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Last week Yardi’s YASC conference took place in San Diego, bringing to a close what has been, by some distance, the most interesting month or so of technology...

Another week, another conference in a fascinating fall series full of clues about how AI is progressing in property management. This week, it was AppFolio, marking its 20

Blueprint just wrapped in Las Vegas and, as usual, it was an excellent melting pot of people involved in real estate technology. I use “melting pot” advisedly, because...

Sometimes, what we can see makes us more aware of what we cannot. Before Neptune was observed in 1846, irregularities in Uranus’s orbit led astronomers to predict...

Today, NAA Apartmentalize wraps in New Orleans. It was a fun few days in the Big Easy, despite some particularly colorful summer weather. I could have done without the tornado warning early on Thursday morning, but that's life on the Gulf Coast!

Another fantastic AIM Conference is in the books. Each year, the event grows in both scale and influence, and this year was no exception. The content program reflected an industry learning quickly in a fast-changing technology environment. Much remains unsettled about what this means for apartment marketing, but several sessions explored important emerging questions. Unsurprisingly, the growing role of LLMs in apartment search took center stage.

I like a good user conference. When done well, the format allows a level of thought and discussion that industry events cannot match. The need to cover a broad enough range of topics to attract an audience and to get sponsors, members, etc. on the stage limits how deep a content program can go.

Spring is in the air, and in multifamily, that means it’s almost time for AIM, one of the very best weeks in the industry’s calendar. Each year, leaders, innovators and innovative leaders get together in ever-increasing numbers to share the latest ideas and network between walks on the beach.

OPTECH 2025 is in the books, and it was its usual, energetic self. In the event's first year as a "members only" event, some things changed, many stayed the same, and it all went by in a flash, as it normally does.

Delivering keynotes is fun, mainly because they usually require the person delivering them to pull together multiple strands of thought into a single coherent narrative.