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Hosted Meetings Program: Guidelines for Sponsors
CREtech New York’s Hosted Real Estate Owner & Operators Program is the Real Estate industry’s leading meetings program. We’ll facilitate 1,500+ meetings between Owners & Operators and Solution Providers, and your organization will be part of it.
Our Hosted Meetings Program provides complimentary CREtech New York tickets and travel and hotel reimbursements to qualified Real Estate Owners & Operators who buy or influence the purchase of technology or other solutions. In return, these Real Estate Owners & Operators have each agreed to join up to either 4 or 8 15-minute Hosted Meetings with our sponsors.
Your organization has purchased meetings in the Hosted Meetings Program!
If you’re an Organization Admin, you can complete Hosted Meetings Program tasks for your organization.
If you’re a Meetings Rep, your Hosted Meetings Program tasks start on Fri, Oct 17 with accepting calendar invites. You can read the full guidelines, or click here to jump to the details of the stages that apply to you.
Important Dates
Here’s what you need to do, and when you need to do it. Don’t worry, we’ll help you each step of the way with reminders. If you don’t get an email, check spam (from donotreply.cretech25@eventpt.com), then let us know at programs@cretech.com.
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1. Complete Your Organization's Profile | 30-45 Mins | Weds, Sept 10 @ 9 am EST | Tue, Sept 23 @ 6 pm EST |
2. Request Hosted Meetings | 30-45 Mins | Weds, Sept 24 @ 9 am EST | Weds, Sept 30 @ 6 pm EST |
Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators opt in to your requests and select who they want to meet | - | - | - |
3. Opt In to Requests from Buyers |
<30 Mins | Weds, Oct 8 @ 9 am EST | Fri, Oct 10 @ 6 pm EST |
4. Assign Meetings Reps to Hosted Meetings | <15 Mins | Tue, Oct 14 @ 9 am EST | Thu, Oct 16 @ 6 pm EST |
5. Meetings Reps Accept Calendar Invites | <5 Mins | Fri, Oct 17 @ 9 am EST | Fri, Oct 17 @ 6 pm EST |
6. CREtech New York Meetings Reps Attend Hosted Meetings | - | Tue Oct 21 | Wed, Oct 22 |
7. Provide Feedback | - | Thu, Oct 23 @ 9 am EST | Fri, Oct 31 @ 6 pm EST |
Timing of Hosted Meetings
All the action takes place on Tue, Oct 21 and Wed, Oct 22 at the CREtech New York Conference and you’ll be part of it!
- You’ll assign meetings to individual Meetings Reps from your company beforehand.
- For now, please ensure your Meetings Reps will be available during all time slots.
Start (ET) |
End (ET) |
Mins |
Tuesday, October 21 |
Wednesday, October 22 |
10:20 AM |
10:35 AM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #1 |
Meeting Slot #11 |
10:35 AM |
10:37 AM |
0:02 |
Transition time |
Transition time |
10:37 AM |
10:52 AM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #2 |
Meeting Slot #12 |
10:52 AM |
10:54 AM |
0:02 |
Transition time |
Transition time |
10:54 AM |
11:09 AM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #3 |
Meeting Slot #13 |
11:09 AM |
11:11 AM |
0:02 |
Transition time |
Transition time |
11:11 AM |
11:26 AM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #4 |
Meeting Slot #14 |
11:26 AM |
11:28 AM |
0:02 |
Transition time |
Transition time |
11:28 AM |
11:43 AM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #5 |
Meeting Slot #15 |
1:50 PM |
2:05 PM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #6 |
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2:05 PM |
2:07 PM |
0:02 |
Transition time |
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2:07 PM |
2:22 PM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #7 |
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2:22 PM |
2:24 PM |
0:02 |
Transition time |
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2:24 PM |
2:39 PM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #8 |
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2:39 PM |
2:41 PM |
0:02 |
Transition time |
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2:41 PM |
2:56 PM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #9 |
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2:56 PM |
2:58 PM |
0:02 |
Transition time |
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2:58 PM |
3:13 PM |
0:15 |
Meeting Slot #10 |
Sep 10 - Sep 23: Complete Your Organization’s Profile (takes 30-45 minutes)
You can do this on:
- Desktop
1. Start Your Organization Profile on Wed, Sep 10, and complete it by Tue, Sep 23 at 6 pm EST.
- Your Organization Profile will help Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators decide if they’re interested in meeting with you.
- Tell us how many Meeting Reps you'll have available to meet with Buyers during each time slot.
- The more meeting representatives you make available concurrently, the more likely we will be to schedule all of the meetings you have purchased.
- You can change this at any time until Fri, Oct 10 at 6 pm EST.
- Consider making an Announcement: Tell Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators about your newly announced products, partnerships, funding, acquisitions, research and anything else!
2. You can also: Assign individuals from your organization as Meetings Reps until Thu, Oct 16 at 6 pm EST.
Sep 24 – Sep 30: Request Hosted Meetings with Real Estate Owners & Operators (takes 60-90 minutes)
You can do this on:
- Desktop
- CREtech New York Mobile App
1. It’s time to request Hosted Meetings for your organization (there are 300+ qualified Real Estate Owners & Operators to choose from!).
- Start requesting Hosted Meetings on Wed, Sep 24 and complete by Tue, Sep 30 at 6 pm EST.
- You should select ALL Real Estate Owners & Operators you would like to meet. At a minimum, we recommend you request Hosted Meetings equal to 4x the number of Hosted Meetings your organization has purchased.
- You can request to meet >1 individual from an organization, but you won’t have >1 Hosted Meeting scheduled with the same organization.
- You should consult others in your company, such as your sales teams, when requesting your meetings.
- Just click ‘Very Interested’ or ‘Interested’ to request a meeting. Meeting requests are saved automatically as you go.
- ‘Very Interested' meeting requests get scheduled first, before 'Interested' ones.
- You can provide a reason why your organization wants to meet a Real Estate Owner & Operator – they’ll be able to see this when they’re opting in to Hosted Meeting requests.
- You can view summary information about each Real Estate Owner & Operator, as well as a detailed Profile (click
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- Use Filters and Predefined Lists to zero in on the most interesting Real Estate Owners & Operators for your company.
- Don’t wait til the last minute to request meetings! With tools like Bookmarks and Saved Lists, you can start requesting meetings and come back, if needed, to finish them.
Oct 8 - Oct 10: Opt In to Meeting Requests from Real Estate Owners & Operators (takes up to 30 minutes)
You can do this on:
- Desktop
- CREtech New York Mobile App
1. Opt In to Meeting Requests From Real Estate Owners & Operators You Didn’t Previously Select:
- Opt in to Meeting Requests on Wed, Oct 8 and complete by Fri, Oct 10 at 6 pm EST.
- We facilitate meetings based only on the requests your organization opts in to (and your organization’s own requests if there is a mutual match), so you should opt in to every request from a Real Estate Owner & Operator your organization would meet with.
- Some of these requests may be from newly added individuals that joined the Hosted Meetings Program after you completed your initial meeting requests.
- The more requests you opt in to, the more likely we will be to schedule all of the meetings you’ve purchased.
- You won’t have >1 Hosted Meeting scheduled with the same organization.
2. You can also: Update how many Meetings Reps you have available at each time slot, until Fri, Oct 10 at 6 pm EST.
Oct 14 - Oct 16: Assign Meetings Reps to Hosted Meetings (takes less than 15 minutes)
You can do this on:
- Desktop
- CREtech New York Mobile App
1. Assign Meetings Reps to your Hosted Meetings starting on Tue, Oct 14 but no later than Thu, Oct 16 at 6 pm EST.
- A Meetings Rep must be assigned to each Hosted Meeting, otherwise it won’t get scheduled.
- If you haven’t assigned Meetings Reps yet, you can do this until Thu, Oct 16 at 6 pm EST. As soon as you’ve assigned a Meetings Rep, you can assign meetings to them.
- You should assign the most appropriate Meetings Rep for each Real Estate Owner & Operator, based on the characteristics of the Owner or Operator, their (or your) reason for meeting, which products, solutions or services they’re interested in, Meetings Rep availability and other factors.
- As a reminder, you will not receive refunds for Hosted Meetings you don’t assign Meetings Reps to, since those meetings could have been scheduled.
Oct 17: Meetings Reps Accept Calendar Invites (takes them less than 5 minutes)
1. Accept Meetings Calendar Invites: On Fri, Oct 17, Meetings Reps will receive a calendar invite for each scheduled Hosted Meeting they have. THEY MUST ACCEPT all calendar invites THE SAME DAY by 6 pm EST. This is a quick turnaround, but it won’t take more than 5 minutes.
- Important note: If your Meetings Rep cannot attend the meeting, they must email us at programs@cretech.com to let us know. Neither we nor the Buyer will be notified if your Meetings Rep declines a calendar invite!
- We can’t change any meeting times (fun fact: our Hosted Meetings Program is enabling 1,500+ meetings!).
- If an Owner or Operator who one of your Meetings Reps is scheduled to meet is no longer available, we’ll let your Meetings Rep know and you’ll be refunded for the meeting after the show. People have emergencies, so this does happen once in a while!
- We will communicate with Meetings Reps directly on accepting their Hosted Meetings.
Oct 21 - 22: CREtech New York Time! Meetings Reps Attend Hosted Meetings!
1. Meetings Reps Join Your Organization’s Hosted Meetings.
Your Meetings Reps must join all your scheduled Hosted Meetings. Here’s what you and they need to know:
- Where are the meetings? All meetings are held in a dedicated Hosted Program area and each meeting is assigned a table number.
- How do Meetings Reps know where to go? They should check the CREtech New York mobile app or their calendar invites for the assigned table number for each meeting, and at the start of each scheduled meeting proceed directly to the assigned table.
- When should Meetings Reps arrive? They should arrive at the Hosted Program area a few minutes before their first scheduled meeting. There is no check-in required. If they have any questions, there will be a Q&A desk.
- What happens if the person they’re meeting doesn’t show up? Meetings Reps should give them 5 minutes and if they’ve still not joined, click the “Mark as No Show” button in the CREtech New York mobile app.
- What other Do’s and Don’ts are there for Meetings Reps?
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- Meetings Reps should:
- Join each meeting on time and don’t exceed the allotted 15 minutes for each scheduled meeting.
- Check the table number for each scheduled meeting--each meeting will be at a different table. There is a 2-minute transition time between each meeting.
- Download the CREtech New York mobile app ahead of meetings. Meetings Reps can take notes and request follow-ups in the app.
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- Meetings Reps should not:
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- Contact any individual Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators prior to Hosted Program meetings in relation to Hosted Program meetings, or use the confidential information we have provided at any stage of the Hosted Program to reach out to participating individuals using non-program channels.
- Approach anyone in the Hosted Program area with whom they do not have a Hosted Program meeting.
- Enter the Hosted Program area at any time they do not have a Hosted Program meeting.
- Assume the Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators they are meeting have prepared for the meeting. These individuals may have agreed to meet based solely on categories or search filters rather than any specific understanding of your organization or solutions. Meetings Reps must assume the Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators have no knowledge of your organization or your products, and should be prepared to give a complete sales pitch during their 15-minute meeting as well as leave time for any Q&A.
- Bring any materials that cannot fit on the table (e.g., free standing structures and pop-up signage is not allowed) or leave any materials at the table after the meeting concludes.
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Oct 23 - 31: Provide Feedback
1. Help us to help you! On Thu, Oct 23, each Meetings Rep will receive an email to provide feedback on their Hosted Meetings, the meetings program and the event to help us improve CREtech New York--please share your thoughts by Fri, Oct 31.
- Once Meetings Reps provide feedback, they can download a summary of their meetings, including their notes and contact details of who they met.
Fine Print
Our participant list is confidential, and shouldn’t be (1) shared with anyone else, (2) downloaded or (3) used other than as described by us. Based on information you receive as part of the Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators Program, you can’t solicit participants (including individuals you’re scheduled to meet prior to your meetings) outside of the event other than as we permit. If you breach this provision, you may be eliminated from further participation and barred from future programs. Do not assume that requests (or opt-ins) to meet with you as part of the Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators Program indicate any interest in meeting with you outside of the Hosted Real Estate Owners & Operators Program.