This week, Realcomm Live welcomed the Advisory Council co-chairs for the new Environmental Sustainability Forum: Michael Daschle, SVP, Sustainability, Brookfield; Maureen Ehrenberg, CEO, Blue Skyre IBE; and Clayton Ulrich, SVP, Corporate Operations & Engineering Services, Global Sustainability Officer, Hines. They address technology’s role in driving sustainability decisions and provide insights on setting the vision and aligning the necessary resources for the built environment. 

This week we welcome the members of the Real Estate Cyber Consortium (RECC) and Advisory Council co-chairs for this year’s CRE Cybersecurity Forum: Greg Fitzpatrick, Business Development, IoT & Integration, Cochrane Supply and Executive Director of RECC; Jim Whalen, SVP, CIO/CTO, BXP; and Sean Nealon, SVP, Global Head, Cyber & Information Security, Brookfield. They discuss cybersecurity best practices for the built environment and address the most high-impact cyber threats and OT ransomware attacks building owners and operators face today.

This session reviews and dissects successful enterprise architecture strategies that highlight the growing demand for effective workflows that maximize business process efficiency, accurately capture valuations, and more. Attendees will learn how effective (or not) AI, ML and RPA techniques have been in achieving predictive and prescriptive analytics.

This week, Realcomm Live welcomes the 2023 Advisory Council co-chairs for IBcon, the Smart, Connected, High-Performance, Intelligent Buildings conference: Arv Gupta, SVP, National Operations, Cadillac Fairview; Colette Temmink, Chief Strategy & Product Officer, Blue Skyre IBE; and Charles Whiteley, VP, Global Digital Leader, B+P, AECOM, all visionary leaders on global strategy for smart buildings and campuses. We explore smart buildings technology adoption, the projects their organizations are working on, and where they see the industry going in the next 12-18 months.

This week, Realcomm Live welcomes a panel of global, leading-edge thinkers on PoE and low voltage power to discuss the reality of getting our built infrastructure converted to a much more efficient, much more sustainable power source. They explore the possibilities of low voltage and highlight several case studies and state-of-the-art solutions.

This week, Realcomm Live welcomes our 2023 Realcomm co-chairs Sineesh Keshav, Managing Director, CTO with Prologis, Joe Rich, EVP, CIO with Related Companies, and Jeannie Schneider, SVP, CTO with Hines. They represent some of the most seasoned professionals from powerhouse companies representing office, mixed use and industrial. They provide a glimpse of the important topics of the day and a preview of the conversations that will be front and center at the Realcomm | IBcon event this June.

This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Arjun Kaicker, Co-Head, Analytics + Insights with Zaha Hadid Architects, one of the most respected and admired architectural design firms in the world. Kaicker discusses what these new workplaces might look like and the need to design buildings to be self-evolving and futureproof, with technology access that is seamless and frictionless. 

Commercial real estate companies often establish critical partnerships with key vendors to aid in driving specific desired business outcomes. This session explores several case studies that help define how these partnerships were established, the goals they set and the milestones achieved within each implementation. Attendees also learn what to do (and not do) to jumpstart their own smarter building projects.

This week, Realcomm Live welcomes Warren Wilson, Director for Foreign Policy, Economics and Technology for the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), which Dr. Eric Schmidt (Google’s former chairman) founded and chairs. Warren shares how this shift in power, if it occurs, will impact the built environment, including critical infrastructure, data centers, corporate campuses, warehouses, offices, retail, industrial, manufacturing and more, and SCSP's vision to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness.

Industry experts explore the basics of technology-enabled business outcomes. Devices only make buildings smarter when the data they generate can be harvested, consolidated, and visualized to make better decisions, keep tenants safer, and reduce energy utilization. This session presents the fundamentals of smart building projects designed to meet well-defined business objectives.