PropTech Talks

Dan Smith is the Chief Business Officer of VerbaFlo. AI  VerbaFlo. AI is redefining real estate management with an AI-driven communications platform and CRM  that empowers ‍professionals to optimize operations by automating leasing, renewals, resident support, and outbound campaigns across different channels in a unified platform, currently already powering over 20% of the UK’s PBSA market, with o...

Alexander Engelfried  is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of FairFleet.  FairFleet is a leading provider of insights that help asset managers, operators, and owners identify critical issues, cut their costs, and optimize their portfolios through data capturing and analysis using advanced aerial and drone solutions. With more than 5,000 certified, insured, and professionally trained drone pil...

Andreas Kozma is the Founder and CEO of iREMS International AG. iREMS is a data-centric Asset and Property Management platform designed for large, international portfolios of landlords, developers, and service providers. It offers a fully integrated, end-to-end solution for clients such as CBRE, Adventum, Avison and Young, and PwC, helping them standardise operations, create efficiencies, and ensu...

Natan Lempert is the Co-Founder and CEO of Built AI. Built AI is transforming how real estate firms underwrite deals and manage assets. The advanced AI platform converts investment brochures into live financial models in minutes, eliminating hours of manual work and reducing costly errors. Before founding Built AI, Natan started his career in Investment Banking at Citigroup , advising on over $20...

Christian Hernandez Gallardo is Co-Founder and a Partner at 2150. 2150, a leading Venture Capital firm with 500m under management across Fund I, II and SPVs, invests in tech companies that seek to sustainably reimagine and reshape cities and the industries that power them. Prior to co-founding 2150, Christian held leadership roles through the hyper-growth phases of some of the world’s largest tech...

Roger Wahl is the Global Chief Technology Officer at Innovo Group . Innovo Group is an industry leader in construction and innovation across the built environment. Innovo Group delivers major real estate and infrastructure projects across four continents through cutting-edge design, engineering, construction, development, and financing. Roger Wahl has over 30 years of technology leadership experie...

Richard Corbridge is SEGRO plc’s first ever Chief Information Officer . SEGRO is a UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), and a leading owner, asset manager and developer of modern warehousing and industrial property, with a portfolio of 10.3 million square metres valued at £20.3 billion . Richard has over 25 years of experience in digital and technology leadership roles across the public and pri...

Benjamin Günther is the CEO and Founder of Alasco . Alasco is the only integrated solution for financial and sustainability management tailored to real estate asset managers, owners, and developers—empowering over 300 leading firms like Hines , Invesco , and Patrizia to plan and execute high-impact sustainability strategies, optimize CapEx, and drive profitable, future-proof investments through it...

Matt Ellis is the CEO and Co-Founder of Measurabl . Measurabl is the world’s most widely adopted sustainability data management platform for commercial real estate , which tracks performance for over 18 billion square feet of property representing more than $3 trillion AUM (USD) across 93 countries. Prior to founding Measurabl, Matt led CBRE’s Sustainability Practice Group in the Western U.S., imp...

Melanie Leech is the Chief Executive Officer at the British Property Federation , a leading representative body for the UK real estate sector, advocating for a diverse, sustainable, and successful industry that contributes £110 billion annually to the UK economy and supports 2.5 million jobs through policy engagement, industry collaboration, and support for innovation and growth. Melanie has been...

Emily Hamilton is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Savills Investment Management , a leading real estate and real-estate debt specialist with over 30 years of experience, managing €26.1bn across 15 global locations, offering flexible strategies across office, logistics & industrial, retail, living, and debt sectors to meet diverse investor needs. Emily is a leader in sustainable investment,...

Alain Waha is the Chief Technology Officer at Buro Happold , a global engineering and consultancy firm with a portfolio of 15,000 projects across 190 countries, including iconic landmarks such as the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Battersea Powerstation renewal, and the London 2012 Olympic Stadium. In his role as CTO and co-Chair of the Global Technology board, Alain drives strategic technology in...

Duncan Garrood , Chief Executive Officer at Empiric Student Property plc.  Empiric Student Property, a £1 Billion+ FTSE 250 portfolio and owner of Hello Student, manages over 80 purpose-built student accommodation buildings in 28 UK cities, housing 8,000+ students and providing a community-focused living experience. Duncan Garrood is an experienced executive with over 40 years of leadership across...

Peter Mikulic is the Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Stena Fastigheter , one of Sweden's largest privately owned real estate companies, owning and managing a total of ~2.1 million square meters . Peter Mikulic is an experienced C-level executive specializing in digital transformation and aligning technology with business goals. With a background as a CIO, CDO, CEO, and COO, he has a p...

Matus Liptak is COO at HB Reavis , an international commercial real estate developer and asset manager currently managing 640.000 square meters of workspaces valued at 3 billion EUR . Matus Liptak transitioned from a global role at IBM to shaping the future of commercial real estate at HB Reavis, where he harnesses technology to drive digital transformation and ESG innovation in the industry. Matu...

Dan Drogman is the Founder & CEO at Smart Spaces. Smart Spaces is a pioneering smart building operating system deployed across 85 million square feet in 26 countries. With a background in technology and graphic design, Dan Drogman initially honed his skills through various tech ventures. In 2009, Dan joined forces with his brother Tom to build a business that would eventually evolve into Smart...

Anja Rath is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder at PT1. Anja has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years. Thoughout her years of cross-industry experience, Anja was always focussed on digitalisation. The opportunity to start PT1 came about when Anja was looking for the next industry to digitalise. Together with her long-term business partner Nikolas Samios, Anja founded PT1 in 2018, a fund focus...

Natasha Terinova is a Partner at REACH UK. Natasha has been on both sides of the table. From selling and promoting Lloyd’s tech platform back when InsurTech wasn’t a word, to founding an emobility company and now investing and mentoring PropTech firms, Natasha has a strong track record of being at the forefront of digital transformation. REACH UK is a global technology scale-up program backed by t...

Wouter Merkestein is Co-Founder & CEO at laiout. Wouter met his co-founder in a covid quarantine hotel. After two years of intensive R&D and product development, Laiout is now tackling the long-standing bottleneck in the early-stage design phase: delivering high quality floor plans within mere seconds. Having successfully completed projects in 28 countries, laiout is now bringing its techn...

Joe White is the Global Technology Solutions and Client Care Lead at Cushman & Wakefield. If real estate is from Venus and PropTech is from Mars, Joe has made a career “being in the spaceship between the two”. With 15 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate, Joe is passionate about working with clients to digitally transform their strategies and bringing innovation to solve for opportuni...

Michael Brown is currently leading Skyline Robotics as the company’s chairman and CEO. Michael's journey is nothing short of extraordinary. Since the age of 12, Michael followed his father’s business closely by helping with invoicing and attending board meetings. From working with Al Gore straight after his degree in Information Technology, to capitalising on emerging trends in the coffee ind...

Luke Graham is the Head of Research at Pi Labs, the first ever VC to target early-stage strategic investments in the built environment in Europe and currently the most active VC in the PropTech space. Luke’s relationship with the built environment started “as quite a romantic one”. Luke first invested in property while focussing on the field of engineering in the Australian military. After pursuin...

Valentina is the Managing Partner at REACH UK, the real estate technology scale up program created by Second Century Ventures. Valentina is a strong believer that “changes are always scary, but through change we evolve”, and this principle guided her professional trajectory that got her to where she is today. With 15 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and four years connecting the tec...

Mauro Cozzi is the CEO and Co-founder of Emitwise, a company focussed on a combination of people, planet, and profit. With his co-founders Ben Peddie and Eduardo Gomez, Mauro founded their ‘brainchild’ Emitwise. Their mission is to future-proof businesses as they accelerate the transition to a net-zero carbon world. The company has worked with clients across industries for the past four years and...

Nils Henning is the Founder & Co-CEO of Casafari, as well as a remarkable serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in investing and launching ventures.  Nils built successful ventures with valuations ranging between EUR 100m - 1bn across verticals spanning from the realm of video games, to pioneering one of Germany's first FinTechs and trailblazing in the mobile ad tracking domain....