Estates Gazette Property Podcasts

New York Real Estate Tech Week: the original WiredScore duo phone fixing, UK/US rivalry and the future of connectivity

In the last in a series of coat room podcasts at New York Real Estate Tech Week's MIPIM start up event, the duo behind connectivity ratings company Wiredscore talk about global expansion plans. 

Listen to Arie Barendrecht and Philip Kanfer talk connectivity, future growth and why their UK counterparts William Newton and Tom Redmayne will never steal their crown as the "original" wiredscore dream team.

New York Real Estate Tech Week: US workplace as a service platform eyes London ahead of European expansion

The future of the office now goes beyond even what the occupier wants, according to one of New York’s leading proptech entrepreneurs. Rather it all comes down to the individual.

Ryan Simonetti, co-founder and CEO of Convene, a workplace as a service platform that partners with global landlords including Blackstone in Chicago and Brookfield in LA to help them operate offices more like the hospitality sector, said that the future of the office is not all about co-working, but rather the “cosumerisation” of the real estate experience.

Bristol Question Time: Meet Future Space's Elaine McKechnie

Elaine McKechnie is centre director of Future Space, an innovation hub for fledging tech and science firms. At just over one year old, the space – based on the UWE campus in Bristol – is 70% let and home to some of the most innovative home grown and international businesses.

The space provides office and lab space for firms in the growth phase up to 10 to 15 people. However, McKechnie said she had witnessed a real issue for start-ups in Bristol finding space as the grew from 15 to 100 people. She said that “grow on” space was still sparse, expensive and quite risky for firms when they were still in that growth phase.

Spaces that were in demand from the young, innovative companies were the less shiny parts of Bristol, said McKechnie, such as shipping containers.

Listen in to find out more about Future Spaces and the start ups it incubates.

Bristol Question Time: the full debate

Developer Paul Isaacs, managing director of Generator South West, and Nicola Beech, cabinet member for spatial planning and city design at Bristol City Council, went head to head as they debated the value of politics in planning at Bristol Question Time.

Hear the full debate, with speakers:

Julian Harbottle, Director, Deveopment and Head of Western Region, Savills

Elizabeth Dunn, Partner, Burges Salmon

Paul Isaacs, Managing Director, Generator South West

Elaine McKechnie, Centre Director, Future Space

Nicola Beech, Cabinet Member for Spatial Planning and City Design, Bristol City Council

Chairing: Damian Wild, Editor, EG

New York RE Tech Week: What does it feel like to be microchipped? Magnus Svantegard on why he has gone full proptech

Last week, Swedish prop tech entrepreneur Magnus Svantegard from Datscha had a microchip injected into his hand by a tattoo artist in Stockholm. Part of an optional programme at Swedish co-working space Epicenter,  where members can choose to be chipped to more efficiently use the space.

Svantegard can now access the building, office and conference facilities by swiping his chipped hand and can also use the chip to pay for food in on the onsite cafeterias. And that’s just within the co-working space itself. The chip also allows him to to store his tickets for Swedish Railway and access certain gyms without the need for travel documents or passes.

He spoke to EG at this year’s NYC RE Tech Week about the implantation process and explained why he thinks others should consider following suit.

New York Real Estate Tech Week: "If you are in a job that doesn’t require you to think, you should be worried.” C&W’s chief digital officer on how to be indispensable in the age of tech

The property sector must not put job protection ahead of progress and innovation, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s chief digital officer Adam Stanley.

Regeneration Brainery: How to attract the next generation of talent

Developer Capital & Centric has launched a mentoring programme, Regeneration Brainery, to attract new and diverse talent into the sector. Find out how it works, how you can get involved and why it could help your business.

The podcast features interviews with Capital & Centric co-founder Tim Heatley, brainery participants, OBI Property founder Will Lewis, Sheila Bird Group co-founder Atul Bansul and Bruntwood learning and development business partner Adele Weaver. 

PAMS 2017: Linking the practical and theoretical in building design

Josh Artus, co-founder & director of built environment strategy, The Centric Lab and Melvin Rose, project lead, KPMG UK, give their views on improving wellness in the workplace. 

TECHTALK Radio: technocrats, coconuts and Blockchain explained in under 8 minutes

From the future of the office to why crypto currency exists, the first two days of New York Real Estate Tech Week flew by in a haze of coffee, coding and calls for collaboration. 

The event kicked off with a conference on the future of the workspace where Glenn Hicks, east coast coordinator of workplace management software platform iOFFICE spoke to EG about the problems that can be caused when collaboration is sidestepped in the quest for technological advancement. 

Then we spoke to two of the UK proptech cohort in New York for the event this week, Nick Katz of homesharing management tool Acasa and KPMG’s Nick Wright, about everything from fund raising and bridging the gap between CRE and tech to the differences between the UK and US approaches to innovation and investment. 

Finally, we do our best to bring you some clear, simple insight from Tuesday's International Blockchain Real Estate Association (IBREA) blockchain conference as tech entrepreneur Bill Staniford took on the challenge of explaining why crypto currency exists in under eight minutes. 

For more on New York Real estate tech Week in association with Metaprop NYC, follow @estatesgazette

PAMS 2017: Counter Terrorism: What property owners need to know

Matthew Garwood, head of health, safety, security and environment EMEA at Cushman & Wakefield, explains what property owners and investors are asking about to protect the people using their assets.