General Session
INCLUDED SESSIONS ARE:
Welcome and introductions (Day One)
Date: 6/14/2023 Time: 8:45 am - 11:00 am Location: Milano
Welcome and introductions.
25 Years @ the Intersection of Technology, Automation, Innovation and the Built Environment
Date: 6/14/2023 Location: Milano
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.
The Las Vegas Digital Innovation Story: The Built Environment @ City Scale!
Date: 6/14/2023 Location: Milano
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.
Developing New Workforce Opportunities In Smart Buildings: Stacks+Joules Leads the Way!
Date: 6/14/2023 Location: Milano
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!
Navigating the Financial Stresses of the CRE Market, Economy and Impact on Innovation
Date: 6/14/2023 Location: Milano
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.
Industry Perspective: What Does the Future Hold for Commercial and Corporate Real Estate
Date: 6/14/2023 Location: Milano
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.
Realcomm | IBcon Chairs Weigh In: Unpacking Today’s Top PropTech Issues & Topics
Date: 6/14/2023 Location: Milano
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.
General Session (Day Two)
Date: 6/15/2023 Time: 8:15 am - 9:45 am
Welcome and introductions, Day Two.
Artificial Intelligence in the Built Environment
Date: 6/15/2023
Realcomm first introduced AI to the real estate industry at Realcomm | IBcon 2016, when a reporter named Cade Metz shared his observation of Korea’s 18-time World Go Champion being defeated by Google’s AI machine, AlphaGo. At the time, the real estate industry wasn’t paying much attention.
Enter ChatGPT. Over the last few months, a global obsession has begun. From dire warnings from its creators to AI-generated art, music and business intelligence, the world is chasing the potential of this new technology. It seems clear AI will have a profound impact on our industry, touching everything from market and portfolio analysis to AI-generated cyber-attacks. This segment will showcase three industry relevant demonstrations of this powerful and somewhat controversial new technology.
Setting New Global Standards: Exploring Walmart’s Campus of the Future
Date: 6/15/2023
This segment will focus on innovation from a corporate campus perspective. Walmart, a people-led, tech-powered omnichannel retailer with a mission to help people save money and live better, continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy, and employment opportunity. Located in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart's new home office campus will sit on roughly 350 acres of land and include ~3.9 million square feet of new office and amenity building space.
Led by Cindi Marsiglio, SVP, Corporate Real Estate, the team is shaping the new campus in a way that is connected to the community, weaving in the natural beauty of Northwest Arkansas, focusing on Walmart's roots, and digital transformation to attract the future generations of talent.
Navigating Innovation through Strategic Collaboration
Date: 6/15/2023
In today's technology marketplace, with an abundance of options, overlap of capabilities and things changing at an unprecedented speed, digitally transforming an organization is no easy task. The most successful projects usually represent a collaborative environment between client and vendor in which both partner to create the best result. The partnership culture allows for best practices to be identified with a full understanding of current and future trends. Altrio will bring experience and insight to this very important topic.
Global Technology Competitiveness: The Nation State Battle is Upon Us
Date: 6/15/2023
The United States has long enjoyed a leading competitive advantage when it comes to emerging and critical technologies. The modern technology revolution started in the mid 1960s in Silicon Valley with organizations like Hewlett Packard and Stanford University and has enjoyed being the epicenter of innovation for 60+ years. That began changing over 20 years ago when large nation states began implementing a strategy that would look to unseat the United States as a global leader in technology.
This strategy was formulated on rapid intellectual property theft, aggressive government subsidies and a comprehensive high technology education campaign. Leading experts on the topic speculate that if the current trajectory continues, industries such as Artificial Intelligence, Advanced 5G+ Communications, Quantum Computing and others, could be overtaken by large, non-democratic nation states by 2030 and the results could be disastrous.
Liza Tobin, Senior Director of the Economy for the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), a new organization formed by Eric Schmidt, former China Director for the National Security Council and China specialist for the US Government and Aaron Brown former Army Ranger, CIA senior Operations Officer, and Co-Founder of 2430 Group, a nonprofit and consortium of companies defending the US public and private sectors against foreign economic espionage, will discuss the growing threat to the economy and national security as it relates to the built environment, and the risks of digital tracking and technical surveillance.
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For this super-session, we've assembled some of the world’s most progressive and successful implementations of smart buildings, portfolios and campuses. These projects represent the next generation of open, interoperable, integrated and IP-centric buildings.
