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The Edge Sessions - 2016


Track A:  MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab:  Innovation in place and product

 
Unlocking the Power of Urban Big Data
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Prof. Albert Saiz

Director
MIT Center for
Real Estate
Associate Professor,
Urban Economics
and Real Estate

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 Sheridan Hitchens

VP data Products
Auction.com

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Jiyan Wei

Founder
BuildZoom


 
Valuing Innovation in the Built Environment
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Dr. Andrea Chegut

Post-doctoral Research Associate, MIT Center for Real Estate
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Gunnar Branson

President & CEO
NAREIM

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Prof. David Geltner

Associate Director of Research, MIT Center for Real Estate
Professor, Real Estate Finance & Engineering Systems


 
Why the Future will be measured in Nanometers
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Vladimir Bulović

Professor of Emerging Technology | MIT School of Engineering Associate Dean for Innovation

Track B:  Real Disruption:   At the convergence of technology and commercial real estate

 
Beyond Bitcoin:  How Blockchain will change real estate forever
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Avi Spielman

CEO,
Joon Properties 
MSRED 2016

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Chelsea Barabas

Head of Social Innovation - Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab
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Dan Doney

CEO
Securrency

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Drew Hinkes

Of Counsel,
Berger Singerman
Miami


How do we get there from here?:  Autonomous Vehicles and their impact on commercial real estate
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Prof. Christopher Zegras

Assoc. Prof. Transportation & Urban Planning, MIT
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Prof. Emilio Frazzoli

Director, Transportation@MIT Initiative
Lead PI, Future Urban Mobility SMART IRG


 
Resilience and Adaptation in the Age of Climate Change
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Prof. John Fernandez

Director
MIT Building Technology Program Director, Urban Metabolism Group

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Prof. William Wheaton

MIT Center for Real Estate
Emeritus, MIT Department of Economics

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Levi Reilly

Director, Development
Skanska USA


Track C:  The MIT Sam Tak Lee Lab:  Entrepreneurship in China

Trends in Entrepreneurship
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Yu-Hung Hong

Director, Sam Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab
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Jiadong Qu

Chairman
 TecPark Development Ltd.
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Yusong Deng

Deputy Director General of Institute of Market Economy of Development Research Center of the State Council, P. R. China (DRC)

Opportunities in Urban Regeneration
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Zhengzhen Tan

Assistant Director, Sam Tak Lee
MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab

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Richard Henderson

Executive VP
Real Estate
MassDevelopment

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Shifu Wang

Fulbright visiting scholar,
MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning


New Development Models for an Aging Population

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Joseph F. Coughlin

Director,
MIT AgeLab

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 Kevin Glover

Principal,
KGRW & Associates
Former VP,
Erickson Living
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 Fred Wang

Secretary General, China REITs Alliance
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 Lin Wang

Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University

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