At its sold-out 2018 Spring Technology Summit in Denver, RESO showcased the two winners of its Innovation Competition and honored more than two dozen of its members and leaders. The event was held at the Curtis Hotel, April 24–26, and attracted more than 275 real estate technology leaders from real estate brokerages, Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) and technology firms.
Shawn Whitaker of MLS Data Tools based in Boise, Idaho and Robert Humphreys of Predicted Property based in British Columbia, Canada, were the Innovation winners. Each presented their breakthrough ideas that leverage artificial intelligence and automation, built on top of a standardized RESO data set that was provided to them by the Austin Board of REALTORS®, CoreLogic and RESO.
Summit host Jeremy Crawford, CEO of RESO, handed out awards to 19 individual members, eight RESO workgroups chairs and four RESO leaders for their outstanding personal contributions. Crawford noted that, collectively, these individuals contributed “thousands of annual volunteer hours to RESO workgroups and RESO’s mission, which is moving us closer to RESO’s vision of a streamlined real estate industry.”
Crawford honored the following RESO leadership, recognized for outstanding leadership, dedication and service:
- Art Carter, CRMLS, Chair (Greater Los Angeles, CA)
- Alon Chaver, HomeServices of America, Vice Chair (San Francisco, CA)
- Richard Renton, Triad MLS, Treasurer (Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC)
- Michael Wurzer, FBS creators of Flexmls, Secretary (Fargo, ND)
Crawford then honored the following workgroup chairs:
- Rob Larson, CRMLS (Greater Los Angeles, CA): Data Dictionary Workgroup
- Paul Stusiak, Falcon Technologies (Vancouver, BC): Transport Workgroup
- Mark Bessett, CRMLS (Phoenix, AZ): Universal Property Identifier (UPI) Workgroup
- Greg Moore, RMLS (Portland, OR): R&D Workgroup
- Chris Lambrou, MetroMLS (Greater Milwaukee Area, WI): Internet Tracking Workgroup
- Scott Petronis, eXp Realty (Albany, NY): Transport Workgroup
- Rick Trevino, Metrolist (Sacramento, CA): Payloads Workgroup
- Chad Curry, CRTLabs at the National Association of REALTORS® (Chicago, IL): Technical Committee
“These leaders generously donated their time, talent and energy to the common cause of advancing RESO’s mission,” said Crawford. “The tremendous support their companies have provided in lending RESO their best and their brightest has accelerated our industry contributions. It is because of our massive volunteer support that we are having a dramatic impact on the real estate industry,” he added.
On behalf of each Workgroup Chair, Crawford gave award recognition to 18 individual RESO members whose contributions went “well above and beyond” throughout 2017 he said, including:
- Shaun York, Homes.com (Tallahassee, FL): Internet Tracking Workgroup
- John Thummel, Black Knight (Kansas City, MO): Internet Tracking Workgroup
- Cal Heldenbrand, FBS (Fargo, ND): Internet Tracking Workgroup
- Trent Gardner, ListTrac (San Diego, CA): Internet Tracking Workgroup
- John Breault, MLS PIN (Boston, MA): Research & Development Workgroup
- Sam Westelman, Coldwell Banker (Hanover, NH): Research & Development Workgroup
- Cass Herrin, Moxi Works (Seattle, WA): Research & Development and Payloads Workgroups
- Lori Coburn, Metrolist (Sacramento, CA): Payloads Workgroup
- Tim Kramer, FBS (Fargo, ND): Universal Property Identification (UPI) Workgroup
- Jonathan Mabe, Zillow Group (Seattle, WA): Universal Property Identification (UPI) Workgroup
- Matt Casey, CRS Data (Knoxville, TN): Universal Property Identification (UPI) Workgroup
- Josh Darnell, kurotek (San Francisco, CA): Transport Workgroup
- Darrell Sher, Upstream (San Francisco, CA): Transport Workgroup
- Sergio Del Rio, Templates 4 Business (Vancouver, BC): Transport Workgroup
- Patrick Williamson, My Florida Regional MLS (Maitland, FL): Data Dictionary Workgroup
- Melissa King, My Florida Regional MLS (Maitland, FL): Data Dictionary Workgroup
- Gayle Ludemann, MRED (Chicago, IL): Data Dictionary Workgroup
- Ashish Antal, MLSListings (Sunnyvale, CA): Transport Workgroup
- Paul Hethmon, CoreLogic (Knoxville, TN): Transport and Research & Development Workgroups
“Those who can do – and those who can do more – volunteer,” said Crawford. “Volunteers are the root of what keeps RESO strong and growing. These are exceptional individuals whose collective efforts are shaping real estate data standards for the future. We hope that when others see the huge impact their contributions are having on our industry, they’ll join in and become more involved in our workgroups,” he added.
RESO Workgroups are open to all members, meet monthly typically via conference calls and in person twice yearly at RESO conferences. | EXPLORE RESO WORKGROUPS
Innovation Winners
Predicted Property, founded by Robert Humphreys, collects micro insights from predictive speech analytics enhanced by artificial intelligence to give agents intelligence on properties and improve their ability to close sales. Tapping into a RESO-certified data feed, he discovered that standardized data can be used to surface actionable data points about properties that match clients’ interests. The result is a more efficient and cost-effective lead-generation tool for agents.
MLS Data Tools, created by Shawn Whitaker, developed software that solves for the tremendous amount of technical labor that is required to aggregate MLS data nationwide using automation. Its white label software and tools can significantly decrease the amount of time startups, brokers and agents would spend aggregating RESO-standardized data to power industry solutions.
