KP Unpacked

CREtech founder and CEO, Michael Beckerman, sat down with K.P. Reddy, the founder of Shadow Ventures, to discuss the future of proptech.

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The economic developer who has agreed to let us inside his mind is Brian McGowan. Taking us through this journey is Soon Mee Kim, the Executive Vice President and Global Diversity & Inclusion Leader for Porter Novelli.

We all wish our work teams could mesh like The Avengers. In the current economic climate, that may be a little far-fetched. Still – synergy is key when it comes to your small business/startup. Getting people working together is key – how can you facilitate teamwork in a work-from-home environment? What can you do to grow your team’s relations, chemistry and more? Most of all – how can you translate it to increased productivity?

Join Jerica Richardson, Founder & CEO of HackOut Ninja, as she discusses.

Current disruptions in the economy due to COVID-19 have thrown the relationship between sales representatives, BPMs and architects into a loop. In the past, everything was smooth – but the crisis we’re going through has thrown any normality down the drain. As tech becomes more prominent in the construction industry following the economy’s eventual recovery, just how will the relationship between BPMs, arhictects and sales reps reform?

A long-time accomplished professional in the built industry himself; Casey Robb joins to discuss.

For the past few years, a major pivot has been underway in the worlds of luxury and retail. As owners started to rethink what luxury means to high net worth consumers (and retail properties to the middle-class alike), the pandemic slam dunked over any immediate plans to action. After social distancing ends, just what will the demand be for projects, across the board? Will the current economic downturn – the worst since the 1920s – revert its dip anytime soon? For bored billionaires and centi-millionares, you gotta think the pandemic is driving them crazy. Will they still put stock into properties following the longest isolation and removal from their economic fantasies in their lives?

Join Sangeetha Ramkumar, founder & CEO of Satori@20, for a virtual talk via Zoom. She’ll be joined by DeAnna McIntosh, founder of The Affinity Group International, to provide insi

From Autodesk, to Procore, Yardi, and RealPage; many startups don’t realize the plethora of software providers that can offer help to their growing business. First of all – why should you even care about these platforms? If you’re in the AEC/CRE startup industry, you NEED to be using these providers to your advantage. From 3D design, to enhanced creativity, streamlined communication and more – don’t sleep on incumbent software providers. How do you deal with them? Which platform will suit your needs the best and just how software-integrated does your business need to be?

Join Matt Ohlman, CTO of Shadow Ventures; and Nick Durham, Senior Associate at Shadow Ventures; as they discuss.

Digitally Transforming a Campus delivering Great Experiences while Boosting Productivity – just what is Project Redmond?

Microsoft is planning a massive investment at its headquarters in a project that will begin next fall and last up to seven years. The new project at the 500-acre campus will include 17 new buildings (replacing 14 others), an additional 6.7 million square feet of renovated workspace, and “$150 million in transportation infrastructure, improvements, public spaces, sports fields and green space.” From Smart Buildings, cutting-edge AEC tech, built innovations, and more – it’s going to be envelop a lot of work. What’s the purpose? How is Microsoft transforming the built industry?

Join Emmanuel Daniel of Microsoft as he discusses!

Emmanuel Daniel is a Director in the Applied Innovation & Incubation team at Microsoft. His main focus has been partnering with the Microsoft real estate group to create smart spaces within a campus and to transform employee experiences through innovative technologies and devices. This work with the real estate team also extends to digitally transforming the employee experience in the Microsoft campuses worldwide, starting with the modernization of the East campus in Redmond. Creating smarter spaces that enable productivity, that optimize time and resources across campuses and buildings is directly aligned to Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

A popular investment by Silicon Valley VCs, Klickly has quickly become one of the most successful startups of the last few years. How’d it get there? Hear the full story from the founder & CEO Cooper Harris, as well as strategies and tips to boost your own towards stardom! Don’t end up like 90% of startups that fail – the keys to success are simple.

Join via Zoom as she discusses!

Cooper Harris is a California-based entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Klickly, a data-driven impulse-payments platform that powers headless commerce. Emerging as a pivotal figure in the west coast tech scene, Cooper has been nominated for Google’s “Young Innovator” award, L’Oreal’s “Digital Woman of the Year,” won InformationAge’s Women in I.T. “Entrepreneur of the Year” and named by Adobe as a “Top Thought-Leader” at Cannes. Cooper is a favorite speaker at international summits including CES, Cannes Lions, Shoptalk, SXSW, Sundance, Los Angeles TechWeek, London Tech Conference, and more, speaking on advances in eComm / Retail Tech / FinTech, fostering women in STEM, and disrupting the status quo using technology/innovation.

She’ll by joined by Shadow Ventures CEO K.P. Reddy to provide insight.

Over the last few months, we’ve witnessed the global pandemic change the way people live, work, and interact with each other. It has forced the acceleration of technology adoption and shattered the status quo at a rate never seen before. Nick Durham, Senior Associate, Shadow Ventures will sit down with Danielle Dy Buncio, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of VIATechnik for a fireside chat discussing how AEC firms can effectively transition to the industry’s new normal. They’ll dive into a discussion on how technology and innovation will be core to successful companies’ responses to a post-COVID world.

How can the AEC industry get through this? Find out.

Danielle Dy Buncio is the Co-Founder and CEO of VIATechnik, a virtual design & construction consulting and implementation firm transforming the real estate and construction industry. . For her innovative contributions to the AEC industry, Danielle was awarded Building Design + Construction’s 40 Under 40 in 2018 and ENR Top Young Professional National 20 under 40 in 2019. Danielle serves on the Board of Directors for Ryan Companies US, a $2B Integrated Real Estate Development, Construction, and Design firm and J.F. Brennan, a 100 year-old firm specializing in marine and heavy civil construction. She holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Growth is an essential step in a startups life cycle – but legal issues can be a big bump in the road. What issues and cases should you be prepared to face, combat, and tackle in the early-stage processes of your business? Can you slay the legal dragons alone – or should you call for help? How can you best prepare your startup to smoothly sail to investments, profit, and exponential booming without legal issue?

Join Jerry Cohen, Russ Korins and Larry Tauber of Cohen Tauber Spievack & Wagner P.C. as they discuss.