In this four-day course, learners will reinvent their approach to innovation, pulling inspiration from real-world success stories, innovation focused tours through MIT and Cambridge, and a practical application of AI-powered tools to identify their industry’s “next best thing.”

Steve Weikal is a lecturer, researcher, and Industry Chair of the Center’s Real Estate Technology Hub, which explores innovative new technologies and business models that are reinventing traditional ways of developing, transacting and managing real estate. He is also the Managing Partner of MET Fund II, which invests in early-stage startups that have an MIT connection and focus on solutions for the coming built environment transformation. 

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James Robert Scott is a lecturer and research scientist of the Real Estate Technology Hub at MIT’s Center for Real Estate, with a primary focus on real estate automation and technology. He works with stakeholders across the Proptech sector to identify technologies that will make buildings more energy efficient, more competitive, and better for the end user. 

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