Past Webinar

Charles Whiteley is VP, Global Digital Leader, Digital Strategy & AI Execution Lead, with 15+ years of experience driving digital and business transformation for Fortune 100 companies across industries. He defines global digital strategy for AECOM’s B+P (Buildings and Places) business line and advises on smart cities, digital twins, smart campuses, sustainability, and large-scale urban initiatives. Charles also leads AI strategy and digital adoption, collaborating with global leaders to implement and scale transformative technologies, drive AI initiatives, and establish key vendor partnerships to accelerate enterprise-wide innovation.

Aaron Altscher is the VP, IT at Carr. Aaron leads IT innovation efforts and is the architect and developer for Carr’s Data Analytics, IoT, Machine Learning/AI, and Hospitality platforms. Aaron’s 2022 focus is on IT innovation around data automation and the return to work movement.

Dean is a thought leader on the digitization of commercial real estate, drawing on over 25 years of experience with rapid growth and transformational change in organizations of all sizes – including technology innovation, strategy, and thought leadership from start-up to global enterprise-scale organizations. Dean recently left the role of COO at Oxford Properties after three years, having built an amazing global team that is already realizing the potential of a more digital and sustainable approach to real estate. Dean has now transitioned into an advisory role, helping ambitious global real estate investors, asset managers, developers, and operators with digital strategy and capability building.

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.

Ali Mehmani is Head of Core Research, Data Science & Analytics at Prescriptive Data, a smart building and real estate sustainability artificial intelligence (AI) company. Ali joined the PropTech company focused on optimizing tenant comfort and decreasing carbon emissions. He specializes in multidisciplinary optimization, complex system design, machine learning, deep structural networks, and cyber physical systems, with primary applications in wind energy and building energy efficiency.