How brokerages stay on the cutting edge

Paul Hagey

With technology evolving at an ever-quickening pace, it's not easy for brokerages to stay on the cutting edge. How do the ones that succeed make it work?

Thought leaders at four brokerages will share their tech challenges and triumphs during a panel discussion, "Getting It Done: How 4 Brokerage Technologists Buy, Build or License their Way to Digital Innovation" at Real Estate Connect New York City, which runs Jan. 16-18 at the Grand Hyatt New York.

The panel will be comprised of Kevin Kaplan, vice president of marketing and technology at Long Realty Company, which is located in southern Arizona with 1,300 agents and 37 offices; Tom Flanagan, technology director at Residential Properties Ltd., a five-office, 160-agent brokerage in Rhode Island; Glenn Sanford, founder and CEO of eXp Realty LLC, the first cloud-based national real estate brokerage; and David Gumpper, the director of information systems at Michael Saunders & Company, a Southwest Florida firm with 24 offices and 550 agents.