REtechSouth | Real Estate Technology

Andy is a founding partner & business catalyst for the MyEastBayAgent team focusing on REO & Investment property in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been active in the online Real Estate community since 2003 and a real estate blogger since 2004. In 2008, Andy founded the Real Estate BarCamp movement.

As Founder and CEO of Dakno Real Estate Marketing, Brad couples his expertise in online marketing technology with a keen understanding of real estate. A Consultant, Innovator, and Business Leader, he currently heads an experienced team of marketers and developers while serving as a personal Web & Marketing Consultant to many of the top speakers, coaches and REALTORS in the industry.

Brian Copeland, CRS is a licensed broker with Village Real Estate in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2007, he was selected by Real Estate Magazine as one of the nation’s Top 50 REALTORS on the Rise. Brian may be most familiar as the featured agent on The Learning Channel’s Flip That House as well as HGTV’s House Hunters, Goodbuy/Badbuy and The Top 25 House Hunting Tips.

Brodie Brown is the owner, trainer and consultant for Social CPR. Brodie uses a multitude of experiences, including 9 years in sales and 3 years as the owner of Browntree Home Inspections, to train clients to expand their network and build real relationships using a wide array of social media. By growing up in a small Indiana farm town, Brodie learned the importance of a strong community which he brings to the classroom to help people that may not yet be tech savvy.

Author of Social Media for Home Builders: It's Easier Than You Think, Carol Flammer is a public relations and social media marketing expert, strategist and consultant. Carol is president of Flammer Relations, Inc., and managing partner of mRELEVANCE, LLC, an Internet Marketing, Social Media and Public Relations firm. She is also the creator of the nationally-ranked and award-winning AtlantaRealEstateForum.com, Atlanta’s most popular real estate blog.

Desiree Scales is CEO of Bella Web Design, Inc. a boutique web design firm which provides all the services needed for a successful website in one place. One of the oldest and most successful web design firms in Atlanta, Bella Web Design’s outstanding reputation comes from their raving customer reviews and their #1 ranking as a service provider on Kudzu.com for over 4 years.

Gahlord Dewald helps organizations and individuals use web-traffic data to make decisions about marketing and operations. He helps agents, brokers and corporations better serve their customers by using web analytics to listen.

Ginger Wilcox is a Founding Partner and Vice President of the Social Media Marketing Institute as well as as a Broker Associate at Alain Pinel, a San Francisco Bay Area real estate firm. She is an accomplished speaker, writer and trainer in online marketing and social media strategy. Ginger has spoken to organizations and associations around the country including BlogWorld and New Media Expo, the National Association of REALTORS® Annual Conference, Inman Real Estate Connect, ReTech South, California Association of REALTORS® and more. Ginger is the publisher of BlogbytheBay.com, a highly regarded Bay Area real estate blog.

Greg Sax has been working toward technological greatness for 20 years, and he tends to stay pretty close to the cusp of what's now and next. He sent his first electronic message at the dawn of the 1990s, surfed the Web before Netscape, and blogged before the word existed. His communications and marketing chops are fairly sharp and he believes that he can help you expand your technical kernels into creative starbursts in a new social landscape.

Heather, a Realtor and blogger in Ashburn, Virginia, has built a thriving business using her award winning local blog, LoCoMusings.com, and a smartly crafted online marketing approach. She has spoken on social media topics at RETechSouth 09, REBlogWorld, and for NAR, the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors, and at various BarCamps across the country.

Ilyce Glink is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist, television reporter, radio talk show host and best-selling book author. She has written 14 books, including the best-selling “100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask.” Ilyce has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs across the country, including “Oprah,” the “Today” show and the “Early Show,” and on CNN, CNN-FN, CNBC and Fox News.

Jared Ranere is the Director of Partner Relations for Outside.in, where he works to connect bloggers and their content with mainstream media publishers such as The Chicago Tribune, The New York Post, The Baltimore Sun, CBS Atlanta, and CNN, among many others. Jared has given talks on hyperlocal topics at Columbia Business School, WordCamp Atlanta, The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU, and NYU Poly.

Before beginning his real estate career, Jonathan used his entrepreneurial spirit to help launch and grow 3 different companies on a national scale. Growing tired of the constant travel, Jonathan decided to begin his real estate career by rehabbing and flipping properties in and around Charlottesville. In 2004, Jonathan became a full-time Realtor and founded Nest Realty in 2008, which was named 'Most Innovative Brokerage' by Inman News in 2009.

Kelley Koehler, aka the Housechick, is usually found focused on her real estate business with Thompson's Realty in Tucson, Arizona. You may also find her on Twitter, where she doubles as a super hero, at the Social Media Marketing Institute, where she trains and coaches people on how to integrate social media into successful business practices, or at KelleyKoehler.com, a collection of all things housechick-ish.

Ken has served as Director of Operations for iMG as national liason for online business development, Director of Operations for NovaStar Mortgage as their online front-man, Vice President of Novation Mortgage and currently Senior Mortgage Banker at AmericaHomeKey, Inc. He is also founder and co-host of the number one Blog Talk Radio show on the subject of social media called "Social Media Edge" and Executive Producer for "Twitter Queens Radio" and "The M Files with Mike Mueller".

Lori Bee is best known as the Southern Fried Funny REALTOR on Twitter, with her sense of humor and caring demeanor, making her a standout in personal branding, for her own brokerage, Bee Realty, located just south of Charlotte in Waxhaw, North Carolina. She has been pivotal in working towards educating REALTOR members and staff alike, in the use of all forms of Social Media to further the industry as a whole, including helping to organize REBarCamp Charlotte 2009, and was named a REALTOR Technology Spotlight Award Finalist in 2009.

Mark Madsen is the Social Media manager for Raintree Mortgage. An experienced loan originator since 2000, Mark has been developing mortgage and real estate blogging networks since 2006 for the purpose of building perpetual equity online. Co-Founder of Mortgage Revolution (www.mrev.org), a nonprofit movement of lending professionals dedicated to raising money for charity and bringing honor back to the profession, Mark is passionate about enabling the success of others through networking and education.

Maya J. Paveza is a full-time, award winning REALTOR in Delaware, and is also licensed in Pennsylvania. She takes all of her technology skills with her to Real Estate to better serve her clients by utilizing the latest, cutting edge technology. In addition to contributing to REALTOR.com “Ask a REALTOR”, as well as Active Rain, and Twitterqueens.net/TQI Consulting, Maya also provides training in the effective utilization of social media. As she believes, “The key to social media isn’t being there, it is being there for the right reasons and understanding the reason you want to be there”.

Mitch Levinson is an Internet marketing expert with expertise in search engine optimization, Web site development, email marketing, social media and CRM consulting services. He is known for creating effective programs that can be tracked through analytics to prove effectiveness and ROI. Mitch is founder and president of MLC New Home Marketing and MLC FlatFee Realty, as well as managing partner of mRELEVANCE, LLC, an Internet Marketing, Social Media and Public Relations firm with offices in Chicago and Atlanta.

Nicole Nicolay “@nik_nik” is an industry leading consultant, trainer, and writer focusing on new media marketing. She is Co-Founder of MyTechOpinion.com, one of the most innovative technology blogs in the real estate industry, and is also author of “Twitter for Real Estate Twits”, the only Twitter how-to guide created specifically for real estate professionals. Nicole has trained thousands of agents nationwide via the Cyberhomes Webinar Series and speaks regularly at industry leading events including: Inman Connect, REtechSouth, BizTechDay, New Media Atlanta, California Association of REALTORS®, BlogWorld and New Media Expo.

Ricardo Bueno is Founder of Ribeezie Media, a digital marketing and social media strategy and consultancy. With a passion for presenting, Ricardo has spoken at several private and public real estate conferences and is Founder of REBarCamp Los Angeles (a one-day free social media event attended by 300+ individuals in the real estate industry). He was a featured speaker at the nationally recognized 2009 Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco and was also a part of the inaugural Gravity Summit event launch at UCLA in 2009.

Rich Bailey is the director of Business development for WolfNet Technologies, and handles all aspects of the company's sales strategies, strategic partnerships and social media initiatives. He has spoken at real estate events nationwide, including the National Association of REALTORS Expo, Inman Real Estate Connect, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, Real Estate Masters Guild and numerous franchise conferences.