Masterclass in Real Estate Tokenization presented in Partnership With Digishares

Learn about how real estate assets can be represented by tokens on the blockchain, allowing owners to easily fund-raise, manage, and trade assets. If you are wondering how to enable or deploy tokens, NFTs, DAOs or other distributed strategies for your business, join us for an in-depth tour of the tokenized future.

Kick-Off Reception

Meet and mingle. Food and drinks provided. Open to all registered attendees. Brought to you by Welcome Homes.

The Making of a Game-Changing Multifamily Partnership

A key component of many successful PropTech investments are partnerships with major industry players. This panel will discuss what goes into making successful partnerships, as well as the general state of technology innovation in the multifamily industry and areas of opportunities going forward.

How the Largest CRE Landlord in the US Evaluates New Tech

As part of the government’s General Services Administration, the Public Buildings Service owns or leases more than 8,800 assets, and maintains more than 370 million square feet of workspace for 1.1 million federal employees — making the agency effectively one of the largest landlords (and one of the largest buyers of proptech) on the planet. In this session the PBS’s commissioner will discuss how the agency makes decisions on new tech, and how advances in data analytics have provided better insight into its real property portfolio.

How Tech Can Supercharge Traditional Brokerages

The traditional real estate brokerage has undergone a massive tech evolution over the past decade, with new tools emerging to assist throughout the sales process — from marketing and listings, to streamlining the transaction. This session will look at some of the major ways that tech is making brokers more efficient and more effective in connecting sellers with buyers, and buyers with new homes.

Fireside Chat: From Zillow to Pacaso and Beyond

Clelia Peters joins Zillow- and Pacaso-founder Spencer Rascoff on the plenary stage for a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of "proptech" as a concept; how Spencer's experience at Zillow is informing Pacaso and his other current ventures; and how he thinks about the real estate tech landscape these days as an investor.

Computer Vision as the New Payments Layer in CRE

Computer vision is emerging as the modern payment layer connecting cars to parking spots, consumers to drive-throughs, fueling, and charging. Alex Israel, CEO of Metropolis Technologies, and Todd Eagle, Managing Director of Real Estate at Goldman Sachs, discuss how new technologies will give CRE owners and operators real-time, accurate, and reliable visibility into usage of, and revenue derived from, built environment assets.

Harnessing IoT Data for Digital Twins and Beyond

The internet of things (IoT) offers vast potential for improving efficiency, productivity, and sustainability throughout a building's life cycle. Much of this potential revolves around the concept of the digital twin, which is a digital replica of a physical asset or system. By harnessing IoT data to create digital twins, we can gain valuable insights into the real-world behavior of these systems and use them to improve their performance. In addition to these operational benefits, digital twins can also be used for marketing and tenant experience applications. For example, they can be used to create realistic simulations of products or services before they are released to the market. Ultimately, the possibilities for using digital twins are limited only by our imagination.

The New and Expanding Tech Play in SFR

In 2021, at least $45 billion was committed to the single-family rental (SFR) space by institutional investors — up 15x from $3b in 2020, according to John Burns Real Estate Consulting. The rush of institutional capital into the SFR asset class has in many ways been enabled by technology improvements to aid in underwriting, property management, maintenance, and portfolio monitoring. This panel will discuss the role of technology in enabling capital formation within SFR, and the startups innovating across the SFR value chain.

How To Do a CVC Right

In theory, corporate venture capital (CVC) has powerful advantages over traditional, independent VC funds. In practice, CVC has a bad reputation in the VC industry for moving slowly, underperforming, and often failing to achieve the sponsoring corporate's underlying strategic objectives. Hear from successful practitioners what the traps are, ways to structure your CVC for success, and how right now might be a golden opportunity for your CVC to break through.

Renno: Helping Professionals Renovate Efficiently, At Scale

Renovating a property is often one of the most painful experiences as a homeowner. Now, imagine renovating 5,10, 25+ times per year. Renno is building a platform to make renovations less painful for professionals.

Maneuvering the Miasma of Messy Multifamily Data

Unlocking Real Estate Marketing’s Blackbox

John Wanamaker said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." If he were in real estate, the percentage would be higher. Real estate marketing is both a leaky bucket and a black box. It isn't for lack of places to advertise. It is because there are no tools to help owners and their agents never miss a call, never miss a lead, and never feel in the dark about the spend. Until now that is.

Proptech and the Journey to Net Zero presented by JLL Spark

How green tech and smart buildings are helping companies achieve their own sustainability goals in spite of economic headwinds.

How the Market Reset Will Revalue Proptech

It has been a founder's market for fundraising for the past few years, with capital flowing to proptech and high competition driving valuations ever higher. As markets have turned and proptech has become more established, how should we expect the market to change for founders? In this panel, we'll talk to leading VCs about the guidance they're giving their portfolio companies and the conversations happening behind the scenes at partner meetings.

Listings 2.0: Unique Data Driving Differentiated Capabilities presented by Prudence

We have come to take for granted the ease of access to a single source of truth for real estate listings and transaction data given the ubiquity of platforms such as Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and Compass. Outside of the residential sector in the U.S., access to this level of data tends to be limited, but a number of innovative growth-stage technology companies have brought this information directly to consumers and enterprises. Join us for a discussion on how unique data is driving differentiated capabilities and business models in the proptech ecosytem.

How to Know When New Proptech Is ‘Must-Have’

Tech leads at major real estate companies are faced with a variety of new innovations every year — and every year they need to discern what is merely “nice to have” versus what is a pivotal cornerstone for future growth. This panel will bring together tech leads from several major developers and brokers to look at how they evaluate the latest trends and companies in their orbit.

First-Look: Nabr’s Digital Configurator

Nabr, co-founded by Bjarke Ingels (BIG), Roni Bahar (formerly of WeWork) and Nick Chim (co-founder of Flux, a spinout of Google[x]), is reimagining the process of designing, customizing and owning a sustainable home in the city. Through a digital design and delivery system, a Nabr home can be pre-ordered online, the same way you would pre-order a car. From there, in the Design Studio, you can customize your space to make it your own, with packages from renowned interior designers. Bahar will be giving audience members an exclusive first look at the innovative, online configurator.

Fractionalizing Destination Homes

HomeSlice was founded in the spring of 2022 to enable existing second home owners to unlock significant capital appreciation while maintaining a slice of their home that aligns with their utilization. The HomeSlice platform enables and facilitates rentals, charitable donations and exchanges of owned time to maximize utilization, ROI and travel experiences for HomeSlice owners. HomeSlice is enabling more hard working Americans to own the vacation lifestyle and enjoy the many community benefits and travel experiences that we create for our owners.

Plant Prefab’s First Fully Automated Factory: A Preview of Arvin Hub

Plant Prefab is constructing a new factory in Arvin, California, Arvin Hub, which will be the nation's first automated facility that is optimized for producing custom single and multifamily home projects using a combination of panels and modules. Arvin Hub will be 100% solar powered and it will be capable of producing over 800 units a year. I'll be previewing a short video that illustrates how Arvin Hub will work when it opens next year.

Real Estate Investing Simplified

Built to Close

Closing Solutions That Scale With You

Productizing Multifamily Development

The single family industry was productized in the 1950s, with companies like Levitt & Sons (the developer of Levittown) producing homes on an assembly line and selling to the suburban mass market. Today, an array of companies are emerging that take a product-driven approach to mid- and high-rise buildings in urban centers. Learn about the different approaches to productization that startups and developers in the multifamily space are taking.

The Importance of Back-End Tech for Proptech’s Future

While back-end innovations aren't always the sexiest new tech in the built world, they nonetheless take on an outsize importance as more and more systems are deployed and integrated on top of one another. This panel will look at the growing importance of this tech in multifamily, and some of the newer ways it is being implemented.

Building a Data Strategy to Unlock RE Value

The promise of "big data" has been evident for years, as traditional firms have found more and more ways to quantify their processes and amass information. But for this data to truly unlock value, real estate companies need to know how to parse it and make it actionable. This panel will look at some of the latest ways that data is being used to move the needle and help real estate companies meaningfully improve the bottom line.

The Great Automation of Industrial Real Estate

Industrial real estate is undergoing a massive transformation, with a raft of new technologies and innovations being implemented across the sector. These include robots in warehouses, integrations for drone delivery, and flexible space that allows for nimbler, and more efficient use. Leaders from Prologis, now the largest industrial REIT in the world, and industrial flex-space provider Saltbox will talk about how new innovations are changing the landscape for industrial, and where they may be headed in the future.

Leasera A New Life on Leasing

Digitizing the Homebuying Experience

The Mechanics Behind Web3 Buildings

There are more buildings in the world than websites. And yet, only 0.00001% are accurately digitized. Translation: almost every building across the world has inaccurate, incomplete, or non-existent building information. Jose Cruz, founder of Integrated Projects, talks about building a "layer one:" the digital infrastructure, physical networks, and economics required to digitize the built environment, and solving for bad building information—at scale.

The Data-Driven Workplace Experience

The pandemic has empowered employees more than ever to decide where, when and how they want to work. We have seen mandates of when people have to come in largely fail and, in some cases, result in great employee attrition. The Data Driven Workplace Experience will discuss how technology can significantly assist in the return to office, help companies make quicker decisions around space needs and guide the design for the workplace of the future.

Everything’s a Fraction: Unlocking New Value Via Subdivision

Subdividing and re-selling property is nothing new in real estate, but over the past few years there have developed increasingly sophisticated tools for democratizing ownership structures, unlocking stored value, and creating new investment possibilities in all of the real estate asset classes.

The Convergence of Tokenization, Real Estate, & the Metaverse

Over the past year, the term “Metaverse” has seen rising popularity in the real estate market. Investors are willing to spend millions purchasing land, building stores, and buying security tokens with the expectation for attractive growth in the coming years. We’re bringing together global real estate leaders Cushman & Wakefield and Brookfield Properties with Founders from two of the most disruptive Web3 startups to better understand the implications around real estate operations, the workplace, and blockchain technology.

How Construction Innovations Are Transforming Housing Affordability

What is the future of construction & design in housing? How can innovation drive housing affordability? Hear from leading companies working with three of the most promising solutions — modular construction, mass timber, and 3D printing — and learn how these firms are embedding innovation in their organizations to address the housing crisis.

The Future of Wellness On-The-Go

Infrastructure For the Future of Real Estate

Presentation by Gable

Two Bites at the Apple — Proptech Founders Doing It All Over Again

How do you know if the Proptech ecosystem is healthy? One way is to ask the people on the ground (founders) and see who is making a second attempt at starting a PropTech company. These three founders all had initial successes with PropTech startups and are now starting new companies in the space.

Tomorrow’s Construction: Are Prefab & 3D-Printed Homes the Future?

There are many possibilities when it comes to prefabricated, modular, and 3-D printed housing. From backyard ADUs to stackable smart homes and climate resilient dwellings, prefab and large-scale 3D printed construction of homes offer many solutions for the future of housing. With faster building lead times, lower costs involved, and overall a more sustainable impact, these solutions are revolutionizing how dignified, beautiful homes can be delivered. There are different approaches emerging in this sector and this panel will give some of the leading start-ups the opportunity to discuss their innovative solutions and how these methods will define the future of home construction.

Reinventing Mortgage

Obtaining financing has long been the most painful part of home buying. This session will explore the current state of the residential mortgage process as well as new technologies that have the potential to fundamentally alter home financing.

Meeting the Expectations of the Modern Day Renter

As renters continue to expect more convenience, better amenities and true necessities delivered to their doorstep, hear what the owners and managers are doing to address these demands while also ensuring they don't over commit on budgets in a changing market dynamic. With tenant experience at their fingertips, electric vehicle charging as their new "gas station" in their garage and well designed spaces, come listen to an assortment of technology suppliers, owners and developers all intertwine on this narrative and plan for the future.

The Future of Real Estate

Presentation by GoBuild

VC Office Hours

Open meetings with investors from top-tier proptech VC firms.

Opening Remarks

Innovation From Within – Why the Largest Global GC Started an EIR Program

Turner Construction has long had an innovation team that scouts for new technologies and works with start-ups to bring these innovations to various Turner projects. But has Turner found enough compelling technology solutions that fit into the fabric of the problems they are trying to solve and the manner in which they conduct their business? Unfortunately, not. So they decided to flip the process on its head. What if Turner could tell the world what problems it was trying to solve and encourage founders to come work with them on it? What if Turner could work with a global VC firm who could help founders build and capitalize these opportunities? Learn more about the entrepreneur-in-residence program at Turner Construction that is focused on the co-development of new construction-tech start-ups with OMERS Ventures.

IBuying and Power Buying for All Seasons and Markets

The gyrations in the housing market over the past few years have made it more difficult than ever to predict where valuations will be, even a few months into the future. The strain of this uncertainty has been felt by some companies in the ibuying space, even while other models have thrived. This panel will look at the different ways that companies are thinking about buying homes in the wake of the pandemic, and how they are building their models of the long haul.

M&A in Focus: Is it Consolidation Time for Real Estate Tech?

This session will look at M&A trend lines, both in the macro environment and in PropTech specifically — touching on various areas of special interest in resi, commercial, retail, construction, investment, ESG, insurance, AI and data. Panelists will look at current valuations, and what qualities make for a relatively attractive acquisition. They'll also look at why the market may be consolidating, as acquirers look to bolster top line growth, and expand their products/markets.

Ground Truth: Real Talk on Tech Implementation in CRE

Hear from technology-focused, future-friendly commercial real estate companies on how they operationalize new systems to bolster business. We'll share boots-on-the-ground best practices for change management and field adoption.

How Fintech & Insurtech Innovations Are Transforming Real Estate

The wide scope of the real estate technology ecosystem intersects in many places with other industries that are in the process of being transformed. The dramatic innovations in finance and insurance over the past few years have had a large effect on how real estate companies operate and how deals get executed. This panel will look at the influence of fintech and insurtech on real estate, and some of the more innovative companies that are using it to push the industry forward.

Overcoming VC Constraints to Innovate in Housing Affordability

Making housing more affordable is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Technology can help but the innovation that is needed is not always supported by the venture capital community. Learn how new ideas for lowering the cost of housing are starting to gain traction and get more attention from the investment world.

Peek: Unlocking the E-Commerce Experience for Leasing

Automating Renovation Designs & Plans with AI & Digital Twins

The home renovation space is a 400B + market, yet the process has largely remained antiquated, manual, and constrained to local geographies. The convergence of spatial data from digital twins, AI and gaming engines; however, is unlocking new possibilities. With Skipp, anyone with a LiDAR enabled phone or an existing digital twin can get the power of an interior architect at their fingertips to visualize complete transformations of their space along with full cost control and documentation. The entire pre-construction package in just a few clicks.

Delivering on CRE Sustainability

How CRE portfolios are using analytics, technology and financing to green portfolios at scale.

As Proptech Rises in LatAm, Who Will Be the Big Winners?

Proptech is still in the early stages of development in Latin America, opening up a great world of opportunities for companies operating in the market. This panel will look at how the transformation of the industry is creating new possibilities for tech companies, entrepreneurs and investors.

Building Equality for the Built World: Women and Proptech

Women have been historically underrepresented both in real estate and in the world of tech - in spite of the fact that we know that more diverse perspectives lead to more innovation and better outcomes. In this session, female leaders in our industry will give an unvarnished look at what it's like to change an industry from the inside and both the challenges and opportunities in blazing a new path.

Where to Look for the Next Proptech Unicorns

VCs often see pitches for technologies that are three or five years from mainstream adoption — and thus can spot where trend lines and hype cycles might be headed well in advance of the broader tech community. This panel will look ahead at the next wave of proptech, and where investors in the sector are seeing startups with opportunities and green space.

Presentation by Mapped

Presentation by SmartBarrel

How BuildClub Is Transforming the Supply Chain of the Built World

The BuildClub is like an “Amazon for building materials”, with same day delivery. Contractors and owners consider us their “outsourced”, sourcing department. We save them the fixed cost of having their own sourcing people/vehicles, while providing all the materials and managing the logistics to the job sites.

Presentation by Modern Electron

Presentation by EV Passport

Presentation by Parcl

How Not to Screw Up Your Proptech’s European Expansion

Expanding into other regions and markets is always a challenging process for startups.  Aside from languages and customs, proptechs often need to adjust their products and businesses to accommodate local building laws and real estate regulations. This panel will look at some of the specific challenges of launching in Europe, with key insights and lessons learned from companies that have gone through the process.

Challenges to Scaling Capital-Intensive Proptech Businesses

This discussion will look at the inherent challenges that come with scaling a real estate technology startup with a capital intensive business model. The panel will discuss the incumbent financial obstacles that make this vertical of proptech challenging and tactics to building companies that excel at both technology and finance.

PropTech and the Metaverse – Virtual Spaces Meet CRE

As the PropTech industry continues to identify the definition of a hybrid workplace, how are corporations enabling employee collaboration and improving productivity through the metaverse? A panel of PropTech leaders share their experience with the evolution of consumer-based XR to tech-based innovations for the future of the workplace.

How Upgrades and Innovation Are Streamlining Residential Real Estate

The residential real estate sector benefited from the spike in demand post-COVID, but for many industry participants, leasing and other processes remain extremely unwieldy. The apartment rental market, homebuying and appraisal spaces are hampered by middlemen and antiquated processes — but technology is poised to change that. In this session, real estate technology investor Christopher Yip of RET Ventures will talk to four entrepreneurs in the residential real estate space about how technology innovations are improving every aspect of residential real estate, bringing efficiency to industry professionals and giving consumers more flexibility and convenience than ever before.

Squeeze in the VC Pipeline — How to Raise in a Down Market

With proptech IPOs and SPACs receding (for now), we've entered a more cautious season for proptech investors. This presents new pockets of resistance for founders in the midst of scaling up. This panel of VCs will look at some newer strategies for framing a startup's ambitions and getting attention from investors in more conservative times.

How Hybrid Work Is Transforming Office Management

Of all the pandemic's impacts, the rise of hybrid workplaces could have the great long-term effect on real estate. After offices of all kinds switched to work-from-home over the past two years, it remains unclear to many companies how often employees now should be physically in their workplaces. This phenomenon has plenty of lingering after-effects for CRE, and this panel will look at how tech can bridge some of the disruption that has been caused by this new normal.

The New Tech Stack for Building Ops

Operating real estate assets is becoming more data-driven, utilizing new sensors, data analytics platforms, and integrations across older and newer platforms. The fragmented nature of these solutions, plus continued rapid technological developments, make this a dynamic part of proptech with significant upside for assets and their owners. Join leaders from all sides of the building ops market - institutional operators, vendors, and investors - for this discussion of what has changed, and where the market is going in the future.

How Sustainability Can Drive Real Estate Value

While companies of all kinds wrestle with their impact on the planet, the real estate industry is in a particular bind — as buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of carbon emissions globally. As global warming progresses, it's clear that the industry needs to adapt and become sustainable — but how can landlords and building managers make these changes help (rather than hurt) their bottom line? This panel will look at some of the more innovative ways buildings are using green tech to create new value.

How Tech is Expanding Real Estate Accessibility

Technology and new consumer behaviors are expanding the ways in which we access real estate. This panel will unpack technology’s real role and capacity for influence amidst the many public and private stakeholders and macro forces impacting how we access real estate. Through the lens of both the consumer and the investor, we’ll explore how technology can optimize how we match supply to demand in real estate and the hurdles still facing that endeavor.