CREtech New York 2026
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The Institutional Outlook
There is no other stage in the world — tech or real estate — capable of convening this caliber of senior leadership. Join us for an unparalleled opening session, moderated by McKinsey & Company, featuring executive leadership from Prologis, Kimco, BGO, Vivmark Residential, and Brookfield, as the...
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Building the AI Roadmap
Everyone is talking about AI. Fewer are actually building it in a way that sticks. As one of the largest real estate software platforms in the world, Yardi has spent the last several years working through the hard questions — what data do you need, where do agents actually add value, and how do y...
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From Generic AI to Firm AI
The real assets industry sits at the intersection of complex relationships, long investment cycles, and heightened compliance expectations — conditions that generic AI tools weren't built for. This session explores why vertically tailored Firm AI is gaining traction in real assets, what separates...
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The Effective Tech Stack for Multifamily
Technology has become the operating backbone of multifamily — not just a tool for resident convenience, but the infrastructure driving asset performance, operational efficiency, and portfolio-wide decision-making. As the number of point solutions multiplies, owners and operators face a critical q...
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Signal or Noise? A CRE Buyer's Framework for AI
Most CRE teams are now evaluating a stack of AI tools with overlapping claims and no shared vocabulary for comparison. This panel gives buyers a practical framework: where narrow point solutions genuinely win (single-task speed, low switching cost), where horizontal/generic AI hits a wall (no und...
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Asset Strategy at Scale
Learn how one of the biggest real estate portfolios on the planet plans and executes its asset strategy. Walmart’s Samit Batra and Asseti’s Aonghus Stevens on how Walmart uses Asseti across every roof, parking lot, facade and acre of grounds to forecast capital, intervene earlier, and fix things ...
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Why Buildings Will Cost 30% Cheaper Due to AI
Innovation and AI should have a deflationary effect on every industry it touches. We don't pay $20 for a CD to listen to 1 song anymore. With all the investment and adoption of technology in Real Estate and Construction, we have not seen an improvement. The answer isn't better technology nor bett...
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Real Estate in the Age of AI
AI is moving past pilots and into the core of how commercial real estate operates. The gap between owners and operators who build a real strategy for it and those who don't will define the next decade.
This panel brings together Faraz Javaid, AI Engineer and AI GTM at Google, Tom Gray, Global In...
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The State of the Data Center Marketplace: Power, Capital, and the Race to Build
Data centers have moved from niche asset class to the epicenter of institutional capital, corporate strategy, and global infrastructure planning —and the players building, leasing, and powering them are facing unprecedented demand alongside unprecedented constraints. Join us for an authoritative ...
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2027 Outlook
As commercial real estate enters a pivotal year, what will separate the winners from the laggards across office, industrial, retail, and multifamily? Join top executives from CREDA, CoreNet Global, and NMHC — the industry’s leading voices in development, corporate real estate, and multifamily hou...
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No Prize for Second Place. Real Estate in Race Conditions.
Technology is collapsing the diligence, title and legal work that has always governed the pace of a real estate transaction. AI is accelerating that shift, making speed to certainty a competitive differentiator and giving the parties able to move fastest an advantage in winning the asset. This pa...
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Zoning Was Built for Humans. What Happens When AI Starts Reading It?
America’s built environment is governed by an enormous network of zoning codes, municipal documents, maps, regulations, and local processes, almost none of which were designed to be understood by machines.
That is about to matter.
As AI moves from answering questions to performing real work, ag...
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The New Power Players: The AI Investors Leading Real Estate's Next Era
To close out CREtech New York 2026, we're bringing together four of the most influential AI investors shaping the built world — for the first time ever on the same stage. Philip Krim (Co-Founder & CEO, Montauk Capital), Steve Weikal (Managing Partner, MET Fund II, MIT Center for Real Estate), Fab...
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AI and the Future of How Real Estate Firms Work
Every real estate deal involves mountains of paperwork: lease agreements, appraisals, title deeds, and purchase contracts. Most AI solutions fall short. We need more than text extraction—we need intelligent, context-aware tools with insights linked directly to source documents and data.
Presente...
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The Hidden NOI Play: CRE Value Creation in the Line Items Nobody Watches
The Hidden NOI Play: Why the Next Wave of CRE Value Creation Is in the Line Items Nobody Watches
Every owner has spent the last decade instrumenting the categories that were always going to get budget: leasing, capital improvements, tenant experience. This panel is about the categories that didn...
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Aeroclair Introduces ProGuard 2: Real-Time Ventilation Intelligence for CRE
Aeroclair Introduces ProGuard 2: Real-Time Ventilation Intelligence for Commercial Real Estate
Aeroclair introduces ProGuard 2, a sensor-based platform that gives building owners and operators continuous visibility into ventilation performance and indoor air quality, before problems become costl...
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Becoming an AI-Powered Real Estate Firm
Getting the tools is the easy part. Becoming an AI-powered firm means rethinking how work gets done: where AI can take on more, where human judgment matters, and which familiar processes need a fresh approach. People need the skills, support, and voice to help shape that change.
Join MetaProp La...
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Beyond the Office Lease: AI, Adaptability and the New Economics of the Workplace
Beyond the Office Lease: AI, Adaptability, and the New Economics of the Workplace
How AI is changing the operator's role, and what it unlocks for owners, property managers, and advisers.
Tenant experience doesn't end at the lobby. Past the elevator, companies take on the work of making their of...
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Unlocking the Lease Life Cycle: How AI Fixes CRE's Operational Bottleneck
Property managers aren't missing escalation dates or CAM errors from a lack of effort—daily term management is simply scattered across disconnected folders and static spreadsheets. Untracked rent escalations, manual abstraction summaries, and slow cash flow projections create constant operational...
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Your Building. Live Tomorrow
With RealView, customers can explore a building online as if they were actually there — from every angle, floor by floor, inside and out, whenever and wherever they want.
And the best part? You don't need to create anything new from scratch. Simply give us the plans you already have, and within ...
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Humans + Data + AI: The New Harmony in Institutional Real Estate
Every quarter, an asset manager sits down to close the books: chase down data from a multitude of sources or 3rd party property managers, reconcile it, get it approved, then try to explain what it means and what's coming next. That cycle used to take a team and a lot of patience. Now watch what h...
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The Automation Opportunity Hiding in Your Cleaning Spend
Learn how a leading REIT scaled autonomous robotics from pilot to portfolio, deploying 100+ robots across 70+ properties to reduce cleaning costs, give staff time back, and drive operational efficiency.
Presented by SoftBank Robotics America
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Ryan Backes, Enterprise Account Executive, So... -
From Smart to Autonomous Buildings: The Future of Facility Intelligence
From Smart Buildings to Autonomous Buildings: The Future of Facility Intelligence
Commercial buildings generate enormous amounts of data from meters, HVAC systems, BMS platforms, sensors, and other building infrastructure, but much of that data is still used primarily for monitoring and reportin...
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How to Build an AI Strategy That Actually Works: Cutting Through the CRE Hype
AI is easy to pitch, but hard to turn into real ROI. In this session, Adam Champy, CPO at VTS, pulls back the curtain on what it takes to deploy AI that actually delivers measurable impact for commercial real estate companies. In Adam's presentation you'll walk away with a practical framework for...