
This one-day deep dive provides for practical and comprehensive insights in the most important applications and developments for all players in the real estate sector.
DATE, TIME AND FEES
Date: November 17, 2020
Time: 10.00 – 16.30
Fees: £ 595 ex VAT
Including: Lunch, refreshments and networking drinks reception
LOCATION
The Bartlett Real Estate institute
University College London Here East
Campus Elizabeth Olympic Parc
(Easy to get to by public transport – with options including tube, train and bus – or by bicycle)
PROGRAM NOVEMBER 17
09:30 – 10.00
Registration & Coffee
10.00 – 10.20
Opening keynote

Professor Andrew Edkins
10.20 – 10.55
Blockchain will do for data what the Internet did for communication: identity, privacy, security, trust, sharing, permissioned access
A number of major projects in construction are underway to develop blockchain as a global data infrastructure with the aim of supporting digital marketplaces for audit, legal services, regulation, etc.
INTRODUCTIONS:

10.20
Kyle McFadden

10.25
Professor Philip Treleaven

10.30
Professor Jeremy Bartnett
10.35
Concluding panel session
10.55 – 11.40
Data is an essential component of tomorrow’s real estate business foundation, so expect a battle against access to data
Benefiting from data will require settling the question of who controls the data. Digitization means integration and networking. Issues, tasks, and business models become more intertwined, requiring specific know-how and skills:
INTRODUCTIONS:

10.55
Nick Wright

11.00
Jen Hartley

11.05
Paul Ruyssevelt

11.10
Kevin O'Grady
11.15
Concluding panel session
11.40 – 12.40
lunch break
12.40 – 13.35
Maximum transparency at a fraction of the cost; Know Your Asset and the transactional infrastructure
Industry players now realise that blockchain-based smart contracts can play a much larger role in commercial real estate, potentially transforming core operations such as property transactions (purchase, sale, financing, leasing, and management). The real estate industry can take advantage of its inherent benefits and meets the prerequisites for using the technology.
INTRODUCTIONS:

12.40
Patrick Brown

12.45
Jack Sibley

12.50
Andrew Knight

12.55
Ami Ben-David

13.00
Martin Kassing
Traditional banking rails are slow, local, and expensive. Upvest replaces the traditional banking rails with the blockchain.
The issuance, distribution, and storage of securities is now fast, global, and affordable.
With Upvest you can easily offer digital securities to retail investors. Save up to 80% in issuance and custody costs, compared to traditional banking.
13.05
Introductions concluded with panel session
(Moderator Andrew Knight)
13.35 – 14.45
‘Recent property deals in Europe show that digital financial instruments will also significantly gain in importance in the real estate sector in the future’
The realised transactions in Europe in 2019 may have an icebreaker function for the sector in terms of its volume and institutional character. The invited speakers will offering the latest comprehensive insights on the entire process of tokenizing a real estate asset and on ways to create, issue, store, trade and invest.
INTRODUCTIONS:

13.35
Ed Protheroe
AREF is the body tat represents the interests of its fund managers, those from those that advise and support them and the end investors. The membership includes over sixty-five funds with a collective net asset value of over £72bn. With more than fifty Affiliate members, a number of Associate members and hundreds of Investor members.

13.40
Daniel Coheur

13.45
Yael Tamar

13.50
Nils Veenstra
New Alchemy is a Seattle-based blockchain development company with a primary focus on developing a global institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure, and building a decentralized protocol for the Built Environment as well as specific other industries. Over the last 3 years New Alchemy has developed and audited blockchain-based initiatives for clients such as Microsoft, Bittrex and Deloitte as well as run over 80 digital asset projects through its proprietary platform, raising well over 3 billion USD.
“Bringing revolutionary new technology to existing markets; what is needed before digital assets can solve pain points in the real estate and investment industries”
By merely creating digital copies which represent ownership in (parts of) buildings or funds, real estate as an asset class will not necessarily transform from an illiquid asset class to a liquid one. Let’s have a good luck at what is needed before new technology is truly adopted, and can really start making a difference in the way we finance and invest in real estate assets.
13.55
Introductions concluded with panel session
14.20 – 14.50
Break
14.50 – 15.25
‘How to foster rapid innovation in the UK real estate and construction industries?’
It’s all about building bridges between the young PropTech sector and the established players. Decision-makers and tech companies have to be connected to increase awareness and encourage mutual understanding. PropTech companies should be supported in their three main challenges: access to established players, to investors and to talent.
INTRODUCTIONS:

14.50
Riam Kanso

14.55
Isobel Wilson

15.00
Benedetta Maisano
15.05
Introductions concluded with panel session
15.25 – 16.00
Challenges and Open Mic.

Prof Jeremy Bartnett
A unique consortium of academics, real estate asset managers, developers, managers, funding institutions, lawyers and other professionals and representative trade bodies, which will drive adoption of both inventive and innovative ‘deep tech’ in the global real estate market.
16.00 – 17.00
Closing and networking drinks reception
EVENT PARTNERS
For whom this day is not to be missed
What to expect from this day
Pilot programmes, demos and use cases
DEEP DIVE BLOCKCHAIN & REAL ESTATE
Date: November 17, 2020
Time: 10.00 – 16.30
Fees: £ 595 ex VAT
Including: Lunch, refreshments and networking drinks reception
LOCATION
The Bartlett Real Estate institute
University College London Here East
Campus Elizabeth Olympic Parc
(Easy to get to by public transport – with options including tube, train and bus – or by bicycle)