Online real estate broker Redfin Corporation today announced its founding participation in Inman ConnectTech, the Web developer conference scheduled for July 26 in San Francisco. A one-day counterpart to Inman Connect, the conference for real estate agents, Inman ConnectTech is the first national real estate event to focus on developers creating the next generation of real estate technologies.
In addition to Redfin, Google, Microsoft, MapQuest and the Center for Realtor Technology are supporting the event; Slashdot founder Rob Malda is scheduled to keynote. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman will be participating in a panel of industry leaders on the future of real estate technology. Inman ConnectTech precedes the San Francisco Inman Connect conference by one day.
"Redfin first proposed Inman ConnectTech in January, and we immediately recognized the need for such a forum," said Inman CEO Mike Edelhardt. "Web developers in every corner of the world are combining map, search and social networking technologies to build a powerful new class of real estate applications. Our goal is to create an event of, by and for real estate technologists that can be a crucial industry forum for advancing the state of the art."
"Inman ConnectTech is a key platform for propagating our vision of Real Estate 2.0," said Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. "In this vision, technology gives consumers direct access to more information than ever before, and the ability to share questions, comments, ratings, photos and videos with one another. Because real estate information resides in so many different systems, it's important for developers of all stripes to come together to understand how a wide range of technologies can work together to create a rich context for any property."
Inman has worked with Redfin, Google, Microsoft and other leading vendors to build a conference program that addresses the latest industry technologies:
-- AJAX, Flash and other rich-client Web technologies to give real
estate consumers an interactive, browser-based experience;
-- Online maps and global positioning systems to let people easily
orient themselves online and in their cars as they look for
properties;
-- Mashups, programming interfaces and XML standards, for combining data
industry, government and other sources;
-- Geo-coding, RSS feeds and other viral technologies for sharing
information between real estate sites and other Internet resources;
-- Analytics for mining real estate data and identifying price
inflections in properties and neighborhoods;
-- Social networking technologies for creating online real estate
communities and collaborative forums in which consumers can work with
spouses, agents and lenders.
To register for the conference, visit http://www.inman.com/connectsf/DevDay.aspx.
About Redfin
Redfin (http://www.redfin.com) is the real estate industry's first online brokerage. By combining maps, listings, tax records and analytics, Redfin has become Seattle's most popular brokerage site, and is now available in the San Francisco Bay Area. Customers who use Redfin.com to buy or sell properties earn a refund of most of the commission traditionally due their broker, and get full support in paperwork, negotiations and closing. To give the Redfin service a try, visit http://www.redfin.com, or keep track of our daring exploits via our blog, http://www.redfin.com/blog/redfin.
About Inman News
Inman News (http://www.inman.com) is the nation's leading independent real estate news service and content provider to 250+ U.S. newspapers and 50,000 Web sites, reaching millions of consumers each day through clients and partners such as The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch, and many more.
Inman News also offers information-based products and services for the real estate professional and consumer, including Inman News Membership, Digital Media and News content for the Web and Special Reports. In addition, Inman produces two technology conferences per year for the Real Estate Industry: Real Estate Connect SF and Real Estate Connect NYC. RE Connect is the real estate and mortgage industry's premier networking event, gathering together in industry's leading decision makers, opinion leader and innovators in an open forum for discussion and debate.
The company headquarters are located in Emeryville, California, 10 miles east of San Francisco.
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