Hosted by: Duke Long

09:00 – 09:10 OPENING

WELCOME TO RECOTECH

09:10 – 09:25 Cranes, Trains & Real Estate
Bruce Oreck – Train Factory
– Building a place where people want to come
– Organically developing a mixed use hub
– Train Factory as a playground for technology

09:30 – 09:45 How do we solve the hottest crisis on our planet? The role of the built environment
Liisa Rohweder – WWF
– Climate and biodiversity crisis – imperative for change
– The role of built environment, we must hurry!
– You are the solution

BUILD FOR HUMANS

09:50 – 10:05 MySchool in the middle of the street
Ari Törrönen – NCC
– Students can be datapoints too!
– What makes a good school building?
– How to involve students in building optimization

10:10 – 10:25 Attract and Retain: How you can use Data Insights for developing and managing commercial properties.
Natalia Rincon – CHAOS
– Service Insights: Understand existing infrastructure to make your property stand out by planning diverse services
– Urban Attractiveness: Increase your ROI by forecasting the attractiveness of your property
– Innovative co-creation: successful collaboration principles between corporates and startups

10:30 – 10:45 It makes total urban sense, doesn’t it?
Eelis Rytkönen – NCC
– Opening up the process of designing the urban digital user experience
– How to develop scalable, updatable and human friendly platforms
– About urban sense making and co-creation

THE NEW NORDICS

10:50 – 11:10 The state of PropTech in Finland and beyond
Sarah Sipilä – KPMG
– KPMG Insight report in collaboration with PropTech Finland

11:15 – 11:25 A word from our sponsors
Pekka Eloholma – Sitowise

11:30 – 11:40 Smart and collaborative virtual environments that offer next-gen user experiences
Jarkko Männistö – Sitowise
– Observing and understanding both static and dynamic data within built environment.
– How location precise IoT sensor data can bring virtual cities alive
– What tools are needed to create a next level user experience for urban development

11:45 – 12:25 MORNING BREAK

GAMECHANGERS

12:30 – 12:55 WeWork: Space for Humans
Annie Cosgrove – WeWork
– Using user insights to improve the member experience
– Studying the design of our spaces and the social dynamics of our communities
– Setting a precedent for UX focused design in the AEC industry

13:00 – 13:25 Connecting people(In a non Nokia way)
Christine McDannel – Kndrd.io

13:30 – 14:10 What does it mean to be a landlord in the 21st Century?
Dror Poleg – Rethinking.RE
– How technology is changing the way buildings are designed, financed, operated, and valued
– How technology is enabling new business models and new ways to monetize physical assets
– What landlords, investors, and entrepreneurs can do to make the most of these changes

14:15 – 14:35 We’re gonna need a bigger fund
Roelof Opperman – Fifth Wall

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

14:40 – 15:00 Meaningful data and how it relates to digital twinning
Volker Buscher – Arup

15:05 – 15:15 Optimization of Building Automation with Digital Twinning, VR and AI/ML
Marko Tulamo – Sitowise
– Combining sensor (IoT) data with the BIM model into a Digital Twin of the building
– Identifying and visualising potential failures in performance of building automation with machine learning algorithms
– How to use Building Automation Systems information to make sure that the building technology performs

15:20 – 16:00 AFTERNOON BREAK

REAL ESTATE IS DEAD

16:05 – 16:30 Unleash the innovative power – Wakey, Wakey!
Wouter Truffino – Global Proptech
– How fast is real estate changing right now
– What mega trends are out there with great examples
– What can you do? Be prepared!

16:35 – 17:15 Working title
Moiz K. Malik – Nooklyn

17:20 – 20:30 NETWORKING

Hosted by: Mike Butcher

09:00 – 09:10 OPENING

CIRCULAR CONSTRUCTION

09:10 – 09:25 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Tomi Lehtinen – Netlet
– Giving new life to unused materials

09:30 – 09:45 R.E.S.P.O.N.S.I.B.I.L.I.T.Y.
Speaker t.b.a
– Carbon Neutral Housing

09:50 – 10:05 Material Passports
Rob Oomen – Madaster

BUILDING WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

10:10 – 10:35 Spacemaker – Design better, more sustainable cities with AI
Håvard Haukeland – Spacemaker AI
– Discover smarter ways to design and maximize the potential of a building site
– Letting the user generate, sketch and explore a multitude of site proposals
– Enabling insights and a collaborative workflow among architects, engineers, real estate developers, and municipalities

10:40 – 11:05 Minimizing material usage through parametric design
Tal Friedman – Foldstruct

11:10 – 11:35 Reimagining the future built environments
Eero Lundén – Lundén Architecture Company

CONCRETE EXAMPLES

11:40 – 12:00 Facilitating real estate investments on the blockchain
Gonzalo Sanchez Slik – Brickblock

12:05 – 12:25 3 Blockchain Startups – 3 Concrete Examples
Hosted by: Anniina Saari – Aalto
– Ken Wong – Whizzl
– Denis Petrovcic – Blocksquare

12:30 – 13:20 MORNING BREAK

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

13:25 – 13:35 Integration platforms for project management and collaboration in urban development projects
Eeva Vahtera, Sami Rapo – Sitowise
– Enabling efficient information sharing between the designers, developers, project management, as well as the citizens
– What is required from a situational awareness dashboard in big urban development projects
– How to visualise the construction time line when external service providers are involved

13:40 – 14:05 Digital placemaking and emerging tools for urban development
Carol Tallon – Property District

14:10 – 14:35 Mixed use, livable & walkable
Speaker t.b.a

DIGITALISATION

14:40 – 15:00 How to digitalize a conservative industry
Joel Särkkä – Renta

15:05 – 15:20 Harnessing the Power of Tech
Dr. Thomas Herr – CBRE
– How traditional CRE companies keep up with the pace of digital innovations by building own solutions, acquiring talent and partner with tech firms.
– Thomas Herr, Head of Digital Innovation, CBRE shares examples and lessons learned.

15:25 – 16:00 AFTERNOON BREAK

FUTURES

16:05 – 16:30 What will buildings be like when robots take over?
Nikki Greenberg – Women in PropTech
– What are robots and what is their role for the future of buildings?
– Look at futuristic buildings and walking cities
– Consider what life will be like for us humans as robots increasingly dominate

16:35 – 16:55 Clickless Life
Speaker t.b.a

17:00 – 17:30 Fly me to the moon
David Malott – AI Spacefactory
– 3D Printing in (very) remote locations

17:35 – 20:30 NETWORKING

Hosted by: Duke Long

09:00 – 09:10 OPENING

Hosted by: Mike Butcher

09:00 – 09:10 OPENING

WELCOME TO RECOTECH

09:10 – 09:25 Cranes, Trains & Real Estate
Bruce Oreck – Train Factory
– Building a place where people want to come
– Organically developing a mixed use hub
– Train Factory as a playground for technology

09:30 – 09:45 How do we solve the hottest crisis on our planet? The role of the built environment
Liisa Rohweder – WWF
– Climate and biodiversity crisis – imperative for change
– The role of built environment, we must hurry!
– You are the solution

CIRCULAR CONSTRUCTION

09:10 – 09:25 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Tomi Lehtinen – Netlet
– Giving new life to unused materials

09:30 – 09:45 R.E.S.P.O.N.S.I.B.I.L.I.T.Y.
Speaker t.b.a
– Carbon Neutral Housing

09:50 – 10:05 Material Passports
Rob Oomen – Madaster

BUILD FOR HUMANS

09:50 – 10:05 MySchool in the middle of the street
Ari Törrönen – NCC
– Students can be datapoints too!
– What makes a good school building?
– How to involve students in building optimization

10:10 – 10:25 Attract and Retain: How you can use Data Insights for developing and managing commercial properties.
Natalia Rincon – CHAOS
– Service Insights: Understand existing infrastructure to make your property stand out by planning diverse services
– Urban Attractiveness: Increase your ROI by forecasting the attractiveness of your property
– Innovative co-creation: successful collaboration principles between corporates and startups

10:30 – 10:45 It makes total urban sense, doesn’t it?
Eelis Rytkönen – NCC
– Opening up the process of designing the urban digital user experience
– How to develop scalable, updatable and human friendly platforms
– About urban sense making and co-creation

BUILDING WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

10:10 – 10:35 Spacemaker – Design better, more sustainable cities with AI
Håvard Haukeland – Spacemaker AI
– Discover smarter ways to design and maximize the potential of a building site
– Letting the user generate, sketch and explore a multitude of site proposals
– Enabling insights and a collaborative workflow among architects, engineers, real estate developers, and municipalities

10:40 – 11:05 Minimizing material usage through parametric design
Tal Friedman – Foldstruct

11:10 – 11:35 Reimagining the future built environments
Eero Lundén – Lundén Architecture Company

THE NEW NORDICS

10:50 – 11:10 The state of PropTech in Finland and beyond
Sarah Sipilä – KPMG
– KPMG Insight report in collaboration with PropTech Finland

11:15 – 11:25 A word from our sponsors
Pekka Eloholma – Sitowise

11:30 – 11:40 Smart and collaborative virtual environments that offer next-gen user experiences
Jarkko Männistö – Sitowise
– Observing and understanding both static and dynamic data within built environment.
– How location precise IoT sensor data can bring virtual cities alive
– What tools are needed to create a next level user experience for urban development

CONCRETE EXAMPLES

11:40 – 12:00 Facilitating real estate investments on the blockchain
Gonzalo Sanchez Slik – Brickblock

12:05 – 12:25 3 Blockchain Startups – 3 Concrete Examples
Hosted by: Anniina Saari – Aalto
– Ken Wong – Whizzl
– Denis Petrovcic – Blocksquare

GAMECHANGERS

12:30 – 12:55 WeWork: Space for Humans
Annie Cosgrove – WeWork
– Using user insights to improve the member experience
– Studying the design of our spaces and the social dynamics of our communities
– Setting a precedent for UX focused design in the AEC industry

13:00 – 13:25 Connecting people(In a non Nokia way)
Christine McDannel – Kndrd.io

13:30 – 14:10 What does it mean to be a landlord in the 21st Century?
Dror Poleg – Rethinking.RE
– How technology is changing the way buildings are designed, financed, operated, and valued
– How technology is enabling new business models and new ways to monetize physical assets
– What landlords, investors, and entrepreneurs can do to make the most of these changes

14:15 – 14:35 We’re gonna need a bigger fund
Roelof Opperman – Fifth Wall

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

13:25 – 13:35 Integration platforms for project management and collaboration in urban development projects
Eeva Vahtera, Sami Rapo – Sitowise
– Enabling efficient information sharing between the designers, developers, project management, as well as the citizens
– What is required from a situational awareness dashboard in big urban development projects
– How to visualise the construction time line when external service providers are involved

13:40 – 14:05 Digital placemaking and emerging tools for urban development
Carol Tallon – Property District

14:10 – 14:35 Mixed use, livable & walkable
Speaker t.b.a

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

14:40 – 15:00 Meaningful data and how it relates to digital twinning
Volker Buscher – Arup

15:05 – 15:15 Optimization of Building Automation with Digital Twinning, VR and AI/ML
Marko Tulamo – Sitowise
– Combining sensor (IoT) data with the BIM model into a Digital Twin of the building
– Identifying and visualising potential failures in performance of building automation with machine learning algorithms
– How to use Building Automation Systems information to make sure that the building technology performs

DIGITALISATION

14:40 – 15:00 How to digitalize a conservative industry
Joel Särkkä – Renta

15:05 – 15:20 Harnessing the Power of Tech
Dr. Thomas Herr – CBRE
– How traditional CRE companies keep up with the pace of digital innovations by building own solutions, acquiring talent and partner with tech firms.
– Thomas Herr, Head of Digital Innovation, CBRE shares examples and lessons learned.

REAL ESTATE IS DEAD

16:05 – 16:30 Unleash the innovative power – Wakey, Wakey!
Wouter Truffino – Global Proptech
– How fast is real estate changing right now
– What mega trends are out there with great examples
– What can you do? Be prepared!

16:35 – 17:15 Working title
Moiz K. Malik – Nooklyn

17:20 – 20:30 NETWORKING

FUTURES

16:05 – 16:30 What will buildings be like when robots take over?
Nikki Greenberg – Women in PropTech
– What are robots and what is their role for the future of buildings?
– Look at futuristic buildings and walking cities
– Consider what life will be like for us humans as robots increasingly dominate

16:35 – 16:55 Clickless Life
Speaker t.b.a

17:00 – 17:30 Fly me to the moon
David Malott – AI Spacefactory
– 3D Printing in (very) remote locations

17:35 – 20:30 NETWORKING

09:10 – 10:10 Global PropTech Speeddate
– We match 20 corporate real estate professionals with 20 PropTech companies in just 1 hour.
– Separate registration is required:
https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/global-proptech-speeddate-registration-69270101739

10:20 – 11:00 Pitching Competition
– 6 Proptech Startups

11:10 – 11:25 Pitching Competition Winner Announcements

11:30 – 12:30 Talent Track
– Introduction of the industry
– Panel Discussion: The DO’S and DON’TS of job seeking
– Company reverse pitching
– Matchmaking through BRELLA
Hosted by Helsinki Business Hub

12:30 – 13:00 MORNING BREAK

13:00 – 13:45 Circular Construction Roundtable

13:50 – 14:20 Panel Discussion: Blockchain in Real Estate
Hosted by Gonzalo Sanchez Slik – Brickblock
– Ken Wong – Whizzl
– Denis Petrovich – Blocksquare
– Anniina Saari – Aalto

14:25 – 15:10 Leadership Roundtable

15:20 – 15:50 Panel Discussion: Under Construction
Moderated by: Volker Buscher – Arup

16:00 – 16:30 Women in PropTech MeetUp
Hosted by Nikki Greenberg – Women in PropTech
– An opportunity for women attendees to meet and form meaningful connections
– Bring your business cards
– This is not only for women, as always, everyone is welcome!

16:40 – 17:40 FIRESIDE CHAT: Future Living
– Christine McDannel – Kndrd.io
– Jan Garde – The Embassies of Good Living