Featured keynote speaker
Steve Weikal
Industry Chair, Real Estate Transformation Lab at MIT Center for Real Estate
Managing Partner, MET Fund II
Steve Weikal is a lecturer, researcher and thought-leader focused on innovative new technologies and business models that are reinventing traditional ways of developing, transacting and managing real estate. He is the Industry Chair of the Real Estate Transformation Lab at the MIT Center for Real Estate, teaches MIT’s Proptech Ventures course and is the Managing Partner of MET Fund II, which invests in early-stage, MIT-connected start-ups that focus on solutions for the Built Environment Transition™ (BET). Previously, Steve was the Head of Industry Relations at the MIT Center for Real Estate, responsible for managing the Center’s relationships with its global network of corporate partners and over 1,300 alumni from 48 countries. He was also executive producer of the Center’s signature event, the MIT World Real Estate Forum.
