ARCHIVE OF PROGRAMS PRESENTED BY LUXESF IN 2022
2022 “LIFE + COVID” Annus Horribilis or Annus Mirabilis?
A Conversation with Jose Rasco – America’s Dean of Economic Forecasting
Thursday, January 27th | 10.00 AM – 11.00 AM PACIFIC
With the angst and fear of COVID remaining ever-present, albeit diminishing, our thoughts turn to 2022 and the economic expectations for the Bay Area as we continue to battle persistent COVID variants, economic volatility and uncertainty, and a socio-political environment that fosters division and dissent.
To help provide clarity, understanding and a much-needed roadmap for business success for the coming year, LuxeSF is delighted to have back the Nostradamus of economic theory and prediction, Jose Rasco, Managing Director, Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank Americas. An acknowledged favorite of LuxeSF members, Mr. Rasco speaks with believable authority on all matters relating to the economy and its predicted direction, and in an articulate and common man style that simplifies the complex and brings understanding and comprehension to a subject that most economists cloud with jargon, confusion and indecision.
If you want to know how the economy and your business performance will shape up in 2022, this program is mandatory viewing.
FEATURING:
JOSE RASCO
Chief Investment Officer, HSBC Global Private Banking and Wealth Management – Americas
Jose Rasco is the Head of Investment Strategy for HSBC Private Banking, covering the United States and Latin America. He is a member of the Global Private Banking Investment Committee. Jose has over 25 years of experience in the investment industry and has conducted extensive research on global thematic investing and socially responsible products, as well as portfolio strategies. His commentary has appeared in a variety of leading financial publications and media, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, The International Herald Tribune, CNBC, and CNN.
THE GREAT METAMORPHOSIS
The Realtor of the Future – A Preview
Thursday, February 10th | 10.00 AM – 11.00 AM PACIFIC
While reams are currently being written about “The Great Retirement”, the “Great Resignation” and “The Great Migration”, less attention is being paid to the silent, yet significant, change in one of America’s most dominant industries – real estate, and the inevitable impact it will have on the future of the Realtor.
While we can profile the demography of the new breed of Realtor, what we can’t predict is how they’ll do business in a warp-speed world of accelerating change, driven by constantly-emerging technologies and altered consumer buying behavior that has been compelled by COVID.
The current Velcro approach to real estate marketing has served us well for generations – gain the listing, hold an open house, conduct a brokers’ tour and wait for the buyer to emerge. But this pattern of traditional push-pull marketing is about to be eclipsed by an all-new proactive approach, one that combines the sophistication of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and CRM with a revolutionary model that goes one-to-one – identifying the specific buyer in advance and dispensing with all that wasted marketing effort. With this new paradigm, comes a new type of Realtor, with new mindset and new practices to match.
LuxeSF is delighted to engage in conversation with Mark McLaughlin, former Chief Real Estate Strategist at COMPASS, serial entrepreneur and futurist who reads the tea leaves like no other, and Tracey Velt, Editorial Director, REAL Trends. In this compelling discussion, we critically deconstruct the role of the Realtor – who they are, how they’ve done business and how they’ll have to adapt in order to succeed in a brave new world where buying decisions are made by the minute, through non-traditional channels, in a universe were data, as much as relationship, drives the marketing
FEATURING:
MARK MCLAUGHLIN, President, McLaughlin Ventures
TRACEY VELT, Editorial Director, Real Trends
MAKING SENSE OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES & NFTS
Thursday, February 24th | 10.00 AM – 11.00 AM PACIFIC
“Blockchain”, “Bitcoin”, “NFT”, “Cryptocurrencies”, “Metaverse”, “Ethereum”, “DeFi” “The Internet of Things”. To the uninitiated, the vocabulary is reminiscent of a sci-fi universe where Dune meets The Matrix. The world of digital currencies has generated savage polarization. There are those who believe it represents the liberalization of currency flow without the intermediation of regulatory authorities or banking controls – a socio-economic shift of magnitude in line with the Industrial Revolution and the development of the Internet. To others, it’s the hybrid child of Charles Ponzi and Elizabeth Holmes, technology-hype on steroids that will inevitably crash and burn, taking with it the financial fortunes of those taken in by its improbable promise.
Yet, the mercantile universe is paying attention. Governments, global financial institutions, mega-corporations and technology behemoths are beginning to invest time, energy and money in testing the cryptocurrency waters. Some even argue that blockchain technology will eventually eradicate traditional and accepted channels of commerce and information-sharing, tailoring life’s transactions to a closed individualized loop between buyer-seller (for products and services) and sender-recipient (for everything else).
Learn the fundamentals of this new digital realm as LuxeSF presents the experts who deliver the knowledge and understanding of this complex and confusing topic in language that the layman can clearly comprehend. Audience Q & A will be encouraged.
FEATURING:
Douglas Borthwick, Chief Business Officer, INX.
Jose Rasco, Chief Investment Officer, HSBC Global Private Banking and Wealth Management – Americas
Christopher Roselli, Founder and CEO, iDATATi Inc.
HOW TO MANAGE & CIRCUMVENT AGGRAVATING SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES
Tuesday, March 29th | 10.00 AM – 11.00 AM PACIFIC
Examples continue to abound of supply chain challenges being felt by every sector of the U.S. economy — monthly backlogs on kitchen appliances, furniture from Asian suppliers held up for lack of shipping containers, continued blockages at U.S. ports caused by trucker shortages. The list is endless. And it’s in the home, that the impact is most severe. Interior designers, contractors, architects and realtors complain about their inability to complete their projects on time and on budget.
LuxeSF is hosting an important program on dealing with supply chain challenges. We’ve assembled a panel of experienced experts who can provide the inside scoop on how to best manage these challenges — how to shorten the time-line pressures, which countries/supplier/brands offer shortest lead times, how to get the most out of manufacturer-to-customer service channels, etc. This is the opportunity to learn how to turn supply chain angst into an effective work flow that will minimize shipping delays, maximize productivity and deliver contented clients.
FEATURING:
- Sandra Eaton, Regional Director Western Region, Compass Development Marketing Group (for the realtor perspective)
- Jeff Holt, Principal, HEWN Showrooms (for the showroom perspective)
- Greg Lourence, Director, Showroom & Builder Sales, NorCal & Northern NV, Ferguson
- John Stock, Senior Vice President Global Operations Primex Family of Companies (for the national and global perspective)
HOW TO BECOME A CONNOISSEUR – A CORE CURRICULUM
LuxeSF is excited to present a new program series — “How to Become a Connoisseur: A Core Curriculum” featuring penetrating discussions with industry luminaries in Style & Design, the Home, Art, Food & Wine, Jewelry & Timepieces and Travel.
This 6-part series will deconstruct the concept of connoisseurship as it applies to various upscale audiences and luxury sectors, as well as help to better understand how to communicate the essentials of connoisseurship to a public that craves that learning but is denied the tools to acquire the knowledge. This important series will better equip luxury marketers with a fundamental understanding of connoisseurship and how to convey its meaning and importance to their clients and customers.
STYLE & DESIGN WITH SUZANNE TUCKER
(First in the 6-part series)
THURSDAY, APRIL 14TH 10:00 – 11:00AM PACIFIC
WHERE ARE MORTGAGE RATES HEADED?
A 30- minute Must-See Program
THURSDAY, APRIL 28th 10:00 – 10:30 AM PACIFIC
After two years of robust and heated real estate activity, the Perfect Storm now approaches. Low inventories, high home sale prices, rising inflation and aggressive Federal Reserve reaction have now been joined by interest rate hikes that will very quickly drive first time home buyers and middle-class trader-uppers out of the affordability market.
LuxeSF returns for this special 30-minute presentation featuring Jose Rasco, Managing Director, Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank Americas who will provide an incisive assessment of the current mortgage interest rate environment, together with his best prediction on where interest rates are headed – how soon and how high.
HOW TO BECOME A CONNOISSEUR – A CORE CURRICULUM
(Second in a 6-part series)
LuxeSF is excited to present a new program series — “How to Become a Connoisseur: A Core Curriculum” featuring penetrating discussions with industry luminaries in Style & Design, the Home, Art, Food & Wine, Jewelry & Timepieces and Travel.
This 6-part series will deconstruct the concept of connoisseurship as it applies to various upscale audiences and luxury sectors, as well as help to better understand how to communicate the essentials of connoisseurship to a public that craves that learning but is denied the tools to acquire the knowledge. This important series will better equip luxury marketers with a fundamental understanding of connoisseurship and how to convey its meaning and importance to their clients and customers.
JEWELRY & TIMEPIECES WITH TOM CARROLL & JAMES MALCOLMSON
THURSDAY, MAY 12th | 10.00 – 11.00 AM
In this program, we conversed with Tom Carroll, a highly-respected and exceptionally-experienced Luxury Retailer whose career includes store management responsibilities for Tiffany, Louis Vuitton and Tourneau, and James D. Malcolmson, who has been covering the Swiss watch industry as a journalist for over twenty years.
HOW TO BECOME A CONNOISSEUR – A CORE CURRICULUM
(Third in a 6-part series)
LuxeSF is excited to present a new program series — “How to Become a Connoisseur: A Core Curriculum” featuring penetrating discussions with industry luminaries in Style & Design, the Home, Art, Food & Wine, Jewelry & Timepieces and Travel.
This 6-part series will deconstruct the concept of connoisseurship as it applies to various upscale audiences and luxury sectors, as well as help to better understand how to communicate the essentials of connoisseurship to a public that craves that learning but is denied the tools to acquire the knowledge. This important series will better equip luxury marketers with a fundamental understanding of connoisseurship and how to convey its meaning and importance to their clients and customers.
THE HOME
THURSDAY, JUNE 9Th | 10.00 – 11.00 AM
In this program, we conversed with six seasoned experts about every element of the home, from acquisition to design to lifestyle — as seen through the prism of connoisseurship and those who practice it.
FEATURING:
- Sabra Ballon, ballonSTUDIO
- Gregg Lynn, Sotheby’s International Realty
- Stacey Lapuk, Stacey Lapuk Interiors
- Chris Ramey. The Home Trust International
- Jeff SchlarB, Jeff Schlarb Design Studio
- Elizabeth Suzuki, Sutton Suzuki Architects
THE 2022 RISING STARS OF BAY AREA REAL ESTATE
THURSDAY, JUNE 23RD | 11.00 AM – 12.00 PM
A perennial LuxeSF favorite, now in its 7th year, we grill a panel of the Bay Area’s up-and-coming stars about their motivation, inspiration, aspiration and determination, and how they’re making it to the top. The panel represents the rising rookies – agents with fewer than 5 years in the business who, are setting records and creating a reputation for themselves within the industry. These are the ones to watch.
THE 2022 LEADING 100 LIST
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18TH | 10.00 – 11.00 AM
LuxeSF was pleased to announce the 2022 Leading 100 List. The individual agents and teams who made the list were acknowledged as the Bay Area’s top producers in dollar volume based on Individual agent and Team real estate sales during the period January-December 2021.
The Leading 100 List represents the Bay Area’s 100 top-producing agents who registered outstanding performance in a calendar year, based on dollar sales volume, and recognizes Individual sales performance. Additionally, in 2017 we recognized a gray area that resides between high-performance sales teams and individual “rainmakers” who rely upon support staff to execute transactions. A Leading 100 Teams List has also been developed and operates in tandem with the continuing Individual Agents List.
REALTORS YOUR LIFE IS ABOUT TO CHANGE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th | 10.00 – 11.00 AM
Anecdotal feedback strongly indicates that there are seminal shifts in play in the way Realtors will operate based on how the COVID pandemic permanently altered the business landscape. We know that:
New Realtors flooded into the marketplace in 2020 and 2021 in record numbers. As with the restaurant trade, many, if not most, will not survive
Technology is finally being embraced by the Realtor community and its full impact is just beginning to be fully felt
Realtors have come to appreciate the productivity benefits of new and liberating work-place dynamics e.g., WFH, Zoom meetings with clients, reduction in office time and meetings
The industry is undergoing a major transformation in compensation platforms, brokerage consolidation and new brokerage models
LuxeSF, in its continuing quest to identify industry trends in-the-making, presents an illuminating and compelling in-depth discussion with a panel of forward-reaching Realtors who are equipping themselves and their teams for the New World of real estate sales — where a Realtor can work hard, make good money, reject the tired shibboleths about the business and, in the process, gain new-found contentment and balance in life – as the COVID lockdown teased.
FEAUTURING:
- Paul Benson, Co-founder and CEO of Engel & Völkers Gestalt Group with 38 offices across Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, and Idaho and #1 agent world-wide among the entire Engel & Völkers Network
- Kristan Cole, Founder & CEO KCN, Kristan Cole Real Estate Network. Top 5 ranking at Keller Williams Expansion, top 20 in the US and a 2018 Inman Innovator of the Year finalist.
- Carey Hagglund Condy, Ranked the #1 Compass team in Marin County, and among the top 5 in Marin County for all agents in 2021 & 2022
- Kevin Patsel, Managing director for San Francisco, Marin, Wine Country and Tahoe, and sales manager for the Compass San Francisco flagship office at Ghirardelli Square hosting some of the City’s top-producing agents
NEED A HEAD SHOT? GET A HEAD SHOT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th | 10.00 – 2.00 PM ( SANTA ROSA)
THURSDAY, September 15th | 5.00 – 8.00 PM (SAN FRANCISCO)
If, like many of us, you’re still using an outdated, pre-COVID head shot from the days when the hair was luxuriant and wrinkles non-existent, it may be the time for an update. We know there are a million reasons why you haven’t got around to it—no time; can’t find the right photographer who can capture your essential beauty and unique personality; vanity; fear of reflection that comes with the aging process, etc. We’ve heard them all before!
Now is the time for redemption. LuxeSF, in partnership with Ferguson and The Bath + Beyond, is providing an opportunity to get an updated head shot taken by a top-line commercial photographer. And there’s no charge. We just want you to look your best.
We’ll be serving fine beverages and small bites to get you in the mood where the true you shines through for the photographer.
HOW TO BECOME A CONNOISSEUR – A CORE CURRICULUM
LuxeSF is excited to present a new program series — “How to Become a Connoisseur: A Core Curriculum” featuring penetrating discussions with industry luminaries in Style & Design, the Home, Art, Food & Wine, Jewelry & Timepieces and Travel.
This 6-part series will deconstruct the concept of connoisseurship as it applies to various upscale audiences and luxury sectors, as well as help to better understand how to communicate the essentials of connoisseurship to a public that craves that learning but is denied the tools to acquire the knowledge. This important series will better equip luxury marketers with a fundamental understanding of connoisseurship and how to convey its meaning and importance to their clients and customers.
ART
(Fourth in the 6-part series)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th | 10.00 – 11.00 AM
In this program, we conversed with Kamal Zargar, representing Crozier Fine Arts who has worked with collectors, museums, galleries, corporations, and artists in managing their art and other collectible assets. In that role, he has developed and closed deals in the seven-figure range with some of the art world’s most prominent collectors and museums.
HOW TO BECOME A CONNOISSEUR – A CORE CURRICULUM
LuxeSF is excited to present a new program series — “How to Become a Connoisseur: A Core Curriculum” featuring penetrating discussions with industry luminaries in Style & Design, the Home, Art, Food & Wine, Jewelry & Timepieces and Travel.
This 6-part series will deconstruct the concept of connoisseurship as it applies to various upscale audiences and luxury sectors, as well as help to better understand how to communicate the essentials of connoisseurship to a public that craves that learning but is denied the tools to acquire the knowledge. This important series will better equip luxury marketers with a fundamental understanding of connoisseurship and how to convey its meaning and importance to their clients and customers.
FOOD & WINE
(Fifth in the 6-part series)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13th | 10.00 – 11.00 AM
In this program, we conversed with David Pearson, noted oenophile and former CEO of Opus One, the renowned joint venture between Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild. In this illuminating conversation, we discuss the appreciation of food and wine as viewed through the eyes of an accomplished connoisseur who has experienced the finest that the world’s wineries, vineyards and dining establishments have to offer.
“TAMING THE BEAST!” WHAT CAN REALTORS EXPECT TO FACE IN 2023?
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th | 10.00 – 11.00 AM
As we end what has been an erratic year fraught with highs, lows, unpredictability and instability, we enter the dark tunnel of 2023 with an air of cautious optimism (for the glass half full personalities) to dire uncertainty (for the glass half empty types). Either way, 2023 is not for the faint-hearted, the indecisive or the unplanned. Is there a white light at the end of the tunnel, or a continuing slog into the darkness of the unknown?
LuxeSF closes out the year with its most important program — a panel of successful, proven, close-to-the ground Realtors, representing all Bay Area regions. They share their insights, opinions and prognostications about 2023 – what best to expect and how to plan for what remains a forthcoming year of uncertainty where so many variables e.g., inflation, rising mortgage rates, real estate bubble headlines, political division, tech industry retrenchments, etc., can tip the balance.
For hard-working, aspirational Realtors who want and need a leg up as they try to anticipate what to expect in 2023, and plan accordingly, this is the “absolute, must-see” program.
FEATURING:
- The Bellings Brothers, San Francisco, Compass
- Nic Canning, Carmel, Sotheby’s International Realty
- Dana Green, Lafayette, Compass
- Paul Griffiths, San Francisco, Vesta Asset Management
- DJ Grubb, Oakland, The Grubb Company
- Jaime Jones, Menlo Park, Intero
- Julie Mariani Cassel, Menlo Park, Intero
- Mark McLaughlin, Bay Area, McLaughlin Ventures
- Tracy McLaughlin, Marin County, Engel & Völkers
- Jonathan Soh, Wine Country, Sotheby’s International Realty
- Trinkie Watson, Tahoe Region, Chase International