TecHome Merchandise Planning, Marketing & Sales

This session outlines best practices for setting your company’s home tech strategic intent, planning and packaging home tech merchandise assortments, setting standards and developing robust options packages. We’ll also look at how to develop marketing and sales assets, tools and efforts that leverage these upstream plans to accelerate sales and increase revenues and profits. Process ideas, for sure, but lots of real-world examples and analysis as well!

Health & Wellness Round Table

Home tech and design for health and wellness is a clear, powerful and durable trend in the market, but have you thought through your offers here comprehensively? Guided by TecHome Builder’s expanded health and wellness flywheel, you and your peers will brainstorm offers that cut across environmental, physical, psychology and spiritual realms, leaving you with great ideas on how to create wows for your clients.

Health & Wellness Round Table

Home tech and design for health and wellness is a clear, powerful and durable trend in the market, but have you thought through your offers (both in units and shared spaces) comprehensively. Guided by TecHome Builder’s expanded health and wellness flywheel, you and your peers will brainstorm offers that cut across environmental, physical, psychology and spiritual realms, leaving you with great ideas on how to create wows for your residents.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

Technology & Consumer Trends Keynote Panel

Your best TecHome plays are at the intersection of what buyers and renters want and need and the delights the home tech industry can deliver with quality and value. To find that sweet spot you need to track the trends in underlying technology, applications and consumer behavior. This session offers insights from some of the tech industry’s top experts and perspectives from homebuilding’s most eagle-eyed tech prognosticators. And interwoven into the technology discussion will be announcement of the annual TecHome Brilliance Awards!

Time to reconnect with old industry friends and meet new ones at our Hopi tribe harvest themed Connections Reception. Have fun and be your best, remembering Hopi means "behaving one who is mannered, civilized, peaceable, and polite” and take-in Hopi artwork, artifacts, songs and sounds.

BREAKFAST SESSION
TecHome Design & Production

Trailblazing high-volume builders are taking stronger control of the design and installation process for tech in collaboration with their manufacturer, integrator subcontractor partners. In this session, we’ll detail their progress and lessons learned along the way while outlining an idealized process and the benefits to be derived from it. This is how you get seamless integration with structures, finishes and your mechanical and electrical systems for ultimate efficiency and aesthetics. This is how builders, integrators and, most important, buyer get the best outcomes.

BREAKFAST SESSION
From MEPT to Ultimate Ownership Experience

Time to raise your tech plans and construction drawings onto an equal footing with your mechanical, electrical and plumbing plans. TecHome Builder calls it MEPT, and its power is undeniable for getting tech done with quality efficiency and the aesthetics lux clientele demand. A secret side benefit: getting tech designed in upfront and your tech integrator online with other trades early can facilitate new opportunities for upping the overall home ownership experience. Your tech integrator can establish and support the comprehensive operating and asset managing apps and attach monitoring and managed services to it all to help you tap lifetime value. This session will show you how on all fronts!

BREAKFAST SESSION
Tech Investments Financial Analysis

Evaluating tech investments in your multifamily properties is a challenge, but not an insoluble one. In this session, we’ll introduce you to a comprehensive new approach that merges analysis of resident experiences, operations efficiencies, technology compatibility and financial performance to help you understand overall ROI and how tech can increase the valuation of your properties. Here’s the 360-degree conceptual tool you’ve been looking for since the confounding world of tech arrived at your doorstep!

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

LUNCH SESSION
The Big 7 Single Family Tech Experiences & Applications

Introducing the Big 7 surging and emerging tech experiences and applications! The session describes the elements and options of each, why they are compelling and provides tips on how to collaborate with your trade partners to deliver them to your buyers! • Smart Home Security (+ Robust Networks) • Healthy Home • Energy Independence • Work From Home • Lighting Experiences • High Performance and Whole Home AV • Smart Connected Social Kitchen

LUNCH SESSION
The Big 7 Single Family Tech Experiences & Applications

Introducing the Big 7 surging and emerging tech experiences and applications! The session describes the elements and options of each, why they are compelling and provides tips on how to collaborate with your trade partners to deliver them to your buyers! • Smart Home Security (+ Robust Networks) • Healthy Home • Energy Independence • Work From Home • Lighting Experiences • High Performance and Whole Home AV • Smart Connected Social Kitchen

LUNCH SESSION
In Unit Trends

You’ve got a range of options to consider for your multifamily units. It ranges from the table stakes of a basic smart apartment play focused on locks, convenience lighting, thermostats and Wi-Fi to enhanced offers with shade control and motorization, architectural AV, healthy lighting and in-unit work-from-home infrastructure and AV components. We’ll tour it all, help you understand who the feature sets appeal to and provide tips on trade partner collaborations that will help you bring them to market.

Lunch with browsing: 11:35 1-on-1s start: 1:40 PM

Technology Showroom Tours

Hop on our chartered motorcoach, grab a quick bite to eat and then step into impressive and educational demos of lighting tech, immersive AV, control, motorization and other TecHome wows. Done in time to get back to the After Hours Experience downtown!

Akara Partners’ Kenect Phoenix Tour

Kenect Phoenix is a hot new multifamily property concept that blends hotel and short- and long-term rentals, all facilitated and enhanced with technology in the building and behind the scenes. Akara has graciously offered TecHome Builder Multifamily guests and sponsors a peek inside via this special tour.

The TecHome Community will gather to connect socially while taking in live music and the second edition of TecHome Builder’s Got Talent, featuring star performers from our Summit guests, sponsors and staff. Be on the lookout for Tequila Flight tickets distributed by AE Ventures staff for acts of community kindness, camaraderie and genius!

BREAKFAST SESSION
Homebuyer Tech Onboarding & Education

The homebuyer's customer experience with technology has long been the "crazy aunt in the basement" no one wants to talk about. Most negatives stem from underutilization and user errors, and often the root cause is not poor-quality products or installation but the lack of orientation, training and ongoing user support. This session will detail best practices and how you can collaborate with your trade partners to make tech a huge plus on your net promoter scores and raving fan referral generator.

BREAKFAST SESSION
Designing and Delivering Smart, Beautiful Natural and Artificial Light
Advances in LED lighting, controls, AI, and window covering motorization have given birth to a new golden age of lighting and natural light in new luxury homes, but not many lux builders nor even architects and interior designers know how to make use of this mountain of promising technologies. In this session, we'll take a tour of what can be done today and the stunning effects and wellness that tech can deliver. We will also sketch process and trade collaboration keys that put you in a position to get it right for all your clients. .

BREAKFAST SESSION
Shared Space Trends

Shared space amenities are a big differentiator and hook for renters and condo owners alike, and tech plays an increasingly important role here. We’ll collect and present some of the coolest and most compelling implementation examples and concepts here, discuss their appeal to various demographic cohorts and lifestyle profiles and discuss implementation keys. Also, a strong focus: looking at crossover applications from the hospitality industry.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

LUNCH SESSION
Long Term Ownership Experience & Tapping Lifetime Value

Post close it’s all about support and contracted preventative maintenance, re-education and expanding usage and feature sets on your home tech offers. How do you set up that excellent experience with your subs and service providers? How do you stay connected with the experience over time, harvest data and maybe even commissions on some of the system expansion sales? Special bonus concept: is there a tethering of the home tech ownership experience with the home asset management experience? A dual app that will enable the homeowner to both control and operate their home and at the touch of a button manage maintenance, repairs, consumables and maybe even improvements? We think so, and we’ll show you how.

LUNCH SESSION
Lux Tech Idea Book

We collect the best, recent real-world implementations of whole-home tech and tech room-by-room, looking not only at designs and the “Architectural Digest” pictures, but also walking through the experiential and practical benefits delivered. We’ll also explain how you can present these whole-home and room-by-room ideas effectively for consideration by your clients. Your participation in the TecHome Builder Lux Community will grant you year-round access to the digital Lux Tech Idea Book, regularly updated through collections and vetting by TecHome Advisors and the TecHome editorial team.

LUNCH SESSION
Designed & Managed Connectivity and AV for Units & Shared Spaces

The bulk Wi-Fi revolution is in full flower in multifamily, but is that all there is to it? Connectivity is, by definition, about the hardware (video displays, audio gear, camera, mics) and services (internet, video, audio, conferencing) that connect to it. Thought of that way, should the hardware and connectivity be bundled and managed by providers to enable operators to choose between capex and opex models and manage lifecycles efficiently? We’ll dig into these concepts and show a few real-world baby steps toward delivering them. Eventually they could become the giant steps forward of the near future.

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