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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
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Steve Weikal

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

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Alex Gamota

Bio
VP of Real Estate
American Tower
MIT '94

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Arie Barendrecht

Bio
Founder & CEO WiredScore
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Ali Butler

Bio
Development Project Manager
WS Development

 
Securing the Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Internet of Things
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Dr. Michael Siegel

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

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Tommy Russo

Bio
Chief Technology Officer Akridge Real Estate
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Michael Gresty

Bio
CEO
Rifiniti

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Chris Horblit

Bio
Former President
​Fidelity Real Estate Company

 
Technology and the Autonomous Future of Real Estate
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Dr. Andrea Chegut
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Bio
Research Scientist
MIT Center for Real Estate

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Dr. Matthias Winkenbach

Bio
Director,
MIT Megacity
Logisitics Lab

Director,
MIT Visual Analytics Lab

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Frank J Mulhon

Bio
Executive Team
Head of Transactions

CrediFi
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Tom Dengenis

Bio
CEO
Synchro Software Ltd.
MIT '13
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Scott Peters
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Bio
CEO
Construction Robotics

Track B:  Game Changing Innovation in the Built Environment

 
Impact Real Estate: beyond green
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KC Hardin

Bio
Co-founder + President
Conservatorio Panama

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Ron Beit

Bio
Founding Partner + CEO
RBH Group

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Rachel Diller

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

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Geoff Nesnow

Bio
CEO, Co-Founder
My City at Peace
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Forrest Metz

Bio
Founder & Managing Director
Dev Equity


MIT's DesignX:  Accelerating Innovation in Design and the Built Environment
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Prof. Dennis Frenchman

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

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Gilad Rosenzweig
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Bio
Executive Director
MIT DesignX Accelerator
MIT '13


 
Composite Buildings + Additive Manufacture:
A Paradigm Shift for 21st Century Urban Development 

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Prof. Mark Goulthorpe

Bio
Associate Professor,
MIT School of Architecture

Head of Design Stream, SMArchS
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John Hanselman

Bio
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
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Zhengzhen Tan

Bio
Assistant Director
Samuel Tak Lee
Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab
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Patrick Kennedy

Bio
Owner
Panoramic Interests
MIT '85

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Roger Krulak

Bio
CEO
Full Stack Modular

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Tod Desmarais

Bio
Senior Associate
Gensler

New Trends in China's Real Estate Development:  Tech Innovation and Life(Work)-Style Changes
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Prof. Siqi Zheng

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

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Chenyang Wei

Bio
Senior Managing Director Zenity Holdings + Head of Zenity Holdings New York
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Changfeng Ling

Bio
Executive Director
China Property,
Hongkong Land


Global Capital Imbalances: Impacts on Real Estate Markets Globally
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Prof. William Wheaton

Bio
MIT Center for Real Estate
Professor Emeritus,
MIT Department of Economics
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Henry Mo
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Bio
Managing Director + Chief Economist
AIG
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Jerome Yuan
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Bio
CIO
ASAP Holdings

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Alice Gao
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Bio
SVP & Head of Commercial Banking
​ICBC USA

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