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PropTech Video Showcase: ExxonMobil, Related | Hudson Yards, QuadReal, RECC & CohnReznick

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Keep current with industry insights and trends from around the world. The Realcomm | IBcon Video Showcase is a monthly feature of curated interviews selected from our Conference LIVE Video Library. Learn how Commercial and Corporate Real Estate organizations implement new technology, fail fast to improve, build innovative teams, connect buildings and neighborhoods and manage cyber hacks and security attacks.

Watch these thought leader videos:

Thano Lambrinos, QuadReal

Scale is one of the biggest barriers in deploying PropTech in Commercial and Corporate Real Estate portfolios. Navigating the best technologies for digital transformation is complicated and chasing technology for technology’s sake is a frequent occurrence. Lambrinos offers advice to vendors in this space: Scale your products and solutions to enable high-value use cases.

Jim Whalen, Boston Properties & David Sulston, Oxford Properties

Cyber threat is real. To develop IT and OT security standards and elevate awareness, the Real Estate Cyber Consortium (RECC) is sharing best practices and establishing principles for cybersecurity.

Kenneth Finnegan, Hudson Yards

Hudson Yards is the largest privately funded real estate development in U.S. history. A $24-billion-dollar project offering a live-work-play environment, it’s gaining esteem as a template for future smart communities.

Jared Summers & Charles Whiteley, ExxonMobil

Undertaking a digital transformation is a concerted effort and journey. ExxonMobil shares its approach to digital strategy, which fundamentally changed its value proposition and delivery of services across a global real estate portfolio.

Tama Huang, CohnReznick

Generational maturity is evolving the built environment. Malls are being reinvented into experienced-based leisure centers and offices are becoming spaces for seamless collaboration and connections. Soon, smart buildings will augment the business process.

Conference LIVE 2019 was sponsored by Yardi and IoTium. Watch the Conference LIVE series on YouTube.

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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