WELCOME TO THE NORDICS
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Wasim Rashid (Orbit Technology)
Wasim Rashid (b.1971) is an expert in new business models, technology driven product development and has worked extensively with digitalization of business models in large companies. Prior to joining R8, he was Executive Vice President Norwegian bank, DNB. He has...
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Ulrik Branner (Let’s build)
Ulrik Branner - Boardmember and Executive of LetsBuild (formerly GenieBellt). After more than 20 years working with technology from a commercial angle, Ulrik entered Construction in 2014. He forms part of the executive management of LetsBuild - a 5 years old ConTech...
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Rick Bawcum (Crosswalk)
Named one of the DC-area's Top Association Tech Gurus, Rick Bawcum is the CEO / Founder of Crosswalk, the first agile API to network Construction Specifications Institute’s (CSI) MasterFormat®, Uniformat®, and OmniClass® classifications with the world’s building...
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Gavin J. Gallagher (Property Investor | Entrepreneur)
Gavin collaborates with corporate occupiers in the design, development and operation of highly productive work environments that resonate and engage with a younger workforce. He is responsible for the running of EastPoint, an established business park with 50+...
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Andrew Baum (University of Oxford)
Andrew has combined academic life and business for the last 25 years. Appointed Professor of Land Management at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, in 1989; Honorary Professor of Real Estate Investment at the University of Cambridge 2009-2014; Fellow of...
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Alf Rehn (University of Southern Denmark)
Professor of innovation, design and management at Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark Alf, a devoted Ethel Merman fan and ginthusiast, is also a professor, speaker, strategic advisor, author and board professional. Currently a Professor of...
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Eleanor O’Neill “Customer-centric technology company”
Eleanor O’Neil from Spacemaker.ai on a customer-centric and human-centric holistic approach in Spacemaker.ai and how it changes the way they help their clients in creating high living quality and sustainable urban environments.
Toni Luhti “Harmonizing and utilizing data”
Toni Luhti from Platform of Trust on the importance of data, transparency and integration. How would built environment change, if we will create an ecosystem and integrate all the data, instead of building individual vertical platforms?.
Marko Tulamo “Standardise, visualise and smartly analyse”
Marko Tulamo from Sitowise is specialised in combining building automation system data with the BIM model into a Digital Twin of the building and identifying and visualising potential failures in performance of building technical systems with mathematical algorithms.
Tal Friedman “People are entitled to beautiful architecture”
Tal Friedman(B.ach,M.eng) is an architect and construction-tech-entrepreneur active in digital and automated construction. His work explores new possibilities for transforming the built environment through the innovative use of materials and design algorithms for creating new architectural and structural typologies.
Are you fit for future?
Photo credit: © Bjorn Holland / Getty Images / WWF The message is crystal clear: it is time to act. The Earth system is becoming unstable under the pressures of climate change and mass extinction of species. As our lives are built on nature, also the well-being of humans is at risk. There’s no time to lose. […]
What to expect at RecoTech 2019?
With only a few days left until we open our doors we thought it’d be nice to answer a fundamental question: what to expect at #RecoTech19? Be prepared to be surrounded by hundreds of #PropTech experts from over 20 different countries with a strong Nordic emphasis. Whether presenting on stage, showcasing technology or looking for […]
Dr. Thomas Herr “When investing in a new product you should invest the same amount into the cultural change”
Dr. Thomas Herr is Managing Director and EMEA Head of Digital Innovation at CBRE. In this role he is responsible for the connection of CBRE with the European PropTech ecosystem and the management of innovation within the company.
Volker Buscher and the journey into the Data Supernova
Volker Buscher is Arup’s Data Leader (Chief Data Officer). He is a member of Arup’s Group Board Digital Executive, with responsibility for developing Arup wide data driven automation, services and products. A Project Director for public and private sector clients in the UK, Europe, Middle East, US and SE Asia.
This year at RecoTech there will be one secret ingredient… YOU!
RecoTech is already around the corner, and the whole experience is expected to be a blast. How can it be ensured, you may ask? Besides putting hours into planning a top-notch agenda, there will be one secret ingredient… that is you. In more details – your own experience and feedback, in even more details – You x […]
Tomi Ventovuori a forerunner in digitalisation in real estate
Tomi Ventovuori is the head of digitalisation at Newsec one of the biggest Property Asset Management companies in the Nordics. Tomi has over 20 years of experience in property business including mid to large size organisations, sales, corporate development and business management, operations and strategy.
What makes a good business centre, and do you really want to build JUST a business centre? This is what the reality tells us.
Many of us spend a large portion of our days at work. The research shows that on average a person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime, which equals 1/3 of your life. Add on some time spent commuting, and the number will be, indeed, impressive. Today’s global trend is to be fast […]
Wouter Truffino on the speed of change in the industry
Wouter Truffino is known as a one of worlds’ thought leaders in PropTech. He is a serial entrepreneur as founder of Global PropTech and Holland ConTech & PropTech.
To PropTech Startups with collaborative love
Hello world of PropTech. This is a developer-hippie from a corporation writing. I admire startups and anyone who has the desire and passion to solve complicated problems through own risk. The pace at which you guys are changing the direction, the courage you need to have to found a company and the belief you need […]
Move over Slush, there is a new kid in town!
So let me start with a short introduction, I’m Sjoerd and I’m part of the program and production team for RecoTech. Events are what I do and events are what I do best. I have been doing this for over 20 years and I do this with a passion. “Slush can be happy to have […]
Investing in PropTech: a cinch or challenge?
According to the FVCA and FiBAN, a record-high 479 million euros were invested in almost 600 Finnish startups and scaleups in 2018. The level of investment in Finnish startups has grown steadily year on year. Did PropTech startups receive a fair share of this investment? PropTech Finland and KPMG Global Strategy Group have examined the […]
RecoTech 2019 – a new home in Train Factory
Many of our attendees from last year where telling us RecoTech is one of the best PropTech events but they would like it to be the day before Slush. It is difficult to coordinate meetings and attend Slush and RecoTech at the same time. We also noticed this ourselves, we had almost 1000 people registered […]
Rethinking City Energy Services – Interview with Markus Logren of Helen
Markus Logren is Innovation Team Lead at Helen, a Finnish energy company. He and his team are rethinking the ways an energy company could serve its customers in the future.
Driving Game Changing Ideas – Interview with Thomas Birr of Innogy Innovation Hub
Disruptive business models change the rules of entire industries. The energy industry is also affected by this. The innogy Innovation Hub drives forward the transformation from a power plant-based energy generation company into a customer-oriented solutions provider.
Advice to EU PropTech Startups – Interview with Leila Collins of MetaProp NYC
In this interview, Leila Collins, Senior Associate at MetaProp NYC, talks about investing in PropTech and gives advice to EU startups entering the US market.
