring and LTE transport connectivity for RF Connect’s clients nationwide. Jeff also champions RF Connect’s bold entry into the private LTE segment.