Importance of a Smart Building Strategy

Katherine is the Global lead of Digital buildings for Google's Real Estate and Workplace Services organisation, transforming how Google approaches Digital Buildings.

To accomplish this, she is building a cross organizational IoT and Digital Building team, creating high quality tailored and globally scalable solutions, acting as a trusted technical IoT sponsor, and achieving product impact by developing data-driven business cases. Katherine regularly leads cross-organisational workshops and hosts training for 100s of people, while also presenting at many external conferences.

Katherine is a Charter professional engineer with technical skill sets in IoT, Digital Buildings, Building systems, Technical infrastructure, IT technologies, strong communication, business and leadership skills.

Harri John is the Head of Digital Transformation at CBRE, where she helps clients navigate the complex world of real estate technology. She works with clients to identify the right solutions, shape their roadmaps, and implement sustainable change.

She specializes in a business-led approach to create compelling business cases for digital investments, helping clients—from investors and developers to occupiers—understand the value of adopting new technologies, starting with an understanding of the people.

As a leader at the intersection of the physical, human, and digital, Harri helps clients identify the best digital solutions to enhance real estate portfolios, developments, and workplaces. She has deep expertise in translating a business's needs into a clear digital strategy, ensuring that technology serves as a core pillar to drive business value and transform the built environment.