NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area Chapter: Real Estate Insider: Navigating the AI Revolution in Real Estate

Real Estate Insider: Navigating the AI Revolution in Real Estate

Date: Tuesday October 17, 2023 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM PDT

Event Details:

Join us on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 for an engaging panel discussion on the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the real estate industry.

Our esteemed panelists include leading professionals from real estate VC firms, investment management companies and AI technology startups. Explore the current applications of AI in real estate, from predictive analytics to market analysis, and gain insights into the future of the industry over the next 5 to 10 years. Discover the focus of VCs in this area and understand what end users are seeking in terms of AI integration.

Don't miss this opportunity to delve into the exciting potential and implications of AI in shaping the future of real estate. This is a Chapter Members' only event and free to attend. Members, please note that you are not allowed to register non-member guests in the additional attendees box. Non-member registrations will be voided.

Panelists Include

Moderator, Maya Setchkova
Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield

Maya Setchkova is a Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield, San Francisco, in charge of a global account spanning all service lines. She has over 20 years of experience in real estate investment, asset management, finance, brokerage, property and facility management, project management, and lease administration.

Maya is passionate about introducing innovative technology to the traditionally conservative real estate sector. She has piloted/implemented a large number of new PropTech solutions in various property portfolios. Maya also serves as CFO/COO/CSO advisor to startups in the real estate and healthcare space. She is an established PropTech expert and has spoken at multiple PropTech forums and published articles on the subject.

A graduate of MIT Sloan, Maya is multilingual and has lived and worked in Sofia, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and New York before settling down in San Francisco, where she is enjoying the beautiful outdoors, spending time with her family and exploring the vibrant tech scene.

Jon Hong
Partner, Fifth Wall

Jon Hong is a Partner at Fifth Wall, where he Co-Leads the Real Estate Technology Investment team. Prior to joining Fifth Wall, Jon was an Investment Director at the SoftBank Vision Fund, investing in and serving on the Boards of companies ranging from gopuff to ShipBob to REEF to Cameo, among others.

Before joining SoftBank, Jon was a Vice President at PointState Capital focused on public global technology, media, and telecom (TMT) investments. Jon started his career in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs in the TMT group before joining Global Investment Research at Goldman Sachs covering Communication Services.

Jon is from Salt Lake City and currently lives in the Bay Area. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his BA in International Relations from the College of Arts & Sciences and BS in Economics from the Wharton School.

Raj Singh
Managing Partner at JLL Spark

Raj is the managing partner of JLL Spark, the corporate venture capital group of JLL, focused on strategic PropTech investments. Previously, he was interim co-head/managing director of investments at JetBlue Technology Ventures, the corporate VC of JetBlue Airways.

Prior to that, Raj served as CEO and co-founder of London-based Sooqini, an on-demand economy task delegator for small businesses. Before that, Raj co-founded and led a Geneva-based consulting firm and worked with various governments to foster entrepreneurship. As a general partner and co-founder of Pervasive Technology Ventures—and also as a principal for the New York-based VC arm of Investcorp—he was responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and closing new investments in tech startups. At Booz Allen Hamilton (now Strategy&), Raj led strategy and technology projects in ecommerce; technology, media, and telecommunications; and financial services. He also held multiple positions at IBM at the start of his career.

Raj holds an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and a B.S. in computing science from Imperial College London. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mike Sroka
CEO of Dealpath

Prior to Dealpath, Mike has spent over a decade growing venture-backed software companies including Fanhood (acq. by FOX), Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) and OneSeason (acq. by Cantor Fitzgerald). He started his career at Hudson Advisors, managing agent for the Lone Star Funds, and graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.S. in Economics with Finance Applications. Mike lives in the Bay Area with his wife and 2 kids. He's a member of California Trout, Urban Land Institute, NAIOP, ICSC and Forbes Real Estate Council.

Stephanie Kwong Ting
Head of Investments at The Swig Co

Stephanie Ting joined The Swig Company in 2021 as Executive Vice President, Director of Investments. Stephanie leads the company’s investment and capital markets transaction activity. She recently acquired office and residential properties for the Company across San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.

Prior to joining The Swig Company, Stephanie was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley's real estate investing group. At Morgan Stanley, Stephanie acquired and managed both core and opportunistic real estate investments worth in aggregate over $2 billion across all asset classes on the West Coast.

Stephanie is active in the real estate community, including serving as an Urban Land Institute (ULI) SF Executive Board Member, Vice Chair of the ULI SF Programs Committee and a member of a ULI national product council. Stephanie graduated magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.