Jun 30, 2020
The Propcast
Season 1 Episode 1
Title: Acquisition and Virtual Events -
Michael Beckerman and Gary Chimwa
Summary
Today's topic is on collaborations and acquisitions and
looking at the future of the events space. We talk about the impact
pandemic has had on real estate, how the industry has had to adapt
to digital, how to get the right people at events and e-imagining
real estate and what it looks like going
forward.
About our hosts:
Louisa Dickins
Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known
estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved
over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a
Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by
PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5
core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE, and provides a constructive
recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa
is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association
(UKPA).
About LMRE
LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a
more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent
to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the
industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time
with each client to become and an extension of the business, and
their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector.
LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve
the people driven, PropTech community.
About our guests
Michael Beckerman
Michael Beckerman is a leader in the commercial real estate
tech sector. He entered the sector in 2012 after a 25-year career
in commercial real estate public relations, in which he started and
built Beckerman Public Relations into one of the largest firms in
the country before eventually selling the agency.
Michael now serves as CEO of CRETech, the largest event, data,
and content platform in the commercial real estate tech sector. He
also owns other successful brands such as The News Funnel, the
largest commercial real estate news aggregator and The Content
Funnel, a social media and blogging platform for the commercial
real estate industry.
Michael blogs at
tech speaking circuit.
Gary Chimwa
Gary is founder & MD at FUTURE: PropTech. FUTURE: PropTech is
the world’s number one PropTech Event. They are well established as
the leading & most well attended global event dedicated to the
technology innovation & digital transformation occurring in the
wider Real Estate sector.
Since their launch in 2015, FUTURE: PropTech have expanded to
3 countries and have grown their database, community & attendee's
to over 10,000 real estate professionals. They work with hundreds
of start-ups and technology companies to connect them with
established real estate companies such as asset managers,
institutional investors, private equity, owners, operators,
property developers, brokers, estate agents, landlords,
professional services (legal, accounting, advisory), facility
managers, architects, VC's, PR, media and more.
Resources
Re-imaging Real Estate Global Summit –
register here:
Value Bombs and Tweetables:
- “In the meantime, digital does offer some
great alternatives for the rest of 2020. Making sure that we still
keep people engaged, we still bring great content to our audience.
And we still continue to focus on our vision and our mission, which
is to just help the industry adapt to changing times and improve
and come out bigger, better and stronger” - Gary, FUTURE:
PropTech
- “Moving into the pandemic now, what's
really happened is one of the impacts has been on the real estate
industry, that they have to drive innovation with a greater sense
of urgency” – Michael, CREtech
- “We’re seeing now more landlords, more
brokerages, more asset managers come into the fold than ever
before” Michael, CREtech
- “When you're constantly pitching to
businesses… they never give you a full “no” when you're selling a
product but now people are saying “you know what, yeah let’s take
this pilot into something more serious”
Louisa
- “We had great content, we had great
exhibitors, and then you had an ability for people just to meet and
connect… so I think it was all of that which is making sure the
audience was the right audience, based on what people wanted to get
out of the conference” – Michael, CREtech
- “ We've kind of gone through the cycle of
technology and innovation being viewed as like a ticking box or
like a nice to have thing on the side. The whole world is changing
and has to change very fast now, we all know technology is going to
be a part of our lives, It's quite indispensable” – Gary,
FUTURE: PropTech
- “All the cities and the communities we live
in, they need to be better connected and serve people and be more
human centric than ever before. So that's what reimagining real
estate looks like to us” – Michael, CREtech
- “There’s a point about not calling it just
“PropTech”, to build environment and innovation… It's about
reimagining the world of real estate in the future, and there's so
many components to it. It's not just about the technology, it's not
just about the deep tech that's behind it” –
Louisa
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