Real estate audiences don't need another vague talk about the future of AI. They need to know what to do in the next ninety days.
Keynotes, executive briefings, and workshops for real estate leaders.
Josh Panknin has spent twenty years doing things most people only talk about - a decade in real estate feasibility, redevelopment, asset management, and CMBS trading at Deutsche Bank, and six years building AI, machine learning, and deep learning applications in Columbia University's financial engineering department for major banks, real estate firms, and consulting firms.
He co-instructs Columbia's AI in Real Estate course and has trained more than 400 real estate professionals worldwide.
The result is a session with no vendor pitch, no hype reel, and no slide predicting what AI will do by 2030. Audiences leave able to evaluate a proposal, ask a technical team the right question, and know their next steps.
Speaking Formats
Conference Keynotes
Clear, compelling presentations designed for broad real estate audiences.
Executive & Board Meetings
Focused discussions designed around the strategic questions facing senior leadership.
Leadership Workshops
Interactive sessions that move beyond education and apply frameworks directly to the organization's decisions.
Panels & Moderated Discussions
Technical depth combined with the ability to communicate complex concepts to nontechnical audiences.
Signature Talks
Why Most Real Estate AI Projects Fail — And the Three Tests That Predict It
A working session on value, technical, and execution feasibility. Attendees apply the framework to a real initiative from their own firm and leave with a verdict on it.
Best for: conference keynote, executive workshop. 45–90 minutes.
"ChatGPT Is Not a Strategy"
Why deploying a chat assistant firm-wide feels like progress and produces none, what actually creates durable advantage, and how to tell the difference before the board asks.
Best for: keynote, board briefing. 30–45 minutes.
What Your Technical Team Needs From You
Real estate decisions and technology decisions work differently. This session gives executives just enough technical grounding to resource, scope, and govern AI work — including the difference between operational and strategic initiatives, and when to build, buy, or partner.
Best for: leadership offsite, executive education. Half day.
The Data You Have vs. The Data You Think You Have
Why the heterogeneity of markets, properties, and tenants breaks approaches that work in other industries — and how to assess whether your data can support the problem you want to solve.
Best for: keynote, technical audiences. 45 minutes.