Keynote: REALTORS Triple Play Convention, Atlantic City – Innovation and the Future of Real Estate

Jim Carroll delivered a luncheon keynote address to approximately 1,500 attendees at the REALTORS Triple Play Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey in December 2013 — a joint annual conference of the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York State Associations of REALTORS. The talk challenged an audience that had weathered years of market turbulence to look forward with boldness: real estate, like every sector, was being reshaped by mobile technology, data analytics, changing consumer expectations, and the accelerating pace of innovation. Carroll drew on George Jetson and The Jetsons as a device to illustrate how science fiction had predicted many of the technologies now transforming everyday life — including the real estate transaction itself. The audience response was electric, with Twitter commentary describing the presentation as “head-spinning” and attendees committing publicly to “innovate and align yourself with the future.”