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Josh Bradshaw is Global Head of Workplace Innovation at Visa. For over 20 years he’s designed and implemented real estate technology solutions for residential, commercial, industrial, office, smart home and smart building. Prior to joining Visa in 2019, Josh worked at BlackRock and in Silicon Valley tech and real estate companies. He enjoys enabling change by architecting and implementing innovative solutions and lives by his mantra: Don’t work for technology; make technology work for you.

Adriana is Principal and Director of Interiors of HOK’s Florida Practice. She is also Regional Workplace Leader for HOK Tampa. She has over 30 years of multidisciplinary and multinational experience, 27 of these have been designing projects in Florida. Adriana has a robust understanding and appreciation of the interior architecture industry. With a passion for research applied design and creative interiors, her main focus is to understand her client’s goals and focus on the human experience within a space.

Scott Cardenas serves as Managing Director and the Chief Technology Officer for Bridge Investment Group. Over his career, Scott has worked globally implementing enterprise solutions to drive innovation, business efficiency and standardization. Prior to Bridge, Scott worked as the Chief Information Officer for the City and County of Denver. He oversaw the implementation of a new ERP platform, which served over 13K employees and 23 lines of business. In addition, Denver also implemented a new CRM platform that interfaced with over 700K residents, which improved overall communication and engagement.

Lawrence Melton is the CEO and Founder of The Building People. With over 25 years of Federal Executive experience, Lawrence established the company in 2013 and found early success in its global reach to drive greater efficiency, investment, and performance for its clients. He is recognized globally as an expert in Facilities Management, Smart Buildings and Asset Management.

Andrew Segal formed Boxer Property in September 1992. Under his oversight, the company has successfully reached into segments as diverse as resort hotels, retail centers, office and other real estate businesses, accounting for approximately 20 million square feet of space across the United States. He is the co-founder of Stemmons Enterprise software company.

In joining BuildingHub, Tom brings 20+ years of sales experience with a concentration in Commercial, Hospitality, and Multi-Family Real Estate software. Tom prides himself in providing strategic direction to ensure alignment between product and service offerings and his clients’ needs.

Nic Halverson, CEO of Occuspace, co-invented a unique occupancy measuring technology that provides real-time space utilization data while protecting absolute privacy. Since its inception, and with the help of multiple investors, Occuspace blossomed to become the leader in occupancy data for higher education.

Brian Higgins is a serial entrepreneur with a distinguished track record in the high-tech communications industry. He is the Founder & CEO of Aditum Connect, a broadband platform launched in 2015, which revolutionizes connectivity for commercial property owners with affordable, high-speed internet solutions. Brian has over 25 years of experience in LAN, WAN, and wireless network design and is a seasoned professional adept at building and managing next-generation service provider networks.

Ted Maulucci is the CEO of SmartONE Solutions, a company at the forefront of creating digitally connected, smart living spaces for multi-unit communities. Under Ted’s leadership, SmartONE has become a leader in providing safe, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to the evolving needs of developers, residents, and property managers. Prior to founding SmartONE, Ted served as CIO for a leading Toronto-based real estate developer, where he pioneered the development of the first smart community in the Greater Toronto Area. His work has earned him numerous accolades, including being named Private Sector Canadian CIO of the Year in 2016.

As the VP of Enterprise Applications and Operations at Phillips Edison & Company (PECO), Gary Bailey oversees the IT application development, and infrastructure and operations teams. He leads with operational excellence and innovation, delivering IT solutions that support the company's vision and goals. PECO is one of the nation's largest owners and operators of grocery-anchored shopping centers. Gary has been with PECO for 16 years, and has 24 years of IT experience, including 8 years as a Lead Network Engineer in an IT consultant role.

Dale McIntyre is the Director of Strategic Commercial Accounts in North America. After joining MRI Software in 2012, he spent his first ten years focused on sales and account management and has worked with many of MRI’s largest global clients. Dale has qualified for MRI’s Circle of Excellence six times in 11 years and was 2023’s North American Leader of the Year in his first year as a manager.

In his role as leader of Information Technology at Thompson Thrift, Don Oldham provides advisory, orchestration and integration services to advance the cause of innovation in obtaining business value from technology. He and his team are tasked with discovering new technology opportunities, reducing the cost of doing business, adding efficiency to business processes and providing secure, customer focused access to technology. They improve efficiencies through the development and implementation of innovative technologies. Don has over 24 years of technology experience within the real estate sector finding, implementing or developing new solutions to solve business problems.

Kim Scharf has been the Senior Vice President of Information Technology at SITE Centers Corp. since April 2017. Before this, Kim served as SITE's Vice President of IT Enterprise Services. She is a member of the executive steering committee for SITE's Women of Influence program, the Realcomm Advisory Council, the Building Cyber Security (BCS) Advisory Board, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

Rob Cain is Dealpath's SVP of Product, bringing over two decades of experience at the forefront of building solutions for the global real estate industry including nearly 10 years with CoStar, one of today’s leading providers of commercial real estate information, marketing, and technology. Most recently, he served as VP of Product Design where Rob led the team responsible for numerous commercial information products within the company.

Charles Fisher leads Risk Analytics for JLL Americas’ Risk Advisory business. In this role, he engages with global lenders and institutional owners to assess risk in their global portfolios using artificial intelligence and proprietary JLL technology. Risk Advisory provides lenders and institutional owners with automated valuation models (AVMs) and risk analytics to monitor their CRE portfolio in real time to balance risk and opportunity. Clients use deliverables as inputs to perform market and sector research, benchmark performance against competitors, inform decision-making, complement existing risk or management processes, and align with regulatory requirements on collateral monitoring.

Matthew Lynch is an entrepreneurial startup leader and founder focused on decarbonizing the built environment.

Vijay Anand, VP for AI & Data at MRI, leads the creation of top-tier AI-based real estate software, leveraging over 20 years of experience in product development at the Big 4. Harnessing AI, ML, data, and analytics, he builds insightful solutions that address customer problems, all while pioneering in product strategy and delivering cloud-based global solutions.

Don Bleaney, Chief Product Officer at PremiseHQ, leads the company’s product strategy and innovative AI-driven initiatives. With a robust background in commercial real estate, coupled with over 17 years of consulting expertise with premier real estate firms, Don is a leader in process automation and strategic enhancements. His profound industry insights fuel PremiseHQ’s mission to pioneer advanced, AI-enabled solutions that optimize operations and boost efficiency in the real estate industry. Under Don’s leadership, PremiseHQ empowers organizations to leverage AI for not only achieving sustainable growth but also securing a significant competitive edge in the market.

Zander Geronimos is the Head of North America for PRODA, the leading platform for automating critical property data for investors and lenders and trusted by Blackstone, PIMCO and 100+ others. He leads relationships and communications with key players across the real estate value chain and the proptech community. Prior to joining PRODA, Zander was Metaprop’s Head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development. He’s also worked in strategic data analysis, marketing and solutions engineering.

Rich Hughes brings two decades of experience digitally enabling multifamily real estate with AI solutions in areas such as Revenue Management, Online Leasing, Credit and Criminal Screening, Digital Marketing, Business Intelligence, and Benchmarking. He currently serves as the Head of Data Science at RealPage, assisting his team of data scientists in analyzing and exploiting data to create insights, models and solutions that add value to residential real estate.

As vice president for commercial real estate, Brian Sutherland is responsible for leading the US commercial sales and marketing organization. Additionally, heoversees sales, marketing and product strategies for Yardi's commercial real estate asset management, procurement, coworking and energy solutions. Before joining Yardi, he spent 15 years as founder and president of several start-up companies.

Bradley Taylor is a pioneering AI expert and entrepreneur. As the founder of AnswerAI, the first generative AI platform for enterprise, and Last Rev, an AI strategy and services company, Bradley drives innovation at the intersection of technology and commercial real estate with clients like TA Realty and Beacon Capital. With a profound understanding of business systems, data integrations, and GPT models, Bradley is dedicated to transforming traditional CRE practices.

Monsoon Fu is the Director of Product & Innovation (DoPI) at Jule (eCAMION Inc) – a Toronto-based Energy Storage & EV Charging Solution Provider. Youhan’s professional interests and specialities include Li-ion Battery Energy Storage Systems, Power Electronics, Protection for Battery & DC Circuits and Modern Control Systems. In addition, Youhan is also actively striving to create industry-academic interaction, minimize repeated R&D and extend research verification. In the past, he has served as VP-Marketing & Creativity for UTFUN Organization , and Chair-Industry Relations for IEEE Toronto Section.

Farukh Aslam is the Chief Executive Officer of Sinclair Digital (SD) a low voltage design and consulting company developing Digital DC-Microgrid Buildings. In 2019, Aslam successfully developed the Sinclair Marriott Autograph Hotel which is widely considered the most diverse PoE and DC Microgrid project in North America. From the completion of the Sinclair Hotel, Aslam created SD to bring expertise of the sustainability and cost benefits of a DC building infrastructure to the marketplace. Since its inception SD has been involved in several design build projects and continues to evolve DC infrastructure in buildings.

Andrew Lu serves as Director of Product Management in the Engineering Sustainability Office (ESO) at Cisco. He passionately nurtures and promotes DC-microgrid solutions like Fault Managed Power (FMP) and Power over Ethernet(PoE) for sustainable building infrastructure. Prior to Cisco, Andrew’s career spanned multiple sectors including industrial automation, intelligent building system integration, and home automation. Andrew represents Cisco as a co-founder and the President of the FMP Alliance.

Bob Voss is a Distinguished Engineer in Panduit Corporate Research and Development, driving technological innovation. Focused on industrial and building automation, his expertise spans shepherding of groundbreaking technologies such as Single Pair Ethernet and Fault Managed Power. Bob plays a key role in setting global engineering standards in IEEE, TIA, NEMA, ODVA, and NFPA, as well as nurturing strategic technology partnerships. Bob is the chairman and one of the founders of the FMP Alliance.

Arjun Kaicker is an Architect and Workplace Consultant with over 20 years experience specialising in innovative workplace design and technology, business and user needs evaluation and most recently, AI driven workplace optimisation. As Co-Head of Workplace Strategies at Zaha Hadid Architects and previously as Head of Workplace Consulting at Foster + Partners, he has worked on over 200 office projects in over 50 countries, including headquarters for Apple, Bloomberg, Comcast and HSBC.

James Wu has dedicated the last 20 years to building award-winning products for notable technology startups. Playing a pivotal role at each company, James built and led product development while honing his understanding of what it takes to develop a team, product and company from early days to global success. Today he is co-founder and CEO of InnerSpace, a space utilization and analytics platform that enables enterprise-class clients to optimize their ROI in a finite and costly resource: the office space.

Hazel Mann is principal for Zetta Advisory, an organization that help real estate investment management firms transform with practical technology solutions. She is an entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in real estate operations and technology, specializing in translating emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain and IoT for practical applications in the future of work.

Goutham Vulpala is currently AVP, Enterprise Applications at Phillips Edison & Company. In his current role, Goutham manages a team responsible of enterprise application architecture, development, and data analytics. Previously, he was with Citibank where he was the application development group manager responsible for ATM application development and customer survey data analytics. Goutham also was with Cincinnati Bell where he held various senior positions in IT.

Vicki Dodig has 30 years of experience working with real estate technology. Starting as a financial analyst for Forest City Enterprises, she worked her way up to management of all business applications. Vicki joined Yardi as a Systems Consultant and quickly advanced to Director of Professional Services managing a team that completed many implementation projects for financial institutions and property management companies, both domestic and global. Vicki’s current focus at Yardi is managing account relationships for existing Investment Management clients.

Andrew Segal formed Boxer Property in September 1992. Under his oversight, the company has successfully reached into segments as diverse as resort hotels, retail centers, office and other real estate businesses, accounting for approximately 20 million square feet of space across the United States. He is the co-founder of Stemmons Enterprise software company.

Frank Spadafora is the Real Estate Industry Principal at Intapp. In this role he applies his expertise in commercial real estate and product development to connect people and ideas to drive enablement and value creation through the DealCloud connected firm and deal management platform. Frank brings nearly 20 years of experience delivering digital solutions for commercial real estate to his role at Intapp. Most recently, Frank helped to launch the Strategic Consultant Group at CREtech where he advised clients from tech startups to global owners and occupiers on product strategy and go-to-market, solution roadmap and adoption, and data-centered digital transformation.

David Franklin is a real estate technology and IT guru as well as a seasoned sales professional with extensive entrepreneurial experience. He was the CTO for two property management companies and the CTO and co-founder of a software company that provided an online communication platform for residential property managers. David was also the founder and CEO of Availeron Consulting, an IT services firm specializing in supporting property management companies. His greatest skill in life is explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical people in an approachable, interesting and understandable way.

Ted Maulucci is the CEO of SmartONE Solutions, a company at the forefront of creating digitally connected, smart living spaces for multi-unit communities. Under Ted’s leadership, SmartONE has become a leader in providing safe, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to the evolving needs of developers, residents, and property managers. Prior to founding SmartONE, Ted served as CIO for a leading Toronto-based real estate developer, where he pioneered the development of the first smart community in the Greater Toronto Area. His work has earned him numerous accolades, including being named Private Sector Canadian CIO of the Year in 2016.

Sunder Pappu has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is currently the SVP Head of Technology Strategy at Inland Real Estate Group and is responsible for leading project management and application development for the IT department, while ensuring Inland’s technology strategy is aligned with businesses and that technologies are available to meet each entities’ unique business demands.

Susan Gerock currently serves as SVP, Information Technology and CIO for Elme Communities, formerly known as WashREIT. She has over 25 years' experience in various technology roles spanning manufacturing, consulting, application service provider and commercial real estate organizations. Her specialties include ERP selection and implementation, project and change management, and cybersecurity. She is also a proponent of the use of social media and the overlapping relationship between technology and marketing.

Sabine Lam brings the digital building vision to the forefront of Google's Facility Operation teams, enabling a secure, integrated and scalable platform that delivers next generation services to realize 2030 sustainability commitments, operational efficiency, and support healthy and productive spaces for Googlers. Her responsibilities include leading the development of a Workplace Platform to efficiently integrate building systems, facilitating the transition to a digitized and connected real estate portfolio, and collaborating with industry leaders to inspire and enable industry transformation.

David Witherspoons’s role within Honeywell’s Global Offering Management team affords him the opportunity to work closely with leadership of the Hardware, Software, and Field Device groups to conceptualize and plan the future direction of Honeywell solutions, specifically those aligned with the Niagara portfolio. His duties encompass overseeing new product launches, improving existing offerings, and strategically evolving the portfolio across the global brand channels of Honeywell Building Automation. David has over three decades of industry experience and joined Honeywell in 2004. Before joining Honeywell, David started and ran a Honeywell Systems Distributor business in the Carolinas and Virginia.

Wayne Kim is a seasoned tech entrepreneur with 20+ years experience in leading digital infrastructure and cloud services ventures. As founder and CEO of Andorix, SirtNet and KIGA Labs, Wayne has pioneered Backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service, Media & Entertainment Collaboration platforms, and Intelligent/Smart Building Platforms across North America. He has also been instrumental in securing $80+ million in funding for Andorix and continues to drive innovation in the smart building industry.

As an information technology leader, Michael MacMahon has more than 18 years of experience pioneering and managing complex IT solutions. Through a history of collaboration with Fortune 500 companies, he is accomplished in providing technology consulting, training, strategic fiscal planning, and implementation.

Ted Maulucci is the CEO of SmartONE Solutions, a company at the forefront of creating digitally connected, smart living spaces for multi-unit communities. Under Ted’s leadership, SmartONE has become a leader in providing safe, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to the evolving needs of developers, residents, and property managers. Prior to founding SmartONE, Ted served as CIO for a leading Toronto-based real estate developer, where he pioneered the development of the first smart community in the Greater Toronto Area. His work has earned him numerous accolades, including being named Private Sector Canadian CIO of the Year in 2016.

Donny Walker leads Newcomb Boyd's Intelligent Building Systems group. He has over 20 years of engineering, project management, and partner-in-charge responsibilities in communications, security and integrated building automation systems. His experience includes aviation facilities, health care buildings, judicial facilities, advanced technology developments, military installations, data centers, mixed-use developments, performing arts facilities and college campuses. With prowess designing technologically sophisticated campuses, his background encompasses over 150 projects specializing in an integrated design with network-enabled systems.

Scott Cardenas serves as Managing Director and the Chief Technology Officer for Bridge Investment Group. Over his career, Scott has worked globally implementing enterprise solutions to drive innovation, business efficiency and standardization. Prior to Bridge, Scott worked as the Chief Information Officer for the City and County of Denver. He oversaw the implementation of a new ERP platform, which served over 13K employees and 23 lines of business. In addition, Denver also implemented a new CRM platform that interfaced with over 700K residents, which improved overall communication and engagement.

Susan Gerock currently serves as SVP, Information Technology and CIO for Elme Communities, formerly known as WashREIT. She has over 25 years' experience in various technology roles spanning manufacturing, consulting, application service provider and commercial real estate organizations. Her specialties include ERP selection and implementation, project and change management, and cybersecurity. She is also a proponent of the use of social media and the overlapping relationship between technology and marketing.