Past Webinar

Kimberly Bertz is a change management, organization strategy and operations leader. She leads Wells Fargo's Workplace Services and Experience. Her team delivers leading edge workplaces that integrate digital innovation and responsive services and tools and environments to support a collaboration-rich environment. Her team is also responsible for critical back-end services and systems supporting lease/records management, digital platforms for real estate, properties-related help desk and enterprise event centers.

Peter Smith leads business development efforts for the RXR Digital Lab, a technology and innovation team developing solutions to improve building operations and workplace experience. He has spent over a decade developing and implementing sustainability, health and well-being, and technology solutions for leading organizations seeking to transform their global real estate portfolios to enhance human experience, advance Environmental Social Governance (ESG) initiatives, and improve business metrics.

Scott Sidman serves as Executive Vice President, Business & Corporate Development, driving strategic growth through partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and their successful integration. He collaborates with all departments and customers on opportunities for market expansion while enhancing product value. Scott’s led sales, marketing and strategy in his career at Building Engines and writes and speaks regularly about the promise and future of technology for CRE.

As the CTO of Silvair, Simon has been positioning the company as the leading provider of a smart lighting control platform as a service, based on interoperable and open standards. He drove the development of Bluetooth mesh networking since the conception, elevating smart lighting as the primary application for this innovative wireless technology. Simon is the author of the Mesh Model specification that lays the ground for interoperability of multi-vendor smart lighting systems.

As Chief Commercial Officer, Bob Kermanshahi is responsible for leading the commercial strategy, sales execution, and marketing enablement of Buildings IOT to address client demand for smarter, healthier, and more cost-efficient buildings. Bob joined Buildings IOT in 2021 and brings more than 20 years of experience in leading the development of business strategies to infuse value into clients’ technology solutions. Before joining Buildings IOT, he led the North American Sales for the Smart Buildings & Workplace business with Lenovo Group.

Gary Chance is Vice President of Marketing and Partnerships for Prescriptive Data, responsible for strategic business and hardware partnerships, managing the Prescriptive Data brand, and advancing the world of real estate, sustainability, and artificial intelligence. Prior to Chance’s role at Prescriptive Data, he served as COO of DisruptCRE, a real estate technology media and consulting firm. He also served as Bisnow Media’s first Vice President of Digital Strategy, where he designed and launched strategic marketing campaigns for hundreds of real estate companies.