May 10-12, 2022

Devising, Marketing & Selling Tech Standards and Upgrades: Today and Tomorrow's 1-2 Punches
Getting your home tech standard and upgrade packages right is one of the keys to realizing sales lift for your communities and achieving robust sell-through of add-ons that meet buyer needs and grow your top and bottom lines. This session will take a tour of the winning offers of today and vision their evolution for two years from now.

Integrating Tech, Home Design and the Ownership Experience: Client Ideation, MEPT Plans and Managed Maintenance

Few categories of product stimulate the luxury home client's imagination about room use and function like home tech. Number and dimension of rooms can expand as they think about enjoying AV tech. They can envision wows on windows and window treatments with motorization and automation. Lighting becomes artistry, painting walls and spaces with precisely colored light to create mood effects and feelings of wellness and peace.

All of this is only possible and profitable if the possibilities of tech are introduced during home discovery and ideation and if the tech is designed and planned into the home integral with the structural, mechanical, electrical, and even plumbing plans of the home.

In this session, we'll propose the processes that can make that happen. We'll also show how the technology integrator who partners with luxury builders can play a key role in delivering home ownership apps that make maintaining all of the luxury house (not just the tech) easy and efficient.

GENERAL SESSION

State of the Smart Apartment: Essential Satisfiers, Exciters and Delighters

With 86% of millennial willing to pay a premium for smart apartment technology, it's becoming table stakes to trick out your turf with tech! But it's not a one-and-done proposition. You'll have to be state-of-the-market or better now and evolve your play-to-stay ahead of the pack. This session will introduce the Kano Model to help categorize features as "basic", "performance", and "excitement" to ensure you are getting the maximum payback on your tech investment.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

THB Masters - Profiles in Courage & Continuous Home Tech Innovation

Cheers with a mint julep 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. We'll also be celebrating the winners of the Arc of Achievement Awards!

BREAKFAST SESSION
Tech Trends Round Up: Platforms and User Interfaces, WFH, Healthy Home, Smart Clean Energy, Lighting Experiences, Outdoor and More

We know it's confusing and hard to keep pace with all the changes in underlying technology and hot applications. Products and systems that are hot at retail for used homes can be losers as built-ins in new construction. This wide-ranging session takes you on a tour of the most important trends to play now and what is just over the horizon.

BREAKFAST SESSION
Tech and the Wellness Wheel: Beyond Air, Water and Light

Looked at holistically, wellness is about more than a healthy physical environment to support human biological function, it embraces psychological, intellectual, and even spiritual needs. Can luxury homes be designed and built to support this more complete set of human needs?

After a brief presentation of TecHome Builder's new 15 bubble Wellness Flywheel, we'll brainstorm in small group roundtable sessions to see what can be done.

BREAKFAST SESSION
Maintenance, Service and Technology: Reducing Costs and Increasing Efficiency

Technology continues to streamline the everyday tasks associated with maintenance and service in multifamily units. With demonstrable ROI and proven business cases, even the most leading-edge innovation can face quick adoption by helping operators be more efficient and reduce historical maintenance costs. Combined with improvements in resident satisfaction, you don't want to miss out on the latest tech in this space. This panel will feature multifamily operators who are using tech to make a big difference to the bottom line.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

All tracks will be in separate boardroom groups.

Integrating Tech and Overall Home Design: Improving Ideation & MEPT Plans

LUNCH SESSION We're not kidding around anymore! Tech Is just too often included in new homes and too in demand from buyers to be treated as an afterthought in design and production. How do we make sure tech gets full and fair consideration when plans are being drawn? How do we get tech plans drawn at the same time as MEP and structural so we can install seamless systems and avoid costly re-work? We've got proposals for getting this right!

LUNCH SESSION
Integrating Tech and Overall Home Design: Improving Ideation & MEPT Plans

We're not kidding around anymore! Tech Is just too often included in new homes and too in demand from buyers to be treated as an afterthought in design and production. How do we make sure tech gets full and fair consideration when plans are being drawn? How do we get tech plans drawn at the same time as MEP and structural so we can install seamless systems and avoid costly re-work? We've got proposals for getting this right!

LUNCH SESSION
Lux Tech Idea Book: User Interfaces, WFH, Entertainment, Smart Clean Energy, Outdoor and More

While you were struggling to get lumber to your jobsites, the world of technology continued its inexorable march, delivering new innovations tuned to massive lifestyle shifts that you need to address in your homes. We'll survey the tech landscape and plug you into the trends you'll need to play to stay ahead in the game.

LUNCH SESSION
Units and Shared Space Experiences: Consolidating Work-from-Home, Gaming and Entertainment

The pandemic has fundamentally changed how we work, how we play, and how we interact with others. What trends in work/gaming/entertainment do we expect to persist in multifamily shared spaces as we emerge from the pandemic? How can properties differentiate these spaces to take advantage of the shifting landscape? How do we address the trends in units understanding the challenges of limited space and need for multipurposing.

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

108 W Washington St, Louisville, KY, USA 40202 Enjoy live music, bourbon flights, and guest appearances from THB's Got Talent!

BREAKFAST SESSION
Home Tech Vendors and Subcontractor Criteria: How to Successfully Evaluate, Select, Manage and Collaborate

Once you've determined your home technology strategic intent, merchandise assortment and the benefits you want to deliver, you'll need to partner with the right manufacturers, service providers and integrators/subs to deliver on your vision. In this session, we'll layout key criteria and methods for identifying and onboarding the right players.

BREAKFAST SESSION
Form Follows Function: Using Digital Sales and Marketing Tech to Present and Sell Lux Home Tech
It's kind of a no brainer to use digital marketing toolsets to show and tell user experience and more effectively sell home technology to your clients. In this session, we'll show you the best of the breed that's available and how these toolsets can be used to improve the presentation and sales of tech in new lux homes. .

BREAKFAST SESSION
How to Get an "A" from GenZ: Leveraging Tech to Win the Up-and-Coming Rental Cohort

As the multifamily industry goes through a multigenerational shift, GenZ (born between '97 and '12) will be in the driver's seat! In search of unique and personalized experiences, they desire upgrades and are willing to pay a premium! This session will explore trends in the way GenZ approaches the apartment renting paradigm and tech’s essential role in the value proposition.

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
Optimizing The Home Tech Ownership Experience: From Remote Monitoring and Management to System Expansions

The homebuyer's customer experience with technology has long been the "crazy aunt in the basement" no one wants to talk about, with negatives ranging from underutilization of systems to horrible opposite effects. Often, the cause is not quality of products or installation but poorly thought through 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.

LUNCH SESSION
Designing and Delivering Smart, Beautiful Natural and Artificial Light: Products, Processes, and Know-How

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.

LUNCH SESSION
Redefining a Connected Community

With Wall Street investors seeking socially responsible opportunities, it's important that the multifamily properties look for ways to ensure they are setting environmental, social, or governance (ESG) strategic goals. How can technology help establish best practices to run efficiently, responsibly, and productively to impact the triple bottom line?

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