Meet me at the Property Computer Show in London

If you're visiting the PCS Expo (Property Computer Show) in London mid-October, why not come by the session "The Property Investment Forum: 2008, the year of change"?

Bob Thompson, RETRI Group, will chair a session with John Glascock, Professor of Real Estate Finance Cambridge University, speaking on the risk in the property market. Nick Laird, Channel Rock Funds LLC, and myself will be on the panel.

For me it will be about commenting on the "... the challenges for those who provide information in this environment".
Will for sure be interesting.

See you all in London.

Conference in NY focusing on information in Real Estate

Talking about conferences, The Conference Board is gathering high-level executives from the real estate industry, in New York on the 18-19th of October, to cover the topic of information in a global commercial business environment. The name of the conference is "Corporate Real Estate Conference - Information and Action".

A friend of me, Peter Slatin (founder of The Slatin Report and writer at Forbes ), is Conference Program Director so no surprise that the agenda looks impressive.

However, not only is the trip from Stockholm a bit to far for a two day event, hopefully I'll be in London this week for the Property Computer Show.

Realcomm takes on Europe

Not only will Realcomm hold a conference in Dubai, they will also expand into Europe and Australia.

 

Great news for all believers.

Hopefully the Europe event in Janury 2008 will gather people from more countries than where show is held.

It would be great if there where an event like MIPIM for the RE.IT industry.

Great work Jim!

Call for speakers for RealTech Middleeast

Are you an expert in the field of Intelligent Buildings or Property Asset Management solutions?

Why not apply to speak at the RealTech Middle East event in late October?

The people behind RealComm (read Jim Young) is expanding there business globally with an event in Dubai (for sure the place to be if we talk about building, see this video, or this one).

The conference topics are divided into two areas;

Intelligent Buildings Track
   Defining The New NextGen Building Team 
   Tradition Meets The Future: Integrating BAS and IP Technology 
   Building Efficiencies with Building Operations Centers 
   Deploying Digital Signage to Enhance the Tenant Experience 
   Wireless: The Wave of the Future 
   Security / Access / Parking - IP Based Infrastructure

Business Solutions Track: 
   Evolving An Integrated Portal Strategy 
   Controlling Your Portfolio with Automated Asset Management 
   Driving Profitability with NextGen Budgeting and Forecasting Systems 
   Keeping Pace with the Market: Software Vendor Forum 
   Improving Business Processes and Identifying Best Practices 
   Business Intelligence - Turning Data Into Valuable Business Insight

Read more about the event here.

Bloggers covering the Inman Connect

Are you neither at the Inman Real Estate Connect in San Francisco this week?

No problem, thanks to a number of believes you will be able to get a grip of what is  happening over there.

Here is a summary of sources where you can find info.

What is Real Estate Connect?  (website)
This is the main event in the USA (global?) if you interested in the use of IT in the residential part of the industry organized by Inman News. (For the commercial part Realcomm is the place.) For the 2007 event in San Francisco it will draw upwards of 1500 attendees. There are two of those events per year. The upcoming one will be in New York early 2008.

Focus for Connect SF 2007 (website)  
The focus will be;

• Are you tapped into the latest technology that can help your business grow?
• Do you know what the best and brightest are doing to be successful?
• Are you ready for what the future holds for the real estate industry?

"Make sure you're "connected" and have the most up-to-date information on what you need to make your company a success by attending Real Estate Connect SF 2007." You find the (the impressive) program in PDF version here.

Videos from the event
Inman TV will air a number of videos from the event.

Starting of with "Glenn Kelman Keynote at Bloggers Connect". A great video about the behind the scene experience regarding 60 minutes.

Photos from the event...
...is found here, here and here.

Want to 'gather' with other people about Connect SF?
Check out there LinkedIn and Facebook groups.
Quite a few people also updates their Twitter for example here and here. 

Bloggers reporting from Connect SF
Below are some of the blogs I've found covering the event.

Blogging systems
Is doing a tremendously work blogging, check this one out.

1000watt
5 observations after the first day.

Bloodhound
Greg is always worth reading, here a some notes from him on the Inman event.

BHI
For example, summarizing the key note session.

Future of real estate marketing
Joel, who is also running the show, has started to summarize the event. I'm sure there will be more to come.

Zillow
Reporting from the Blogger Connect and much more.

Oodle
A post about Re.net bloggers.

Realty Thoughts
A number of postings, for example one about the key session and NARs new strategy.