Full video of DeFi for Real Estate roundtable now available

The joint roundtable between the UCL ‘DigitalDisruption’ consortium (which is a partnership between RPL and UCL)  together with FIBREE (the Foundation for International Blochain in Real Estate Expertise) took place on 17th March 2021.

There is a a full video of the event, moderated by Jeremy Barnett which where speakers from KR1, Polkadot, Aave and Robonomics explained the capabilities of the new tech and experts in Real Estate considered where this could all play a part.

Click Here to visit the UCL website where there is a link to watch the recording.

DeFi for Real Estate: The Mechanics of Decentralised Trust 17th March

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/defi-and-real-estate-the-mechanics-of-decentralised-trust-tickets-142875519525

In August 2018 in a Telegram chat between Ethereum developers and entrepreneurs the term “DeFi” was coined for the first time referring to Decentralized Finance. Less than two years later, the term became widely popular due to the exponential growth of the sector. First there was the internet (Web1). Then the ability to form distributed groups exchanging data emerged (Web2) which resulted in the growth of social media with Facebook, Twitter WhatsApp etc. DeFi allows distributed groups now to exchange value, see for example Aave where groups can come together to form lending pools which can then transact without a trusted third party. These new technologies are now known as Web3.

Thanks to Blockchain technology DeFi brings today the opportunity to unlock liquidity while enhancing security and transparency, disrupting the traditional financial model; which is plenty of frictions, centralization, and what is more, already left aside 33% of the adult population of the World unbanked. Nowadays, the different tokens, protocols, DEX’s can be combined in different imaginative ways and solve different financial situations or create new concepts.

The amalgamation of DeFi tools is infinite, and the exponential growth of DeFi ecosystems without trusted third-parties creates transparency and encourages price and market efficiency. Giving control of assets to users has the potential to disrupt the global Real Estate model as well, which is the second largest global market behind Financial Services.

London is the engine room for growth and development of frontier technologies. Two major players, FIBREE (The Foundation for International Blockchain for Real Estate Expertise) and the ‘DigitalDisruption’ consortium at the Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, UCL have joined together to bring a stellar panel of experts in DeFi and Real Estate for a roundtable discussion which will explore the complexities and possibilities for institutional development, investment and operation of assets.

This panel will explain what the technology can do with speakers from KR1, the leading London investor in this sector, Polkadot, Aave and Robonomics. It will then consider how the RealEstate sector can use these technologies with speakers from Greystar, Team Blockchain and Blockchain.com. Finally CMS and others will consider the legal and regulatory issues that arise.

DigitalDisruption are working on ‘The Coolhouse project’ which is looking at how the Polkadot protocol can be used to create ‘parachains’ which will allow individual owners, investors and managers of real estate assets to build their own blockchain communities. 

Speakers:

The Tech

Irina Karagyaur (FIBREE Chair) – Head Ambassador Western Europe at Polkadot & Kusama Networks, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Marhaba DeFi

George McDonaugh – MD and Co Founder KR1

Yakub Sheikh – CMO Robonomics Network

Sergei Lonshakov – Blockchain + IoT projects developer, Robonomics network architect

Ajit Tripathi – Head of Institutional Business at Aave

 

The Market 

Thomas Wünsche – Senior Director, Greystar, Investment Management, Head of Germany and Austria

Nic Cary – Co Founder and President Blockchain.com

Jonny Fry – CEO TeamBlockchain

 

Regulatory issues

Charles Kerrigan and Aurelia Viemont from our Legal Partners CMS who have supported this event.

Moderator

Jeremy Barnett (FIBREE Chair) Honorary Professor at the Bartlett, UCL, Founder Resilience Partners Ltd

 

Blockchain and AI: the new dawn for Smart Cities. Article and Blockchain Radio Interview

Blockchain and AI: the new dawn for Smart Cities.

An article by Jeremy Barnett for Digital Bytes (Team Blockchain) and an interview with Radio Blockchain.

Jeremy was the guest author for Team Blockchain’s edition 16th December 2020 of Digital Bytes, which can be downloaded by clicking the link here. In the article, Jeremy explained the background research into smart city data that the DigitalDisruption consortium at the Bartlett, UCL had conducted and then talked about the RPL pilot that is being conducted around the collection of statutory data, especially fire safety data, following the recommendations into Grenfell Tower by the Hackitt Report and the Building Safety Bill.

On Friday 18th December, Jeremy was a guest of Pierre Bourque and Jonny Fry on the Blockchain Radio show, click hear to listen to the show  where they talk about smart city data, AI and blockchain for the real estate sector.

RPL release PIM 2.1 for verification of construction data by blockchain

Resilience Partners are delighted to announce that, following a period of extensive research with UCL Estates, they have released a commercial version of their PIM software service (Project Information Modelling) which captures critical statutory data through the life of a construction project in the blockchain, for search, verification and statutory compliance.

For further enquires please contact Jeremy.Barnett@Reslieince-Partners.co.uk.

RPL and the Bartlett Real Estate Institute launch new Real Estate Consortium for Deep Tech

DIGITALDISRUPTION@BREI

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/real-estate/news/2019/dec/digitaldisruptionbrei

RPL and the Bartlett Real Estate Insitute [BREI] have partnered to launch a consortium to

promote ‘DeepTech’ , ie Blockchain, AI, BIM in the Real Estate Sector.

 

We are concentrating on ‘strucutred data’ as an infrastructure layer to support emerging

PropTech and RegTech, as well as speeding up transactions and financing through

tokenization in one of the largest global markets which is ripe for disruption.

  • – Data in Real Estate Construction Phase
  • – Data in Operations and Smart Cities
  • – Data in Transactions
  • – Tokenization of Real Estate Assets

Check out our website to join one of our working groups:Data in the Real Estate Construction PhaseData in Operations and Smart Cites

Follow us on twitter  @BREIdigital

Reslience Partner with BREI @ UCL to launch Digital Disruption

On 11th July 2019, Resilience Partners Ltd partnered with the Bartlett Real Estate Institute to launch the new Knowledge Transfer Network for the Real Estate sector, to be called ‘Digital Disruption’.

The breakfast launch attracted approximately 90 attendees from a variety of sectors, including major Real Estate Asset developers, owners and managers, Family offices, Law firms, Blockchain consultants and Academics, all interested in how the new disruptive technologies such as Blockchain, AI can work with IoT, BIM and other transformational technologies to change the way in which the Real Estate market will function.

Jeremy Barnett and Simon Addyman explained about RPL’s views on Structured Data and Tokenisation, and set out how their pilot project with RY Properties is building a use case on RPL’s PIM and DRM2 demonstrator platforms. There then followed a fascinating panel discussion, moderated by Jeremy which looked at legal, technical and investor perspectives on tokenisation of real estate assets.

For a full report on the event please follow the link to the BREI website.

Resilience partner with the Bartlett Real Estate Institute for ‘Digital Disruption’

Resilience Partners Limited have today announced the partnership with the Bartlett Real Estate Insitute [BREI] at UCL, who are based at Here East in Stratford to form ‘Digital Disruption’ which is a knowledge transfer network which will engage in research, education and training at both executive and post graduate level, together with forming an industry network that will develop the use of Blockchain and other emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence in the Real Estate Sector.

There will be a breakfast launch at 8 am on 11th July 2019, at UCL Gordon Street. Tickets have already been sold out, but a limited number of invitations can be obtained by application here, using the RPL ticket application.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blockchain-in-real-estate-breakfast-briefing-tickets-62879659755

Initial supporters of the ambitious project include Barclays, CBRE, Greystar and other major sector specialists. Further information including speakers and the format will follow shortly.

Jeremy Barnett Speaking and Moderating at Barcelona Blockchain Solutions Forum

Next week Jeremy will be delivering a presentation to the Becon Blockchain Solutions Forum at Barcelona (23rd and 24th October) on the use of Blockchain for the safe design of buildings, post Grenfell Tower.

He has also been invited to moderate two panel discussions on Investing in the Crytpo Economy and the Role of Exchanges in the Crypto Economy.  Speakers currently notfied are:

Max Kantelia – Co-Founder, Anquan Capital

Dennis O’Neill – Co-Founder, O’Neill Capital Advisors

Alex McDougall – Bicameral Ventures

ArkitToken soft launch

At the recent CBC meetup Tokenisation in Construction. we announced the CBC plan for a Community Interest Company project to be called ArkiToken.

This will be an open source method of collecting critical information from a major construction project for later use. We see the data set being of value to developers, managers of buildings, for regulation and compliance, environmental management as well as legal and other dispute resolution use cases.

At the meetup, a number of speakers talked about their perspective of how tokenisation could work in this sector. All agreed that the construction sector is wide open and that the market is waking up to the vast potential.

A recording of the session where over 130 people attended is available on youtube:

Resilience Partners are concentrating on designing and building a demonstrator of the open source tools in conjunction with the computing department at UCL. We are also concentrating on the business case or ‘Token Economics’ models that clients will need to develop.

We are also starting to build a demonstrator of our Algorithmic Dispute Resolution System which we are calling Br1ck. Our aim is to act as consultants in this highly specialised field, identifying value in major construction contracts, and delivering saving by use of the new open source tools that we are helping to develop.

Please contact Jeremy on Jeremy.Barnett@Resilience-Partners.co.uk for further information.

The House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Jeremy Barnett was invited to give evidence to the House Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence on Tuesday 17th October.

The session was broadcast live on House of Lords TV and is available to watch here: House of Lords TV 17.10.17

The questions included the following:

  1. What, in your opinions, are the biggest opportunities and risks for the law in the UK over the coming decade in relation to the development and use of artificial intelligence?
  2. Does the ethical development and use of artificial intelligence require regulation? If so, what should the purpose of that regulation be?
  3. It is likely that artificial intelligence systems could at some point malfunction, underperform or otherwise make erroneous decisions which cause individuals harm. Do new mechanisms for legal liability and redress in these situations need to be considered, or are existing legal mechanisms sufficient?
  4. If new legislation was to be introduced to deal with the issues presented by artificial intelligence, should the UK Government go it alone and look to lead the way, or should they seek to collaborate with other governments to create international frameworks for legislation?
  5. As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly autonomous in practice, will the legal system need to change in order to reflect and accommodate this autonomy, or are current mechanisms sufficiently adaptable?
  6. When artificial intelligence systems are developed or trained using publicly-owned data, or personal data, who should own them? Should alternative models for individuals or trusts to retain ownership over personal data be explored?
  7. What impact is artificial intelligence having on the legal profession itself at the present moment, and how do you anticipate this developing over the next decade?
  8. If there was one recommendation you would like to see the committee make at the end of this inquiry, what would it be?