For our 4th episode, Okapi VP Marketing Chedva Kleinhandler chats with Cherre CEO L.D. Salmanson. We covered a lot of ground in this short episode, so don't blink or you'll miss some fascinating points, from the inception of Cherre, to startups respecting needing to respect real estate, the innovation fatigue that some real estate execs are experiencing, and the thought provoking question - maybe COVID isn't to blame for what's happening with retail and offices?    Follow our blog for the full show notes: https://www.okapi.ai/blog/

For our 3rd episode, Okapi VP Marketing Chedva Kleinhandler chats with Compstak CEO Michael Mandel about commercial real estate and data, starting out as a broker and rowing a PropTech startup before such definition existed, and of course - the state of commercial real estate in 2020 and how data can help.

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For the Okast's 2nd episode, we virtually sat down with Ohad Porat, CIO of Faropoint. We discussed last mile warehouses, innovation in the industrial commercial real estate sector, the impact of COVID, elections and even China, and of course - the Amazon of it all. 

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Welcome to the Okast! For our very first episode, we sat down with Stuart Appley, Managing Director at CBRE to discuss commercial real estate in the age of COVID, how 2020 has affected tech readiness, the future of work-from-home (or work-from-anywhere), prescriptive AI and shadow IT.

"Data has always been looking backwards - and that’s good, but it doesn’t give insights into what we should be doing now. AI has so much value in both predictive and prescriptive: what might happen, and what are the steps you should take. This can augment the way we work by making us smarter, faster and more efficient."

"There’s more progress for digital transformation in commercial real estate in 2020 than the last five years combined."

Host: Chedva Kleinhandler

Editor: Adam Stuart