Matus Liptak is COO at HB Reavis, an international commercial real estate developer and asset manager currently managing 640.000 square meters of workspaces valued at 3 billion EUR.

Matus Liptak transitioned from a global role at IBM to shaping the future of commercial real estate at HB Reavis, where he harnesses technology to drive digital transformation and ESG innovation in the industry. Matus sees data as a core strategic priority, and is focussed on delivering client-centric strategies that position HB Reavis as a true partner for its clients., Sustainability is also a key priority, with the firm's achievements including the development of Worship Square, which sets benchmarks in sustainability and operational excellence. This GRI award winning building was not only constructed using net zero embodied carbon, but also operates with net zero carbon emissions.

Tune into this session to gain insights into the topics of data-driven office design, the hospitalisation of CRE, a new partnership model between landlords and tenants, how to achieve best-in-class buildings with net zero benchmarks, and adopting ESG principles across the entire value chain, and much more!


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Dan Drogman is the Founder & CEO at Smart Spaces.

Smart Spaces is a pioneering smart building operating system deployed across 85 million square feet in 26 countries. With a background in technology and graphic design, Dan Drogman initially honed his skills through various tech ventures. In 2009, Dan joined forces with his brother Tom to build a business that would eventually evolve into Smart Spaces. The business was built without the support of an external investor, and has now grown to become the leader in the space that, powered by a 70-person team, is setting a new standard for tenant experience, landlord-occupant communication, actionable data, and sustainability in the built world.

Tune into this session to gain insights into Dan's journey building and growing a profitable tech company, identifying a high-potential market, building a product that responds to customer needs, effective strategies to drive actual change in consumer behaviour, and much more!

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Anja Rath is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder at PT1.

Anja has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years. Thoughout her years of cross-industry experience, Anja was always focussed on digitalisation. The opportunity to start PT1 came about when Anja was looking for the next industry to digitalise. Together with her long-term business partner Nikolas Samios, Anja founded PT1 in 2018, a fund focussed on pre-seed and seed investments into transformative real assets technology.

Tune into this session to gain insights into Anja’s journey launching a fund in an untapped industry, the key ingredients for a winning founding team, how to build investor-entrepreneur relationships that are conducive of value creation, how VCs look at company growth, where the PropTech industry is going, and much more!

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Natasha Terinova is a Partner at REACH UK.

Natasha has been on both sides of the table. From selling and promoting Lloyd’s tech platform back when InsurTech wasn’t a word, to founding an emobility company and now investing and mentoring PropTech firms, Natasha has a strong track record of being at the forefront of digital transformation.

REACH UK is a global technology scale-up program backed by the US-based VC Second Century Ventures. SCV is a strategic technology investment fund backed by the National Association of REALTORS®, America’s largest trade association representing more than 1.4 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

Applications for the 2024 REACH UK cohort are now open. Listen to this podcast to learn more about how REACH UK may support you, as well as Natasha’s personal advise for founders in the early stages of their journey and her view on what makes a successful business in the PropTech industry today.

Interviews with inspiring Founders, Investors, and Real Estate Executives will be shared weekly on this podcast series - follow the PropTech Talks interview series and stay tuned!

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Wouter Merkestein is Co-Founder & CEO at laiout.

Wouter met his co-founder in a covid quarantine hotel. After two years of intensive R&D and product development, Laiout is now tackling the long-standing bottleneck in the early-stage design phase: delivering high quality floor plans within mere seconds. Having successfully completed projects in 28 countries, laiout is now bringing its technology to the masses across the globe. It was a pleasure to interview Wouter during this accelerated growth phase.

Tune into this session to hear about the benefits of speed, how to maximise returns of existing assets in a period of economic turmoil, future office trends, and how laiout will be scaling its product vertically across real estate asset classes.

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Joe White is the Global Technology Solutions and Client Care Lead at Cushman & Wakefield.

If real estate is from Venus and PropTech is from Mars, Joe has made a career “being in the spaceship between the two”. With 15 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate, Joe is passionate about working with clients to digitally transform their strategies and bringing innovation to solve for opportunities and risks in their strategy. Currently, Joe advises Cushman & Wakefield clients as to the appropriate technology platforms that a data, process, capability, and price-optimized CRE department may require.

In this interview, Joe provided invaluable insights into the challenges real estate leaders are facing when digitally transforming their processes, the future of data and AI, advice for PropTech leaders aiming to deploy their technology at scale, and much more. 

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Michael Brown is currently leading Skyline Robotics as the company’s chairman and CEO.

Michael's journey is nothing short of extraordinary. Since the age of 12, Michael followed his father’s business closely by helping with invoicing and attending board meetings. From working with Al Gore straight after his degree in Information Technology, to capitalising on emerging trends in the coffee industry, acquiring about 60 companies, and building the largest privately held independent company for office supplies, Michael is a living example of the advantages of “never allowing anyone to tell you that you can't get it done” and “surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you and trusting them to make your business better”.

Today, Michael is the CEO of Skyline Robotics, the world's first at-heights industrial automation company. Originally founded in Israel, Skyline Robotics grew a presence in the US and is currently focussed on expanding to the UK, starting with London.

In this episode, Michael uncovered the strategies to propel businesses to the forefront of the industry, competing with established businesses, and effectively reinventing your business while recognising the opportunities of the future.

Interviews with inspiring Founders, Investors, and Real Estate Executives will be shared weekly on this podcast series - follow the PropTech Talks interview series and stay tuned!

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Luke Graham is the Head of Research at Pi Labs, the first ever VC to target early-stage strategic investments in the built environment in Europe and currently the most active VC in the PropTech space.

Luke’s relationship with the built environment started “as quite a romantic one”. Luke first invested in property while focussing on the field of engineering in the Australian military. After pursuing further education in the built environment, Luke shifted his professional journey to the investment field and ended up starting his journey as an entrepreneur with First Link Property and he became increasingly inclined towards innovation and change. After exiting his start-up and moving to the UK for his Oxford MBA, Luke was onboarded by the university’s Future of Real Estate Initiative and later joined Pi Labs as their Head of Research.

In this interview, Luke shared invaluable insights into the hidden opportunities of economic shakedows for venture, the startups that will succeed as the industry matures, leveraging research and industry connections to effectively drive innovation, future-proofing buildings beyond 2050, and much more.

Interviews with inspiring Founders, Investors, and Real Estate Executives will be shared weekly on this podcast series - follow the PropTech Talks interview series and stay tuned!

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Valentina is the Managing Partner at REACH UK, the real estate technology scale up program created by Second Century Ventures.

Valentina is a strong believer that “changes are always scary, but through change we evolve”, and this principle guided her professional trajectory that got her to where she is today. With 15 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and four years connecting the tech and the real estate “bubbles” through REACH UK, Valentina is currently focused on reviewing applications for the 2024 REACH UK cohort.

Tune into this episode to learn more about Valentina's background, to gain invaluable insights on current opportunities in the real estate market, and to learn more about the selection progress that can change the growth path of your company, both in the UK and internationally!

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Mauro Cozzi is the CEO and Co-founder of Emitwise, a company focussed on a combination of people, planet, and profit.

With his co-founders Ben Peddie and Eduardo Gomez, Mauro founded their ‘brainchild’ Emitwise. Their mission is to future-proof businesses as they accelerate the transition to a net-zero carbon world. The company has worked with clients across industries for the past four years and with the recent announcement of their partnerships with CBRE, Emitwise is set to continue growing exponentially in the Real Estate sector.

Interviews with inspiring Founders, Investors, and Real Estate Executives will be shared weekly on this podcast series - follow the PropTech Talks interview series and stay tuned!

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