CREtech Announces Zoneomics Founder & CEO Matthew Player for CREtech New York 2026

NEW YORK, NY — September 15, 2026 — CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological and sustainable innovation in the real estate sector, today announced that Matthew Player, Founder & CEO of Zoneomics, will take the Main Stage at CREtech New York, taking place October 20–21, 2026 at the Javits Center in New York City.

Player will present “How Zoning Data Decides What Gets Built Before Anyone Breaks Ground” on Wednesday, October 21 at 1:45 PM.

Behind every development opportunity, stalled project and unexpected permit denial is a layer of information that can fundamentally change the economics of a property: zoning.

During the session, Player will examine why zoning remains one of the most overlooked data layers in real estate despite its ability to determine what can be built, how a property can be used and ultimately what a parcel may be worth. He will also walk attendees through a real-world deal where zoning intelligence helped transform what appeared to be a dead asset into a viable development opportunity.

Player is the Founder and CEO of Zoneomics, an AI company building intelligence infrastructure for the built world. The company has developed national-scale zoning and land-use data infrastructure used across the real estate ecosystem, with its technology powering zoning experiences on platforms including Google Earth, Moody’s, CREXi and Regrid. More than $2.1 billion in real estate was analyzed through Zoneomics over the past year.

Today, Player is also leading the development of Bassett, Zoneomics’ intelligence infrastructure designed to give AI agents, applications and enterprises the structured knowledge, search, reasoning and verification capabilities needed to understand fragmented property, municipal and regulatory systems.

An urban planning expert by background, Player previously worked with The APP Group, now part of Bureau Veritas, and has advised organizations including Westfield, McDonald’s Australia, Lendlease and major Australian financial institutions.

The session comes as artificial intelligence and increasingly structured real estate data begin changing how the industry approaches site selection, underwriting, due diligence, development, permitting and compliance. Zoneomics is building the infrastructure required to make traditionally fragmented zoning, parcel and regulatory information accessible and machine-readable for these emerging workflows.

CREtech New York 2026 will bring together the world’s leading real estate owners, developers, investors, occupiers, technology companies and industry leaders for two days of networking, dealmaking, education and innovation centered on the future of the built environment.

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About CREtech
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About Zoneomics

Zoneomics is an AI company building the intelligence infrastructure for the built world. The company has built national-scale zoning and land-use data infrastructure, transforming fragmented municipal regulations, maps, documents and property information into structured, standardized and machine-readable intelligence. Its infrastructure supports owners, developers, homebuilders, investment funds, brokerages and academic institutions and powers zoning experiences across major real estate and data platforms.