Registration & Networking Breakfast

DATA & AUTOMATION

Harnessing the Power of Data in Commercial Operations

• Predicting the prospects’ ups and downs of the commercial real estate market
• Using data to create differentiators and gain a competitive edge while forecasting

Lynnette Sacchetto

Director of Data & Digital Transformation

Allsopp & Allsopp

Case Study:

Callgear integration with CRM and how it helped TIMI Properties to achieve and monitor KPI's

• Seamlessly revamping the business-critical back-end systems
• Addressing non-utilised data to provide valuable business insights

George Makarenko

General Manager

CallGear

Yasser Massoud

Strategy & MarTech Expert

How Yardi’s End-To-End Solution Streamlined & Automated Processes for Al-Futtaim Malls

• Automated data collection and analysis on revenue sources
• Time saving during planning cycles while promoting user accountability

Said Haider

Senior Director - Middle East Sales

Yardi

Disruption on the Real Estate Customer Path

• Which functions to prioritise for digital transformation based on ROI
• A roadmap to technology disruption in real estate

Cecilia Reinaldo

Executive Director, UAE & International Sales

ALDAR

Networking & Refreshments Break

Feasibility Modelling & Simulation of Commercial Property Projects

• Testing the viability with various parameters including “what -if“
• Identifying risks and opportunities at an early stage

Imtiaz Tayob

Managing Director

Macrovu

REIMAGINED PROPERTY EXPERIENCES

Panel Discussion:

Automated Property Management as a Tool to Free-Up Internal Resources

• Bookkeeping and accounting entries automatically executed so you can concentrate on verification
• 24/7 maintenance request service and enhancing contractor compliance to existing systems and processes
• Conducting mobile digitalised inspections for instant data report generation and interpretation

Moderator:

Abdulla Al Wahedi

CEO

Irtikaz Group

Panellists:

Ali Alsuwaidi

VP

MEFMA

Fahad Bedaiwi

EVP Facilities Management & Engineering

Saudi National Bank

Mohamad Abou Laban

CEO

Deyaar Facilities Management

Panel Discussion:

RX - Designing Seamless Tenant and Resident Experiences

• Platforms that serve as a central nervous system for an entire building’s community
• Unifying wide-ranging occupant services with easy to access and track communication points
• Ensuring fast response on raised requests and alarms

Moderator:

Balaji Varadharajan

Co-Founder & MD

TheHouseMonk

Panellists:

Ayman Alsebeyi

SVP Smart Cities

Injazat and MD, Hassantuk

Sebastian Samuel

CIO

AW Rostamani Group

Networking & Refreshments Break

NEW FRONTIERS

Panel Discussion:

Digital Marketing and Advertising Boosting Value for Real Estate

• Covid-19 and Gen-Z dictating the trend for marketing channel preferences
• Targeting your promoting spend to the correct crowd
• Creating a genuine digital process with automated marketing and profiled leads coordination

Moderator:

Ali Hamze

Mentor

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)

Panellists:

Alexander Lea

Head of Digital Marketing, Performance and Growth

Allsopp & Allsopp

Sevgi Gur

CMO

Property Finder

Boardroom Discussions:
Crypto, NFTs and Web 3.0 – Exploring How Internet’s New Era is Re-Engineering Real Estate

• The couple-clicks home-buying experience; NFT sales of property
• Crypto down payments and mortgages for crypto holders
• Expanding the use cases for digital twins and BIM

Moderator:

Faisal Zaidi

Co-Founder

Crypto Oasis

The Significance of Crowdfunding & Property Decentralized IDs

• Challenges and potential problems with real estate syndication and crowdfunding
• Decentralized ID for real estate, why should you care?
• Potential use cases of Property DID (Decentralized Identity) and their benefits

Daniel Saliba

CEO

Land Transcendence

Networking Lunch and End of Day Two

DATA ANALYSIS & FORECASTING

Introduction

Designed for Real Estate professionals, this intensive, hands-on workshop will cover practical tools and techniques to interpret and communicate large quantities of information. With the huge amount of data available to us every day, data analysis skills have never been more important. Learn to build robust, flexible and dynamic forecasts to accurately predict business outcomes and handle the volatile economic inputs likely to emerge in these uncertain times.

Outcomes

You will learn how to:

• Summarise and visualise data for presentation
• Forecast with modelling best practice
• Include phasing and seasonality to predict occupancy
• Apply a narrative to data
• Evaluate Modern Excel business intelligence tools
• Design principles for including charting data

Format

This session is very hands-on and practical. Each participant needs their own laptop with Excel installed and will be expected to create their own Excel models utilising the tools and techniques covered during the course.

Presenter

Danielle Stein

Principal Financial Modeller

Plum Solutions

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Danielle Stein

Principal Financial Modeller
Plum Solutions

Biography

 

Danielle Stein Fairhurst is the Principal of Plum Solutions, a Sydney-based consultancy specialising in financial modelling and analysis. She is the author of “Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling”, Third Edition published by Wiley Finance 2019 and “Financial Modeling in Excel for Dummies” second edition published by Wiley in 2022. With over 20 years’ experience as a financial analyst, she helps her clients create meaningful financial models in the form of business cases, pricing models and management reports. She has hands-on experience in a number of industry sectors, including telecoms, information systems, manufacturing and financial services. Danielle has regular engagements around Australia and globally as a speaker, course facilitator, financial modelling consultant and analyst. In 2021 she was awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and regularly commentates “Excel as Esports” battles for the Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC) on ESPN3. She is on the judging panel for the 2021 Financial Modelling Innovation Awards and is on the Diversity Council for the ModelOff Financial Modeling World Championships. She founded the Financial Modellers’ Meetup groups which now has over 7,000 members in seven countries as well as a LinkedIn forum with over 60,000 members. She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) and has taught management accounting subjects at Sydney University.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN REAL ESTATE & SMART PROPERTIES

Introduction

Designed for Real Estate professionals, this intensive, hands-on workshop will cover the impact of new technologies on real estate leading its digital transformation, optimising operations and automating management processes. While a huge amount of new solutions become available to the sector every day, the focus for this workshop will be in two of them, BIM and IoT.

Outcomes

You will learn:

• Real estate digital transformation practices
• The positive impact(s) of PropTech advancements
• How to optimise property management activities
• How to enhance operation performance
• Why BIM, IoT & smart properties are important for automating facility management processes

Format

The workshop consists of topics related to the above highlighted themes, which can be discussed in three separate sessions where participants will be divided into working groups. After the topics are each covered extensively through a presentation and Q&A session, the groups will be requested to work on sample case studies and share their insights.

Presenter

Wajdi Mereb

Digital Construction & Digital Twin Expert

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Wajdi Mereb

Digital Construction & Digital Twin Expert

Biography

 

Wajdi Mereb is a Digital Construction & Digital Twin Expert based in the UAE, with 17 years of pioneering experience in Digital Built Environment, Digital Twin, BIM, and asset management digitalization. He is an active Digital Twin Hub Community Champion and a Digital Twin Consortium member who has been awarded the Innovator of the Year Award - AEC Excellence Awards 2020 - Las Vegas and obtained the Individual Achievement Award of the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Global Awards 2019 - London.

Currently he is managing the Digital Twin Initiative & BIM Implementation throughout the lifecycle of multi-billion projects in one of the most reputable entities that follows a clear Digital Transformation Strategy targeting to become a fully integrated data-driven asset owner. Hence, paving the way to translate 4th Industrial Revolution into reality & integrated with its ecosystem to deliver smart & agile solutions for Leisure & Entertainment industry in Yas Island & beyond. Previously, he initiated suites of smart & intelligent objectives that had been translated into a portfolio of projects in Dubai RTA. In addition, he led RTA to be a key partner in developing BSI’s fundamental BIM Certification schemes “ISO 19650 & UK BIM Level 2”, together with obtaining their certificates as the 1st organization worldwide. Also, he managed a successful BIM implementation in mega strategic infrastructure projects “e.g. Metro Route 2020 project- $ 3 billion value” that contributed directly to winning the EXPO 2020 file for UAE. He holds BSc. in Architectural Engineering from Birzeit University, Palestine & MSc. in Management from Sheffield University, UK. His career started as an Architect, then he joined BIM team in Consolidated Contractors International Co. (CCIC)- Athens, where he served in mega projects “e.g. Abu Dhabi New Airport, UAE- $3 billion value and Muscat Airport, Oman- $2 billion value”.