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Steven Fifita

Steven Fifita

Chief Digital Officer

Strategic Property Partners

Felicite Moorman
IoT & Connectivity in Multifamily Projects

Felicite Moorman

VP of STRATIS, Co-Founder

STRATIS, A RealPage Company

Felicite Moorman

IoT & Connectivity in Multifamily Projects

STRATIS, A RealPage Company

Felicite Moorman is an attorney turned multi-exit technology

entrepreneur. She’s received EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year®

Award and has earned an international reputation as a go-to IoT

industry expert, developing pioneering strategic partnerships and

unprecedented technology strategies and initiatives for the Internet

of Things.

Moorman is the CoFounder of STRATIS, a RealPage Company,

and SaaS Platform for large-scale Internet of Things installations.

STRATIS was named a top ten “Best Company in America” by

Entrepreneur Magazine and ranked in the top twenty percent of Inc

Magazine’s “Fastest Growing Companies” three consecutive years

prior to acquisition. Moorman was simultaneously CEO of BuLogics,

which designed, built, and certified hardware, software, and

ecosystems for the Internet of Things.

Moorman is an international speaker and columnist, and has been featured as a thought leader in dozens of mass media outlets and publications including: U.S. News & World Report, Fast Company, Inc Magazine,

Entrepreneur Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Yahoo! News, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, and others. She’s also a frequent writer, speaker, and presenter on the Internet of Things

and has been featured at CES, SXSW, Samsung DevCon, Eric Ries’ Lean Startup Conference, Smart Cities Innovation Summit Asia, NMHC OpTech, NAA Apartmentalize, Greystar’s Innovation and WAM Summits,

and more.

Prior to STRATIS and BuLogics, Moorman launched the Emerging Technologies Division for GE’s Consumer and Home Electronics brand. Moorman quickly established her reputation in technology,

engaging eight Fortune 500 companies in less than eighteen months, entering new vertical channels, and creating and beginning execution on the strategic plan to dominate the Internet of Things lighting

peripherals market. Today the GE lighting line is a part of nearly every home automation and security platform offered in the United States.

Early in her career, Moorman led a team that became the most sought after marketing and management partnership in Baltimore real estate. She expanded the companies to include nationwide finance, brokerage, legal, and insurance offerings. Moorman oversaw $1.5 billion dollars of transactions in less than five years, including property acquisition management for the $500 million dollar expansion of Rutgers University.

Moorman recognizes the importance of giving back, especially within the Philadelphia community, and volunteers her time and expertise to the following organizations: NAA & NMHC’s Real Estate Technology

Alliance (IoT Committee Co-Chair), Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator (Lead Mentor), SXSW (Mentor), Lean Startup Conference (Mentor), Philly Startup Leaders (Mentor), Dreamit Ventures (Mentor),

and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (Small Business Board Member). She is also a community activist and Chair of East Falls Forward, a Philadelphia Registered Community Organization focused on the

revitalization of the Riverfront Business District. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law and a Law School Club Founder.

Real Time Insights: The Future of Living & Working in Chicago

Cheryl Gray
Keeping A $24.5 Billion Portfolio Ahead of the Curve

Cheryl Gray

EVP, Enterprise Innovation

QuadReal Property Group

Steve Sise
Golub's $10M Improvements At 300 South Wacker

Steve Sise

COO

Golub & Company

Scott Willis
Why CRE Leaders Should be Investing in Distributed Antenna Systems

Scott Willis

President & CEO

DartPoints

Prasan Kale
The Secret Sauce of Chicago's Hottest New Office and Multifamily Projects

Prasan Kale

Co-Founder

Rise Buildings

Kurt Karnatz
Moderator

Kurt Karnatz

President

ESD

Jeff Morrison
IoT & Connectivity in Multifamily Projects

Jeff Morrison

VP of Sales & Business Development

STRATIS

Cheryl Gray

Keeping A $24.5 Billion Portfolio Ahead of the Curve

QuadReal Property Group

Cheryl Gray joined QuadReal in January, 2017 as Executive Vice President leading the Enterprise

Innovation Team, providing expertise to the Canadian real estate portfolio in sustainability,

environmental health and safety, national contracts and property management best practices.

She recently launched QuadReal’s Digital Innovation initiative that will encourage, support and

implement innovative technology in QuadReal’s Canadian portfolio to create and sustain long

term value. Prior to joining QuadReal, Cheryl held several leadership positions in Bentall

Kennedy, most recently having launched their Canadian residential property management

business platform.  Prior to Bentall Kennedy, she worked at several major Canadian real estate

firms in senior management roles where she was responsible for office, industrial, retail and

residential portfolios. Cheryl holds a B.A. of Economics from the University of Waterloo, and has

a Certified Property Manager ® designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management

(IREM).  She serves as an officer IREM’s Executive Committee as the 2018 Secretary Treasurer,

the first international member to be nominated to an officer role with IREM.

Steve Sise

Golub's $10M Improvements At 300 South Wacker

Golub & Company

Steve Sise oversees the operations of properties within Golub’s commercial and residential portfolio with an intense focus on financial and operating performance. He ensures that the property management teams collaborate with leasing, acquisitions, development and accounting groups, as well as with Golub’s capital partners, to create and execute successful business plans. Steve leverages his diverse background in asset management, acquisitions and dispositions along with a keen sense of real estate to further the strong performance of the company’s portfolio. He earned a BA degree from John Carroll University, and is a Board Member for BOMA Chicago, the Chicagoland Apartment Association and Magnificent Mile Association. Steve is a licensed real estate broker with the State of Illinois. He joined Golub & Company in 2008.

Scott Willis

Why CRE Leaders Should be Investing in Distributed Antenna Systems

DartPoints

Scott Willis serves as DartPoints President and Chief Executive Officer and also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Willis is a recognized global technology leader in the communications industry with a demonstrated track record of building successful businesses for both large and small organizations to significant scale. He has extensive leadership experience transforming organizations, setting strategic direction, overseeing complex operations and confecting corporate alliances while delivering growth and profitability to the business. Scott has the right balance of strategic leadership, vision, enthusiasm and operational and technical expertise for building sustainable customer relationships to elevate DartPoints to be a leader in the edge data center market. Mr. Willis brings over 30 years of experience in the technology industry with a history of proven success. Most recently, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Zinwave, a leading global provider of in-building wireless products and solutions. He successfully transformed the organization, reset the global strategy, led the charge to innovate new products and solutions which primed the company to achieve aggressive growth. Through his leadership, he positioned Zinwave as a global leader of in-building wireless solutions. Over the course of his career, Scott has served in executive leadership roles at respected technology companies including Ericsson, Nokia, BellSouth and Sprint. Before Zinwave, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Executive for Goodman Networks, a privately held leader in the design, engineering, deployment and integration of wireless communications networks. In his role, he was responsible for all commercial strategy, sales and marketing and grew revenue from $400 million to $1.2 billion annually. Prior to Goodman Networks, Scott was Executive Vice President and General Manager at Ericsson, where he oversaw more than 6,500 personnel across the U.S. and Latin America growing the business from $5 million in revenue annually to more than $3.5 billion in over 5 years. Previously, Scott served as Vice President and General Manager at Nokia Networks, where he led the growth of a new business to $1.5 billion in annual revenue in 3 years and established Nokia Networks as a market leader in North America. Mr. Willis holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management. He also holds continuing executive education certificates from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Prasan Kale

The Secret Sauce of Chicago's Hottest New Office and Multifamily Projects

Rise Buildings

Prasan Kale is the co-founder and CEO of Rise Buildings, a real estate SaaS platform designed to address major pain points for owners, property managers, and tenants in commercial and residential buildings. Prasan has more than 15 years of experience in the real estate industry overseeing asset portfolios and developments totaling over $10 billion dollars with Golub & Company, CMK Companies, Teng and Turner, among others. Prior to founding Rise, Prasan led high profile projects for stalwart real estate developers ranging from the 97-story Waterview Tower, to Riverline, a master planned 3600 unit community in Chicago, to an out-island resort development in the Caribbean and other notable residential and commercial real estate projects. Before that, he spent several years operating an asset portfolio of 7M+ sf of residential and commercial properties. Prasan holds degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Windsor, and is an avid technologist and thought leader in the proptech space.

Kurt Karnatz

Moderator

ESD

For more than 30 years at ESD, Kurt Karnatz has provided leadership in guiding the company in becoming a world-recognized consulting practice. As a strategic leader, consultant and engineer, he has developed long-term relationships with corporate real estate clients in finance, high-tech, medical, energy and beyond, while establishing ESD’s expertise in building sciences, intelligent buildings and smart cities. As President, he works to foster global thinkers who are admired for their innovative approach in creating sustainable solutions. ESD’s teams of professionals focus on solutions that maximize efficiency, reliability, flexibility, longevity and marketability – resulting in competitive advantage and enterprise value for its clients.

Jeff Morrison

IoT & Connectivity in Multifamily Projects

STRATIS

A veteran entrepreneurial multifamily sales leader with 20 years of experience leading innovative organizations to success and profitability, Jeff Morrison joined STRATIS after a career of innovating Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems specifically for MultiFamily and Student Housing. Morrison experienced the pain points of multifamily owners and managers and chose a platform that represents the needs of the market.

Jeff has represented a diverse list of real estate products and services including financial transaction processing solutions, SaaS, electric utility infrastructure and metering technology, energy management, and online marketing/advertising. His extensive experience working with all levels and facets of multifamily operations and property management brings added value to STRATIS clients implementing smart-home technology.

Morrison is a staunch advocate for the (literal) underdog - fundraising, transporting and fostering for local canine rescue groups MCPRescue.org, K94Keeps/CBBR.org, Second Chance Rescue NYC, Safe Humane Chicago - and an advocate in equal measure for the ocean’s underrepresented at SharkStewards.org - Earth Island Institute, a 501c3 non-profit ocean conservation group. where he works as an Advisory Board Member.

Building A City of the Future

Betsy Ziegler
Leading The Number 1 Ranked Incubator In The World

Betsy Ziegler

CEO

1871

Tim Swanson
The Future of The Construction Process & Pre-Fab Insights

Tim Swanson

Chief Design Officer

Skender

Fabian Elliott
How Can Cities Create Opportunity With Data?

Fabian Elliott

Co-Founder & CEO

Black Tech Mecca

Joe Koridek

Joe Koridek

National Enterprise Sales

SOLiD

Danielle Dy Buncio
How Can the Construction Industry Keep Up with Technical Innovation and Digitization

Danielle Dy Buncio

Founder & CEO

VIATechnik, LLC

Marc Rutzen
Moderator

Marc Rutzen

Co-Founder & CEO

Enodo

Betsy Ziegler

Leading The Number 1 Ranked Incubator In The World

1871

Elizabeth “Betsy” Ziegler is the first female CEO of 1871, now the Number 1 ranked tech incubator in the world.

Previous to 1871, Betsy was the Chief Innovation Officer at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, responsible for portfolio innovation as well as integrating technology into the Kellogg educational experience. From 2011 through September 2015, she served as associate dean of degree programs and dean of students.

Prior to Kellogg, she served as a principal in McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office where she led the firm’s Life Insurance Operations and Technology practice and co-led its Financial Institutions Operations and Technology practice.

Ziegler holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and received a B.A. in economics from The Ohio State University, where she graduated with distinction.

Tim Swanson

The Future of The Construction Process & Pre-Fab Insights

Skender

im leads Skender’s team of architects and designers—bringing his passion for integrating the design and construction process to the firm’s clients. In his former position of Chicago office director at CannonDesign, he was the youngest office leader in the history of the century-old firm. Throughout his decade there, Tim oversaw a team of more than 200 architecture, engineering, and planning experts. He also led its City Design practice, a national group focused on helping cities around the world grow and prosper. Having lived in Abu Dhabi, rural India and major American cities like New York and Chicago, Tim brings a unique, global perspective to his design work. He is an advocate for smart growth and sustainable development, working with leaders at the intersection of urban planning, public health, and education. Tim earned a Master of Architecture with a specialization in urban development and infill from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and undergraduate degrees in fine arts and economics from Colgate University.

Fabian Elliott

How Can Cities Create Opportunity With Data?

Black Tech Mecca

Fabian Elliott is a ‘Hybrid Entrepreneur’ as Co-Founder & CEO of Black Tech Mecca Inc. and an Advertising Technology Consultant at Google. In his ad-tech consulting capacity, he works with top tier clients like Target, Ford, Kimberly Clark, and others to better leverage their consumer data to drive their digital advertising strategies.

Fabian’s burning vision for black empowerment through technology inspired him to play a key role in the revamp, revitalization, and rebrand of Google's black employee group in which he completed his term as inaugural appointed Global Co-Chair in August of 2015. In this role, Fabian co-chaired the 10-person leadership team responsible for the 700+ membership across the company and the 14 chapters spanning the globe including London, Dublin, and Sao Paulo.

Now, his latest endeavor entails transferring the expertise he used to drive change within the world’s most valuable company to the city he has come to love, by leading the charge to build thriving black tech ecosystems in Chicago and beyond. His organization, Black Tech Mecca, is the world’s only data driven think tank focused on the black tech community. They leverage data to better connect local tech ecosystems to the needs of black tech practitioners through research, education and advocacy. Since their launch in June of 2015, Black Tech Mecca has made waves in the city and garnered national press in both Ebony, Black Enterprise, Rolling Out and other publications. Fabian is recognized by Builtin Chicago as one of the Top 50 Tech Influencers to follow and as a Chicago Tech 100 ambassador for Chicago Tech Week.

Outside of the tech world, Fabian is past Secretary of the 100 Black Men of Chicago Inc., former Next Generation Board Member for American Civil Liberty Union of Illinois, and New Leadership Council Chicago Fellow (‘16).

Joe Koridek

National Enterprise Sales

SOLiD

Joe Koridek has more than 18 years of sales management and business development expertise in the wireless

industry. He currently oversees National Enterprise sales and Global Distributor relationships for SOLiD, Inc., a

manufacturer of active DAS components. Prior to SOLiD, Koridek held leadership positions with

Communication Technology Services, Sprint, Nextel, Lucent Technologies and AT&T and was responsible for

the deployment of Sprint’s PCS network throughout New York City.

He has been a speaker at a variety of industry events on mobile solutions and strategy and has taught,

designed and facilitated internal and external IT related training and education seminars.

Koridek earned an MBA from the Columbia Business School, located in New York City.

Danielle Dy Buncio

How Can the Construction Industry Keep Up with Technical Innovation and Digitization

VIATechnik, LLC

Danielle Dy Buncio is the Co-Founder and CEO of VIATechnik, a construction and engineering services firm transforming the construction industry. Through virtual design and construction VT blends global human capital with cutting-edge construction technologies. Danielle leads the company’s strategic growth efforts and builds and manages client relationships with some of the largest AEC firms around the country. Under Danielle’s leadership, the firm’s innovative and landmark projects have included everything from a point cloud BIM of one of the world’s largest breweries to the creation of a virtual “gaming” environment of a nuclear power plant. Danielle and the VIATechnik team are spearheading advancement of BIM, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence in the industry. Prior to founding VIATechnik, Danielle worked for general contractors in Silicon Valley, Sydney, and Chicago. As a Civil Engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional, she has extensive commercial building, heavy civil, and marine construction experience. She holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Danielle is a recognized industry thought leader and has spoken at industry events including ENR Groundbreaking Women in Construction, ENR FutureTech, AGC BIMForum, CSI Master Specifiers Retreat, Dodge Annual Construction Outlook, and Autodesk University. Danielle was the closing keynote at the Builtworlds CEO Tech Forum in 2016. She was recently invited to China to speak to key government officials and industry leaders on global trends in BIM and construction technology. Danielle was named one of the top “Women to Watch in Virtual Reality” and she received the 2017 Women in Construction Award by Constructech Magazine. She is also on the Advisory Board of Flux.io, a technology start-up born out of GoogleX, tacking the issue of big data for construction.

Marc Rutzen

Moderator

Enodo

Marc Rutzen is the CoFounder and CEO of Enodo, an automated underwriting platform for multifamily real estate. Enodo helps users analyze more deals in less time and make better investment decisions backed by data science. Utilizing machine learning, the platform collects, cleans and analyzes real-time multifamily rent and availability data from over two million properties nationwide. Marc oversees Enodo’s data science, engineering and business teams to continually develop and release industry changing features. Marc is a Licensed Managing Broker in the State of Illinois and earned his Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University.

Opening Remarks

Drew McKenna
Opening Remarks

Drew McKenna

COO

Pressbox - A Procter & Gamble Tide Spin Company

Summary

1) When looking for a place to call home, what do the nation’s biggest tech tenants like Amazon look for in their future home on a citywide and project level?

2) Is there enough innovation in Chicago ensure the tenants of tomorrow are grown from within ensuring tech job growth continues? Who exactly is funding their development?

3) As the city becomes a more mature tech hub and a leader in a variety of fields from agriculture to finance, which sectors will we see Chicago become a specialist in?

4) From an urban development and infrastructure perspective, which UrbanTech initiatives are the most important to ensure that innovation is supported in a City of the Future?

5) How is tech changing the way in which we interact with the urban environment and what tech will have the most significant impact on our day to day lives?

Why this matters?

Chicago has long been a focal point of the nation’s economic development and continues to be so today. From a top-down perspective, the likes of Groupon and Motorola Solutions touting Chicago as their home are clear signals that the largest of tenants are drawn to innovative cities.

Given the pursuit of even larger tech tenants and the fierce competition, it is clear that the innovative qualities of the city which attracted these in tenants in the first place need to continue to spawn. So who exactly are the masterminds driving the growth of the next generation of tech in the windy city?

As Amazon representatives roam the Windy City don’t miss Bisnow’s Building Cities of the Future Chicago Edition as we take a look at the VC funds driving the investment in addition to meeting the masterminds behind the planning of the urban landscape needed to support growth on this scale. Our all-star panelists, startup founders and VC Investors will provide a glimpse of what’s to come for the rest of the nation, share insight as to when the industry is going to leapfrog forwards, the advances which will have the highest ROI in CRE and have the greatest impact on the way in which we interact with the built environment.

To accomplish this, Bisnow's 2018 Chicago UrbanTech Summit will feature a top-tier line-up of CRE tech industry titans, high-ranking government of officials, innovators and entrepreneurs to demonstrate the impact of UrbanTech on all that surrounds us, to deliver actionable insights, and to showcase presentations from the startups expected to have the greatest impact to a panel of investors.

Share your comments, nominate a startup, post your photos and ask questions using #CRETechSummit on Twitter and Instagram, and follow us at @Bisnow on Twitter for more local news.

Venue

Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601

Ballroom/Floor: West Tower — Ballroom Level. Regency A


Valet only. $32 per car.

Agenda

Time Activity
Wednesday April 11, 2018
2:15 PM
3:00 PM
Building A City of the Future: A Global Tech Hub
3:00 PM
3:30 PM
Coffee & Networking
Tuesday June 26, 2018
1:25 PM
1:30 PM
Opening Remarks
1:30 PM
2:15 PM
Real Time Insights: The Future of Living & Working
Thursday July 26, 2018
12:30 PM
1:25 PM
Breakfast & Networking

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