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Walid Kushtoban, Marygold Studio: clients who say please, no AI

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:58:00 GMT

A RealTimes PeerView: Walid Kushtoban, General Manager of Marygold Studio, in conversation with Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, at the IPS Congress 2026 in Dubai. Marygold Studio is a UK-headquartered branding and visualization studio for real estate developers, and Kushtoban opened its Dubai office this year. He describes developers whose first rule is no AI in a render, and puts his own use at 55 to 60 percent, where he says it enhances elements rather than builds a project from scratch. Quality can sit abroad, he argues, but client servicing has to be local, because in this region things change fast. Marygold-Studio.com

Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iN2ZRVyfdjY

Sponsored by Shelton Reed, a pan-European commercial real estate strategic advisory firm working principal to principal across land, development, financing and transaction mandates. SheltonReed.com

00:00 Introduction: Walid Kushtoban, Marygold Studio

00:49 Marygold Studio, and the clients who ask for no AI

02:34 Why the render is still built from scratch

04:00 Commodity or craft?

05:56 Integrity over volume, and the 55 to 60 percent line

07:46 A red ocean, and the relationships behind the pitch

08:50 The digital twin platform, and selling a life

10:22 Why a Dubai office, and why now

11:24 Location, location, location & connections, connections, connections

Peer: Walid Kushtoban, General Manager, Marygold Studio

Peer (series sponsor): Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO, Shelton Reed

RealTimes PeerViews are executive-to-executive conversations produced by RealTimes (RealTimes.co), a European commercial real estate media platform. Series 1 is sponsored by Shelton Reed (SheltonReed.com).

With thanks to AIM Congress and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Trade for kindly providing the space for the RealTimes PeerViews.

Contact: Studio@RealTimes.co

More RealTimes PeerViews from IPS Congress 2026, Dubai:

Amit Puri, BCD Global

Marwan Houri, AE7

Jean-Paul Sacy, Wand AI

Marco Piva, Studio Marco Piva

Daniela Baldo, Studio Marco Piva

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Daniela Baldo, Studio Marco Piva: designing homes with neuroscientists

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:57:33 GMT

A RealTimes PeerView: Daniela Baldo, Founding Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Studio Marco Piva, in conversation with Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, at the IPS Congress 2026 in Dubai. Her Milan practice runs an in-house research centre spanning master planning, architecture, interiors and product design. Baldo sets out Forever Young, a residential longevity concept developed with neuroscientists, longevity doctors, lighting and MEP consultants, psychologists and sociologists, not architects alone, and argues wellness amenities were never enough, because the spa gives the guest a transformational experience and then returns them to the same normal life. StudioMarcoPiva.com

Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4xJl3qVv1ls

Sponsored by Shelton Reed, a pan-European commercial real estate strategic advisory firm working principal to principal across land, development, financing and transaction mandates. SheltonReed.com

00:00 Introduction: Daniela Baldo, Studio Marco Piva

01:12 Self-introduction, and five continents of work

02:18 A flexible concept, not a fixed building

03:47 Beyond architects: longevity doctors and Forever Young

05:29 Award-winning spas, and why they were not enough

06:58 Luxury now: conscious, not status

08:08 Art-led, not brand-led

08:38 Who decides on design in the Gulf

11:03 The villa bigger than a hotel

12:47 From marketing tool to something real

13:18 The Dubai Longevity Authority

Peer: Daniela Baldo, Founding Partner and Chief Operating Officer, Studio Marco Piva

Peer (series sponsor): Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO, Shelton Reed

With thanks to AIM Congress and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Trade for kindly providing the space for the RealTimes PeerViews.

Contact: Studio@RealTimes.co

More RealTimes PeerViews from IPS Congress 2026, Dubai:

Amit Puri, BCD Global

Marwan Houri, AE7

Jean-Paul Sacy, Wand AI

Marco Piva, Studio Marco Piva

Walid Kushtoban, Marygold Studio

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Marco Piva, Studio Marco Piva: Dubai is islands, not yet one city

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:57:06 GMT

A RealTimes PeerView: Marco Piva, Co-Founder of Studio Marco Piva, in conversation with Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, at the IPS Congress 2026 in Dubai. His Milan practice calls itself an academy of sciences rather than an architectural firm, and in his words it brings together more than 17 nationalities. Dubai, he argues, is not yet one city but a set of areas that still read like islands. Italy, he says, is the worst place in the world to develop. StudioMarcoPiva.com

Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7SrMqgaDs5c

Sponsored by Shelton Reed, a pan-European commercial real estate strategic advisory firm working principal to principal across land, development, financing and transaction mandates. SheltonReed.com

00:00 Introduction: Marco Piva, Studio Marco Piva

00:30 Self-introduction: design at every scale, and 17 nationalities in one Milan office

02:14 Dubai as islands still becoming one city

04:38 Dubai-ology, and the sandbox for architects

08:51 Italy, Rome, and the Venice hotel nobody could touch

12:51 Fifteen-minute cities and unknown neighbours

16:02 China and the ghost cities

17:39 Beauty by design: mixed use over zoning

20:06 Embodied energy and the Iceland recycling project

Peer: Marco Piva, Co-Founder, Studio Marco Piva

Peer (series sponsor): Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO, Shelton Reed

With thanks to AIM Congress and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Trade for kindly providing the space for the RealTimes PeerViews.

Contact: Studio@RealTimes.co

More RealTimes PeerViews from IPS Congress 2026, Dubai:

Amit Puri, BCD Global

Marwan Houri, AE7

Jean-Paul Sacy, Wand AI

Daniela Baldo, Studio Marco Piva

Walid Kushtoban, Marygold Studio

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Tom Walker, Schroders: listed real estate's strength sits in America

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:13:54 GMT

A RealTimes PeerView: Tom Walker, Co-Head of Global Listed Real Estate at Schroders, in conversation with Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, at PropTech Connect Europe 2026 in London. Walker invests in publicly listed real estate securities rather than operating buildings, which gives him a read on where capital is actually rewarded. He is blunt about it: the strength in public real estate markets is in the US, Asia comes second, and Europe is lagging. He names data centers, senior housing and retail as the three sectors generating the strongest earnings this year, argues prime assets are not overvalued because they can still grow rents faster than the cost of debt is rising, and explains why he wants data centers in cities rather than in the middle of nowhere. schroders.com

Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZLMKFcL7rm0

Sponsored by Shelton Reed, a pan-European commercial real estate strategic advisory firm working principal to principal across land, development, financing and transaction mandates. SheltonReed.com

00:00 Introduction: Tom Walker, Schroders

00:30 Where the strength is: US ahead, Europe lagging

01:06 Data centers, senior housing and retail

01:58 Flight to quality, and whether prime is overvalued

03:12 Growing earnings faster than the cost of debt

03:49 Do cheap Asian models threaten data center demand?

05:26 Why data centers belong in cities

07:00 What the PropTech floor changes, and for whom

08:09 Noise versus NOI, and the consolidation ahead

Peer: Tom Walker, Co-Head of Global Listed Real Estate, Schroders

Peer (series sponsor): Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO, Shelton Reed

Contact: Studio@RealTimes.co

More RealTimes PeerViews from PropTech Connect Europe 2026, London:

Thomas Kaechele, M&G Real Estate

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Thomas Kaechele, M&G Real Estate: beds and sheds still win

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:53:21 GMT

A RealTimes PeerView: Thomas Kaechele, Head of Germany and CEE at M&G Real Estate, in conversation with Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, at PropTech Connect Europe 2026 in London. Fourteen years into the role, Kaechele explains why beds and sheds still leads M&G's regional allocation, and why he stays prudent on data centers as a real estate asset class. M&G Real Estate is the real estate investment arm of M&G Investments, managing real estate debt and equity investments across the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. MandG.com/realestate

Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NMt3ACkjwso

Sponsored by Shelton Reed, a pan-European commercial real estate strategic advisory firm working principal to principal across land, development, financing and transaction mandates. SheltonReed.com

00:00 Introduction: Thomas Kaechele, M&G Real Estate

00:44 Panel takeaways: AI and technology in real estate investment

02:16 Real estate turns operational, not just bricks and mortar

04:55 Portfolio allocation: beds and sheds lead M&G's strategy

07:33 The data center debate: a land bank game, not a real estate one

11:40 Career path: from engineering to fund management

13:01 Year end outlook and staying prudent through surprise

14:06 Sign off: looking ahead to Expo Real

Peer: Thomas Kaechele, Head of Germany and CEE, M&G Real Estate

Peer (series sponsor): Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO, Shelton Reed

Contact: Studio@RealTimes.co

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Tom Walker, Schroders

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Jean-Paul Sacy, Wand AI: making AI agents as accountable as humans

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:52:44 GMT

A RealTimes PeerView: Jean-Paul Sacy, Global Head of Partnerships at Wand AI, in conversation with Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, at the IPS Congress 2026 in Dubai. Sacy explains why Wand AI is moving organizations from using AI as a tool to deploying agents that are as accountable and traceable as a human workforce, and why he expects nations, not only enterprises, to eventually need to register and control AI agents the same way.

Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NwuVcHkOMI8

Sponsored by Shelton Reed, a pan-European commercial real estate strategic advisory firm working principal to principal across land, development, financing and transaction mandates. SheltonReed.com

Jean-Paul Sacy is Global Head of Partnerships at Wand AI, which builds infrastructure for organizations to run hybrid human-and-AI-agent workforces. Wand.ai

00:00 Introduction: Jean-Paul Sacy, Wand AI

00:30 Wand AI's operating system for deploying agents

01:29 From AI as a tool to accountable, traceable agents

04:16 Fortune 500s, nations, and taxing AI agents

06:25 Trust, company boards, and the two extremes of AI adoption

10:15 The OS stack: compute, LLM, agents, workforce

12:44 Why the battle has moved past the LLM

15:19 Hyperscalers, sovereign clouds, and private clouds

16:11 Sign off

Peer: Jean-Paul Sacy, Global Head of Partnerships, Wand AI

Peer (series sponsor): Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO, Shelton Reed

With thanks to AIM Congress and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Trade for kindly providing the space for the RealTimes PeerViews.

Contact: Studio@RealTimes.co

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Amit Puri, BCD Global

Marwan Houri, AE7

Marco Piva, Studio Marco Piva

Daniela Baldo, Studio Marco Piva

Walid Kushtoban, Marygold Studio

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Marwan Houri, AE7: your client's success is their client's success

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:52:06 GMT

A RealTimes PeerView: Marwan Houri, Vice President, Business Development & Strategy at AE7, in conversation with Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, at the IPS Congress 2026 in Dubai. AE7 is a multi-disciplinary architecture, planning and engineering design firm with offices in North America, the Middle East and Europe. Houri explains why AE7's projects, from Mohammed Bin Rashid City to the Azizi Tower, which he describes as the world's second-tallest tower at 725 metres and 131 floors, keep the same clients returning, and why he treats the end user, not only the developer, as the firm's ultimate client. AE7.com

Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dRcNo1IAQsk

Sponsored by Shelton Reed, a pan-European commercial real estate strategic advisory firm working principal to principal across land, development, financing and transaction mandates. SheltonReed.com

00:00 Introduction: Marwan Houri, AE7

00:30 From architecture to AE7: Mohammed Bin Rashid City, Dubai Canal, Azizi Tower

02:15 Reputation: designing projects that actually get built

04:01 Understanding each client's real priorities

05:41 Client key success indicators, not just KPIs

06:39 Thinking like your client's own team

07:24 Business empathy: the end user is the ultimate client

08:38 Sign off: success is your client's client's success

Peer: Marwan Houri, Vice President, Business Development & Strategy, AE7

Peer (series sponsor): Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO, Shelton Reed

With thanks to AIM Congress and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Trade for kindly providing the space for the RealTimes PeerViews.

Contact: Studio@RealTimes.co

More RealTimes PeerViews from IPS Congress 2026, Dubai:

Amit Puri, BCD Global

Jean-Paul Sacy, Wand AI

Marco Piva, Studio Marco Piva

Daniela Baldo, Studio Marco Piva

Walid Kushtoban, Marygold Studio

Watch the films on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT56ZwZbqiD4

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Amit Puri, BCD Global: Dubai's market sits under 2 million dirhams

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:51:29 GMT

A RealTimes PeerView: Amit Puri, CEO of BCD Global, in conversation with Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, at the IPS Congress 2026 in Dubai. BCD, short for Bhandari Construction and Development, was founded in India in 1952 and spent seven decades as a contractor, delivering roughly 160 million square feet across seven markets, before it began developing on its own account. Puri explains why the company builds for end users in the sub two million dirham band, where he says 62 percent of last year's Dubai sales landed, and why it grows without external debt. Carpe Diem, the principle he carries as a tattoo, is engraved into his modus operandi, and it shows in how BCD Global moves. TheBCDGlobal.com

Watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aemYohkteng

Sponsored by Shelton Reed, a pan-European commercial real estate strategic advisory firm working principal to principal across land, development, financing and transaction mandates. SheltonReed.com

00:00 Introduction: Amit Puri, BCD Global

00:36 From 1952 Indian contractor to Dubai developer

02:21 The sub two million dirham end user segment

03:22 Why Dubai: published land prices and transparency

04:55 Growing without external debt

07:31 Contractor turned developer, and what the legacy changes

10:30 What London can learn from Dubai

14:17 Cities that treat real estate as a vitamin

19:11 Architect or spreadsheet: where a decision starts

22:05 Sign off

Peer: Amit Puri, CEO, BCD Global

Peer (series sponsor): Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO, Shelton Reed

With thanks to AIM Congress and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Trade for kindly providing the space for the RealTimes PeerViews.

Contact: Studio@RealTimes.co

More RealTimes PeerViews from IPS Congress 2026, Dubai:

Marwan Houri, AE7

Jean-Paul Sacy, Wand AI

Marco Piva, Studio Marco Piva

Daniela Baldo, Studio Marco Piva

Walid Kushtoban, Marygold Studio

Watch the films on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT56ZwZbqiD4

Follow RealTimes Studio for the next PeerView.

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