What Is The IQ Of Your Building: How Technology Is Driving Insight And Profit In Real Estate

​​Sally Jones is head of Strategy, Digital & Technology at British Land, playing a fundamental role in shaping British Land’s strategic direction and leading the company’s technology effort. She is the executive committee’s sponsor for diversity and inclusion. Over the past year, Jones has overseen the implementation of real estate technologies across British Land’s portfolio, including at 100 Liverpool Street, and partnering with Equiem to deliver a new digital tenant engagement app at Broadgate. As part of the latter effort, Jones joined Equiem’s board as a nonexecutive director. She is also on the advisory board of WiredScore. With more than 25 years of experience in a broad range of industries and roles, Jones joined British Land in 2010 as head of investor relations. She previously worked as a strategic communications adviser to Lloyds Banking Group, and in investor relations, corporate communications and finance roles at Cadbury. Outside of her day-to-day role, Jones’s free time is almost entirely sucked up by four energetic daughters and a lively labrador. She would like to have more time to play the piano and swim.

Paul Orrock, Regional Manager at Yardi, also known as the ‘Wi-Fi Specialist’, works with Yardi’s clients to understand operator and member needs and to accurately match them with the correct configuration of Yardi Medusa Wi-Fi solution and required infrastructure.

Julie recently joined Places for People, one of the largest placemaking organisations in the UK, to bring a new perspective to the housing and construction sector, founded in technological change and innovation in delivery. Joining from Siemens where Julie led the global Smart Cities approach, she brings with her a wealth of knowledge from an industrial background and insights into automation, digitalisation and IoT not previously harnessed by the construction sector. Julie now seeks to bridge the gap between the technology supply chain and housing developers, allowing for a wider understanding and adoption of technological solutions, and to introduce innovative ways of doing business in a sector that is in much need for disruption. Part of this role is to incorporate technology into existing assets to optimise their performance, and to significantly improve customer experience. Driving the use of digital twins from design and planning on to asset management, through to identifying smart technology for the elimination of social isolation, illustrates the broad range of opportunities for proptech and placetech, for which Julie has responsibility. Julie is a member of the Smart London Board and is Chair of the Managing Board of UKCRIC, the UK’s leading infrastructure research community.

Christian Anderton is Advising Principal at NODE, the proptech innovator that promotes a new standard in best-in-class building connectivity, creating a cyber secure, supplier neutral fibre network, focused on customer service and delivered in partnership with a landlord. Christian recently launched his own investment management and advisory business, Haida. He previously spent four years at Aviva Investors where he was responsible for reshaping its UK investment strategy. Prior to joining Aviva, Christian worked in Capital Markets at CBRE. To date, he has transacted or managed in excess of £8 billion of commercial assets.

Bernard Heersche is an Executive Development Director at EDGE, where he is responsible for development in the US and the UK. Bernard started his career as an architect, after studying Architecture at Delft University of Technology and Helsinki University of Technology. After registering as an architect he decided to join The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a strategy consultant to get more business experience and work in a more international environment. After joining the BCG Amsterdam office Bernard moved to New York, and subsequently joined the London office. During his time at BCG he worked on a wide range of high profile international projects in financial services, industrial goods, pharmaceuticals and energy. After leaving BCG in 2013 Bernard joined British Land in London to combine his passion for architecture and the build environment with his strategy background from BCG.