12/10/2025
11 am PT / 12 pm MT / 1 pm CT / 2 pm ET
*approximate length: 45 minutes to 1 hour
Presenter: James Scott, Lead Researcher, MITS Real Estate Innovation Lab
Please join this webinar led by James Robert Scott of the MIT Center for Real Estate, exploring the significant role that AI is poised to play in property management. This session offers a thoughtful, holistic perspective on integrating AI as a strategic organizational transformation, emphasizing the importance of aligning strategy, ethics, operations, and culture.
As AI has the potential to automate up to 37% of real estate tasks and contribute an estimated $34-180 billion in industry value, the webinar will provide a carefully structured approach for developing responsible and effective AI strategies that support key business goals while promoting ethical implementation.
During the session, participants will:
- Explore leadership philosophies that harmonize technological advancement with human-centered values.
- Learn how to design responsible and practical implementation roadmaps.
- Discover best practices for governance, risk management, and organizational change to ensure successful AI adoption.
James Scott, who is working with IREM as Technology Innovator-in-Residence, is Lead Researcher for the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab (REIL). REIL merges MIT’s school of real estate with its technological capabilities to create an innovative real estate tech research platform. Among other projects at REIL, Scott has been responsible for creating a global database of all real estate-oriented technology companies, and has identified over 1,800, with that number continuing to rise. His experience with this project further validates the impact of technology on the world of real estate. As Innovator-in-Residence at IREM, Scott’s goal is to identify innovations that can help IREM members operate their buildings more efficiently, improve their properties’ competitive positioning, and better serve tenants and clients.