This episode is a recorded version of a keynote given in Dublin, Ireland, at the 2025 BIM Coordinators Summit. 

Matthew A. Schneider is CEO of Building Inc, a company advancing real estate tokenization, digital asset securitization, and AI-driven property intelligence. Since 2020, he has led blockchain integration, digital twin development, and data-driven asset management for over $120M in real estate. Schneider has collaborated with institutional investors, developers, and technology firms across six continents to improve transparency, liquidity, and access in the built environment. His academic work includes contributions to university-led research initiatives in the U.S. and Europe.

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Jackson Reiter is the Co-Founder and COO of Relm, building real estate’s AI brain. With a degree in Economics from NYU, a background leading performance marketing, and years of experience as a licensed agent in NY and NJ, Jackson has seen both the ground-level pain points and the systemic inefficiencies of the industry. He and his co-founder Evan Robinson founded Relm to unify the fragmented real estate ecosystem – from commercial research to consumer home search – all in one intelligent platform. At Relm, Jackson leads operations, product, and go-to-market to make finding homes and investing in property smarter and faster.

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Denis Petrovcic is the co-founder and CEO of Blocksquare, leading a team building infrastructure that transforms real estate into borderless tokenized assets. Since 2018, Blocksquare’s protocol has tokenized over $200M of property across 20+ countries, and through Oceanpoint it enables instant, DeFi-native secondary-market liquidity within a framework designed to reassure regulators and investors alike. A serial founder in hospitality, e-commerce, and energy tech, Petrovcic discovered Ethereum in 2016 and became convinced that the future of real-estate finance is on-chain. He now focuses on product architecture, capital strategy, and policy design, while also serving on the board of FIBREE to help advance global standards for real-world-asset tokenization.

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ALShimaa Allam is a Structural Engineer, professional engineer, MBA, and project management program-certified with 24 years of expertise in engineering design, structural analysis, and construction management. She serves as Strategic and Portfolio Manager and Technical Integration Manager at AAA-Integration, driving technical excellence and organizational growth. Her strong qualifications in strategic management within the AEC industry bridge technical depth with business acumen. Committed to lifelong learning, she actively pursues professional development and stays ahead of global engineering market trends.

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Benjamin Toney is an aspiring nerd's nerd with a practitioner's background in housing policy and community development and an academic background in urban planning and development. He is especially curious about systems design under domestic restructure, demographic shift, and geopolitical reconfiguration. He sometimes overuses the phrase "necessary but insufficient.”

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Paul is Managing Partner of The Digit Group, a Singapore-registered Smart City real estate development and investment company. As seen on Bloomberg TV and The Wall Street Journal, acknowledged by CNBC as one of America's Business Titans and reported by Forbes as “Changing the World”, Paul is an award-winning architect, a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and a Fellow of the International Facility Management Association. His 2 latest books are “Smart Cities: Reimagining the Urban Experience” and “Unlocking the Metaverse: A Strategic Guide for the Future of the Built Environment”, which rated #1 New Release and an Editor’s Pick on Amazon.com.

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00:00 Introduction

02:30 Paul's Background

12:54 Paul's switch to IT

17:03 Buzzwords vs. Reality

30:08 How to align stakeholders

47:36 Overusing tech in design

58:40 Origin of Vision 2030

1:11:10 The truth about metaverse

1:22:18 Paul's advice for listeners

1:26:08 Outro

Lilian Chen is the Founder of Proptimal, a platform that makes institutional-quality financial analysis accessible to every real estate company. She began her career as a commercial real estate analyst and launched a fractional analyst agency in 2020, realizing how incredibly difficult it was to scale analyst work. Analysts are expensive, hard to train, and often out of reach for smaller teams - leaving many firms flying blind on the most important part of the deal. Through Proptimal, she now sharing her industry knowledge, operational resources, and proprietary technology to level the playing field for all.

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Chris Lehman has nearly a decade of experience working in data analysis and management consulting for healthcare and tech companies. He studied political science and economics at Harvard University and has been engaged in independent policy research and writing since graduating. He leads Groma’s policy department, managing policy research initiatives, building relationships with external partners in government, academia, business, and journalism, and advising the company on long-term policy goals and elements of systems design.

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Adam Weyer is a dynamic emerging professional in commercial real estate and public accounting, currently interning at Colliers International and soon PwC in Milwaukee, WI. A student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, he is pursuing CPA licensure. As a licensed REALTOR® and founder of the UWL Real Estate Club, he grew the organization to 120+ members, creating impactful opportunities for peers. Adam aims to specialize in real estate taxation and enter real estate development. His diverse experience spans multifamily property management, CRE accounting, retail banking, HVAC trades, and media production, blending technical, financial, and creative skills.

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Lauren Brychell is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor relations expert with extensive experience in capital raising and commercial real estate investing. Over the course of her career, Lauren has successfully raised more than $75 million for diverse real estate ventures, showcasing her expertise in building strategic partnerships and driving investor success.

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