Schedule of Events

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4


  Session Title
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm "Beer for Bloggers" Reception
  
  

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5


Time Session Title
8:30 am – 2:30 pm WORKSHOP: Bloggers Connect
  
8:30 am – 12:15 pm WORKSHOP: ConnectTech
  
9:00 am – 1:15 pm WORKSHOP: Internet Marketing
  
11:00 am – 2:00 pm Start Up Alley
12:00 pm – 7:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open
3:00 pm – 5:00 pmMAIN CONFERENCE
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm Welcome Address
The Gig Economy: How Grassroots Innovation will Save Us
3:20 pm – 3:30 pm Download: Ten Tools and Technologies You Need to Know About (And Ideas for Putting them to Work)
3:30 pm – 3:55 pm Keynote Address
3:55 pm – 4:15 pm One-on-One
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Connect Create
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
An Unusual Response to Desperate Times
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Cocktails@Connect Reception
  
 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6


Time Session Title
8:30 am – 12:00 pm MAIN CONFERENCE
8:30 am – 9:00 am Duet:  Listings, Leads and Vision: What's the Ideal Online Real Estate Business Model?
9:00 am – 9:10 am Download:  Ten New Ways to Leverage Social Media
9:10 am – 9:45 am Connect Launchpad
9:45 am – 10:00 am Connect Solo: The Real Estate Office of the Future
10:00 am – 10:30 am Keynote Address: Building a Brand that Matters
10:30 am – 11:00 am Duet: Building a Better Brokerage MouseTrap: The Agent vs Consumer Centered Approach
11:00 am – 11:20 pm
Keynote Address: CEO of Yelp
11:20 am – 11:45 pm Panel:  From the Ashes: The Housing Market in a Post-Crash World
11:45 am – 12:00 pm
One-on-One
  
12:00 pm – 6:00 pmExhibit Hall Open 
   
12:30 pm – 1:30 pmMEET THE LEADERS
  
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm INNOVATION TRACKS
  TRACK 1 - Market Transformation
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Presentation: Avoiding Another Meltdown: New Tools for Real Estate Due Diligence
2:50 pm – 3:35 pm Presentation: The Foreclosure MLS: Creating an Efficient Marketplace to Speed the Cleanup
3:40 pm – 4:25 pm Blowing Up the Black Box: Radical Transparency
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm 
Democratizing the REO Business
   
  TRACK 2 - Broker/Owner Breakout: Start on the Road to Reinvention
 Sponsored by: Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Live Lab: The 30-Minute Brokerage Web Site Makeover
2:50 pm – 3:35 pm Case Study: How 2 Companies Built Killer Web Sites from Scratch
3:40 pm – 4:25 pm Presentation: How to Build a Brand that Matters in Real Estate
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Discussion:  New Real Estate Math: How to Slash, Burn and Rebuild Your P&L
   
  TRACK 3 - The MLS
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Discussion:  From Listing Data to People Data: The Next Challenge in VOWs and MLS Consumer Sites
2:50 pm – 3:35 pm Presentation:  The Market Analytics Opportunity: How MLSs Can Conquer the Neighborhood
3:40 pm – 4:25 pm Debate:  Agent Ratings: Truth, Consequences or Camouflage?
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Presentation:  How to Leverage Your Data in New Ways Without Exploding in a Fireball of Litigation
   
  TRACK 4: Technology and Media
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Presentation:  How the Amazon Kindle Will Change Your Business
2:50 pm – 3:35 pm Presentation:  Seizing the Local/Mobile Opportunity
3:40 pm – 4:25 pm Thriving on the Converged, Fragmented, Widgetized Web
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Anticipating the Post-Newspaper Era:  How to Become the Media in Your Marketplace
   
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm DEEP DIVES
  DEEP DIVE 1:  Real Estate SEO: How to Get It Right, Avoid the Snake Oil, and Measure Results
  DEEP DIVE 2:  Twitter and Facebook Best Practices
  DEEP DIVE 3:  Online Video
   
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Cocktails@Connect Reception
   
  
  

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7


Time Session Title
9:00 am – 12:00 pm MAIN CONFERENCE
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Connect Solo: How TV, the Web, Your Phone and the Social Universe are Colliding (In a Good Way)
9:15 am – 9:40 am One-on-One
9:40 am – 10:15 am Duet: Mortgage Reboot: Will Startups or Stalwarts Ensure Safer and Saner Lending Practices?
10:15 am – 10:25 amDownload: 10 Ways to Work Smarter and Faster
10:25 am – 11:00 amConnect Create Projects Unveiled
11:00 am – 11:15 amInnovator Awards
11:15 am – 11:30 amWhat Have We Learned?
11:30 amProgram Ends