Last week, Dr. René Bohnsack was invited to talk about new business models in smart cities at the yearly CBRE Portugal Outlook event.
He presented the research of the Smart City Innovation Lab, including the first AI-powered business model analysis concept. This imitation learning algorithm that is able to recognize a business model from an English text, benchmark firms in their ecosystem, and suggest new business models. In his keynote speech, René presented the trends that the algorithm observed in the real estate industry, namely increasing digitalization, customer-centricity, and a shift towards sustainability.
CBRE’s annual EMEA Market Outlook report takes a comprehensive look at the prospects for real estate in the year ahead. We cove the economic and political outlook, capital markets, and the prospects for each of the main real estate sectors as well as focusing on the growing importance of sustainability for the real estate sector in the region.
CBRE
Named by Fortune as the Most Admired Real Estate Company, CBRE is the largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. The company has more than 80,000 employees and serves real estate investors and occupiers through more than 450 offices worldwide.
CBRE offers a broad range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction, and project management, property management, investment management, appraisal and valuation, property leasing, strategic consulting, property sales, mortgage services, and development services.
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