Paris, France - Media OutReach - November 1,2018 - Reed MIDEM, organiser of MIPIM, MIPIM UK, MIPIM Asia Summit, MIPIM PropTechNYC and MIPIM PropTech Europe, today announces the launch of MIPIM PropTechAsia to be held in Hong Kong, November 26-27,2018.

Thenew show will run in parallel with the MIPIM Asia Summit (November 27-28).November 26 will see an evening MIPIM PropTech Asia networking event, open toMIPIM Asia Summit delegates and tech startups. November 26 will offer delegatesa full day of conference, presentation, business matchmaking and networkingevents bringing together the 1,000 MIPIM Asia Summit delegates and 100 invitedrepresentatives from the proptech startup community.

Amongthe speakers addressing delegates in Hong Kong are Wincy Chan, IoT EcosystemLead at Microsoft and Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist at Google.

"Newtech companies are rapidly proving the importance of their ideas within theglobal real estate industry," says Nicolas Kozubek, Director of MIPIM PropTechat Reed MIDEM.  "The growing interest ofthe real estate industry for the tech sector, that we have been addressing duringthe first two editions of the MIPIM PropTech in New York, and at this year'sinaugural MIPIM PropTech Europe, has encouraged us to bring the event to Asia.

"Massivesmartphone penetration in Asia, coupled with rapid urbanization and governmentsupport, is driving the development of proptech in the region. As Asia's proptechstartups develop, they will increasingly operate in the field of brokerage andrentals by bringing their skills and innovative ideas to sales, marketing,customer relationship management and the use of Big Data. Now is the time forReed MIDEM to launch MIPIM PropTech in Asia," adds Nicolas Kozubek.

Accordingto research from Jones Lang Lasalle and Tech in Asia,* startups in Asia such asQfang, iProperty Group, Mofang Gongyu, Anjuke and FangDD, have received around60% of the US$7.8 billion invested in proptech worldwide since 2013.

ReedMIDEM opened the first MIPIM PropTech NYC Summit in 2016, in partnership with MetaPropNYC -- the world's premier real estate technology nexus. In June 2018, globalleaders in real estate, technology and venture capital came together at theinaugural edition of MIPIM PropTech Europe in Paris. The two-day event hostedsome 1,500 attendees representing 47 countries.

TheMIPIM PropTech events cover real estate's complete value chain and assetclasses including residential, offices, retail, hotel and leisure andindustrial property. Tech sectors that are represented include propertyanalytics and data, investment and crowdfunding, smart cities, buildingtechnology, workflow solutions, BIM, 3D/Virtual Reality and blockchain.

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