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The Edge Sessions - 2017

Track A:  Real Estate in a Tech Energized World
 
IoT & IoP:  Digital Infrastructure and the Internet of People, Places & Things

Steve Weikal

Head of Industry + Alumni Relations,
MIT Center for Real Estate
Founder,
MIT Real Disruption Tech Conference
MIT '07, '08

Alex Gamota

VP of Real Estate
American Tower
MIT '94

Arie Barendrecht

Founder & CEO WiredScore

Ali Butler

Development Project Manager
WS Development
 
Securing the Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Internet of Things

Dr. Michael Siegel

Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan
Associate Director,
Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)3

Tommy Russo

Chief Technology Officer Akridge Real Estate

Michael Gresty

CEO
Rifiniti

Chris Horblit

Former President
​Fidelity Real Estate Company
 
Technology and the Autonomous Future of Real Estate

Dr. Andrea Chegut
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Research Scientist
MIT Center for Real Estate

Dr. Matthias Winkenbach

Director,
MIT Megacity
Logisitics Lab
Director,
MIT Visual Analytics Lab

Frank J Mulhon

Executive Team
Head of Transactions
CrediFi

Tom Dengenis

CEO
Synchro Software Ltd.
MIT '13

Scott Peters
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CEO
Construction Robotics
Track B:  Game Changing Innovation in the Built Environment
 
Impact Real Estate: beyond green

KC Hardin

Co-founder + President
Conservatorio Panama

Ron Beit

Founding Partner + CEO
RBH Group

Rachel Diller

Partner + Head of U.S. Real
Estate
Bridges Ventures

Geoff Nesnow

CEO, Co-Founder
My City at Peace

Forrest Metz

Founder & Managing Director
Dev Equity
MIT's DesignX:  Accelerating Innovation in Design and the Built Environment

Prof. Dennis Frenchman

Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning,
MIT Center for Real Estate
MIT '76

Gilad Rosenzweig
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Executive Director
MIT DesignX Accelerator
MIT '13
 
Composite Buildings + Additive Manufacture:
A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Urban Development 

Prof. Mark Goulthorpe

Associate Professor,
MIT School of Architecture
Head of Design Stream, SMArchS

John Hanselman

Executive Chairman, Vanguard Renewables
Founder, Brightfields Development
Managing Principal, Renova Partners
Track C:  Sam Tak Lee Lab on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China Real Estate
3D, Stackable, Modular:  Innovation and the Global Housing Crisis

Zhengzhen Tan

Assistant Director
Samuel Tak Lee
Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab

Patrick Kennedy

Owner
Panoramic Interests
MIT '85

Roger Krulak

CEO
Full Stack Modular

Tod Desmarais

Senior Associate
Gensler
New Trends in China's Real Estate Development:  Tech Innovation and Life(Work)-Style Changes

Prof. Siqi Zheng

Professor of Real Estate Development
Samuel Tak Lee Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab

Chenyang Wei

Senior Managing Director Zenity Holdings + Head of Zenity Holdings New York

Changfeng Ling

Executive Director
China Property,
Hongkong Land
Global Capital Imbalances: Impacts on Real Estate Markets Globally

Prof. William Wheaton

MIT Center for Real Estate
Professor Emeritus,
MIT Department of Economics

Henry Mo
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Managing Director + Chief Economist
AIG

Jerome Yuan
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CIO
ASAP Holdings

Alice Gao
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SVP & Head of Commercial Banking
​ICBC USA
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