Data centers get a bad rap as isolated, community-averse boxes, but that's changing fast. This session unpacks how developers are turning skepticism into support by folding data centers into vibrant mixed-use projects that bring jobs, infrastructure, and energy investment to the neighborhoods around them.

Richard Krause

President and CEO

Path Construction

Amy Polvado

CEO & Founder

Facilimax

The builders who learn to operate as AI-native organizations first will define the next decade of homebuilding. In this fireside chat we dive into practical ways builders are using spatial AI today to compress design-to-construction timelines from months to weeks, or even days. The result is faster go to market, stronger margins, and a growing operational advantage that everyone else will struggle to match.

Michael Bergin

Chief R&D Officer

Higharc

The legislative and regulatory landscape continues to shape the future of Single-Family Rental and Build-to-Rent, influencing everything from investment strategy and development to operations and long-term growth. This panel tackles the issues impacting today's market, including housing affordability, zoning reform, institutional ownership, and resident protections.

David Howard

Principal & Founder

Real Estate & Housing Advisors (REHA)

Richard Ross

CEO

Quinn Residences

Everyone is talking about AI, but few are talking about the infrastructure that makes it possible. Behind every intelligent workflow is an ecosystem of integrations, APIs, data warehouses, cybersecurity, governance, and connected systems working behind the scenes. This session pulls back the curtain on the often-overlooked technologies that determine whether AI delivers real value or becomes just another disconnected tool. Industry leaders will discuss the foundational data, architecture, and interoperability required to build a technology stack that’s ready for what’s next.

Brent Williams

Chief Insider

Multifamily Insiders

Despite the growing wave of innovation targeting the homebuilding industry, successfully introducing new products and technologies requires a deep understanding of how production homebuilders evaluate, test, and adopt new solutions. Industry leaders will share what they actually look for in innovation, the biggest barriers to adoption, and how startups can better align with the operational realities and priorities of today's homebuilders.

David Beznos

Senior Vice President of Growth and Strategic Partnerships

PulteGroup

Damien Edwards

National Vice President of Production

Toll Brothers

Chad Reed

Vice President of Programs and Strategy

Ivory Innovations

August Robotics has successfully deployed hundreds of robots across 4 continents. Their approach—vertical integration and multiple task-specific robots—demonstrates a path forward for automating tasks in both real estate operations and construction. During this conversation between the company founder, client, and investor, we will uncover how teams consider payback period, schedule compression, safety and other unglamorous but critical factors to successfully pair automation with wider operational excellence in the built environment.

Aaron Toppston

Managing Partner

GS Futures

Alex Wyatt

Founder & CEO

August Robotics

Today's owners expect more than traditional property management. They want strategic partners who protect assets, elevate the resident experience, and deliver measurable results. This panel unpacks what's redefining third-party management partnerships: the operational strategies, performance metrics, technology, and experience initiatives separating high performers from the rest.

Jackie Lee

CEO

Brandywine Homes USA

Jennifer Stoops

Vice President of Corporate Development

PURE HomeRiver Property Management

For years, the industry has focused on adding more technology. Now, leading operators are asking a different question: What can we eliminate? From retiring legacy software and consolidating platforms to reducing logins, cutting costs, and building internal solutions instead of buying another product, this candid conversation explores how the smartest organizations are simplifying their technology ecosystems. Panelists will share what they removed, what surprised them, which categories proved indispensable, and why the best technology decision sometimes is to delete technology altogether.

Chelsea Kneeland

Innovation Insider

Multifamily Insiders

Every real estate organization runs on four critical functions: the acquisition specialist who sources and underwrites deals, the asset manager who maximizes portfolio performance, the property manager who runs the physical asset and its operations, and the senior executive managing client and tenant relationships at scale. AI is changing all four — but not equally, not at the same speed, and not in the ways most operators assume. This panel brings together four senior practitioners who run these functions at organizations ranging from data-driven emerging platforms to 130,000-unit property management operations to the largest real estate services firm on the planet. The question is not whether AI changes these roles. It already has. The question is: what specifically disappears, what evolves into something more strategic, and what becomes more human — not less — over the next three years?

Stuart Bern

Managing Director

JLL

John Carlson

CEO

Mark-Taylor Residential

Craig Lashley

CEO & President

Valiant Residential

Alicia Miller-Yoder

Head of Capital Markets

Black Salmon Capital

Sophie Tulkoff

Principal - Investments Team

Osso

Three brokerage leaders take the stage back to back to break down how they chose what to keep and sharpened their tech stacks down to what actually earns its place. A live Q&A then digs into the tradeoffs behind those calls and what changed once the stack got leaner.

Troy Palmquist

tpalmquist@gmail.com

HomeCode

Jackie Soto

Broker & Owner

ehomes

David Voorhees

Executive Director of Labs

Keller Williams

Running a pilot is the easy part. Knowing when to scale and when to stop is where most teams get stuck. A panel of real estate owner/operators will share firsthand experience across technology initiatives -- specifically, what success actually looks like, how to recognize when a pilot has real legs versus when it's time to shut it down, and what separates the deployments that scaled from the ones that quietly disappeared. Leave with practical guidance and real lessons you can put to work on your next technology decision.

David Blumenfeld

Co-Founder

NextRivet

Tom Furphy

CEO & Managing Director

Consumer Equity Partners

Mickey Papillon

Vice President, Technology Strategy

Irvine Company Retail Properties

James Scott

Director of Industry and Professional Programs, and Director of the Real Estate Transformation Lab

MIT’s Center for Real Estate

The operators pulling ahead in single-family rental are getting sharper on how they run their homes and how they grow revenue. This session gets into what is working now and where the next gains are coming from.

Amy Barricelli

Executive Vice President, Brand & Revenue Acceleration

RR Living

Dan French

CEO

Northpoint

Tony Julianelle

CEO

Atlas Real Estate

AI is transforming real estate — or is it? Where is AI actually delivering results? Join our panel discussion with senior leaders and operators from commercial, multifamily, hospitality, construction, and other sectors for a candid discussion on the real-world applications of AI inside their organizations. From operations and asset management to development, leasing, finance, and customer experience, panelists will share practical use cases, lessons learned, measurable outcomes, and where they see the greatest opportunities ahead — cutting through the hype to focus on what actually works (and what doesn't).

Kelley Brine

President

Rose Valley Capital

Alex Shtarkman

Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer

Antithesis Ventures

Multifamily owners and operators sit on a wealth of operational data, but translating insights into actions remains a challenge. This panel will explore how technology solutions — from predictive maintenance to AI-driven leasing and resident engagement — can close the gap between information and real ROI. Panelists will discuss best practices in leveraging their treasure trove of data, overcoming workflow friction, and best practices to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance the resident experience.

Danny Bin

Principal Asset Management

Head of Private Market IT

Melissa Fagan

Vice President

RET Ventures

Scott Pechersky

Founder

ECL Prop Solutions

Bobbi Steward

CEO

Revyse

A practical look at what it takes to deploy robotics in the real world, from first pilot to scaled rollout. We'll bring together founders building and shipping robots alongside the customers putting them to work, digging into how deployments actually get done, where they break, and what separates a flashy demo from a durable business.

Raja Ghawi

Partner

Era Ventures

Kevin McGlade

Co‑Founder & CEO

Tempo Works

As limited partners raise the bar on data standards and managers race to convert that data into alpha, real estate's most sophisticated investors are rethinking how information drives decisions. This panel brings together institutional allocators, quantitative investment leaders, and emerging managers to unpack how data and AI are reshaping underwriting, portfolio construction, and the search for alpha, including what LPs now expect from the managers they back. Expect a practical conversation about real estate data, AI's impact on investment decision-making, and how smaller firms can compete with institutional-grade data infrastructure.

Drew Conway

Managing Director and Head of Data Science for Private Investments

Two Sigma

Ali Haidar

SVP, Head of Real Estate Portfolio Management

GIC

Chris Liedtke

Managing Director and the Chief Data Scientist

BGO

Nicholas Russell

Managing Director and Head of Business Partner Solutions

StepStone Real Estate

Donal Warde

Principal

Folio Strategy Partners

Paper health records. 81.4% occupancy. $300K a year in agency staffing. That's what Lloyd Jones inherited when it acquired Baldwin Park, a middle-market senior living community where outdated technology stifled returns. Lloyd Jones CEO Jimmy Carrion outlines how modernizing senior living investment from underwriting to acquisition drives strong returns, including a +65% NOI gain at Baldwin Park in the first 12 months.

Jimmy Carrion

President and CEO

Lloyd Jones

Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept, it’s a practical tool transforming multifamily operations. This panel will dive into how owners and operators can set up the right data infrastructure, deploy AI-driven solutions, and extract tangible value across property management, maintenance, leasing, and resident engagement. Panelists will share real-world examples of AI applications delivering measurable ROI, discuss challenges in integrating new technology into existing workflows, and provide.

Mariana Estrada

Chief Strategy Officer

RPM Living

Jameson Hartman

Industry Principal

RET Ventures

Elik Jaeger

Founder & CEO

SuiteSpot

Paul Seifert

EVP Operations, Chief Legal Officer

Continental

AI has turned data centers into the defining construction story of the decade. Delivering them means compressing years of power, cooling, and structural complexity into ever-shorter timelines. This panel brings the full value chain onto one stage: the compute demand driving the buildout, the owners commissioning it, the modular infrastructure reshaping how it's delivered, and the general contractors putting it in the ground. Expect a candid, free-flowing conversation on the real bottlenecks - power and grid access, cooling, supply chain, labor, and prefabrication plus where capital and innovation are flowing next, and what the AI compute roadmap means for what actually gets built. A rare cross-section of the people building the physical backbone of AI.

Vivin Hegde

Managing Partner & Founder

Zacua Ventures

Les Karpas

Inception Global Head of Physical AI

NVIDIA

Andrew Lindsey

Founder & CEO

Flexnode

Adam Rogers

General Manager

Hensel Phelps’ Mission Critical Integrated Solution (MCIS) Group

This session does two things no other session will do. First, it translates the AI regulatory landscape into operator language. Not legal language. Not policy language. Language that a VP of Operations, a CIO, and an investor can all understand and act on. Second, it shows every person in the room how to build the governance foundation that responds to those regulations. Not theory. A working framework grounded in the NIST AI Risk Management Framework that they start building during the session and take back to their organization.

Tami Siewruk

Founder & Managing Partner

Multifamily NEXT

Active investors with deep real estate roots share where capital is moving across the built world and which categories are attracting the most attention right now. Expect a clear perspective on what owners, operators, and innovators should watch as the next wave of investment takes shape.

Zach Aarons

Co-Founder & General Partner

MetaProp

Alon Gorbonos

General Partner & Founder

RE VC

Prashant Kothari

Founder

Hamilton Ventures

Sheldon Lewis

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Blueprint Equity

AI is flattening the renter journey. Same chatbots, same instant tours, same AI-surfaced search results — and when every operator runs the same stack, renters lose the ability to tell anyone apart. If the experience is identical everywhere, what is a property management company even for? This panel takes that question seriously. The operators pulling ahead won't be the ones with the most AI. They'll be the ones who know exactly where to put a human back in. Panelists will get specific about where automation earns its keep — speed, availability, discovery, AEO — and where a real person changes the outcome: the tour that closes, the objection that gets handled, the renewal that almost didn't happen. The future of leasing isn't fully automated. It's deliberately human in the places that count.

Tyler Christiansen

CEO and Board Director

Funnel

Dean Holmes

SVP, Residential Operations

QuadReal Property Group

Garrett Hrncir

Vice President & Chief Customer Experience Officer

Continental Properties

Aaron Ru

Principal

RET Ventures

Construction firms are inundated with project data, yet teams still spend countless hours searching for information, coordinating documents, and managing risk. This panel brings together a technology builder, a general contractor, an investor, and an innovation leader to explore how AI is moving beyond the hype and delivering measurable results in the field. Through the lens of Primepoint's partnership with Sundt Construction, the discussion will explore what it takes to build, validate, and scale AI solutions that create real operational value and why proving ROI is the key to moving from pilot projects to enterprise-wide adoption.

Kamran Azarbal

VP Strategy

Primepoint

Rachael Ferrera

Manager, Investments & Ideation

Zachry Construction Corporation

Travis Putnam

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Navitas Capital

Curtis Smith

Group Controls Manager for Building Group

Sundt Construction

Ryan Serhant didn't just build a following. He built an attention eco-system. SERHANT. is the first brokerage architected from the ground up around content, data, entertainment, education and AI as a unifying customer-acquisition engine. In conversation with Camber Creek's Jeff Berman, Serhant breaks down how the brokerage of the future gets built, how a sales machine can be reinvented for today’s marketplace, and what operators across the industry can learn from it.

Jeffrey Berman

General Partner

Camber Creek

Ryan Serhant

CEO & Founder

SERHANT.

Running 60,000 rental homes while developing thousands more a year forces hard choices about where centralization, staffing, and technology actually move NOI. AMH CEO Bryan Smith joins Fifth Wall's Brendan Wallace to share what scales across a national portfolio and what still has to be solved building by building.

Bryan Smith

CEO & Trustee

AMH Homes

Brendan Wallace

CEO & Chief Investment Officer

Fifth Wall

Data centers have become the asset class every owner and investor is trying to understand, and the constraints are now land, power, and capital rather than demand. Digital Realty CEO Andy Power joins Fifth Wall's Brendan Wallace to map where the opportunities and bottlenecks sit for anyone allocating capital to digital infrastructure.

Andy Power

CEO & President

Digital Realty

Brendan Wallace

CEO & Chief Investment Officer

Fifth Wall

Connect with Jeff Jones at jeff@visitblueprint.com to explore available opportunities.

Cortland chose to own design, construction, and operations in-house, a contrarian structure that shapes how it underwrites deals and defends margins. Founder and CEO Steven DeFrancis joins RET Ventures' Chris Yip to make the case for vertical integration as an operating advantage and where it pays off against the cost of building it.

Steven DeFrancis

Founder & CEO

Cortland

Christopher Yip

Partner & Managing Director

RET Ventures

Sebastian Jimenez, CEO of Rilla, shares data from millions of in-person sales conversations across outside sales teams revealing what separates top performers from everyone else, and what mulitfamilly operators can learn from industries that have cracked the code on in-person sales coaching to increase their occupancy rates.

Brad Hargreaves

Founder

Thesis Driven

Sebastian Jimenez

Founder & CEO

Rilla

Martha Stewart built a career helping people live better lives in better homes. As co-founder of Hint, she’s now bringing that thinking into the AI era. In this conversation with Brian Kelly, Martha will explore how AI is transforming the way we manage our homes, and what that shift means for the future of home ownership and the companies shaping it.

Brian Kelly

Founder

The Points Guy (TPG)

Martha Stewart

Hint

Founder

The industry has spent years adding “smart” features, but not all of them improve resident experience, operational efficiency, or NOI. This session explores where smart technology truly creates value versus where it becomes expensive theater.

Danielle Brockman

Head of IT

Shelter Asset Management

Lindsay Duffy

Vice President of Operations

Asset Living

Angela Marotta

Senior Portfolio Director

P.B. Bell

Andre Sanchez

Chief Operating Officer

Rently

Finding and evaluating the right land is critical for development, yet most decisions are made the same way they were decades ago; AI and new data sources are rewriting the playbook. This panel will discuss how operators are leveraging advanced data and AI agents to compress evaluation timelines, uncover off-market opportunities, and transform land acquisition from a legacy bottleneck into a high-velocity competitive advantage.

Connect with Jeff Jones at jeff@visitblueprint.com to explore available opportunities.

A new breed of tech founder isn't just selling innovation; they're buying it. This session explores founders building and acquiring the very portfolios that put their own technology to work, turning customers into an in-house proving ground.

Jessica Beck

CEO & Co-Founder

Alfred | Arqline

Brad Hargreaves

Founder

Thesis Driven

KP Reddy

Founder

Zero RFI

Alex Samoylovich

Executive Chairman & Founder

Collective Residential

In the multifamily industry, NOI is often discussed as a figure on a financial statement. But savvy operators know that sustainable NOI is built on something far more powerful: a sense of belonging. From meaningful resident experiences to authentic relationships with neighbors and onsite teams, the way people feel about where they live directly impacts retention, reputation and long-term financial performance.

Join Kairoi Residential COO Kari Warren as she shares how her company combines innovative technology with hospitality-inspired service to create thriving communities that residents are proud to call home. Discover how a people-first approach can strengthen resident loyalty, elevate the living experience and drive sustainable NOI.

Kari Warren

Chief Operating Officer of Property Management

Kairoi

In an industry where leasing agents turn over annually and new hires underperform for months, Hillpointe and Grotto show how AI sales coaching cut new-hire ramp time from 90 days to 9 across the portfolio of one of the nation's largest multifamily developers.

Nick Deveau

CEO and Co-founder

Grotto AI

Josh Draughn

Senior Vice President Marketing, Customer Experience & Centralized Operations

Hillpointe

Most multifamily operators have resident service programs in place. Fewer have built them in a way that unlocks new revenue and meaningfully reduces portfolio risk. In this session, Foxen CEO Kevin Jacobson moderates a candid conversation with owners and operators who have made that transition — moving insurance, pet management, and rent reporting from compliance functions to active NOI contributors. Panelists will share what that shift required, and what a well-structured resident program can deliver at scale.

Kevin Jacobson

CEO

Foxen

Erica McLaughlin

Managing Director, Property Management – Southwest

RangeWater Residential

Matt Page

Assistant Vice President

Harrison Street Asset Management

Every decision, from marketing investments and leasing technology to resident policies and operations, can impact lease conversion, but which ones truly move the needle? Industry leaders will explore how data and measurement across the leasing journey can separate assumptions from reality, uncover what drives conversions, and improve occupancy and long-term performance.

John R. Bradford, III

CEO & Founder

PetScreening

Jamie Gorski

Founder

Catchpoint Collective

Melissa McClure

Senior Vice President of Property Management

Buckingham Companies

Michael Sherman

Senior Vice President

Zillow Rentals

The real estate industry is entering a new investment cycle where AI, technology, and capital strategy are becoming increasingly interconnected. As capital markets evolve and innovation accelerates, investors, lenders, corporate development teams, operators, and technology leaders are rethinking how they create value, allocate capital, and build enduring competitive advantages.

This session brings together leaders from investment management, investment banking, corporate development, and venture capital to discuss how technology and AI is reshaping investment decisions, operational performance, M&A activity, and long-term growth across the real estate ecosystem.

Attendees Will Learn:

- Where capital is flowing and the technologies investors are betting on.
- How AI is changing company valuations, operating models, and competitive advantage.
- What strategic investors, acquirers, and lenders look for when evaluating innovation.
- How technology is influencing capital allocation, partnerships, and M&A.
- The trends that will shape the next generation of real estate companies.

Tom Briney

President and Chief Investment Officer

Origin Credit Advisers

Brandon Dobell

Managing Director

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL)

Carolyn Kwon

Managing Director

Moderne Ventures

David Luk

Executive Vice President, Strategic Finance

Freedom Mortgage

Artificial intelligence is transforming real estate operations while creating new opportunities for fraud. During this panel discussion, hear how AI is reshaping risk, from payment fraud to emerging scams, and learn how leaders are protecting their organizations while embracing innovation. You'll walk away with actionable tips you can implement quickly to reduce your fraud risk.

Katie Elliott

Senior Risk and Fraud Officer

Bottomline

Stephanie Gubiotti

CEO & Founder

Verra Communities

Structural stone is returning to high end development, giving new buildings a level of beauty and permanence that sets them apart in any market. Hear the story behind a real project, from the decision to build in stone to how it comes together on site.

Micah Springut

Founder & CEO

Monumental Labs

Standardizing communication, service requests and work order management across 115,000 HOA and COA units is no small feat and the operational payoff was significant. Anne Baum shares how TownSq transformed a fragmented portfolio into a streamlined system that reduced costs, improved transparency and made residents and boards measurably happier.

Anne Baum

VP, Marketing

Towne Properties

Blurring lines of B2B and B2C individual brands within companies are quickly becoming the norm of how potential partners and clients work with brands across the world. What does this trend mean for the modern concept of engagement with brand on both the personal and company level? What are the platforms and ideas that spark engagement from a community, and how do you stand out in a sea of noise in 2026 and beyond?

Lilian Chen

Founder & CEO

Proptimal

Ryan Elazari

Founder & Host

CRE Unplugged

Heather Elias

Chief Growth Officer

Elm Street

Martin Kelly

President

Blueprint

Lauren Stinson

Founder

LL Creative Solutions

Industrialized construction is a hardware-plus-real-estate business being funded like software. Traditional VC return profiles, time horizons, and risk tolerance don’t match how IC companies actually scale: factories take years to ramp, projects need project finance, off-take demand is regional, and unit economics improve with volume, not quarters. We’ve seen this story before. Climate tech mapped its “scale gap” — the chasm between early VC and infrastructure capital that strands deep-tech companies precisely when they need patient capital most. IC is in the same place, and the next wave of failures (and breakthroughs) will be decided by who shows up with capital that fits. What does the right capital stack look like for companies in the industrialized construction space?

Ruby Bolaria Shifrin

"Chief Investment and Partnership Officer and Managing Director of the Joist Innovation Fund"

Terner Labs

Rebecca Foster

Founding CEO

San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund

Julie Mahowald

CFO and Head of Partnerships & Strategy of Housing Trust Silicon Valley

Housing Trust

Apoorva Pasricha

Chief Operating Officer

Cloud Apartments

LLMs are trained on data from the web, but a community's true condition can only be captured on site. In this session, you'll learn how Cortland uses audio and visual data from every property tour to monitor asset condition over time and improve capital expenditure planning and preventative maintenance forecasting.

Saharsh Chordia

Vice President, Strategy and Analytics

Cortland

The AI hype cycle shows no sign of slowing. But if we look more closely at AI adoption in multifamily, we can see big changes emerging in the technology landscape. Every app includes AI, but some applications of AI are vastly more effective than others, redefining entire categories of technology and enabling change at previously unattainable levels. This session cuts through the noise to focus on real examples of companies achieving radical transformation through AI adoption, and how it affects NOI. We’ll examine how the combination of chat and agentic AI is changing what operators can know about residents, how that changes decisions and removes friction in ways legacy software cannot. This shift has profound implications, not just for operators, but for tech investments, as AI-first design collapses traditional software categories, reshaping competitive moats, and changing how value is created and captured.

Dom Beveridge

Founder

20for20

Douglas Pearce

EVP, IT

Waterton

Aaron Ross

President

Birge & Held

Jeremy Voigtmann

Managing Director

Harbor Group

The PropTech playbook is being rewritten. Alternative categories of capital and building are opening up alongside the traditional VC pathway, and operators are growing more selective about what they actually deploy, focusing on proven product-market fit and real demonstrable ROI. These shifts, alongside the major advancements in AI, are creating a fundamentally different landscape. This panel will explore how founders, investors and operators are navigating this new reality.

Keats Ali

CTO

Dalfen Industrial

Nick Durst

Associate

The Durst Organization & Durst Ventures

Jeff Dvorett

President

Midwood Investment & Development

Alex Fiance

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Kairos

Jeremy Kaner

Founder and Managing Partner

Rebuild Capital

Every institution is asking the same question: Has AI made proptech vendors optional? Two institutional investors share an unfiltered perspective on what’s truly defensible in today’s technology stack. Then founders take the stage to make their case and explain why their solutions are built to last.

Jeanne Casey

Head of Real Asset Ventures

Nuveen

Mollie Eisler

Vice President

Neuberger Berman

Interested in bringing a client perspective to the NOI Stage? Connect with Jeff Jones at jeff@visitblueprint.com to explore opportunities for a fireside chat.

HH Red Stone used LeaseMagnets to build a faster and more personalized digital leasing experience that reduced friction before the first site visit and turned prospect engagement into measurable occupancy gains.

Tadros ‘Teddy’ Abdelmalek

Senior Vice President of Business Development

HH Red Stone

Interested in bringing a client perspective to the NOI Stage? Connect with Jeff Jones at jeff@visitblueprint.com to explore opportunities for a fireside chat.

AI is not just changing the tools real estate companies use, it is changing how they are built, who they hire, and which skills now move the business. This panel goes inside how leaders are redrawing the org chart, rethinking talent, and turning AI fluency into a structural advantage across operations, hospitality, and the resident and tenant experience.

Dave Gise

Senior Vice President and Head of Hospitality, Amenities, and AI

RXR

Colin Joynt

Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer

BXP

Khushbu Sikaria

Chief Operating Officer

Collective Residential

Kazim Somji

SVP, Information Technology

Fengate Asset Management

Forget the five-minute panel answers. The Multifamily Leadership Forum is a session built for real debate. Mike Brewer moderates a peer-to-peer conversation through eight to ten of the hardest questions facing multifamily leadership and presses wherever the perspectives split. The next generation of multifamily belongs to the operators and leaders who exercise sound judgment and deliver remarkable results. Come find out where you stand.

Mike Brewer

Co-Founder

Multifamily Media Network

Joe Porritt

Director of Leasing & Marketing

The Brodsky Organization

When a property is bleeding, recovery isn't built on concessions or new technology. It's built on sharper KPIs, faster decisions and leadership that holds the line on economic occupancy and cash discipline.

Amanda Cox

President & COO

Bellaire Partners

Interested in bringing a client perspective to the NOI Stage? Connect with Jeff Jones at jeff@visitblueprint.com to explore opportunities for a fireside chat.

Institutional capital has dominated SFR and multifamily for the last decade — but the next wave of growth in residential real estate may come from a different place entirely: the retail investor. From self-directed IRA buyers to DSCR-lending-fueled landlords acquiring their third rental, retail investors are quietly reshaping deal flow, asset pricing, and how operators think about acquisition pipelines. They are the fastest-growing segment in the asset class, and the platforms built to serve them are scaling faster than almost anything else in proptech. The momentum is not only market-driven. A shifting political and administrative environment — focused on expanding access to wealth-building through real estate, reducing institutional concentration in single-family markets, and creating policy pathways for individual ownership — is adding new tailwinds to this cohort. Retail investors are increasingly positioned not as a problem to solve but as a policy solution: the distributed individual owner as a counterweight to institutional dominance in housing. This panel brings together the platforms, lenders, Insurtech, and software companies actively building the retail investor stack — and asks what it means for the built world ecosystem when millions of retail investors gain access to tools previously reserved for the top of the market. What underwriting, insurance, and operational models hold up when the customer has 8 properties instead of 8,000? And what does it mean when the platform that serves the retail investor is also the platform that created them?

Eric Augustyn

CEO

BiggerPockets

Ross Diedrich

CEO & Founder

Covered Insurance Solutions

Josh Jensen

CEO and Co-founder

Inspectify

Rebecca Simanek

VP, Head of Marketing

Kiavi

What if the most interesting ideas in residential real estate are happening everywhere except the US? In Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and the world of cross-border investment, a handful of founders are building platforms that make the American model look slow. This is a look at how they did it, and what we should be paying attention to.

Ibrahim AshShohail

CEO

Aqar

Dave Garland

Managing Director

Second Century Ventures

Yuval Golan

CEO & Co-Founder

Waltz

Mate Pencz

Founder and CEO

Loft

The operating model you inherited was built for a different decade, and the operators in this room are tearing it down. This is not the technology session. It's the org chart, the roles, the span of control, and the payroll-per-unit math that decides whether the redesign works. Mike Brewer moderates a peer-to-peer forum with owner/operators rebuilding multifamily from the inside out, skipping the highlight reel and going straight to the failure points. Come see whose blueprint holds.

Ian Bingham

SVP of Business Development

DMG

Mike Brewer

Co-Founder

Multifamily Media Network

Justin Choi

Sr. Director of Marketing & Technology

Sequoia

Maxwell Stiss

Vice President of Business Technology

GID and Windsor Communities

Interested in bringing a client perspective to the NOI Stage? Connect with Jeff Jones at jeff@visitblueprint.com to explore opportunities for a fireside chat.

While most of the industry is still imagining what AI might one day do, one of the country's largest housing developers is already running it across development, construction, and operations. This conversation looks at what the near future of the built world actually looks like when technology stops being a pilot and starts shaping how thousands of homes get built and run.

Brad Hargreaves

Founder

Thesis Driven

Rachel Johnson

CIO

The NRP Group

When an NFL franchise, a master developer, and a county decide to build an entire district from the ground up, the result is far bigger than a headquarters. David O'Reilly takes the stage to share how the 83-acre Toro District is reimagining what a sports anchor can do for a community, and what it takes to build a place meant to last for generations.

Brad Hargreaves

Founder

Thesis Driven

David O'Reilly

CEO

Howard Hughes Holdings

The most ambitious builders are no longer staying inside a single industry. Fernando De Leon turned one Texas development company into a holding company spanning real estate, healthcare, and financial services, and he shares how he thinks about capital, conviction, and where the next generation of platforms gets built.

Fernando De Leon

CEO

Leon Capital Group

Gavin Myers

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Prudence

Owners are asking a sharper question than whether to centralize. They want to know why they are paying asset management and other fees at all, and what changes when those functions come in-house. This panel puts operators and a major third-party manager on the same stage to work through the real math of internalizing versus paying for scale, and where each one actually protects NOI.

Dana Caudell

EVP, Head of Multifamily Operations

Continental Realty Corporation

Ryan Perez

EVP

Capital Square Living

Rob Samuels

Founder & CEO

Clarity Revenue Group

David Walther

CRO

Asset Living

Real estate technology leaders face the same AI pressure as everyone else, but they have to actually choose, build, and defend the stack. This panel brings CTOs and technology heads across commercial and residential together on what they are building versus buying, where AI has earned budget, and what they would not do again.

Lilian Chen

Founder & CEO

Proptimal

Jonathan Crosier

CTO

Kilroy Realty

Jeremy Poteet

EVP, Technology

JBG Smith

Adam Smolyar

Chief Innovation & Technology Officer

American Landmark Apartments

Real estate technology was built in two directions — and both missed the same person. Institutional-grade platforms were engineered for operators managing thousands of units: robust, expensive, and completely inaccessible to a landlord with five homes. Consumer-facing products — home warranty, mortgage, maintenance — were designed around the owner-occupant, the person who lives in the house they bought. And agent-facing platforms built for the top-producing team assumed the end client was a buyer or seller, not a retail investor building a portfolio.
Neither cohort was the retail investor: the individual or small partnership owning 1 to 50 rental properties, running a real business, but with none of the infrastructure of an institution and none of the simplicity needs of a homeowner. That gap is closing — but slowly, and often reluctantly.
This panel brings together executives from companies whose core product was built for someone else, who are now actively rethinking their roadmap, distribution model, and unit economics to reach a cohort growing faster than any other segment in residential real estate. Where does the consumer mortgage product evolve when the borrower is running a portfolio, not buying a home? Where does the homeowner warranty product break down when there is no owner-occupant? And who ultimately wins the platform war for this retail investor cohort’s wallet?

Doug Brien

President & CEO

Roofstock

Wally Charnoff

CEO & Founder

AbodeMine

Jes Fields

Chief Commercial Officer

Cinch Home Services

Stefan Shircel

Principal

August Hill

Chris Stuart

President

PLACE Inc.

Maintenance tech only earns its place if it makes the work easier in the field and proves itself in the numbers. We'll get specific on four things: what to cut from your stack because it only adds friction, what to add in the next 90 days that saves time or money and how to prove it, how to get clean notes and photos on every work order without chasing anyone after the fact, and what slows turns down most along with the fastest fix to move units faster.

Peter Christenson

Director of Maintenance & Purchasing

Centerspace

Adrian Danila

Founder

Multifamily X Consulting

Richard Regitano

Managing Director, Property Management

Greystar

Erica White

SVP, Innovation & Technology

PeakMade Real Estate

The race to build the ultimate, single-sign-on real estate ecosystem has reached a fever pitch. During this session, technology leaders driving the industry’s leading brokerages take the stage together. From managing major internal engineering labs to unifying hundreds of thousands of agents onto a single AI-driven platform, these executives share their vision for eliminating software fragmentation. Discover the real ROI behind building proprietary tech moats and what happens to third-party vendors when the titans build natively.

Zane Burnett

EVP of Digital Strategy

The Agency

Courtney Cooper

Partner

Alate

Seth Siegler

Chief Innovation Officer

eXp Realty

Kat Winston

Founder and Managing Partner

Equity Angels

This fireside chat will explore a real-world example of VC–corporate collaboration, highlighting Zacua Ventures’ scout program and Aroundtown’s corporate innovation efforts. The conversation will take a behind-the-scenes look at how the partnership was built, from identifying and evaluating startup opportunities to developing a shared framework for assessing and monitoring emerging companies. Attendees will gain insights into how this collaboration creates value for investors, corporations, founders, and the broader innovation ecosystem.

Angie Mahtaney

PropTech Investor and Entrepreneur

Aroundtown

Cem Mimaroglu

Partner, Pre-Seed Allocation

Zacua Ventures

Behind the AI hype are operators quietly using it to solve real problems, from cutting delinquency and auditing every lease to capturing the institutional knowledge that walks out the door when someone retires. This panel digs into what those teams actually built, why some bought and trained an off-the-shelf tool while others co-built their own or skipped AI altogether, and how to tell which approach fits the problem in front of you.

John Davis

Assistant Director, Process & Operations

Orsid

Anne Hollander

VP, AI & Innovation

WinnCompanies

Eric Tsai

Director of Strategic Initiatives

Eden Housing

Every owner and operator is exploring AI’s capabilities and the potential use in their organization. Some are exploring the opportunity to replace existing enterprise applications with the goal of reducing costs or internalizing technology. AI provides many opportunities to gain efficiencies and expand analytical capabilities to a degree never seen in our industry, but can be a very slippery slope without extensive enterprise platform and data security knowledge, and often overlooks the ongoing cost to maintain and update.
Our goal with the panel is to highlight opportunities with examples from each of the panel members, make people aware of the security, hallucination and integration concerns that may arise and highlight ongoing cost of “easily” developing a platform (sort of an extended buy versus build discussion that will touch on the concept of tokens). We would like the panel to be positive towards the use of AI, as it is the present and the future, but also create awareness around the pitfalls and why some things are better left to technology-focused teams.

Angel Baltimore

SVP, Information Technology

NAA

Mark Chrisman

Founder

Varro Capital

Zac Menzer

VP Enterprise Initiatives

White Oak Capital

Mike Varga

CTO

Varro Technology

What is the path to cheaper housing construction? After centuries of attempts, 30-plus prefab ventures since the 1970s, and billions invested, offsite construction has never beaten the cost of framing a house by hand. Our debate asks whether that's a failure of execution, where a better centralized factory model finally cracks the cost problem, or is a failure of the model itself, where the future belongs to a shippable microfactory that moves to the jobsite instead of trucking bulky panels from a distant plant.

Mollie Claypool

Co-Founder and CEO

AUAR

Nick Durham

General Partner

Shadow Ventures

Aleks Gampel

Co-Founder & COO

Cuby Technologies, Inc.

Built-world venture has been through a full cycle, and where it deploys now looks very different from the peak. This panel puts active investors on stage to say plainly what they are funding, what they are passing on, and how the bar has changed for anyone building in the space. Less prediction theater, more candor about what earns a check today.

Matt Boras

Managing Director & Head of the RADV Fund

RXR

David Weiden

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

TX Zhuo

General Partner

Fika Ventures

Technology should simplify operations, but for many owner-operators, it often creates new challenges. Hear an honest discussion on the biggest technology pain points facing owners and operators today, what solutions are delivering real value, and where the industry still has work to do.

Hue Chen

CEO & President

Saglo Companies

Andy Chien

President & Co-founder

Bridge33 Capital

Kevin Kush

President

PMAT Companies

Daniel Radek

President

First Washington Realty, Inc.