Tech Plays of the Biggest Players
The nation’s largest builders all are building out their tech plays because they know buyers want it and it makes for smart business. What are their standard offerings? What is their upgrade path? What are they actually presenting their buyers? We will profile the tech plays of the biggest builders and hear from some of your peers about what they are doing to capitalize on all the opportunities tech presents.

The TecHome Collaboration Zone
What burning issues have you been wrestling with as it relates to your tech strategy? Bring your challenges and ideas to this collaborative roundtable. In this opening roundtable, you will have the opportunity to workshop your top tech issue with your builder peers. Learn from their experiences and offer your own advice to those whose problems you can help solve. Make sure your pencil is sharp for all the notes you’ll be taking learning from each other!

The TecHome Collaboration Zone
What burning issues have you been wrestling with as it relates to your tech strategy? Bring your challenges and ideas to this collaborative roundtable. In this opening roundtable, you will have the opportunity to workshop your top tech issue with your builder peers. Learn from their experiences and offer your own advice to those whose problems you can help solve. Make sure your pencil is sharp for all the notes you’ll be taking learning from each other!

Maximizing User Experience & Response on Builder Websites
Virtual tours, video, renderings, interactive options tools, ratings and reviews, live chat, blogs, custom landing pages… What website features will get visitors to engage and interact with your content and generate the responses you desire? In this session, experts in builder digital marketing will take us on a tour of the functionality that’s on the rise and decline with builders today and provide a checklist of do’s and don’ts that can fuel your website development and re-development initiatives.

Future Technologies and Emerging Tech Trends:
Home technology products are constantly advancing and keeping up can be difficult. And, with 5G, IoT, speech recognition, AI and more on the horizon, the number of options available to you and your buyers is going to explode. We will give you a look at the future of home tech – the products that will become available, what consumers are going to be craving, the trends you will need to capitalize on, how tech will transform how you market and sell homes and run your business and much more. Buckle your seatbelt – we’ve got a lot of ground to cover! You can’t afford to miss this!

Get connected with business leaders of the biggest and best in high-volume, luxury and multifamily homebuilding and the staff of the top manufacturers and service providers that sponsor the Summit. Food, drink, live music and fun!

Effectively Selling Tech in Different Environments
There is no single formula for selling tech to your buyers. Locations such as model homes, design centers and integrators’ showrooms all present opportunities to showcase your products and packages. And now with virtual options, your buyers don’t even need to visit a physical location to make their choices. This session will show you the keys to tech-selling success across a variety of environments.

Building the Right Healthy Home for Your Clients
More and more lux buyers are looking to build healthy homes. Indoor air quality, water quality, healthy food prep, energy efficiency, smart lighting and leveraging sound, music and images for healthy state of mind are just some of the options they’re after. But do their homes live up to their expectations after they move in? Do they wish they could do anything differently knowing what they know now? Hear from builders and their end users about what went into planning their healthy homes and what they have learned since they have moved in during this unique and insightful session.

Big Data in Multifamily
Utilizing the opportunities of big data can help you not only understand your renters and buyers better, but also can help you more efficiently run your business and save money. But what should you be looking for? How can you effectively comb through all that information? How do you then act on it? We’ll take you through all the ways you should be harnessing big data, both within the unit and for back office operations, for optimal savings.

Integrating Your Digital and Physical Selling Environments
Selling and marketing homes and options upgrades is a process that often toggles virtual and physical selling environments. The customer experience in both realms needs to be seamless and synergistic to communicate key benefits and sell effectively. In this session, we’ll get a look at those integrations ranging from website to sales center and online options catalogue to design center. We’ll focus on cohesive user experience and how virtual, digital assets can be brought to life with AV and interactive technologies in physical selling environments.

TecHome Product Tour
Navigating the 120+ companies on the exhibit floor is a challenge, but we’re here to help! We’ll take you on a tour of the floor and show you some of the exciting and innovative products you can see in the exhibit booths at the TecHome Builder Summit. You’ll also hear from builder peers about what they think of these products and why they think they could benefit your business.

TecHome Product Tour
Navigating the 120+ companies on the exhibit floor is a challenge, but we’re here to help! We’ll take you on a tour of the floor and show you some of the exciting and innovative products you can see in the exhibit booths at the TecHome Builder Summit. You’ll also hear from builder peers about what they think of these products and why they think they could benefit your business.

TecHome Product Tour
Navigating the 120+ companies on the exhibit floor is a challenge, but we’re here to help! We’ll take you on a tour of the floor and show you some of the exciting and innovative products you can see in the exhibit booths at the TecHome Builder Summit. You’ll also hear from builder peers about what they think of these products and why they think they could benefit your business.

Digital Marketing & Selling Toolset Round Up
The marketing and sales solution marketplace is dynamic with all kind of the discrete off-the-shelf and customizable modules, ingredients and full-integrated offers. This session tours the landscape of solutions, providing a “Solutions Map” that can help your company organize its solution planning and evaluation and provides a deeper look at the solutions represented by companies sponsoring the Summit.

(1-1s Start at 2:00 PM)

The TecHome Road Map to 2020 and Beyond
As technologies develop and homebuyers’ desires and demands increase, the smart home continues to evolve. So, what does that mean for the future of the TecHome? Here, we will lay out the roadmap for the smart home from 2020 to 2025, 2030 and beyond.

The Ultimate TecHome Vision
Envision the TecHome from the architect’s point of view! In this session, we are handing the design keys over to the architects to let their creative juices flow. Find out what types of high-concept tech designs these architects conceptualize when they are handed a blank slate. Hear from them about their ideal visions for tech and learn some new and unique ideas you can work into your own projects to wow your customers.

Health and Wellness Tech Options
The concept of the healthy home does not have to be limited to single-family dwellings. Many multifamily renters and buyers are looking for the same things, prioritizing a healthy and relaxing environment in choosing where they want to live. And, developers around the country are finding ways to deliver. In this session, we’ll take a look at all the in-unit features and community area amenities that will satisfy these desires.

Using Tech to Sell Tech & More
No family of standard features and upgrade options is more aptly marketed and sold by leveraging technology than technology itself. In this session, we’ll study cases of excellent tech-to-sell-tech implementations, including looks at how tech can be subtly sold via in-person demonstrations and selling presentations focusing on the non-tech features of homes and communities.

(1-1s Start at 1:00 PM)