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The Nexus Podcast🎧 #141: CRE Market Talk #2 with Mandi Wedin and Joe Gaspardone"So many organizations want to sell ESG solutions, but very few have their own ESG statements, goals, or positions. If you don't want it, why would I?"—Mandi WedinHighlightsJoe's introduction (1:05)Mandi's introduction (2:01)ESG+R and why we care (4:21)How DEI fits into ESG+R (12:26)Greenwashing from the investor's perspective (17:01)Green bonds (22:15)More transparency in the EU (28:23)How ESG+R pressures are impacting the smart building market (32:38)Macro market update (40:21)The best strategies for the technology marketplace right now (47:51)Carveouts (59:33)You can find Mandi and Joe on LinkedIn.Watch on YouTube or...
2023-03-091h 06
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #127: CRE Market Talk #1 with Mandi Wedin and Joe Gaspardone“Don't spend your time with the laggards who don't yet see the need for (smart building technology). When they see it they'll find you. Go find owners with a need and then meet that need."—Mandi WedinMy HighlightsThe macro perspective of commercial real estate investment (5:04)Types of real estate investment vehicles (10:12)Different issues real estate owners currently face (14:19)The solution for a frozen market (19:00)Current property level needs (25:33)Smart building fundamentals today (31:01)What the current environment means for smart buildings specifically (36:45)Impacts on smart building investment plans (45:13)The bright spots and reasons for...
2022-11-171h 09
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #061: Why technology in buildings is decades behind“You built a building 25 years ago, and the stuff you put in there, it’s still there.” -Keith Berkoben of Google"For consumer facing technology, you know, people talk about the market working in all kinds of mysterious ways, but if you don't have a feedback path, the market doesn't work.”- Andrew Rodgers of ACE IoT“So you have this fundamental difference of perspective, where the people who ran the companies saw technology is a risk and a cost. And then you had the markets saying, well, I'm not going to go into that market and develo...
2021-07-2942 min
BEYOND BUILDINGS🎧#25 FPP & Future-proof Portfolios - Jeremy Richmond“…If I build you a BI dashboard, I shouldn't have to explain to you what's on it … …We start to see that fault detection is starting to go away on that bleeding edge and is being replaced with ML models, which are then going to be replaced with just deep learning…”What is the mindset that is needed to drive change and get things going in the real estate industry? We learned about the importance of having a foundation of Connectivity in the last phenomenal episode with Joe Gaspardone. But, when you have the Foundation o...
2021-05-1537 min
Beyond BuildingsFPP & Future-proof Portfolios - Jeremy RichmondWhat is it that Proptech is missing? What does the future of Smart Buildings look like? What is the alignment between Rate of Innovation and Return on Investment?“…If I build you a BI dashboard, I shouldn't have to explain to you what's on it ……We start to see that fault detection is starting to go away on that bleeding edge and is being replaced with ML models, which are then going to be replaced with just deep learning…”What is the mindset that is needed to drive change and get things going in the real est...
2021-05-1237 minBeyond BuildingsVisual Twins & Smart Building Recipes - Joe GaspardoneSmart Building Foundations – Enterprise Level Connectivity, the role of Visual Twins, scaling up, and how to get started, get going and succeed in the real estate industry.“As long as connectivity is solved, compute power is not the issue."  was what Industrial IoT Expert Sastry Malladi said in the last episode.Well guess what, this is something that Joe Gaspardone and his team at Montgomery Technologies have solved, for everyone!Robust, Useful, and Attractive. That’s not only descriptive of most industry professionals working with building automation today, but it’s al...
2021-05-061h 00
BEYOND BUILDINGS🎧#24 Visual Twins & Smart Building Recipes - Joe Gaspardone“What if Apple didn't have a UI? How in the hell would we all use it……I can tell anybody listening, with absolute certainty that if you can't get a visual representation in place. Then you can't get scale in this industry” – Joe Gaspardone“As long as connectivity is solved, compute power is not the issue."  was what Industrial IoT Expert Sastry Malladi said in the last episode.Well guess what, this is something that Joe Gaspardone and his team at Montgomery Technologies have solved, for everyone! Robust, Useful, and Attractive. That’s not only desc...
2021-05-0659 min
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #031: Why technology in buildings is decades behind“You built a building 25 years ago, and the stuff you put in there, it’s still there.”-Keith Berkoben of Google"For consumer facing technology, you know, people talk about the market working in all kinds of mysterious ways, but if you don't have a feedback path, the market doesn't work.” - Andrew Rodgers of ACE IoT“So you have this fundamental difference of perspective, where the people who ran the companies saw technology is a risk and a cost. And then you had the markets saying, well, I'm not going to go into tha...
2020-12-1742 min
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #028: Joe Gaspardone on the business case for smart buildings in CRE“Not being able to use that word in a sales pitch is a mistake, because when you can use that word and throw it in, you’re able to tell the receiving audience: I know your business. ”—Joe Gaspardone You can find Joe Gaspardone on LinkedIn.Watch on YouTube or read on the web.Get full access to Nexus.
2020-11-1947 min
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #027: Joe Gaspardone on how a base building network enables the smart building“Fitness equipment… leak detection… water treatment, irrigation… everything needs an IP address now. So you’re either stuck reinventing the wheel each time, or you’ve got to connect it to some centralized, monitored place. And that’s the message: don’t forget, BMS people, there’s this burgeoning, giant, parallel connectivity issue that’s happening right at the same time.”—Joe Gaspardone You can find Joe Gaspardone on LinkedIn.Watch on YouTube or read on the web.Get full access to Nexus.
2020-11-1240 min