John D’Angelo leads the U.S. real estate industry sector at Deloitte Consulting, where he is focused on operational transformation, working with real estate investment managers, service providers, REITs, and real estate operating companies. For over 25 years, he has been helping companies improve their operations, and most of his career has been spent working with companies in the real estate industry. D’Angelo has built trusted business adviser relationships with senior executives at some of the largest organizations in the global real estate industry and has led large engagement teams that consistently deliver innovation, drive value, and improve client operations. He has extensive experience working with real estate investment managers to design and/or optimize their operating model. D’Angelo and his teams have been working, in particular, at the intersection of enabling technology, data, analytics, and process optimization. Prior to joining Deloitte, D’Angelo held management positions at RealFoundations, Ernst & Young and Kenneth Leventhal & Company. D’Angelo started his career in real estate as a research director at Grubb & Ellis.

The founder of Blue Lake Capital Group, Ellie Perlman, has over fifteen years of experience in real estate investment, law, and property management. Ellie leads Blue Lake Capital, which has owned and managed over 3,900 multifamily units across the U.S.

Ellie started her career in Israel as a commercial real estate lawyer, leading real estate transactions for Israel's largest development company. Later, as a property manager for one of Israel's most prominent oil and gas companies, she oversaw an extensive portfolio of properties.

Ellie holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management Bachelor's and a Master's in Law from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, as well as a bachelor’s degree in law. In addition, Ellie is a long-term Forbes author on real estate investing.

Founder & Chief Innovation Officer

Nikki Greenberg is a real estate technology and innovation strategist with a broad professional background working in real estate development spanning two decades. She previously served as Head of Technology Strategy and Digital Management at QIC, an Australian investment manager where she led the digital transformation efforts of the real estate group which encompassed $17Bn AUM, alongside a significant $4Bn development pipeline. Here, in addition to overseeing the rollout of digital strategy initiatives and preparing the strategy’s update, a key focus of her effort was on devising a strategic approach to building technology at a portfolio-wide scale through the creation of a series of playbooks and digital masterplans.

She is a former Director at Brown Harris Stevens within the elite new development division of the New York office, and has held various positions at Greenland Group, Koichi Takada Architects, Buchan Group and Lendlease in Sydney, Australia.

Nikki has been the recipient of numerous industry awards and accolades including being recognized as a Top 9 Most Influential PropTech Women (2024), Top 5 Most Influential Women in Real Estate (2022), ULI Global Luminary (2022), Top 25 CRE Innovator (2021), and Finalist at MIPIM Global PropTech Awards (2019). She has been a featured keynote speaker for the real estate industry's leading groups and conferences and frequent commentator in the press.

Proudly serving as both the former co-chair of the Urban Land Institute's New York Real Estate Technology and Innovation Council, and Global Ambassador of Women in PropTech, (which she also founded), Nikki leads the industry's conversation on built world innovation. Nikki is an alumni of UNSW in Sydney, Australia where she attained Masters of International Business, Masters of Architecture, and Bachelors of Architecture with Honors.

An Australian national, today she resides in New York City.