Trade secret: Top real estate futurist keynote speakers take on all manner of assignments that task pros with re-envisioning the future of the built environment. For instance:
- Concept Designs – Developing designs and models as real estate futurists for future smart cities, eco-friendly buildings, and other innovative property developments.
- Technology Foresight – Tracking emerging property technologies like green materials, autonomous construction machinery, VR modeling tools to envision future applications.
- Consumer Insights – Conducting research and surveys with real estate consumers to understand evolving preferences and behaviors around space usage.
- Scenario Planning – Crafting scenarios as real estate futurists and keynote speakers examining property implications from trends like climate change, decentralization of work, changing demographics.
- Economic Modeling – Analyzing data and building models to forecast demand dynamics, valuation trends, and investment patterns.
- Policy Recommendations – Providing guidance from real estate futurists’ viewpoint on governance around emerging real estate technologies and business models based on long-term foresight.
- Experiential Concepts – Designing immersive exhibits and virtual environments to experience future smart property features and design innovations.
- Strategic Advisory – Consulting services to help real estate companies, developers, and cities incorporate futures thinking into their strategic planning.
- Industry Reports – Publishing research findings in reports forecasting the future evolution of urban planning, property technology, sustainability practices.
- Conference Speaking – Sharing insights that real estate futurists see from future forecasting research at real estate and property technology conferences.
- Pitch Evaluation – Assessing viability, future-readiness, and potential impact of new real estate technologies, business models and design concepts.
Add it all up and what you find is that many of today’s most well-known and best respected real estate futurists work on all different fronts and from all different angles to help shape the future of residential and commercial investment property holdings.