Robert G. Thornburgh, SIOR, CCIM2019 SIOR Global President

SOCIETY OF INDUSTRIAL AND OFFICE REALTORS

TOMORROW'S VISION FOR CRE REALIZED

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CONSIDERING THE RATE OF CHANGEAROUND US…

“Half of all jobs we know today will be eliminated by technology by 2025.”

– WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

• Media was disrupted by Facebook. • Retail was disrupted by Amazon. • Hotels were disrupted by AirBnB. • Auto was disrupted by Uber.

DISRUPTION, DISRUPTION, DISRUPTION…

It took 75 years for landline phone usage to reach 50 million users.

Mobile phones took 12 years to reach 50 million users.

Pokémon GO reached 50 million users in just 19 days.

TECH IN REAL ESTATE

Much closer than you think…

“There are over 3,000 tech start-up companies today targeting commercial real estate.”

– MICHAEL BECKERMAN CEO CRE Tech

Artificial Intelligence

Augmented Reality

Blockchain

Virtual Reality

Big DataIoT

3D Printing

“By 2022, your personal device will know more about your emotional state than your own family.”

– ANNETTE ZIMMERMANN VP of Reasearch at Gartner

BE AN EARLY ADOPTER

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

– CARL SAGAN

“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.”

– RUPERT MURDOCH

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology.”

– STEVE JOBS

LOOKING AHEAD & BEING A VOICE TO CHANGE

“As I wrote starting 20 years ago, technology is a double-edged sword…fire kept us warm and cooked our food, but also burnt down our houses. Every technology had its promise and peril.”

– RAY KURZWEIL Inventor & Futurist

Robert G. Thornburgh, SIOR, CCIM2019 SIOR Global President

SOCIETY OF INDUSTRIAL AND OFFICE REALTORS

THANK YOU!

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