CREtech Returned to Los Angeles for its 4th Year With Record Breaking Turnout for West Coast Event

New York, NY (April 8, 2019)— CREtech (cretech.com), the largest event, data and content platform covering the commercial real estate tech industry, returned to Los Angeles on March 27-28 with a record breaking turnout for its first ever two-day conference, held at the historic Shrine Expo Hall.

Over two days, approximately 1000 attendees gathered in Los Angeles to hear from and network with the leading startups, entrepreneurs, investors and commercial real estate professionals from around the world.  Commercial real estate owners, developers, brokers, property managers, tenants, landlords, startups and more filled the room to hear from over 40 influential speakers leading the tech revolution in commercial real estate. Programming included all of the major tech trends in office, industrial, retail and multifamily including CoWorking, Data, A.I., ConTech and more.

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Speakers over the two days included:

• Sarah Pontius, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Real Estate Partnerships, WeWork
• Granit Gjonbalaj, Chief Real Estate Development Officer, WeWork
• Rohit Dave, Sr Director, M&A, WeWork
• Craig Robinson, Global Head of Powered by We Services, WeWork
• Andrea Jang, Head of Growth, Americas, JLL Spark
• Guy Zipori, Co-Founder and CEO, Skyline AI
• Abhinav Somani, CEO, LEVERTON Corporation
• L.D. Salmanson, CEO, Cherre
• Richard Sarkis, Co-Founder and CEO, Reonomy
• Travis Putnam, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Navitas Capital
• Momei Qu, Vice President, PSP Growth
• Kevin McKenzie, EVP, Chief Digital Officer, Macerich
• Karen Hollinger, SVP, Corporate Initiatives, AvalonBay Communities
• Justin Stewart, President and Co-Founder, Industrious
• Amalia Paliobeis, Director of Real Estate, Common
• Elie Finegold, Venture Advisor, MetaProp
• Alan Dowdell, VP, Business Development, ChargePoint
• Ryan Foutty, Sr. Director, Business Development, Lime
• Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, NewCities, Foundation/Director of Strategy, LA CoMotion, Website
• Wen Sang, CEO, Smarking Inc.
• Jeremy Giles, Managing Director, Global Customer Solutions, Prologis Ventures
• Will O’Donnell, Partner, Prologis Ventures
• Nick Romito, CEO, VTS
• Penny Pritzker, former U.S. Commerce Secretary under President Obama, and Founder/Chairman of PSP Partners
• Dave Bragg, Managing Director, Green Street Advisors
• Steve Weilbach, VP, GTM, Katerra
• Steve Burrows CBE, Founding Partner, Baumatix
• Magued Eldaief, CEO, Prescient
• Natalie Bruss, Partner, Fifth Wall
• Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
• Marcel Porras, Chief Sustainability Officer, Los Angeles Department of Transportation
• Aria Cyrus Safar, Economic Policy Manager, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
• Riggs Kubiak, Founder & CEO, Honest Buildings
• David Gerster, Vice President, JLL Spark
• Linda Isaacson, Senior Vice President, First American Title Insurance
• Patricia Nakache, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
• Merritt Hummer, Principal, Bain Capital Ventures
• Julie Lein, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Urban Innovation Fund

 

The next CREtech events will be:

• Boston: April 10, 2019
• Trailblazers Summit: June 9-11, 2019
• New York City: October 16-17, 2019

 

About CREtech

CREtech is the largest event, data and content platform in the commercial real estate tech industry. The platform features the most well attended trade shows in the industry, hand selected daily news, the largest directory of tech startups serving the industry and industry leading research.

CREtech is owned and operated by The News Funnel, the leading content, connectivity and event platform devoted to the commercial real estate industry.

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