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Rowland Hobbs is the co-founder and CEO of Stake, a renter-focused fintech/proptech company that describes itself as “the network for renters.” Stake’s platform is built around helping renters earn cash back on leases and rent, build credit, and access renter-focused banking and savings tools. On its site, Stake says its network includes 550,000 homes, $50 million in cash back earned, and 10,000+ brands. The company frames its miss...

Karina Karn is a UK-based marketing strategist with over 14 years of experience working across the UK and U.S., specializing in B2B SaaS and complex products. She helps companies turn interest into real adoption by improving how users understand, trust, and navigate products from first interaction through long-term use. With experience working alongside real estate firms and developers, she brings a practical view into how decision...

Erkan Yönder is an Associate Professor of Real Estate and Finance at John Molson School of Business and Director of the Jonathan Wener Centre for Real Estate at Concordia University. He specializes in commercial real estate, REITs, climate risk, and AI-driven analytics. As Founder and Director of ReFin Quant, he works closely with institutional investors and industry partners to deliver data-driven insights for valuation, risk mana...

Brandon Hornibrook serves as a Digital Marketing Consultant for Quantum Digital Experience in Atlanta, GA. Prior to that, he spent over a decade leading Digital Marketing for an NMHC Top 50 Owner-Operator. More information about his services can be found at www.quantumdigital.ai

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Code & Concrete shares the latest trends and the stories of trailblazers in the built environment. Whether you’re exploring these subjects for the first time or have decades of experience, we hope you gain insight from our wide range of hands-on topics such as real estate development, sustainability, manufacturing, robotics, and intangible innovations like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and data.

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Jens Bezuidenhout is originally from South Africa and began his finance career in Sydney. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor with expertise in blockchain, DeFi, and real estate. A former Citi Group investment banker in London, he specialized in derivative risk management. With over 20 years in property development across the UK and Spain, Jens now leads LANDHIVE from Zurich, driving innovation and growth with his finan...

Florian M. Spiegl is Founder & CEO of EVIDENT, a fully licensed, full-stack digital market for private-asset transactions. He works at the intersection of private markets, asset structuring, and digital market infrastructure, helping asset managers distribute private assets more efficiently while expanding access for professional and private-wealth investors. Florian focuses on practical deployment of asset tokenization, digita...

Mandy McGill, Founder of Decentralized Everything, is a FinTech-certified blockchain educator rapidly building authority as a content creator, posting daily on TikTok where she demystifies real-world asset tokenization and decentralized finance for real estate professionals. With over 15 years advising Fortune 500 clients including Amazon, Microsoft, Clark Construction, and CBRE, Mandy brings real-world credibility to emerging tech...

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George Siegal specializes in creating impactful documentaries that shed light on hidden issues affecting homeowners and renters. His work focuses on uncovering unseen risks that threaten people’s safety and property, empowe...

John Graham is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, lifelong adventurer, and co-leader of the Giraffe Heroes Project, a global movement that celebrates people who take courageous risks to solve real problems. After years working in wars and revolutions around the world, John shifted his focus to teaching moral courage through storytelling. He is the author of Quest: Risk, Adventure, and the Search for Meaning and a sought-after s...

Rick Khan is a 35-year AEC pioneer and digital transformation veteran. A member of NJIT’s inaugural "digital studio" in 1993, his career trajectory, from pipe-fitter to C-Suite executive at a Top 5 ENR firm, provides a unique perspective on bridging legacy trades with future technology. Through his Unstuck platform and proprietary 5 Pillar Strategy™, Rick now mentors the next generation of BIM/VDC professionals, transform...

Robert Orozco is a seasoned software professional with 15 years of experience, including 9 years in data analytics and AI. He consults for AI startups and enterprises implementing AI solutions. As the founder of Afirmity, Robert Orozco leads efforts to combat deepfakes in corporate and government communications. He is also a co-inventor of a pending patent using AI on video footage to generate comprehensive reports.

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David Gory is the co-founder and CEO of Airbuild Inc, a climate technology company focused on innovative solutions to clean air, water, and capture carbon through microalgae and biochar technologies. With a strong background in engineering and business, David draws inspiration from his upbringing in Nigeria, where firsthand experiences with pollution fueled his commitment to sustainability and social impact. Under his leadership, A...

This episode is a recorded version of a keynote given in Dublin, Ireland, at the 2025 BIM Coordinators Summit. 

Matthew A. Schneider is CEO of Building Inc, a company advancing real estate tokenization, digital asset securitization, and AI-driven property intelligence. Since 2020, he has led blockchain integration, digital twin development, and data-driven asset management for over $120M in real estate. Schneider has collaborated w...

Jackson Reiter is the Co-Founder and COO of Relm, building real estate’s AI brain. With a degree in Economics from NYU, a background leading performance marketing, and years of experience as a licensed agent in NY and NJ, Jackson has seen both the ground-level pain points and the systemic inefficiencies of the industry. He and his co-founder Evan Robinson founded Relm to unify the fragmented real estate ecosystem – from commercial ...

Denis Petrovcic is the co-founder and CEO of Blocksquare, leading a team building infrastructure that transforms real estate into borderless tokenized assets. Since 2018, Blocksquare’s protocol has tokenized over $200M of property across 20+ countries, and through Oceanpoint it enables instant, DeFi-native secondary-market liquidity within a framework designed to reassure regulators and investors alike. A serial founder in hospital...

ALShimaa Allam is a Structural Engineer, professional engineer, MBA, and project management program-certified with 24 years of expertise in engineering design, structural analysis, and construction management. She serves as Strategic and Portfolio Manager and Technical Integration Manager at AAA-Integration, driving technical excellence and organizational growth. Her strong qualifications in strategic management within the AEC indu...

Benjamin Toney is an aspiring nerd's nerd with a practitioner's background in housing policy and community development and an academic background in urban planning and development. He is especially curious about systems design under domestic restructure, demographic shift, and geopolitical reconfiguration. He sometimes overuses the phrase "necessary but insufficient.”

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