The Future of PropTech with Dave Garland

Dave Garland will be touring Australia, stopping in Sydney to share key insights on the global PropTech industry including:

-Industry Insights

-Investor Interests

-The Global PropTech Community

-American Market Overview

Dave will be speaking at KPMG in Sydney on the 16th of October, followed directly by a deep dive Q&A with KPMG, PropTech Sector Lead, Christopher Omeissah.

Join us and hear from a world leader on the future of PropTech and how to best leverage the global market to scale your business.

More on Dave Garland:

Dave Garland is the Managing Director of Second Century Ventures (SCV) and the Vice President of Strategic Investments at the National Association of Realtors® where he sources and evaluates investment opportunities that promise to improve the global residential and commercial real estate industries. In this capacity, he also oversees Reach: the #1 rated real estate technology accelerator in the world. His persistent success in venture and real estate has landed him among the top 200 most influential leaders in the real estate industry.

Dave seeks to improve the global commercial and residential real estate industries through process, patent and technological innovation. To achieve this vision, Dave and his team invest time and capital in commercial property, land developments, infill entitlements, and emerging industry technologies.

Dave maintains over 18 years of strategic advisory experience to numerous venture-backed, public and private real estate companies - growing these entities with the integration of key emerging technologies. As a startup investor, he sits on several boards of growing real estate and mortgage technology organisations.

As an industry practitioner, Dave has acquired, owned and managed portfolios of single family residential, commercial and development properties across America. During the housing crisis, he worked with key organizations and federal government bodies in both the Bush and Obama administrations to create practical solutions for tens of thousands of real estate professionals, including critical short sale programs instrumental in helping homeowners survive the great recession.

Dave holds advanced degrees and honors from the Melbourne Business School (MBA), Notre Dame, Oxford and Stanford. He is a licensed real estate broker and lives and works in Menlo Park, CA.

To date, his achievements include;

- Board Member and Co-Founder at Wine Tours of the World from 2006 to 2016. Wine Tours of the world is a service that creates customized wine adventures to the top wine regions and wineries around the world

- Strategist to RE/MAX, LLC from 2001 to 2019. Providing strategic advisory, product development and operational services for distressed property initiatives, default servicing, global alliance partnerships, approved suppliers, production, education, strategic design, competitive intelligence, and international growth initiatives.

- Board Member with the Rainmakers Group from 2004 to Present. The role has included management consulting for the executive teams of the world’s largest real estate tech, settlement service & brokerage firms. Providing data, IT infrastructure design and implementation, and training for managers in real estate organizations from the Americas, Asia, Australia, India & Europe.

- Principal & Co-Founder at Pacific States Capital from 2009 to Present. Pacific States Capital is a small cap investment and land development fund based in Menlo Park, CA that Dave has headed over 10 years.

- Dave has been a Partner with Second Century Ventures, a subsidiary of NAR since 2016, serving as MD for SCV beginning 2018. During his tenure with SCV, the REach program has achieved wide success with the accelerator listed in the top 25 of Seed Accelerator Rankings.