Realcomm - CRE Technology, Automation and Innovation: Recent Episodes
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Realcomm Podcasts are designed to provide quality education and instruction on the latest technology solutions for the commercial and corporate real estate marketplace. Our goal is to discuss, debate and explore the landscape of innovative solutions in a manner that is relatable and easy to understand, and to provide our end user community with relevant case studies that they can use as a model for their day to day business.
Explore how AI has been unleashed on the CRE industry. Our panel sorts through several categories of AI-based solutions and dispel common misconceptions surrounding AI in this industry. This session identifies key consideration strategies and roadmaps for AI-related tools tailored specifically for CRE applications. Uncover effective strategies for data source development and gain insights from early testing results. Immerse yourself in real-world scenarios through case studies featuring actual deployments in the back office, built environment and business process automation. Witness live demonstrations showcasing the power of AI in reshaping the landscape of CRE.
This week, we welcome the 2024 Advisory Council co-chairs for IBcon, the Smart, Connected, High-Performance, Intelligent Buildings conference: Bayron Lopez, Director, Operational Technology, Kilroy Realty, Ilene Goldfine, SVP, Chief Digital Strategy Officer, Hines and Neil Ross, Sr. Director, CRE Tech & Product Management, Corporate Real Estate, Walmart, all visionary leaders on global strategy for smart buildings and campuses. We explore smart buildings technology adoption and where they see the industry going in the next 12-18 months.
This week, we are excited to welcome Power Design’s SVP Systems Technologies, Trent Morano. With more than 20 years of experience in smart, connected, IP centric buildings, Trent brings a vast understanding of what it takes to bring a next generation project to fruition. We discuss automation, leveraging networks and capturing meaningful data, low voltage power options as well as a preview of the Power Design headquarters tour taking place at Realcomm | IBcon 2024.
This week, we are excited to welcome our 2024 Realcomm co-chairs Helane Stein, SVP & CIO, Brixmor, Sunder Pappu, SVP, Head of Technology Strategy, Inland Real Estate Group and Soheil Pourhashemi, SVP, Business Technology, Brookfield. These extraordinary executives represent some of the most seasoned professionals from leading companies representing various sectors of our industry. These leaders provide a glimpse of the important topics of the day and a preview of the conversations that will be front and center at Realcomm | IBcon 2024 this June.
Our industry leading panelists focus on efficient "smarter" buildings, unraveling the latest new technologies providing real ROIs. Discover the art of seamlessly integrating multiple data sources, from sensors to lighting and movement, to create a holistic building intelligence solution. Learn how to enhance security measures and navigate the roadmap for AI-related tools, unveiling early testing results. Examine each detail in real-world scenarios through case studies involving actual deployment in back office, built environment and business process automation.
Our guests on Realcomm Live this week are Ian Framson, Sales Director & Founder of Trade Show Internet, and Michael Cerullo, CEO of Challenger Telecom. They explain the myriad of In-Building Wireless solutions available today, help demystify some common assumptions, and recommend a path forward for those starting to develop an IBW strategy.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes Zachary Aarons, Co-Founder & General Partner of MetaProp. Founded in 2015, MetaProp’s investment team has invested in 175+ technology companies across the real estate value chain. The firm manages multiple funds for both financial and strategic real estate investors that represent a pilot- and test-ready sandbox of 20+ billion square feet across every real estate asset type and global market. Zach shares his perspective on the state of PropTech and AI’s impact on the industry.
Explore the very latest innovations in data management, unraveling the intricacies of identifying data sources, definitions and developing robust strategies. This unique collection of industry giants discuss the foundations of enterprise architecture and navigating the dynamic landscape of data integration and role-based visualization. Discover business outcomes across diverse markets – Office, Retail, Multifamily, Industrial, Storage, and more – through insightful client case studies. Gain a comprehensive understanding of data warehouse tools and techniques, unlocking the potential for streamlined operations.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Andrew Dorcas, SVP, Sales and Strategy with ARHT Media, a pioneer and the global leader in live hologram technology. ARHT captures, transmits and beams images of people, objects and experiences in high-quality and ultra-low latency. These lifelike holograms appear remotely in one or multiple places at once and deliver memorable live interactions with an in-person audience.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Rich Berliner, CEO of Digital Locations, a company who is hoping to change this with the development of Satenna, a breakthrough technology that will do just that. Working with a research team from Florida International University, they are developing Satenna, a potentially disruptive technology that will make it possible for the wireless industry to offer high-speed Internet service from satellites directly to smartphones anywhere in the world, indoors and outdoors with no dead zones and no cell towers.
This week we were LIVE at the Carr Innovation Lab with Chief Technology Officer, Ilan Zachar and Director of CRE Technology Initiatives, Aaron Altscher, who take us on a tour of their 4,200-square-foot Lab in Washington, D.C. The Lab is dedicated to testing new and existing technology and serves as an ideation platform for future solutions. They highlight the Lab's innovative elements, discuss key partnerships that brought them to life, and share how it has been instrumental in driving better outcomes for their technology projects and investments.
Technology partners and industry leaders explore selected smart building projects that are leading the way in in-building communications solutions. Owners and operators can no longer allow poor or nonexistent 5G, DAS, CBRS and WiFi coverage at any location within their buildings. Enhance employee, tenant, and visitor experiences with ubiquitous connectivity that also optimizes building operations. Maximize your installed PropTech’s ROI with strong and stable connections. Learn the absolute minimums that must be attained to stay competitive as the next wave of "smarter" buildings continue to evolve.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes Ylli Bajraktari, President and CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project. SCSP is a non-partisan, non-profit initiative with a clear mission: to make recommendations to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness as AI is poised to reshape our national security. Ylli previews the organization’s AI Expo for National Competitiveness event in DC where the future of AI and machine learning are on display.
This week on Realcomm Live, our guests are Gary Bailey, VP of Enterprise Applications & Operations, and Goutham Vulpala, AVP of Enterprise Applications with Phillips Edison & Company, one of the nation's largest owners and operators of grocery-anchored shopping centers. Gary and Goutham oversee the IT application development, infrastructure and operations teams, delivering IT solutions that support the company's vision and goals and are at the heart of their AI strategy.
This week, Joseph Martino, VP of IT with Primaris REIT in Toronto, focuses on the organizational productivity of the Artificial Intelligence revolution. From recorded meetings to auto generated to do lists, Joseph is hyper-leveraging the productivity gains of the Microsoft AI stack. He has leaned into this new technology and says he can never go back. Anyone interested in continuing this AI /Built Environment journey shouldn’t miss this week’s episode of Realcomm Live.
This webinar is your passport to understanding, adapting and thriving in the dynamic landscape of low voltage technology. Our expert panel goes through a comprehensive exploration of low voltage technology, dissecting definitions, use cases and today's challenges. This session will address evolving topics such as power resiliency and navigating through prime and backup power solutions.
Stephen Buschbom, Research Director with Trepp presents a data driven perspective of the state of the real estate market. How bad is the debt and leverage crisis, what sectors are being impacted the most, how long will it last and what does it mean to the technology sector supporting the built environment. With a tightening of the market comes more scrutiny of technology budgets and understanding the current state of the market is key to thriving in challenging times.
This week our guests are Jim Baldwin, CEO of Domatic, and Steve Corcoran, President of SDC Next Consulting. They are the visionaries behind Burbridge Place: A state of the art building of 124 units of permanent supportive housing in Seattle. The structure incorporates cutting-edge features such as rooftop solar panels, waste heat recovery systems, highly efficient air conditioning, and integrated technologies similar to those found in "smart home" designs, in a converged all DC and fiber environment.
This week Realcomm Live does a deep dive into this year’s CES show with Mark Vena, CEO and Principal Analyst at SmartTech Research, a Bay Area-based technology research firm focused on the consumer tech space. From AI and 5G, to VR and Apple’s long-awaited Vision Pro, Mark will recap the show and provide a look into what’s coming down the pike for the built environment.
Unpack the nuances of clarifying "work," explore avenues of defining optimization and learn the significance of setting proper expectations for a thriving real estate ecosystem. This webinar is your guide to navigating the complexities and embracing innovation in the dynamic world of real estate.
A dynamic panel of thought leaders, industry experts and vendor tech partners explore some of the key breakthroughs in the built environment, how well this year’s projects have aligned with expected business outcomes and what is likely to come next. This session also reviews new product offerings and their alignment with specific business initiatives, new directions, and mandated impacts.
This webinar provides concrete examples of business process re-engineering, data modeling and systems integrations that have only been made possible by embracing the latest in technology and innovation.
On this week’s episode of Realcomm Live, our guest is Ajoy Bhattacharya, Senior Technology Strategist for Microsoft’s AEC Vertical. In his role, he works with CIOs and other executives to strategize on their IT and innovation plans as it pertains to AI and the built environment. Ajoy provides a glimpse into the presentation he will be giving next week at BuildingsAI relating to OpenAI and Microsoft’s partnership, as well as the fundamental change management required to embrace AI.
This week’s guests Joseph Martino, VP, IT, Primaris REIT and Aaron Altscher, Director of Technology Initiatives, Carr Properties, provide insight into how their two organizations are developing their AI strategies, aligning budgets and selecting the first generation of use cases.
As our industry pioneers explore possibilities, collect millions of data points, and leverage AI tools to efficiently process information, new concerns emerge including: unintended biases, errant conclusions, cyber security weaknesses, talent shortages, and unrealistic ROIs. By sharing their actual project objectives, business outcomes, and unexpected learnings from a wide variety of initial AI case studies, our panelists provide an insider’s view of their results. By sharing their knowledge and learnings, our panelists hope to expand the industry’s collective understanding of the AI/GPT landscape and set realistic expectations for the future. Viewers will gain valuable insights from actual project results.
On this week’s Realcomm Live, guests Rob Murchison and Tom Shircliff, Co-Founders and Principals of Intelligent Buildings, unpack the various stages of the smart building journey, where we are today and the potential impact that Artificial Intelligence might have on the built environment.
A true understanding of any evolving technology and its impact on an industry begins with accurate definitions, relevant comparisons, and factual analysis of its possibilities. This session examines the machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision and additional advanced data-related applications and development tools by Azure, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and others currently being used by CRE organizations. We explore potential use cases such as valuations, financial analytics, lease management, building energy optimization, operations efficiency, and more. Panelists discuss the growing development of policies, training programs, governance, implementation strategies and the need for industry standards. Listeners will leave with a clearer understanding of terminology, trends, and realistic possibilities.
This week’s guest, Emmanuel Daniel, EPC Digitization Leader, Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation, is no stranger to innovative and transformative corporate real estate projects. As one of the lead strategists for Microsoft’s new campus as well as other iconic building projects around the world, Emmanuel’s perspective is not based on opinion or theory but experience. Tune in for a lively and informative conversation about the future of corporate real estate, facilities and the workplace.
As workplace models are evolving, so are the ways in which companies are implementing workplace experience projects. An expert panel analyzes several case studies involving homegrown and purchased applications, technologies used to smoothly integrate in-office and remote workers and productivity accountability. Attendees learn about project milestones, success stories and project failures.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Josh Panknin, Director, Real Estate AI Research & Innovation at Columbia University, and Yoann Poirier, Lead Data Scientist with RXR, to explore how AI will impact the built environment and the importance of having a solid data infrastructure to take advantage of this powerful and disruptive technology.
Expectations from owners and workers in late 2023 may look very different than just a year ago. Experienced panelists explore the latest trends and the impact of remote work on promotions, mentoring, performance reports, manager perceptions, and development opportunities. Multiple factors that may be driving hybrid work solutions in very different directions are reviewed. Technologies such as Microsoft Places and Google Workplace are designed to align hybrid work objectives with immersive experiences. Are they working? An expert panel also looks at these options.
This session reviews hand-picked case studies and examines the project design, implementation and results. Panelists share the details of their project milestones along with the efforts needed just to get the projects approved. Vendor partner speakers evaluate modern wireless options and discuss the trends that are shaping the market. Attendees of this session benefit greatly by hearing directly from those who implemented the projects and several of the vendors that supported them.
This week on Realcomm Live, we welcomed our inaugural BuildingsAI advisory council co-chairs, Wayne Campbell, Technologist, Freelance Management Consultant, and Sunder Pappu, SVP, Head of Technology & Strategy with Inland Real Estate Group. The conversation focused on the state of AI in the built environment as well as what to expect at BuildingsAI, which will be hosted at Meta’s Headquarters in November.
This week’s episode of Realcomm Live features our CoRE Tech 2023 Advisory Council Co-Chairs, Frank Cuevas, VP Global Real Estate, McKesson, and Bobby Louissaint, Head of Technical Partnership Engagements, Global Shared Services, Meta. Tune in for a sneak preview of the big issues and topics that will be front and center at this year’s CoRE Tech conference, which will be held in conjunction with the new BuildingsAI event at the Meta Campus in Menlo Park. These distinguished leaders share their extensive real-world experiences adapting to this new future of work reshaped by innovation and technology.
This session explores the latest foundational wireless technologies. Senior company technologists and vendor partners explain the fundamental aspects of 5G/6G, CBRS and when a project demands a company-owned private network. Panelists explore the art of the possible with various emerging options including BLE, NFC, UWB and even how Apple Wallet is making its debut in this space. If these acronyms seem unfamiliar or foreign, tune in as the panel dissects each and explains everything in easy-to-understand terms.
This session examines several operational case studies that illustrate proven methods of identifying entry-ticket minimums, establishing a realistic ROI and obtaining project approval. Industry experts and vendor partners weigh in on implementation options, cost-saving opportunities and critical project milestones. Attendees benefit from a discussion of multiple perspectives on projects that have recently been completed or are currently underway.
Evaluating and integrating proven sensor and IoT device technologies with today's building management systems can be a daunting task. Building engineers are facing multiple challenges as more vendors introduce new products designed to enhance building operations. A panel of industry experts and trusted vendor partners examine how various products are being used in the built environment to streamline operations, enhance building security, measure human movement and more.
The successful partnership between business and technology has always been a critical part of achieving desired business outcomes in any organization. The opportunities to effectively contribute in these high-tech areas has been rapidly evolving to include diverse thought, inclusive achievements, unlimited proven talent, and rewards for strong ambition. Our panel of engineers, innovators, data scientists, and technical vendor partners reveal their journeys in challenging established norms, forming alliances, breaking barriers, and achieving excellence despite setbacks and obstacles standing in their way.
Workplace culture reflects the values of company leadership and can shape employee interactions, motivations and loyalty. Our panelists boldly explore significant changes in leadership modeling, evolving workplace challenges, mentorship, diversity of thought, as well as the internal and external barriers that shaped their careers. Listeners will hear powerful testimonies that often reveal the incredible courage and persistence that lifted our panelists to unexpected new heights.
This webinar examines the most interesting operational and built-environment outcomes following the first half of a year that could be severely impacted by tenant lease renegotiations, net-zero carbon mandates, occupant safety, and cap rate expansion. Industry experts explore how the most influential operational partners are evolving their product offerings and how companies are adjusting their projects based on business reprioritizations.
This webinar examines the most interesting enterprise outcomes following the first half of a year that could be finding the commercial and corporate real estate markets in decline – possibly even in turmoil. Industry experts explore how the most influential technology partners are evolving their product offerings and how companies are leveraging technology to recalibrate their business priorities.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes two longtime members of our Advisory Council and co-chairs of the golf outing for the past eight years, Robert Entin, EVP & CIO for Vornado Realty Trust, and Todd Januzzi, SVP & CIO for The Paramount Group. They frame up the event, which is a perfect opportunity for some fun and networking before the conference begins, while also supporting a very worthy cause.
This week, Realcomm Live takes a sneak peek at the upcoming Real Estate Innovation Tours being offered at Realcomm | IBcon 2023. These behind-the-scenes tours will showcase several innovative projects and experiences in the Las Vegas area, including AREA15, an immersive entertainment and events district; BOXABL HOMES, for a glimpse at scalable factory mass homes production; HALO CAR, an innovative transportation concept; VU STUDIOS, an LED studio focusing on immersive experiences, and RESORTS WORLD, the latest addition to the Las Vegas strip that is setting a new bar for hospitality innovation.
This webinar features a simulated cyber attack where attendees learn the basics of conducting a realistic tabletop exercise with senior business leaders and how to receive valuable information about developing (or enhancing) their Incident Response Plans. Attendees watch as executives and department heads evaluate incoming information and respond to an escalating situation impacting multiple business areas.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes guest host Tom Shircliff, Co-Founder and Principal of Intelligent Buildings, along with Phil Zito, Founder and CEO, and Julian Palacios, Director of Business Development with Smart Buildings Academy. They explore the types of training they provide and how they are helping companies solve their BAS training needs. Don’t miss this episode if you’ve been looking for a way to take your team to the next level.
This webinar features a simulated cyber attack where attendees will learn the basics of conducting a realistic tabletop exercise from the IT and OT perspectives to develop a viable Incident Response Plan (IRP). Watch as team members make critical decisions on how to respond, who to call and when to escalate as time passes. Vendors and tech partners provide real-time guidance when they are contacted to assist the end users as they struggle to regain control of their corporate systems, data and building operations.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Galyn Black, Chief Energy Solutions Officer at EnXchange and Marc Petock, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Lynxspring, to discuss the innovation that is taking place that is getting us there and how the energy equation is changing.
Creating greater efficiencies is more important than ever as investors and regulators place greater demands on investment managers and advisors. Secure investor portals, capital fundraising, tax season processes, and backend data integration have become front and center for those seeking to maintain investor confidence. This session explores the latest investment management capabilities that are necessary to meet evolving investor reporting requirements.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes a panel of global workplace experts and co-chairs for the new Hybrid | Immersive Work Experience Summit that will be held at the conference. They share their thoughts on the workplace of the future and focus on everything hybrid and immersive, ranging from 3D video conferencing to digital online workplaces.
Panelists examine the latest data collection and integration case studies to explore several creative options for optimizing as many business processes as possible. They explain how today’s technology and data designs have reduced time, effort, and labor related to reporting and analytics. As the reliance on 3rd-party property management and accounting has grown for many companies, so to has the need to consolidate incoming data using different formats, definitions, and structures. We’ll explain how these processes were optimized and the key business outcomes that have been impacted by the results of these efforts.
This week, Realcomm Live has invited two pioneers in this exciting new product: Sunder Pappu, SVP, Head of Technology & Strategy for Inland Real Estate Group and Kaushlesh Chandel, VP, Innovation & Technology for Retransform. Always at the forefront of new technologies, Inland has partnered with Retransform to harness the power of this exciting new tool and explore the possibilities and implications to the commercial and corporate real estate industry.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes our guests Travis Connors, Co-Founder and General Partner of Building Ventures, and Zach Aarons, Co-Founder and General Partner at MetaProp, who share their insights on the status of PropTech investing. From the impact of high interest rates to a shifting market, we explore the venture capital landscape and what’s ahead.
Establishing a data strategy that adds significant value is still a challenging task for many organizations. Our panel of experts explore the fundamentals of integrated data sources that are necessary to move toward predictive and even prescriptive outcomes. Viewers of this session will learn the basics of multi-source data integration, advanced analytics, and role-based data visualization. We also explore opportunities for advanced processing methods using AI, ML, and RPA.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes a panel of global network experts and co-chairs for the new 5G | In-Building Wireless Symposium that will be held at the conference. They discuss the challenges and opportunities for building owners and operators with respect to 5G, CBRS and other emerging inbuilding wireless technologies, and also give us a sneak peek at what the new Symposium will deliver at the conference.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes guests Lisa Stanley, CEO of OSCRE International and Adam Hastings, Chief Data Officer at Hines to discuss details about the Environmental Data Standards Project and the imperative that real estate organizations move quickly to develop an effective approach to environmental data. The project takes a platform-agnostic approach, providing organizations an opportunity to accelerate their progress towards better strategies and practices for environmental data management and decision making – and a head start in implementation.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes our 2023 Smart Building Integrator Summit (SBIS) co-chairs Scott Cochrane, President, Cochrane Supply & Donny Walker, Partner, Newcomb & Boyd. They discuss the important role of the systems integrator in the smart building conversation and the impact of new building standards and regulations.
Panelists explore concrete examples that illustrate how net-zero carbon emission projects are not only possible but necessary to stay competitive in the CRE industry. Industry experts share details of their journey as well as the many pitfalls that should be avoided. This session provides a better understanding of carbon accounting and a valuable checklist of "must-haves" in organizations' decarbonization projects.
This week, Realcomm Live is honored to feature the Stacks+Joules management team: Mike Conway, Founder and President, and Jon Spooner, Founder & CTO, along with a graduate of the program, Fran Peral. They share highlights of the program and discuss the organization’s mission: to give more people the chance to have careers that use technology for the common good and provide students the tools to master the advanced technologies in the buildings industry that affect the way we live and work.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Intelligent Buildings co-founder Rob Murchison, along with VP of Client Services, Andy Schonberger, to give us a sneak peek into this year’s annual IBcon Intelligent Buildings Boot Camp. The IB Boot Camp is a unique learning opportunity for those involved with creating and executing a strategy for smarter buildings.
At this webinar, attendees learn the difference between Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions along with carbon offsets and how they are being measured. Panelists explore (1) various carbon accounting methodologies and how to make accurate assessments in multiple business areas and (2) Science-Based Target Initiatives (SBITs) and how those relate to the CRE industry. Attendees get insights on new software products entering the market and how to make an informed selection.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomed the Advisory Council co-chairs for the new Environmental Sustainability Forum: Michael Daschle, SVP, Sustainability, Brookfield; Maureen Ehrenberg, CEO, Blue Skyre IBE; and Clayton Ulrich, SVP, Corporate Operations & Engineering Services, Global Sustainability Officer, Hines. They address technology’s role in driving sustainability decisions and provide insights on setting the vision and aligning the necessary resources for the built environment.
This week we welcome the members of the Real Estate Cyber Consortium (RECC) and Advisory Council co-chairs for this year’s CRE Cybersecurity Forum: Greg Fitzpatrick, Business Development, IoT & Integration, Cochrane Supply and Executive Director of RECC; Jim Whalen, SVP, CIO/CTO, BXP; and Sean Nealon, SVP, Global Head, Cyber & Information Security, Brookfield. They discuss cybersecurity best practices for the built environment and address the most high-impact cyber threats and OT ransomware attacks building owners and operators face today.
This session reviews and dissects successful enterprise architecture strategies that highlight the growing demand for effective workflows that maximize business process efficiency, accurately capture valuations, and more. Attendees will learn how effective (or not) AI, ML and RPA techniques have been in achieving predictive and prescriptive analytics.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes the 2023 Advisory Council co-chairs for IBcon, the Smart, Connected, High-Performance, Intelligent Buildings conference: Arv Gupta, SVP, National Operations, Cadillac Fairview; Colette Temmink, Chief Strategy & Product Officer, Blue Skyre IBE; and Charles Whiteley, VP, Global Digital Leader, B+P, AECOM, all visionary leaders on global strategy for smart buildings and campuses. We explore smart buildings technology adoption, the projects their organizations are working on, and where they see the industry going in the next 12-18 months.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes a panel of global, leading-edge thinkers on PoE and low voltage power to discuss the reality of getting our built infrastructure converted to a much more efficient, much more sustainable power source. They explore the possibilities of low voltage and highlight several case studies and state-of-the-art solutions.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes our 2023 Realcomm co-chairs Sineesh Keshav, Managing Director, CTO with Prologis, Joe Rich, EVP, CIO with Related Companies, and Jeannie Schneider, SVP, CTO with Hines. They represent some of the most seasoned professionals from powerhouse companies representing office, mixed use and industrial. They provide a glimpse of the important topics of the day and a preview of the conversations that will be front and center at the Realcomm | IBcon event this June.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Arjun Kaicker, Co-Head, Analytics + Insights with Zaha Hadid Architects, one of the most respected and admired architectural design firms in the world. Kaicker discusses what these new workplaces might look like and the need to design buildings to be self-evolving and futureproof, with technology access that is seamless and frictionless.
Commercial real estate companies often establish critical partnerships with key vendors to aid in driving specific desired business outcomes. This session explores several case studies that help define how these partnerships were established, the goals they set and the milestones achieved within each implementation. Attendees also learn what to do (and not do) to jumpstart their own smarter building projects.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Warren Wilson, Director for Foreign Policy, Economics and Technology for the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), which Dr. Eric Schmidt (Google’s former chairman) founded and chairs. Warren shares how this shift in power, if it occurs, will impact the built environment, including critical infrastructure, data centers, corporate campuses, warehouses, offices, retail, industrial, manufacturing and more, and SCSP's vision to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness.
Industry experts explore the basics of technology-enabled business outcomes. Devices only make buildings smarter when the data they generate can be harvested, consolidated, and visualized to make better decisions, keep tenants safer, and reduce energy utilization. This session presents the fundamentals of smart building projects designed to meet well-defined business objectives.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Francisco Ruiz, Global Infrastructure Strategist & Director of IoT for Oracle, who shares insight into how they are building environments that bring together multiple industries to test and create approaches that address sustainability, portfolio optimization and equitable employee experience across the building life cycle.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Henning Roedel, Robotics Lead at DPR Construction, to discuss their journey with construction automation and how he sees robotics technology changing the way we build in the future.
Over the last 2-3 years, the concept of a smart building has been challenged and new features have been assigned to the intelligent building of the future. This session showcases building technologies that align with the vision of smarter buildings.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Justin Segal, President of Boxer Property and Co-Founder of Relay Human Cloud, to discuss how organizations can integrate international talent and become a key player in the workplace’s next big transformation.
New commercial real estate information management solutions enter an ever-expanding pool of single stack, integrated best-of-breed, open ecosystem and DIY options on the market. This session showcases some of the most innovative and progressive IT and business automation solutions to achieve a successful, seamless back-office automation.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Nicholas Stello, SVP, IT Infrastructure with Vornado, Joe Rich, SVP, CIO with Related and Ilan Zachar, CTO with Carr Properties to help us better understand the many components of this technology and the challenges surrounding implementation and tenant integration.
Defining the workplace of the future comes with unique challenges, among them the blending of physical and virtual space, effective collaboration technologies, and identifying a comprehensive device infrastructure. This session showcases technologies that enable hybrid work environments and create meaningful workplace experiences.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes Kapil Lahoti, Chief Digital & Technology Officer (CDTO), GWS at CBRE to discuss the current state of the corporate real estate industry, technology’s expanding role in the transformation of the workplace and other corporate facilities, as well as the most innovative ideas he is seeing in the industry.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes two industry experts to the show: Jon Morris, CEO of Ballast Networks and Chris Wixom, VP of Wireless Commercial Sales with Corning. They address the many questions surrounding in-building wireless and share other valuable insights on the various options for corporate real estate.
In recent years, the concepts of Digital Twins, AI and other emerging innovative technologies have found more applications in the built environment. This session will provide compelling examples of these and other technologies and examines their role going forward.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Mark Golan, VP, Asset Management and Real Estate Investments at Google, who discusses the environmental elements and the campus' smart building technologies. From its stunning architecture and environmentally minded, healthy and smart spaces, the campus is the epitome of flexibility and has set the benchmark high for the future of corporate workplaces.
The office market has never seen the degree of concentrated disruption it has experienced over the course of the pandemic. Industry consultants share their thoughts and insight on hybrid space, immersive experiences like the Metaverse, and how people will work together in the future.
This week Realcomm Live features three leading innovators in the workplace space; Steve McNelley, CEO with DVE Holographics; Cliff Polan, CEO & Co-Founder of Welo; and Skip Rodenbush, Founder and CEO of The Virtual Specialist. They explore how physical space and online platforms best co-exist and address issues such as “virtual fatigue”, productivity and a ubiquitous physical and virtual workplace experience.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes Amy Peck, Founder and CEO of EndeavorXR, CBRE’s Miquel Vidal, Head of XRS (Mixed Augmented Virtual) Reality Solutions and Stuart Appley, Managing Director, GWS Tech Solutions. They help us differentiate between these powerful visual technologies and share trends and industry best practices for using them to support building lifecycle management.
Defining and setting a course to meet decarbonization, electrification and net-zero objectives requires a cohesive plan and alignment among internal teams and external stakeholders. This session examines these sustainability measures as well as ethical concerns that are part of the ESG narrative.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes our CoRE Tech 2022 Advisory Council Co-Chairs, Ryan Allbaugh, VP, Corporate Real Estate Technology Strategy Lead, Wells Fargo; Maureen Ehrenberg, CEO, Blue Skyre IBE; and David Gunter, Head of Global Workplace, Pinterest, for a sneak preview of the big issues impacting CRE and innovative new technologies that will continue to redefine the workplace, corporate real estate management and facility operations.
This week we’ve invited Paige Pitcher, Head of Strategic Partnerships with Moderne Ventures, and Travis Connors, Co-Founder and General Partner of Building Ventures, to join us and share their insights on the status of PropTech investing and what’s ahead.
The introduction of new building systems including sensors, cameras, location services and biometric controls bear the potential for hyper-surveillance in buildings. This session introduces best practices for creating privacy policies for the built environment and safe handling of PII on premise.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Clayton to the show to discuss his 40+ years of vision, determination, tenacity, willingness to change, and commitment to moving the digital transformation of the commercial real estate industry forward. He’s seen it all over the years and shares his insights and advice with those just starting their journey in this new, fast moving environment.
The built environment faces unique cyber challenges since many IT-focused frameworks do not work for operational technology in connected buildings. This session reviews the threat landscape for the built environment and cyber best practices for OT systems.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Lewis Martin, Business Manager, Smart Buildings and veteran recruiter with Charlton Morris, and Veronica Unnikrishnan, Partner and SVP of Innovation, Sales and Marketing, 5Q, who examine the severity of the worker shortage problem and discuss what creative ideas the industry is bringing forward to combat this ever-growing problem.
IT-related breaches, such as cyber-attacks on real estate information management and transaction systems, have increased in frequency. This session explores IT cybersecurity strategies and best practices to train employees to be vigilant about cybersecurity threats.
Technologies that create enriching experiences for office and campus visitors are more important than ever. This session explores the most innovative and creative approaches and examples to creating meaningful employee experiences that encourage employees to come to the office.
As we gradually move to a digital-heavy future that enables hybrid workplaces, the Corporate Real Estate enterprise architecture needs to rely on technology that connects relevant information and eliminates redundant data. This session envisions what IWMS and information management looks like going forward.
Over the last 24-30 months, there have been thousands of differing ideas on what a hybrid work environment looks like. This session reviews technologies that enable the digital future of work and meeting the diverse needs of the workers these technologies support.
We are witnessing an ever-increasing number of devices connected to building networks, producing voluminous amounts of data. In this session, we explore methodologies for collection, transportation, normalization, integration, analysis, and protection of data.
This session analyzes design, development and strategic management of the next generation, high performance, intelligent buildings. Panelists share perspectives for planning and executing a smart building strategy that provides a future-ready and scalable approach for smart building projects and portfolios.
This week the Realcomm team featuring Jim Young, Lisa Woods and Tina Danielsen outline the projects that will be included in this year’s Showcase. They discuss the kind of interesting, leading edge transformational technologies attendees have come to expect from the Smart Building Showcase.
This week, Realcomm partners Jim Young, Howard Berger and Lisa Woods take a deep dive into what will be covered at the conference. The event includes some of the world’s most recognized real estate and technology thought leaders who will discuss and debate the complex, comprehensive and ever-changing issues currently facing the industry. Tune in for a sneak peek at what’s on the agenda.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes partners Ivo van Breukelen and Stephen MacDonald of The Proptech Connection, a leading global advisory helping VC funds, real estate firms and technology companies navigate the complexities of the PropTech ecosystem. They share their insights into this global industry and focus on some of the most compelling technologies for CRE.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes two veterans in the intelligent building space: Tom Shircliff, co-founder of Intelligent Buildings and chair of the IBcon Intelligent Building Boot Camp, and Boot Camp alumnus, John Hester, owner and chief consultant with Hester Consulting. Hester was a major influence on the development of WarnerMedia’s new HQ at 30 Hudson Yards in New York City. They share their experience and perspective on designing, developing and operating smart and healthy buildings and give us a sneak peek into what this year’s Boot Camp will cover.
When evaluating ‘back end’ automation opportunities there are many options for increased efficiency and enhanced business insight through data integration, normalization and interaction. This session addresses the best opportunities for automating ‘back end’ processes such as leasing, AP/AR, budgeting and forecasting, document management and others.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomed our 2022 Smart Building Integrator Summit (SBIS) co-chairs Scott Cochrane, Cochrane Supply and Craig Stevenson, AUROS Group. They discuss the important role of the systems integrator in the smart building conversation, the growing need for converged networks in buildings, and the value of adding sustainability goals to the onboarding process.
There are multiple investment management enterprise solutions on the market but picking the right set for your organization can be a challenging endeavor. This session features commercial real estate industry experts discussing their vendor selection process, the scope of their implementation, subsequent integrations, and their technology roadmap.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes the 2022 Advisory Council co-chairs for IBcon, the Smart, Connected, High-Performance, Intelligent Buildings conference: Kathy Farrington, Google; Thano Lambrinos, QuadReal; and Victor Sanchez, LinkedIn. These three are visionary leaders on global strategy for smart buildings and campuses. They explore projects under development in their organizations, the hybrid work environment, and where they see the industry going in the next 12-18 months.
Building owners and tenants are looking to comprehensive digital solutions, IoT and sensors in particular, to efficiently operate a healthy, safe and sustainable building that is well positioned to thrive in this experience economy. This session examines the traditional way that sensors have been used and discusses the future benefits as well as the possible liabilities of a fully sensored work environment.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes 2022 Realcomm Advisory Council co-chairs Jesse Carrillo, Chief Innovation Officer, Howard Hughes Corp., Cecilia Li, CIO, Urban Edge Properties and Jeremy Poteet, CIO, JBG Smith, who discuss top-of-mind issues facing the industry, including return to work challenges, cyber, ESG, emerging technologies, improving the user/customer experience, and advice to new commercial real estate IT and innovation leaders.
Bringing commercial real estate transaction processes together in an integrated enterprise is a daunting task. Single stack, best of breed, open APIs, and data warehouses are just a few of the technology decisions that require exploring. This session debates what a modern real estate digital enterprise architecture should look like and how to get started on the right foot.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Jessi Blakley, VP, Communications at Tavistock Development, and Rahul Bammi, Chief Business Officer at View, who explore some of the many cutting-edge innovations that make Lake Nona a “Living Lab” and future-facing community built on sustainability, healthy living and integrated technology.
The complexities of a smart building are increased substantially when larger, multi-faceted projects are involved that seek to create a streamlined, integrated network of systems. This session explores the technical, financial and organizational requirements necessary for achieving a successful smart portfolio implementation.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Richard Newberry, CEO of KMC Controls, who outlines the severity of the supply chain issues impacting other industries, that are also causing serious disruptions in our ability to deliver high performance, connected, next generation buildings.
The advancements in wireless technology over the last 2-3 decades have fundamentally changed the way societies communicate and engage. The new generation of wireless technologies is positioned to transform the wireless landscape even further inside buildings. This session provides valuable insight from industry real estate and in building wireless veterans on the status of WiFi 6, 5G and CBRS wireless technologies.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes SLI’s Adam Rohde, Chief Operating Officer and Carrie Cassidy, Chief Construction Officer, who join us LIVE from the factory and the construction site to share details about this state-of-the-art construction technology. With its mission of setting a new standard of sustainable living utilizing technology and innovation, while addressing housing affordability, 303 Battery represents the building of the future.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Trevor Payne, Director of Estates at the University of Birmingham, to discuss their journey and what makes Birmingham the smartest campus and first university in the world to roll out Internet of Things (IoT) technology at scale.
The idea of smart edge devices that can provide a gateway to the cloud while keeping a majority of the data localized within the building is gaining popularity. This session explores what happens at the device-level and helps attendees understand the methodology of what data stays in the building and what information goes to the cloud.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Andrew Waller, Partner with Remit Consulting, an independent, European management consultancy specializing in real estate, and Jim McHale, CEO & Founder, Memoori, an independent analyst company focused entirely on the smart building industry. They share their thoughts on what’s happening with digital transformation and smart buildings adoption in Europe and what the trajectory looks like for the next three years.
Seamless technology use and access to important information from anywhere is key for a successful hybrid workplace experience. This session showcases some of the most innovative and creative solutions to maintain a cohesive company culture and create compelling, enriching experiences for post-pandemic offices and campuses.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Gensler principals Ben Tranel, Regional Leader in Mixed Use, and Hans Neubert, Global Practice Leader for Digital Experience Design, to discuss what a “digital masterplan” for the office looks like and what their leading-edge clients are planning for in the future.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Adrian Velicescu, CEO and Chief Creative Officer at StandardVision. Adrian showcases several of the projects he and his team have completed in Los Angeles, China, Bahrain, Hong Kong and other global cities, and explores why experiential and immersive experiences are important for building owners and operators to embrace and incorporate into their smart building strategies.
Over the last 12-18 months, there have been a variety of ideas on what a hybrid work environment looks like. This session reviews technologies that enable and support a healthy, hybrid workplace and provides a glimpse into what the future of work might look like for office and mobile workers.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes two high-powered New York building owners, Vornado Realty Trust's Nick Stello, SVP and IT Infrastructure, and Related Companies’ Joe Rich, SVP and CIO, to discuss these questions and what 5G means to their portfolios, look at what’s going on with carrier involvement, and explore what comes after 5G for phones.
This week, Realcomm Live is pleased to welcome Scott Morey, President of WeWork Workplace and Technology. Known for providing dynamic, flexible, and beautifully designed workplaces around the world, WeWork has reimagined the future of flexible working and the transformation of the work culture. Scott shares his thoughts and insight on hybrid space, fully immersive experiences like the Metaverse, how people will work together in the future, and how to maximize the value of an asset.
While many real estate organizations are collecting massive volumes of data, moving from raw information to valuable insight can be a daunting task. This session features case studies from organizations that are successfully utilizing real estate and building data to gain valuable industry or company insights.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Sunder Pappu, VP of Technology at Inland. He discusses how Inland’s IT group is keeping pace with today’s accelerated tech adoption by continuously reinventing their processes and services. We learn how they are leading the industry by leveraging sophisticated technologies, like artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive better business decisions and customer experiences.
Business intelligence and advanced analytics tools broadly encompassing decision support systems, business intelligence systems and visual analytics can have a profound impact on corporate strategy, performance and competitiveness. This session reviews compelling advanced analytics tools and strategies.
This week, Realcomm Live meets with Peter Miscovich, Managing Director, Strategy and Innovation with JLL. Peter develops corporate strategy and innovative workplace solutions for global organizations. For more than 30 years, he has traveled the world and consistently been at the forefront of commercial and corporate real estate innovation. Peter shares his unique perspective and explores what he sees coming next for the future workplace.
Organizing the tremendous amount of back office, smart building and occupant data into a cohesive information management program is critical to achieving organizational efficiency and business acumen. This session identifies best practices and shares valuable insight into developing a modern, comprehensive enterprise data strategy.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes David Nussbaum, Founder and CEO of PORTL, a Los Angeles-based holographic company that is taking HoloPortation to the next level. David shares how this cutting-edge virtual technology works and how it will be impacting the commercial and corporate real estate industry in the very near future.
The final session in the series presents some of the most progressive and successful implementations of smart buildings and corporate campuses. These projects demonstrate the possibilities when utilizing an intelligent building strategy, operational building data and an ecosystem of technology partners to develop smarter buildings and workspaces.
This week, Realcomm Live does a deep dive into this year’s CES show with Mark Vena, CEO and Principal Analyst at SmartTech Research, a Bay Area-based technology research firm focused on the consumer tech space. From 5Q and edge computing, to AR/VR wearables and LED immersive experiences, Mark recaps the show and provides a look into what’s coming down the pike for the built environment.
Across the US, building owners and operators are tasked with making energy efficiency upgrades and/or decarbonizing their power supply to meet new emission reduction targets. This session reviews best practices for operational efficiencies and showcases portfolios that are committed to reducing embodied carbon emissions.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Kunal Lunawat, co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on real estate technology. Kunal discusses the power of AI and the metaverse and explores how it will inspire a bustling new economy at every level.
This session explores how to plan and execute an intelligent building strategy to develop a future ready and scalable approach for smarter buildings. The panelists discuss the role of the network architecture and best practices for the wired and wireless building backbone and cybersecurity fundamentals for modern IP enabled, IoT connected facilities.
This week's guest is Spencer Levy, Global Chief Client Officer and Senior Economic Advisor for CBRE, the largest commercial real estate firm in the world. Together, we leverage Spencer’s global perspective to unpack and shed some light on how these major trends will impact all sectors of commercial and corporate real estate and the role technology will play.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Aaron Altscher, Director of Technology Initiatives at Carr Properties, to discuss their IAQ strategy and how they are pioneering the implementation of several new technologies to promote the safety and well-being of their customers and guests.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes David Gazek, President, Gazek Consulting; Talia Fine, SVP, IT at Tanger Outlets; and Amy St. Denis, Managing Member, Devana Partners, to discuss this movement and share their thoughts on how companies can focus their technology strategies on the employee/remote work experience that will meet the changing needs of today’s workforce.
Over the course of the pandemic, the concept of a smart building has been challenged and new features have been assigned to the intelligent building of the future. This session reviews smart building lessons learned in 2021 and explores how building owners can be better prepared for unforeseeable future events.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes three of our 2021 Digie Award recipients: Clayton Ulrich, SVP, Corporate Operations & Engineering Services at Hines and Kathy Farrington, Global Lead for Digital Buildings Program (BOS) and IoT Team Manager at Google, who were both honored with the IBcon Julie Devine Digital Impact Award, and Marc Petock, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Lynxspring, recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement award. It takes vision, determination, tenacity and commitment to move an industry forward. These individuals have shown these qualities and are very deserving of this recognition.
Technology plays an integral part in creating a company culture and experiences that support in-office and mobile workers. This session showcases some of the most innovative and creative solutions to create compelling experiences for post-pandemic corporate offices and campuses.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes two of our 2021 Digie Award recipients: Ilan Zachar, CTO, Carr Properties and Denise Taylor, President, Global Technology Solutions, Legends, who were both honored with the Realcomm Julie Devine Digital Impact Award. These individuals are leading the charge on strategic and transformational technologies, creating a more efficient, effective and adaptive industry and shaping the future of smart buildings.
Tech features of building systems are advancing so rapidly that a specified component may become functionally obsolete before a new project or retrofit is even completed. This session explores future ready intelligent design strategies considering standards, integration and the changing landscape of manufacturers and software providers.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes Ujjaini Dasgupta, Associate Director, Smart Building Innovations at Merck and David Gunter, Head of Global Workplace at Pinterest to discuss the design, development and management of future-ready and scalable smart buildings of the future.
To operate a healthy building beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, building owners and tenants are evaluating behavioral, spatial, material, and operational strategies to protect the welfare and privacy of building occupants. This session discusses the importance of long-term health and wellness strategies.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Steve Corcoran, Systems Division Consultant with SLI, a growing building technology company that is changing the way buildings are designed, developed and delivered. Steve will address their approach to managing and distributing solar, DC power and fiber in the building, along with their suite of applications that span the entire building lifecycle, providing unparalleled data and analytics to owners and operators. Their mission: to set a new standard of sustainable living while addressing housing affordability.
With COVID-19 impacting office density and traffic patterns, building owners and operators are paying close attention to workplace occupancy data analytics from sensors. This session reviews tools and strategies for a data-driven, flexible hybrid workplace design.
In this session, the panelists explore the role technology plays in building design and construction management. Best practices for increasing process efficiency and reducing embodied carbon emissions in new builds are presented.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes three past recipients of this prestigious award: Don Goldstein, Maureen Ehrenberg and Ted Maulucci, who will share their journeys, the challenges they’ve faced and their commitment to bringing innovation to the built environment.
This week, Realcomm partners Jim Young, Howard Berger and Lisa Woods take a deep dive into what will be covered at the conference. The event includes some of the world’s most recognized real estate and technology thought leaders who will discuss and debate the complex, comprehensive and ever-changing issues currently facing the industry. Tune in for a sneak peek at what’s on the agenda!
Modern building infrastructures enable a connected network of devices well beyond the traditional building automation systems. This session addresses the opportunities, as well as integration, standardization, cyber and compatibility challenges of integrating next generation smart building technologies.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes three industry executive leaders and the co-chairs of this year’s CEO|COO|CFO|CAO Innovation Summit: John Gilbert, EVP & COO at Rudin Management; Sara Shank, Managing Director and Global Head of Innovation at PGIM Real Estate; and Justin Segal, President at Boxer Property to share insights on digital transformation and shifts in the post-pandemic hybrid workplace, ESG, healthy building technologies, data-driven innovation along with the strategies to manage organizational change necessary to operationalize these initiatives.
This session presents industry use-cases for design, development and management of intelligent buildings of the future. The panel discusses how to plan and execute a smart building strategy in the current environment to provide a future-ready and scalable approach for smart building projects and portfolios.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes three veterans in the intelligent building space: Steve Lefkowitz, VP Global Real Estate Operations at WarnerMedia Group and Lachlan MacQuarrie, SVP, Real Estate Management at Epic Investment Services, both representing large firms that have embraced and deployed smart building technologies across their enterprises, and Tom Shircliff, co-founder of Intelligent Buildings and chair of the IBcon Intelligent Buildings Boot Camp. They share their experience and perspective on designing, developing and operating smart and healthy buildings.
Developing a comprehensive, integrated enterprise architecture strategy that connects relevant information and eliminates redundant data can be challenging. This session explores the strengths and opportunities of IWMS, data warehouses and lakes, as well as integrated point solutions.
This week Realcomm Live showcases two of the most innovative smart districts in the world and the technology strategies necessary to develop digital urban neighborhoods of the future. Our guests are Mike Smith, CEO of WhiteSpace, a building technology advisory firm, who discusses the Water Street Tampa project, Florida's first smart district; and Chuck Niswonger, President of NiceNets Consulting, who is working closely on VinGroup’s Vinhomes Ocean Park project, an emerging world-class smart city in Vietnam.
This week, Realcomm Live’s guests are members of the Real Estate Cyber Consortium (RECC) and co-chairs for this year’s CRE Cybersecurity Forum: Charles Meyers, RECC; Jim Whalen, Boston Properties; and Thano Lambrinos, QuadReal. They will discuss high-impact cyber threats and the OT ransomware attacks building owners and operators face today, as well as the inhibitors to improving cybersecurity in CRE.
Providing a connected workplace environment comes with a set of unique challenges around getting people into the office safely and efficiently. This session reviews access control and video monitoring options from the lobby to the tenant space and discusses potential privacy and liability concerns.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes the 2021 Advisory Council co-chairs for IBcon, the Smart, Connected, High-Performance, Intelligent Buildings conference; Emmanuel Daniel, Microsoft; Dean Hopkins, Oxford Properties; and Sabine Lam, Google. These three are the world’s most prolific leaders on smart buildings and campuses. All have major smart building projects under development. We explore these projects, as well as aligning real estate with operations, the technologies they are watching and where they see the industry going in the next 12-18 months.
Most professionals have now learned to work remotely from anywhere and many are not going back to commuting into the office 5 days a week. This session examines how operating models are affected by flexible, highly adaptable workplace environments and dynamic office designs.
Taking the concept of smart buildings to another level, smart districts emphasize the importance of developing an infrastructure based on integrated technology platforms powered by next-generation high-speed, low-latency connectivity. This session showcases some of the most innovative districts in the world, focusing on the technology strategies necessary to develop digital urban neighborhoods of the future.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes our 2021 Realcomm Advisory Council co-chairs Robert Entin, EVP & CIO at Vornado Realty Trust, and Ilan Zachar, CTO at Carr Properties, who will discuss top-of-mind issues facing the industry, including return to work challenges, cybersecurity, and the ever-important role data plays in the business of commercial real estate.
The Best Practice Showcase series continues with a showcase of attainable, equitable and sustainable tech-enabled multifamily and mixed-use projects. The session reviews evolving standards and technology tools to manage build-out and ongoing operations and discusses balancing costs with aggressive project performance goals.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes our 2021 Smart Building Integrator Summit (SBIS) co-chairs Scott Cochrane, Cochrane Supply; Craig Stevenson, AUROS Group; and Donny Walker, Newcomb & Boyd. They’ll discuss the important role of the systems integrator in the smart building conversation, how building science is merging into data science, and the critical resource shortage the industry is facing.
This week you’ll meet The Building People. Our guests are Founder and CEO Larry Melton, formerly Assistant Commissioner: Office of Facilities Management for GSA and also Facilities Manager of the White House during the 9/11 attacks, and SVP of Program Delivery and Technical Services Frank Santella, former GSA Regional Commissioner executive with over 35 years of Federal experience in the real estate space. Now in the private sector, they discuss the complex operational challenges facing the buildings industry and share thoughts for maximizing the workplace experience and reducing operational costs.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Will O’Donnell, Managing Partner at Prologis Ventures, who will discuss their investments in leading-edge technology that is sparking innovation across their global business, and the technology trends shaping the future of logistics real estate.
Digital Twins are dynamic virtual representations of buildings for managing the lifecycle of the physical structure – from design and construction to operations and maintenance. This session discusses the opportunities as well as a potential roadmap for Digital Twins for buildings.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Eric Herron, Managing Director of Development and Construction at Stream Realty, and Thano Lambrinos, SVP, Digital Buildings, Experiences & Innovation at QuadReal to showcase one of the smartest buildings in the country.
The challenges real estate decision makers face in today’s competitive business environment are complex. This session explores data strategies, concepts, tools and applications to understand, analyze and evaluate opportunities and challenges in the current market.
This week, Realcomm Live explores edge computing with Srini Khandavilli, Director of SMART Building Solution Architecture at Microsoft, a company with assets at the cloud and at the edge. Learn how they have optimized both as part of their digital transformation process and the impact they will have on commercial and corporate real estate operations.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes Ray Wang, CEO of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research and author of the bestsellers on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, and his latest on “digital giants” and the future of business, Everybody Wants to Rule The World. Ray shares his insight on how the business world is changing and how commercial and corporate real estate organizations must transform their businesses through the early adoption of exponential technologies, the importance of data value chains, hiring the right tech talent and creating partnerships with innovative technology start-ups
Deep learning algorithms that process and interpret millions of data points can have a tremendous impact on achieving efficiencies in the real estate space. This session focuses on AI-enabled technologies that can drive real estate enterprise processes, asset and investment management, preventative building maintenance, and provide portfolio/tenant/market insights.
This week Realcomm Live welcomes Prologis’ Managing Director and CTO, Sineesh Keshav, who oversees all aspects of their technology strategy and is responsible for leading the company’s global data and digital transformation. Sineesh will share his insight and experience on developing a capability driven, customer-centric approach to innovation and digitalization.
Technology, automation, and innovation play a pivotal role in workplace re-occupancy programs and a myriad of solutions focused on making buildings safe and adaptable have entered the market over the last year. This session introduces agile strategies for dealing with new and evolving technology demands.
This week’s Realcomm Live guest, Bobbie Tincher, Utilities Systems Manager - Energy Management at the University of Kentucky has been on the path to turn the university into a smart campus. Working tirelessly behind the scenes with technical engineers, she developed a strategy that resulted in what some might call, “the most automated campus in the country and maybe even the world.”
This session presents some of the most progressive and successful implementations of smart offices and corporate campuses from around the world. The showcase focuses on the potential of fully utilizing an enterprise-wide technology strategy, big data and an ecosystem of partners to produce intelligent buildings and workspaces.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Marc Ganzi, President and CEO of this newly branded company, DigitalBridge. Marc will share his thoughts on the massive changes taking place in the real estate industry, which is being greatly influenced by the development and adoption of technology.
This week, Realcomm Live welcomes founding members of Project Haystack, John Petze and Marc Petock, to discuss where the industry is today with smart building data standards for applications such as automation, control, energy, HVAC, lighting, and other environmental systems, as well as the importance of data interoperability.
In this week's Realcomm Live episode, we welcome Marty Edwards, VP, OT security at Tenable, a cyber exposure company that helps more than 30,000 organizations around the world understand and reduce cybersecurity risk. Marty was formerly the longest-serving director of the U.S. government’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS‐CERT). He will share his thoughts and insight on this important and extremely critical topic.
Many companies are turning to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to eliminate redundant and tedious tasks freeing them up to focus on more productive activities. This session explores RPA use cases for the commercial real estate industry and provides helpful tips on platform selection and RPA design, planning, execution and governance.
In this week's Realcomm Live episode, we welcome MIT’s Real Estate Innovation Lab Lead Researcher James Scott, who shares some of the PropTech projects his team is focused on and discuss innovation at scale and the pain points of adoption for the commercial real estate industry.
Seamless technology use and access to information from anywhere is key for a successful hybrid workplace strategy. This session examines how the pandemic has fast-tracked digital transformation and explores strategies and tools for providing an all-encompassing, secure on-site and mobile work environment.
This week's Realcomm Live episode features GSA's Chip Pierpont, Director of Innovation, Technology and Performance and Ana Rawson, Smart Buildings Program Manager, who will share how this very progressive government agency leverages technology and data to optimize management and operations of this massive real estate portfolio.
Developing a comprehensive integrated strategy is critical when setting intelligent building objectives. This session presents smart building analytics to achieve operational efficiencies and discusses the role of experience apps for building managers, tenants and visitors.
In this week's Realcomm Live Episode, we welcome Christopher Cayten, Partner and Senior Director of Strategic Growth at CodeGreen, to help us cut through the confusion of ESG and to explore the role technology plays in an ESG strategy.
5G promises to deliver significantly better network performance inside buildings. This session features industry experts who review 5G technology, timing, financial issues and the overall impact to buildings and present use cases for commercial building owners and operators.
In this week's Realcomm Live Episode, we feature Ashley Podhradsky, Associate Professor of Digital Forensics and Associate Dean of the Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Dakota State University, and Neville Teagarden, President and COO at AI Capital, who will discuss bridging the cybersecurity skills gap and what building owners/operators should know as they balance wanting to automate their portfolios and also protect themselves from cyber risk.
There are multiple investment management enterprise solutions on the market but picking the right set for your organization can be a daunting task. This session features industry experts presenting their vendor selection process, the scope of their implementation, subsequent integrations, and their technology roadmap.
In this week's Realcomm Live Episode, we speak with Lucian Niemeyer, national security expert and CEO of The Niemeyer Group, and Billy Rios, Founder of WhiteScope and one of the world's most respected experts on emerging threats related to software security, Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Critical Infrastructure (CI), and medical devices. These two cybersecurity experts will share their insight and important defense takeaways to help building owners and operators assess vulnerabilities and protect their organizations from cyberterrorism.
Technology plays an integral part in creating a company culture and experiences that support in-office and mobile workers. This session showcases some of the most innovative and creative solutions to create compelling experiences for new hybrid workplace models.
In this week's Realcomm Live episode, we welcome Hans Neubert, Global Practice Leader for Digital Experience Design with Gensler, who will share his thoughts on the integration of physical and digital design for the built environment.
Today’s IP-enabled, IoT connected facilities are based on sophisticated architectures that strongly rely on IT. This session covers the smart building wired and wireless backbone, reviews cybersecurity fundamentals and explores the boundaries of risk management for the built environment.
In this week’s Realcomm Live episode, we welcome Andrea Ruckstuhl, Head of Lendlease, Continental Europe and Susan Constantine, Head of Podium, Construction and Development, Europe, who will showcase MIND, a unique living lab in Europe that is setting new standards in technology, sustainability, wellness, safety and “Innovation at Human Scale.”
Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) is an emerging wireless technology that is making its way into the built environment. This session presents the current state of the technology, applications suited for indoors, and potential opportunities for building owners and operators.
In this week’s Realcomm Live episode, you’ll meet Derrick Tillman, President & CEO, Bridging the Gap Development, Donny Walker, Partner, Newcomb & Boyd and Craig Stevenson, President, AUROS Group, the team behind the vision of Fifth & Dinwiddie, a sustainable, Passive Housing project in an eco-innovation district in Pittsburgh. We’ll learn how this team balances first-costs with aggressive building performance goals and long-term operating costs to achieve attainable, sustainable, tech-enabled housing. This week's episode is sponsored by AUROS Group.
With the advent of COVID-19, forward thinking real estate organizations have developed newly automated processes for deal management, including lease renegotiations, defaults and downsized renewals. This session showcases some of the most efficient solutions designed to meet both internal and external market objectives
In this week's Realcomm Live episode, you’ll meet Ryan Allbaugh, Real Estate Technology & Innovation Strategist at Wells Fargo and Sean Nealon, VP, Cyber & Info Security at Brookfield Properties who will discuss how their organizations are guarding against cyber attacks and the precautions companies of all sizes should take to protect themselves. This week's episode is sponsored by Lynxspring.
With COVID-19 impacting office density and traffic patterns, building owners and operators are paying close attention to workplace occupancy data analytics from sensors. This session reviews tools and strategies for a data-driven, flexible hybrid workplace design.
In this week’s Realcomm Live episode, you’ll meet Farukh Aslam, CEO of Sinclair Holdings, developer of The Sinclair Hotel in Ft. Worth, TX. From guest experience to business operations that incorporate the latest in AI, IoT and data strategies, The Sinclair is the first truly low-voltage connected hotel in North America. Farukh and his team have been exploring the capabilities of low voltage DC power and will share his insight on this exciting technology.
The concept of an intelligent building is continually evolving. This session reviews smart building strategies and standards that are aligned with the additional challenges and opportunities exposed by the pandemic and presents best practices from some of the most innovative projects.
In this week's Realcomm Live episode, our guest, Vardahn Chaudhry, VP of Smart Cities at JBG Smith, will discuss how National Landing will serve as the digital foundation for innovation in the region and how their investment in next-generation connectivity infrastructure and technology will further cement National Landing as a premier global destination for entrepreneurs, universities and tech companies.
As the world gets more mobile, a building that cannot support a variety of wireless technologies can no longer be useful for office operations. This session provides an overview of in-building wireless technologies and presents future-ready strategies for building owners and occupants.
In this week's Realcomm Live episode, Thano Lambrinos, VP of Smart Building Technology & Digital Innovation at QuadReal and Joe Aamidor, Managing Director of Aamidor Consulting explore the evolution of the smart buildings journey, where North America stands in the global smart building race and how to accelerate both investment in, and adoption of, smart building strategies.
With the ever-increasing number of managed and unmanaged entry points to building systems, building owners and operators face unique challenges associated with securing BMS, as well as other IoT devices in their facilities. This session reviews the threat landscape for the built environment and cyber best practices for OT systems.
In this week's Realcomm Live episode, we speak with Dean Hopkins, COO with Oxford Properties and Matthew Vogel, Principal Program Manager | Microsoft Azure IoT | Smart Buildings at Microsoft to explore how this unique and powerful innovation surface will result in more valuable assets driving better customer experiences.
The real estate industry is not immune to threats to data, systems and solutions that keep an organization running and newly introduced hybrid workplace models present additional challenges. This session explores IT Cybersecurity strategies and best practices for commercial real estate organizations.
In this week's Realcomm Live episode, our international guests include Harry Badham, UK Head of Development at AXA Real Estate, a global investment management firm with offices in over 22 locations worldwide, and Jim McHale, Owner and Founder of Memoori, a consultancy based in Stockholm providing independent market research, business intelligence and advice on smart building technologies.
Investors, tenants and employees are increasingly looking for companies to improve their ESG performance, prompting success measures beyond financial growth. This session introduces ESG best practices for the real estate sector and assesses the complex challenges and opportunities building owners and operators face.
The final session in the series presents some of the most progressive and successful implementations of smart buildings and corporate campuses. These projects demonstrate what is possible when fully utilizing a company-wide strategy, big data and an ecosystem of partners to produce the best buildings and workspaces.
Business intelligence and advanced analytics tools – broadly encompassing decision support systems, business intelligence systems and visual analytics – can have a profound impact on corporate strategy, performance and competitiveness. This session presents compelling advanced analytics case studies in the industry.
BOMA International, in conjunction with Brightline Strategies and Yardi, conducted a nationwide study to gauge tenant sentiments relating to COVID-19, its impacts on their businesses, their attitudes towards the physical work environment and office space decisions going forward, as well as assess the financial and operational implications for commercial real estate owners and operators.
Navigating the landscape of COVID-19 recommendations and guidelines can be onerous. In this session, industry leaders review smart building sensors and technologies that help building owners and tenants comply with pandemic guidelines and create healthy workplaces that support occupant well-being and productivity.
BOMA International, in conjunction with Brightline Strategies and Yardi, conducted a nationwide study to gauge tenant sentiments relating to COVID-19, its impacts on their businesses, their attitudes towards the physical work environment and office space decisions going forward, as well as assess the financial and operational implications for commercial real estate owners and operators.
Across the US, building owners and operators are tasked with making energy efficiency upgrades and/or decarbonizing their power supply to meet new emission reduction targets. This session discusses the impact of regulations on building operations and showcases portfolios that are committed to carbon neutrality.
Although the data collected from BAS and connected IoT devices holds a treasure trove of insight, building owners and operators often struggle to manage and derive value from the information deluge. This session showcases industry leaders who successfully use data to increase building efficiency and occupant well-being.
Today’s intelligent building includes an integrated, interoperable approach for the entire IoT landscape. This session showcases technologies as well as IT/OT convergence strategies that allow building monitoring and controlling for operational efficiency, financial optimization, occupant experience and health and well-being.
A comprehensive data approach relies on the integration of both, internal and external data sources. This podcast examines how sales comps, rental rates, occupant demographics, economic information, sector-specific trend data, weather, and many other information sets can play into an effective information strategy.
Whether newly introduced “COVID-19 safety” technologies (e.g. scanners, UV-C sanitization, touchless controls and others) effectively help to stop virus spread or are merely a costly for show investment is disputed. This session showcases successful COVID-19 building technology programs based on relevant long-term strategies.
Onsite energy production, automation platforms, PoE applications, LED lighting and other emerging technologies have the potential to dramatically decrease energy consumption of buildings. This session introduces different energy management technologies and provides recommendations on navigating the solution landscape.
Organizing the tremendous amount of back office, smart building and occupant data into a cohesive information program is critical to achieving organizational efficiency and business insight. This podcast focuses on developing a comprehensive enterprise data strategy and showcases best practices in the industry.
Now, more than ever intelligent buildings technologies are needed for public-health, risk management, operational cost-efficiency, and the experiences necessary for returning occupants - and the public to commercial real estate. In this series you will learn how to define, plan and execute your strategy along with specific use-cases you can choose for design, development and management.
PART I: Defining the Intelligent Building Historically and in the Pandemic Era - The" elephant in the room” and how we can triage in the building with technology - Strategy and standards for intelligent buildings - Start with use-cases not systems and features - Best practice showcase
Building system sensors collecting, storing, analyzing, and in some cases interpreting data in every square inch of a building greatly challenge the concept of privacy. With the rise of privacy awareness and the introduction of regulatory compliance (such as GDPR in the EU and CCPA in California), building owners and operators are expected to demonstrate commitment to lawfulness, transparency, and data protection.