The believer

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!

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.

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.