Duke Long Commercial Real Estate With A Little Attitude Podcast

What if real estate professionals have not only access to data but what if that data is made available in a manner as user-friendly as possible? What if real estate teams could communicate across a portfolio no matter where they were located? The current wave of CRE tech provides infinite data but data is just data if you can't derive insights and drive value. Where is next wave of CRE tech going and how will it help unlock hidden value in data-driven organizations? The recent wave of tech innovation has solved the first challenge, which is getting to the starting point. Systems now house information, not people. Faster access to insight. What's next? Performance analytics? Enabling collaboration? All this and so much more. Waypoint. Waypoint is the leading expense and performance analytics technology solution enhancing the way commercial real estate professionals gather insights to drive asset performance. Founded in 2009 by Diane Vrkic, a former Fortune 50 Chief Operating Officer in the CRE industry, the Waypoint financial analytics solution provides a simplified way for asset and property managers to drive down expenses, improve operating efficiencies across a portfolio and deliver greater returns for owners and investors. Waypoint also works with electric and natural gas utilities to plan, design and deploy large-scale market transformation, energy efficiency and demand-side management programs for commercial users. Diane Vrkic. Diane Vrkic is the founder and CEO of Waypoint, the premier asset management platform for performance analytics and operations management. Waypoint arms real estate professionals with trusted local market intelligence and a solution focused on driving asset value. Waypoint makes it easy for asset managers to identify real-time performance opportunities; property managers to effectively manage costs, and acquisition teams to validate financials of target properties. Waypoint is fueled by over 2 billion square feet across 275 U.S. markets – making it the industry's largest operating performance database of its kind. Prior to Waypoint, Diane was the Global Chief Operating Officer for Jones Lang LaSalle's Energy Services Business. Diane is an active leader in industry organizations such as ULI and BOMA as well as industry initiatives such as the DOE's Better Buildings Initiative. She is dedicated to improving the way commercial real estate decision-makers access and uses information to enhance the performance of their assets.

What is (REBNY) and do you know the legacy? Did they create real estate? Of course not but how have they remained relevant all these years? What initiatives are they executing for technology? Have you heard of the Property Data RFP? Why the deep push into the world of startups? All this and so much more.

Why do we hear so much about the death of retail? Are you actually buying less? Of course not. Retail sales have grown close to 100 Billion Dollars since the last recession. What about Jobs? We're actually at close to a 10 year low for unemployment. How about demographics and spending habits? It can't be just about technology or can it? What defines a true retail experience? If you are a developer, broker or retailer how do you adapt? All of this and more with 30 years of retail real estate experience and a southern accent thrown in for good measure.  

Why does Honest Building exist? To accelerate urban progress by empowering collaborative, data-driven decision making, project by project, building by building, city by city. What is it that Honest Buildings brings to the commercial real estate world? It's more than an intuitive, cloud-based technology - it's a paperless system of record built specifically for, and in partnership with, today's most innovative real estate owners, project managers, and operators. Through Honest Buildings, industry leaders like Beacon Capital Partners, SL Green, Rudin Management Company, Invesco, and The Milstein Companies are transforming the way they do procurement and project management. By using the Honest Building product to automate new construction and building improvement processes, these companies are unlocking value in data that previously sat unrealized in endless, complicated spreadsheets. Built for real-time insights and designed for any user, Honest Buildings has emerged as the standard for managing existing and developing portfolios across the country, including office, retail, industrial, hospitality and multifamily. All of that and so much more.

What is rexmls.com? Who is this guy Stephen King anyway? He wants to create a multi-layered real estate protocol that will connect landlords, brokers, buyers, and sellers over a worldwide decentralized network while later giving them the ability to transact.  But he is thinking way different. He is building a global real estate listing and transaction platform using Ethereum and IPFS. And in doing so will create a universal standard for real estate data. If that's not enough to make you click and listen nothing will!      

Take a deep dive into one of the original #CRE #Tech Companies. What is quality data for #CRE? What are the problems associated with that data? Take a journey from idea to concept to a viable product. What does it take to create a company and raise millions of dollars in the big city of New York? Do you have a company mission? Are you sure? Reonomy does! How can you scale #CRE and #Tech on a national level? What is Reonomy again?  How about a database of 47 million properties across 3200+ counties in the US? All of that and so much more.

Deep roots in both #CRE and #Tech. Operations, ownership, management. Workflow. Productivity. Is it just tech for the sake of tech? How important is tech infrastructure for the future of retail real estate? How and why have companies gone under without tech as a driving factor? Where are those #CRE and #Tech customers today?  What should you focus on as a #Tech #Startup CEO? All this and so much more. Tenant Tracker. Keith Kleinmaier.

Regent Street. Alibaba. Physical and Digital Retail. WeWork. Google. Voice/Image Recognition and ChatBots. Real Estate direct to the consumer. Content with so much context.  

E-commerce Product fit. China. Data management. Space as a service. And that's just the first 10 minutes. All that and much more!

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