Program Overview

The commercial and corporate real estate market is not immune to market cycles. Throughout modern history, this asset class has had to deal with various scenarios relating to supply and demand, monetary policies including interest rates, shifting regulation and now the impacts of the pandemic including return to work.

To better understand the market’s demand for technology and innovation, it is critical to understand the health of the market and its capacity to invest in new technology and innovation. A quick glance at the news illustrates that there are many different opinions on where the market is. Will it get worse; how bad will it get and for how long? For those in the PropTech space, getting clarity on this issue will help with short, medium and long-term goals.

We are excited to have Spencer Levy present his thoughts on this subject at this year’s General Session on June 14. Spencer is Global Client Strategist and Senior Economic Advisor for CBRE, the largest commercial real estate services firm in the world. In his role, Spencer focuses on client engagement and public-facing activities, including thought leadership work performed in conjunction with CBRE research. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Real Estate Roundtable’s Research Committee.

Spencer is frequently quoted in major business publications and appears on business television, including CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, PBS and Fox Business. Spencer is the host of CBRE’s podcast “The Weekly Take.” He is considered one of the most insightful commentators on issues of importance to commercial real estate. Spencer has 27 years of experience in commercial real estate, including the past 15 at CBRE. During this time, he has served as a lawyer, investment banker, and capital markets senior research leader.

For the second part of this critical conversation, Spencer will be joined remotely by Philip McAndrews, Chief Strategy Officer at RXR. Phil is recognized as a transformational leader with extensive managerial and investment experience refining enterprise-level global real estate investment.

At RXR, Phil works closely with the firm’s partners developing and executing corporate strategic initiatives and expanding the investment management offerings for both their stakeholders and clients. He is the only non-partner member of the RXR Investment Committee.

Over the course of a 26-year career at TIAA (Nuveen), a $1.3 trillion financial service company headquartered in New York, Phil served as Chief Investment Officer of Global Real Estate and guided TIAA’s platform through several meaningful pivot points and real estate cycles. Phil was also the Head of Real Estate Equity for Aegon, a $380 Billion Dutch insurance company.

Realcomm | IBcon is pleased to present Michael Sherwood, the Chief Innovation and Technology Officer for the City of Las Vegas as one of the keynote speakers in this year’s General Session. As the individual at the center of Las Vegas’ innovation strategy, Michael will be sharing a number of projects that are directly in line with the built environment.

Michael has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of process improvement, technology, and innovation. Prior to the city of Las Vegas, he served as the Deputy Director of Public Safety, Business Services & City Technology for the City of Irvine, California. Michael is extremely passionate about technology and believes through innovation, workforce development, and collaboration, we can create brighter and sustainable communities.

Las Vegas is a legendary city known around every corner of the world. Its reputation for entertainment, gambling and fun is unprecedented. Not everyone would consider Las Vegas an innovator as it relates to the built environment, however, just a little research shows how much this city is doing and at an unprecedented pace.

Hotel security systems; advanced building automation; new digital tenants such as e-sports, studios and digital experience venues; a citywide 5G wireless infrastructure project; autonomous transportation; and much more, one could make the argument that Las Vegas is one of the most innovative / digital cities in the country, if not the world.

The last 36 months have brought more change to the built environment than possibly the last 50 years. Covid, work, shop, play from home and now, high interest rates and a rethinking of space utilization are having significant impacts on the market. With a broad customer base and voluminous amounts of data, there is no better organization to provide keen insight than Yardi. Anant Yardi, Founder and CEO will be joined on stage by Rob Teel, newly promoted President, Global Solutions to discuss what the future holds for commercial and corporate real estate.

Each year, the Realcomm program team, led by Howard Berger, surveys hundreds of industry professionals to get a gauge on the topics that are of most interest and relevance to the community. The survey, in addition to thousands of conversations with advisors, solution providers, consultants, integrators, real estate owners, operators and managers, as well as corporate occupiers, provides keen insight as to the issues, interests and opportunities of the day.

After the sifting and sorting was complete, we asked our Advisory Council chairs to lend their experience and insight to the process and present the industry’s most pressing topics on Day One of the General Session on June 14 at Caesars Palace.

Each of the six chairs, Sineesh Keshav, Managing Director, CTO, Prologis; Joe Rich, EVP, CIO, Related Companies; Jeannie Schneider, SVP, CTO, Hines; Arv Gupta, SVP, National Operations, Cadillac Fairview; Colette Temmink, Chief Strategy & Product Officer SMS Assist, a Lessen Company; and Charles Whiteley VP, Global Digital Leader, B+P, AECOM, will present one topic they feel needs focus and attention. This is a great opportunity for the audience to hear about the most important issues that rise to the top from the industry’s leading professionals.

Realcomm was founded in 1999 with a mission that holds true to this day: Gather all the stakeholders in the built environment together in one place to discuss and debate technology in order to accelerate the pace of adoption. A quarter of a century later, the Realcomm community has touched over 150,000 people from over 100 countries. They have focused on creating an environment of both in person and virtual events that allow individuals in the PropTech industry to learn and collaborate on this very important topic. Jim Young, Co-Founder and CEO, will take us on a fast-paced journey, reviewing the ups and downs of real estate technology over the last 25 years.

As buildings become more intelligent, we will need a new type of engineer that not only understands the physical equipment but also the increasingly more complex networks and IP systems that are pulling it all together. We have recognized for years that one day we would find ourselves short of qualified professionals. Unfortunately, it has proven to be true. Stacks+Joules, founded by two intelligent, ambitious and passionate individuals, decided to take this extremely important challenge on. They have created a building automation training program and have reached out to a community that may never have been aware such opportunities existed. Their story is timely, exciting and inspirational!

Are you ready for some RealTalk at Realcomm? Start with the inaugural Allies Breaking Barriers | Sunrise Session where case studies and personal stories will inspire and transformative table topics will forge new insights and connections. Join us on Wednesday, June 14 from 7:30am to 8:30am. This event is by-invitation only. Space is limited.

At Realcomm, we believe that true change happens when we work from the inside out as well as from the outside in. It's about creating an environment where new voices can be heard, different stories can be told, and perspectives can collide to forge a path toward a more inclusive and diverse future.

CONNECT AND COLLABORATE: Connect with like-minded individuals, build invaluable relationships, and collaborate on ideas and initiatives that will make a lasting impact. Together, we can create a future that celebrates and embraces the richness of diversity in real estate.

UNLOCK NEW PERSPECTIVES: Prepare to challenge your assumptions, expand your viewpoints, and gain fresh insights from great speakers who are leading the charge of change. Our lineup features thought leaders from various industries who are ready to share their experiences, strategies, and success stories.

Welcome and introductions.

The VC Lounge will be open to all attendees on Tuesday afternoon and all day on Wednesday, with walk-ins welcome. For a more personalized experience, appointments can be scheduled via the mobile conference app (coming soon!).

New technologies, software applications and the attendant processes are the essence of digital transformation, and post-implementation success often hinges on users fully learning and adopted it the new processes and workflows. Many organizations struggle with change at-scale because of human habits and resistance to cultural shifts. How do successful organizations manage this roadmap of introducing new technology and driving adoption? Ideas include facilitating strategy that is firmly connected to the organizational mission and is consistent in both process and feedback. This session will present discussions on cultural change management, the steps that help people manage change, and how to achieve ongoing engagement so that tech tools are optimized.

With the rapid growth of EIM’s international funds, investors are placing unprecedented demands as markets appear to be headed for greater instability. They want evidence of a strong ESG record and more sophisticated reporting. EIM Analysts are voicing concerns around data confidence, limitations in aggregating data from multiple systems, and more. Your team (table group) will partner with vendors and consultants to develop a data strategy and project proposal to evaluate data limitations and institute enhancements to address the analysts' and investors' concerns. This workshop is open to all Realcomm registered attendees, but seating is limited to 100 participants.

Many companies are looking to expand employee in-office presence to activate engagement, improve connection and increase compliance with their return-to-office strategy. Harnessing the power of data can shape employee experience, measure performance, and supercharge the workplace. By orchestrating an ecosystem of policy, behavioral nudges and data-driven insights, it is possible for organizations to achieve ambitions in fostering a fulfilling employee experience where the office is a desirable destination. It begins with implementing feedback mechanisms to track and inform collective decisioning. This session will explore how strategy and technology can empower leaders to influence employee behavior and measure the impact of their policies against workplace performance.

Sensors have become omnipresent in the marketplace and we can now affordably get data points on just about anything including air quality, smoke detection, water leaks, space utilization, visitor count, light levels, temperature, humidity, and more. But what do you do with all that data and who makes decisions from that data? The marketplace is now asking the same questions and more directly looking for outcomes. For example, if you are reducing office space you don’t want just occupancy data of your current space, you want to know exactly how much space you need and what the mix of space type should be. This panel will discuss the technology available today and how occupiers can get outcomes and not just data.

For almost two years, the world has been sent into a tailspin because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of lives lost, businesses shuttered, economies battered and life as we know it disrupted in ways never imagined. The built environment has been front and center of this storm. With daily life postponed, buildings all over the world have been in some cases left totally empty. The industry’s leading solution providers have been at ground zero, talking to clients, assessing the impact and reacting with new ideas to try and navigate these difficult times. Senior executives from Yardi, MRI, Altus, REMLogics and VTS come together and share their experiences, insights and prognostications on how the buildings will emerge from this historic pandemic.

Replacing physical access cards with mobile credentials is finally ready for primetime. Apple’s opening of its Wallet and the NFC (near field communications) protocol for access control now provides the foundation for the required reliability and performance at high volume turnstiles. When combined and integrated with tenant experience and workplace apps and property technologies, the current and potential use cases enable greater convenience for occupants, visitors and talent. This enlightening session examines the latest technologies and discusses case studies on how to implement and navigate the tech.

Bringing commercial real estate transaction processes together in an integrated enterprise is a daunting task. What is the optimal application stack for your organization? Single stack, best of breed, open APIs, cloud, and database strategies are just a few of the technology decisions to explore. As the focus of the modern enterprise architecture shifts from the IT organization to the entire business, new models and practices to understand, support and add value for stakeholders are required, adding to the complexities of developing a foundational architecture. This session will discuss the strengths of a modern real estate digital enterprise architecture. Opportunities to support a digital strategy and technology innovation delivering tangible business value will be explored.

The Independent Data Layer (IDL) organizes and standardizes data across devices and functions. Integrating all information in the independent data layer provides building managers with a single source of truth for systems data and analytics across the portfolio. This session will discuss many options for incorporating an IDL, best practices for connecting building technology to the IDL and ways to consider connecting the IDL to advanced data analytics and visualization platforms. By integrating modeling and simulation with a traditional IDL, building owners have the tools to assess a building’s performance against the design intent for new building or its performance potential for existing buildings. An integrated IDL answers the question, “Did I get what I paid for?”

The pandemic fundamentally changed this industry: variable show-up rates and evolving employee preferences introduced a level of unpredictability not before seen in commercial real estate. In response to this, utilization data that was once a nice-to-have, has become business critical to real estate planning. But, along with solving for it, new challenges have also come up. In this session we’ll explore: how do the Metas, Salesforces, and Googles of this world address measuring, analyzing and actualizing utilization data, at scale. Why is this such a complex issue? What have we learned over the past few years? What are some of the common practices and strategies across all three companies?

Engaging and frictionless experiences for employees are more important than ever and technology plays an essential role in creating meaningful experiences that encourage employees to come to the office. Workplace experience technologies include sensors that enable responsive environments; platforms and apps that enhance onsite and offsite engagement; a solid data architecture that processes real-time intelligence; and network and telecommunication infrastructures that empower occupants to access information from anywhere. This session will assess the most innovative and creative approaches to creating enriching digital occupant experiences and present best practices for evaluating and implementing portfolio-wide workplace experience technologies.

CIOs live and breathe technology but must take a wide view devising strategy today. Effective technology platforms are just the start – because it’s the people using the tech that actually solve problems. CRE firms are facing a number of challenging headwinds, i.e. the COVID aftermath; cost containment due to supply chain issues, inflation and a looming recession; return to office; and managing a dispersed workforce. This session will open the dialogue on such questions as: What practices attract and keep top talent? How do we impart company culture and meaning when many employees have never been to the office? What is the definition of employee experience and interaction in 2023? How do we implement an effective DEIB initiative to build next-gen leadership? How can tech, data and other tools help?

Technology is continuously improving and evolving – promising to "change everything" with every iteration. To stay relevant, digital strategies must embrace fluidity while maintaining steadfast conviction to outcomes that prove value. This is easier said than done when markets are crashing, start-ups are failing, technology doesn’t work as sold, and organizations invested in the status-quo are waiting to say "I told you so." Despite the continuous challenges with reconciling traditional real estate and technology (especially in challenging markets), QuadReal is leading by example, expanding the focus of their digital strategy. Previously featured at Realcomm, learn from QuadReal’s ongoing story: ways their strategy has evolved, lessons learned, how they’re driving resiliency, significant savings, revenue opportunities, and raising their product above the status quo market.

The real estate technology investing space is a billion dollar industry that continues to experience growth. With higher interest rates and market uncertainty, however, commercial real estate may have to deal with substantial headwinds going forward. Global technology solutions are quickly reacting to pressure on the industry. A comprehensive overview of the PropTech space, as well as the real estate industry are essential in shaping an owner/ developer PropTech strategy. In this enlightening session, the Proptech Connection will review the status of the PropTech industry. Data-backed research on owners’ and developers’ adoption of technology and the kind of innovation deployed in the built environment will be presented.

Case studies presented in this session will explore multiple data integration techniques that have been used to enhance a wide range of common business processes such as asset on-boarding, 3rd-party property management data integration and customized workflows. Presenters will share key aspects of their technology roadmap and explain some of the tough choices they had to make along the way. We will explore complex case studies that include streamlined methods such as robotic process automation (RPA), Power BI overlays and more. Attendees will gain critical insights and the reasoning behind specific design decisions, key data structures, APIs, and governance models.

The chicken or the egg? Either innovative solutions and approaches break down barriers and promote D&I, or diverse perspectives and experiences are key for generating new ideas and better business outcomes. In this session, we will delve into this topic from a variety of perspectives within our industry, including the impact of diverse teams on innovation and the role of inclusive leadership. Learn from industry and PropTech leaders, as well as investors, as they discuss the business case for D&I, new ways for attracting and retaining talent, and their successes and lessons learned.

Technology is impacting every sector of the commercial real estate industry, bringing disruption to many, if not most, of the existing behaviors we’ve integrated into our business processes. To further complicate matters, these disruptions are accelerating at an increasing rate and threaten to be outside most organization’s ability to consume them. It’s definitely no longer “business as usual.” In this session, we will take a step back to look at the journey so far, dive into what needs disrupting and why, peel away the hype from reality, and dive into the fundamentals that make up the DNA of a smarter building.

Real estate technology is awash in options, questions and tools relating to AI. It's clear that this is big and important, but where do we go, what do we do and where do we begin? It starts with understanding the basics and establishing key principles to help you guide the organization through this uncharted territory. In addition to specific tools and AI models, topics covered include ethical, legal and technical issues associated with AI, plus change management and organizational behavior. This session will provide a practical AI roadmap that you can adapt for your company, plus ideas for "quick win: interventions to demonstrate success while you work on the larger initiatives that fundamentally transform the way we work.

Real estate IT executives and their teams are continuously challenged to keep up with the velocity, stability and emerging operational demands of their organizations. To support growth and innovation while achieving efficiency and cost optimization, more IT leaders are focusing on advancing automation initiatives utilizing robotic process automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The adoption of automation engines requires governance throughout the life cycle to ensure automations maximize return, reliability and compliance. This session will cover automation use cases for the real estate industry and compare different approaches to automating real estate processes such as leasing, reconciliations, AP/AR, budgeting, reporting and more.

How can a commercial real estate organization effectively calibrate the potential impact on their organizations when investing in new and emerging technologies? A number of companies are now experimenting and gaining insights and performance measures on specific technologies by creating innovation labs that simulate actual working conditions. Innovation labs can provide a test environment for exploring transformative tools via hands-on interaction with developing technologies such as connected devices, autonomous vehicles, metaverse technologies, AI tools, and drones. This valuable session will present some of the most successful examples of innovation labs in our industry and discuss their creation and utilization for driving better outcomes for technology projects and investments.

GPT platforms now have the potential to automate real estate tasks such as industry research; and enhance communications, such as tenant support, equipment manuals, training guides and leasing campaigns. Based on generative AI, a branch of computer science that involves algorithms that enable computers to create new content (using previously created content), a chatbot responds to user queries with human-like answers in the form of prose. This informative session will present the current state of chatbot technology, demonstrate real-life examples and examine its potential for commercial real estate.

The CRE market is currently facing levels of volatility that we haven't experienced since the Great Recession. Declining asset valuations, challenges in sourcing fresh capital and reduced tenant demand have put new operational strains on every company. Can technology help us navigate through these murky waters? Can the thousands of point and single-source PropTech vendors help mitigate risk and unlock new opportunities? Our expert panel will discuss the role that technology will play in today's rapidly changing investment markets, evolving investor demands, fluctuating valuations, debt management, tenant lease negotiations and overall portfolio performance. Attendees will learn how best to prepare for uncertainty or take advantage of unique opportunities.

A decarbonized built environment requires digital transformation, up and down the value chain, to enable the most efficient and cost-effective design, construction and accessibility to data possible. This panel will demonstrate the benefits of aligning mission-oriented capital to project with clear performance goals, risk adjusted, using tools like physics-based modeling and simulation, off-site construction, mass timber and a master plan for data collection and use. To achieve a building’s optimum decarbonization potential without accepting lop-sided financial or performance risk requires teams aligned to a common mission. Hear from our panel of experts, representing the entire value chain, on their decarbonization journey.

Hard to believe that even in 2023, so many organizations are still struggling with payables processing. Is your payables team still sending check payments to suppliers and manually processing purchase orders and invoices? Are inefficient manual workflows causing daily frustration and bottlenecks? In this time of tightening budgets, increasing demands, and the looming threat of payment fraud, efficient payables processing is critical. In this important session, industry leaders will share how they utilized innovative new technology to improve and enhance processing performance. They will share the top goals of their AP automation initiative and explain the benefits of streamlining AP and paying suppliers digitally. They will provide immediately actionable advice to help you get started Monday morning automating your AP processing.

Data governance, by definition, is a complicated task. It requires organizational, strategic and analytical skills to create a high-level plan that outlines how an organization will collect, process and store data in a consistent manner, ensuring a consistent level of data quality and ultimately trust. With ever-evolving regulatory, investor and privacy requirements, a successful data governance framework is critical to every enterprise business process. This important session will outline the different steps necessary to build, revise and implement a data governance framework from mission statement to policies and procedures and monitoring of the results, continuously emphasizing the need for effective, secure data hygiene processes.

As new models of work emerge, more companies are embracing the benefits of a distributed workforce with employees working from locations outside a traditional, centralized workplace. The makeup of a distributed workforce can vary greatly – employees may work remotely permanently or only occasionally, attend meetings in person or live many time zones (or even country borders) away from the central office. Distributed workforces need to be connected in real time and be able to access corporate resources and tools necessary for successfully completing their tasks. This session reviews modern workplace technologies and agile business systems for managing a distributed workforce.

In the time of the new hybrid workforce, all roles within the organization require the flexibility to access key information 24/7 from their real estate management and financial ERP systems. Automating old business processes is critical for success in today’s competitive environment. No-code can be your ally in taking on new challenges as they come, propelling your mission - your way. Learn how Calgary Cooperative, one of the largest retail co-operatives in North America, is utilizing an enterprise, modern cloud-native no-code development platform to raise the bar for their business solutions, paving the way toward their desired business outcomes - and fast. Calgary is taking advantage of declarative application development processes to directly reflect their unique knowledge of the retail cooperative business and drive their innovation strategy towards complete digital transformation.

Building owners' vision for an improved future around sustainability, efficiency, productivity, occupant wellbeing, and cybersecurity rely directly on trusted data from the digital building space. As decisions become increasingly contingent on systems' up time and data accuracy, it is critical to acknowledge and identify the multiple potential points of failure throughout the end-to-end building data flow for device telemetry. In this session, we will focus on the standardized vocabulary that Google uses for describing data quality issues and validation points throughout the BOS platform. The goal, short of automatically addressing some issues, is for end users interacting with the data to self-sufficiently identify potential data issues and apprise the appropriate team for remediation.

Smart buildings today rely on data from various sensors to maximize operational potential and provide a safe, healthy environment. Data is collected measuring occupancy, lighting, IAQ, temperature, proximity, energy, water, safety equipment and much more. Sensors and IoT devices help to establish baseline equipment performance for predictive maintenance and contribute to all areas of service and management. More recently, edge devices not only gather data, but also process it to reduce latency for real-time, scalable decision-making capability. The proliferation of sensors can be dizzying. This session will demystify sensor technologies and examine benefits and potential liabilities.

PoE and digital electricity allow a single twisted pair Ethernet cable to carry both data and electrical power. And with a single low voltage cable, you can power lighting, control it and harvest data on usage. Plus, you can also use it to coordinate with other building systems like HVAC, access control, security, window shades, and more. Although AC is currently the standard, several PoE and digital electricity building projects have proven that a low voltage DC infrastructure is less expensive, easier to install and significantly reduces energy consumption while providing a backbone for your smart building networks. This instructive session will examine the possibilities of delivering PoE and highlight the best performing case studies.

Progressive real estate organizations are driven by data-fueled insights that quantify and communicate business decisions and foster digital transformation. To thrive as a data-driven real estate firm, sophisticated data analytics tools, processing skills for complex data sets and an understanding of analytic strategies to run are imperative. Given the need for specialized skills, many organizations in our industry still struggle to develop a data science program that takes full advantage of the power of information readily available. This instructive session will examine the benefits and opportunities of a data science approach to digesting the troves of data found in the commercial and corporate real estate ecosystem.

More real estate organizations have recently committed to decarbonization efforts and the demand for greenhouse gas accounting is rapidly growing. Access to accurate, real-time and historical energy and emissions data is essential for reporting, disclosure and audits, as well as the identification of emission reduction opportunities. Oftentimes, that data is unreliable, stranded in silos, kept in spreadsheets and inconsistent. Dedicated carbon accounting software promises to facilitate the process by streamlining data capture, producing comprehensive reports and managing KPIs. This session will assess technologies that assist real estate companies with relevant data capture, storage and analysis to propel emission goals.

How do students studying technology and engineering end up in leadership positions in the commercial real estate industry? Many of the most creative and passionate young professionals in our industry never considered commercial real estate as a career path. This session will showcase some of the younger leaders in the built environment who are driving innovation. Currently responsible for large technology projects, they are eager to better the industry through new implementations. The panel will talk about the paths that brought them into their respective roles, discuss what technology they see changing the market and envision where they see technology taking the commercial real estate industry in the next 5-10 years.

As greater numbers of devices are connected to operational technology (OT) networks, the challenge of securing and managing them increases exponentially. Few IoT devices now are designed with cybersecurity in mind and are fraught with vulnerabilities, making them ripe targets for hackers and broadening the potential attack surface for many commercial real estate organizations. In this session, we will discuss IoT device management and the importance of having a device security strategy that includes device performance qualification, automated device discovery, network segmentation, secure password practices, patches and firmware updates, and continuous monitoring.

There are thousands of new companies now offering some type of technology to the real estate industry, ranging from well-established, mature organizations to companies just starting out. For over 20 years, Realcomm has been a platform for new companies with fresh ideas to present their products to the industry. This year, we’ve identified some of the most innovative newcomers who believe that they have a solution that is highly effective and in some cases - highly disruptive. This session brings together a group of startups that will each pitch their company and product. In the ensuing Q&A following each pitch, you, the audience can judge their respective merits for yourselves and decide whether or not they’re worthy of your further consideration.

Technology Partners:

Join Yardi clients in this specially designed session that will explore several hand-picked client case studies from different perspectives to hear what challenges are facing the investment side of real estate and how technology can help firms be more efficient. Presenters will share their company’s innovative implementations, deployment experiences, and lessons learned along the way. Attendees will benefit from the unique blend of case studies that provide usable insights into your own technology roadmap.

Propelled by new regulatory requirements and increased investor scrutiny, net zero carbon and energy objectives have been elevated to top-of-mind for many commercial real estate organizations. Net zero goals in the built environment cannot be achieved without technologies that dramatically decrease the energy consumption and embodied carbon emissions of a building. While exceptional building design in new constructions can result in low energy needs, net zero objectives are attainable for existing buildings as well. This session will assess strategies that include next-generation onsite energy production, hyper-efficient building automation, low voltage applications, and other emerging technologies on the journey towards net zero.

Despite the growing number of industry start-ups, not all new real estate solution providers ultimately make it. But what should landlords do when they bought into the new technology and maybe even deployed it in their buildings? To recover from a potential start-up failure and keep buildings running as intended, an agile strategy is required that can quickly be adjusted in an event of discontinued technology or software support. In this valuable session, we will explore various case studies including how to successfully avoid building system outages or safety concerns in the event of the loss of a critical building IoT technology which had been integrated into the building network architecture.

Many real estate organizations are still focused on technology projects and digital transformation to address post pandemic changes in workforce and workplace strategies. OT talent, however, remains in short supply, despite recent layoff announcements by some tech giants. To mitigate smart building technology talent shortages in the real estate sector, IT leaders must rethink traditional talent management approaches and look beyond the narrow band of candidates typically considered. This workshop will introduce a proactive and multi-faceted approach to talent management and recruitment in the industry. Attendees will work in small groups to identify best practices and key values of a holistic talent management strategy.

The pandemic accelerated the conversation on healthy buildings and got the industry focused on Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ). Creating healthy workplaces was suddenly a top concern, not only because of virus transmission, but also as studies proved the negative effects of common indoor pollutants. The new IEQ technologies can significantly improve indoor environments, benefit health and wellness and also positively impact productivity for those workers returning to the office. With advances in sensors, monitoring solutions, analytics and a new generation of standards, IEQ technology has come a long way. In this enlightening session, we’ll explore the role of IoT in Smart Building IEQ technologies and how to use them to drive better holistic outcomes for both owners and occupants.

Many non-tech teams deploy technology with absolute faith that it will solve some pain that they experience in their working day, and often are sold a solution without a very clear understanding of the problem. This leads to cyber risk, increased complexity, lack of measurable results, wasted effort, higher costs and often, failed implementations. So how do you define the use cases, create testing practices that facilitate success and ultimately measure the value of the investment? This panel will discuss the pitfalls of an unstructured approach and highlight the importance of time spent to evaluate and understand the use case to ensure maximized returns.

Every Investment Management (IM) company has its own business objectives, investment goals, portfolio mix, application sets, data structures, and company culture. Closely examining a successful company’s software selection process, implementation strategy and third-party data integration experiences can provide key insights into developing a tailored technology roadmap with proven results. This session will analyze essential considerations from gaining project approval, setting expectations and delivering business value. It will also serve as a “user group” experience with benchmarking, open knowledge sharing and the valuable takeaways for any attendee researching IM alternatives, enhancements to their existing solution and innovative ways to optimize your own application portfolio.

What are the newest cyber threats and how do we transform our organization into one with a Cyber Awareness Culture? How will AI/ChatGPT impact commercial real estate? Will it be as disruptive as the media hype predicts and what are its potential side effects? Join us for an unfiltered, interactive discussion on the latest cyber trends and hot technologies impacting commercial real estate. Covering a wide range of topics, this "REAL News Talk Show" will be an Open Forum, where we’ll tackle emerging tech trends head-on and separate facts from fiction. The latest cyber threats, ideas for transforming your organization into a Cyber Awareness Culture, and how to counter trends such as EV Chargers and Juice Jacking will be addressed. This exciting session promises to be highly engaging, with plenty of surprises along the way.

Join us at Realcomm Live as we announce the winners of the 2023 Digie Awards. These prestigious awards honor those companies, real estate projects, technologies and people who have gone above and beyond to positively impact our industry through the use of technology, automation and innovation.

Directly following the Digie Awards Presentation is a networking reception on the Exhibit Floor. Mingle and meet new colleagues and catch up with old friends! This event is open to all attendees.