Industry Leaders Say It’s Time to Get Innovative

If you count the world’s oldest surviving buildings — starting with 7,000-year-old tombs in France — the real estate industry is literally Neolithic. But as technology democratizes the modern-day mysticism around computing and big data, industry leaders are taking a more aggressive approach to propel the business out of the Stone Age. That was the takeaway at Commercial Observer’s first-ever Innovators Forum, held yesterday at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in Midtown. (In a ballroom, incidentally, where the upholstery was looking a little prehistoric itself.)