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Tech, Talent and Transformation: 2025 Digie Finalists Announced

May 15, 2025 | Realcomm Staff
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For 27 years, Realcomm has presented the Digie Awards to acknowledge companies, real estate projects, technologies, and individuals that have advanced the commercial and corporate real estate industry through the strategic use of technology, automation, and innovation. The awards recognize those who are not only responding to change but using it to drive the industry forward.

As our industry adapts to evolving business needs, workplace expectations, and advances in building technology, the 2025 Digie finalists show how organizations are putting innovation to work in meaningful ways. Aligned with this year’s conference theme, The New ROI: Return on Innovation, they demonstrate how targeted investments in technology can strengthen operations, enhance building performance, and improve the overall effectiveness of the built environment.


The following are the 2025 finalists:


REALCOMM

Best Use of Automation

Commercial Real Estate

  1. Boxer Property
  2. Cousins Properties
  3. EastGroup Properties

Retail Real Estate

  1. CBL Properties
  2. Curbline Properties
  3. Woolbright Development

Corporate Real Estate

  1. McKesson
  2. ServiceNow
  3. Walmart

Investment Management

  1. New York Life Investors
  2. Nuveen Real Estate
  3. PGIM Real Estate

Multifamily | Residential

  1. Drewlo Holdings
  2. Elme Communities
  3. The Preiss Company


Best Use of AI

Commercial Real Estate (2 awards)

  1. CBRE
  2. Phillips Edison & Company
  3. Primaris
  4. The RMR Group
  5. Starwood Capital Group
  6. Woolbright Development


Best Tech Innovation

Commercial / Corporate Real Estate

  1. Altus – Benchmark Manager
  2. MRI – Agora
  3. Stemmons – Business Intelligence & Reporting


Best AI Tech Innovation

Commercial Real Estate

  1. PremiseHQ – Digital Employee
  2. Proda – Rent Roll Data Processing
  3. Yardi - Virtuoso


Rising Star

  1. Ben Cooper
  2. Devon Newton
  3. Whitney Kidd


Julie Devine Digital Impact Award (2 awards)

  1. Dale Johnston
  2. Gary Bailey
  3. Jeremy Poteet
  4. Jim Carr
  5. Soheil Pourhashemi
  6. Traci Doane


IBCON

Most Intelligent

Office Building

  1. 1 Elizabeth
  2. One Congress
  3. Texas Tower

Office Portfolio

  1. Beacon Capital Partners
  2. The RMR Group
  3. Tishman Speyer

Corporate Headquarters

  1. Capgemini
  2. Lockheed Martin
  3. Navy Credit Union HQ

Digital District

  1. Archetype
  2. OC Vibe
  3. The Well

Retail

  1. Primaris
  2. Walmart
  3. World Showroom

DC-Powered Project

  1. Circa Hotel – Las Vegas
  2. Hotel Marcel – New Haven
  3. Disney

Multifamily | Residential

  1. BROAD U.S.A
  2. Drewlo Holdings
  3. The Preiss Company

Higher Education

  1. California State University, Dominguez Hills
  2. Stanford University
  3. UC Davis


Best Use of AI

Intelligent Buildings

  1. BGO
  2. CBRE
  3. LinkedIn


Best Tech Innovation

DC Power

  1. Sinclair Digital – Agile-Core Nano Bits
  2. Somfy – Sonesse 40 PoE
  3. VoltServer – Tetra Digital Electricity

Intelligent Buildings (2 awards)

  1. Bueno – Smart Building Analytics
  2. Elevated – Space Automation Platform
  3. Ivy Energy – Virtual Grid
  4. Kimberly-Clark – Onvation
  5. WellStat – Airscan
  6. Planit Engineering – AVEAS


Best AI Tech Innovation Intelligent Buildings

  1. Atrius – DataLab
  2. facil.ai – Chiller Optimization AI-Agent
  3. J2 Innovations – FIN Intelligence
  4. KODE Labs – KODE OS
  5. Mapped – Independent Data Layer
  6. Visitt – AI Platform


Julie Devine Digital Impact Award (2 awards)

  1. Fred Gordy
  2. Kay Sargent
  3. Jim Lee
  4. Neil Ross
  5. Nicholas Stello
  6. Robert Fitzgerald


The winners will be announced, along with the presentation of the Realcomm Lifetime Achievement award, at Realcomm | IBcon 2025 at the Savannah Convention Center. The award ceremony will be held on Tuesday, June 3 at 5:45pm at the Realcomm Live stage on the Expo Floor. Join us!

Realcomm Staff
Realcomm Conference Group LLC is the leading research and educational institution that produces annual conferences and expositions on technology, automated business solutions and intelligent buildings strategies for executives in commercial, corporate, government and institutional real estate. Realcomm was founded in 1999 with the goal of bringing industry leaders together each year to discuss, demonstrate and debate the latest innovations that impact the industry.

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