The Edge Sessions - 2016

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

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Unlocking the Power of Urban Big Data

Prof. Albert Saiz

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

 Sheridan Hitchens

VP data Products
Auction.com

Jiyan Wei

Founder
BuildZoom

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Valuing Innovation in the Built Environment

Dr. Andrea Chegut

Post-doctoral Research Associate, MIT Center for Real Estate

Gunnar Branson

President & CEO
NAREIM

Prof. David Geltner

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

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Why the Future will be measured in Nanometers

Vladimir Bulović

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

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

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Beyond Bitcoin:  How Blockchain will change real estate forever

Avi Spielman

CEO,
Joon Properties 
MSRED 2016

Chelsea Barabas

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

Dan Doney

CEO
Securrency

Drew Hinkes

Of Counsel,
Berger Singerman Miami

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

Prof. Christopher Zegras

Assoc. Prof. Transportation & Urban Planning, MIT

Prof. Emilio Frazzoli

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

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Resilience and Adaptation in the Age of Climate Change

Prof. John Fernandez

Director
MIT Building Technology Program Director, Urban Metabolism Group

Prof. William Wheaton

MIT Center for Real Estate
Emeritus, MIT Department of Economics

Levi Reilly

Director, Development
Skanska USA

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

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Trends in Entrepreneurship

Yu-Hung Hong

Director, Sam Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab

Jiadong Qu

Chairman
 TecPark Development Ltd.

Yusong Deng

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

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Opportunities in Urban Regeneration

Zhengzhen Tan

Assistant Director, Sam Tak Lee
MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab

Richard Henderson

Executive VP
Real Estate
MassDevelopment

Shifu Wang

Fulbright visiting scholar,
MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning

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New Development Models for an Aging Population

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Joseph F. Coughlin

Director,
MIT AgeLab

 Kevin Glover

Principal,
KGRW & Associates
Former VP,
Erickson Living

 Fred Wang

Secretary General, China REITs Alliance

 Lin Wang

Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University

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