CoreLab-webinar: Trends in AI, real estate investing and financing

CoreLab webinar: Trends in AI, real estate investing and financing on Friday 24th October 2025 at 11 o'clock (UTC +3)

Join us in hearing all the latest on the topics of AI and real estate investing and financing on Friday 24th October!

Friday 24th October at 11:00-12:15 o’clock (UTC +3)

Are you hoping to get up to date with all the recent jumps AI has made in real estate investing and financing? Look no further: this October we present you with three genius minds in this field, who present their insights and tie their thoughts together in a final discussion.

Dr Richard Saldanha

Queen Mary University of London, Oxquant

Finance Professional, University Lecturer in Machine Learning, Board Member & Adviser

Dr Richard Saldanha is an expert in statistical machine learning and quantitative finance. He is involved in postgraduate teaching in the School of Economics and Finance in machine learning, finance and econometrics in a range of master’s level courses. He also co-heads Oxquant, a small technical management consultancy business in Oxford. Prior to this, Richard worked in the City of London for over 20 years and was involved in risk, trading, and fund management activities at various large established financial institutions. Richard holds a doctorate (DPhil) in graph theory and multivariate statistics from the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician (CStat) of the Royal Statistical Society; a Science Council Chartered Scientist (CSci); and a Fellow and Advanced Practitioner in Artificial Intelligence of the Institute of Science and Technology – FIScT APAI.

Lawin Chandra

Global AI & Real Estate Leader, Author, CEO & Founder of aiRaiz

Lawin Chandra is the CEO and Founder of aiRaiz, an AI-powered capital raising platform redefining private investment through speed, transparency, and intelligence. He has led over $7bn in global real estate and private equity transactions and is the author of The PropTech Guide and the newly released AI Innovation in Real Estate. As a technology evangelist, he speaks and writes on AI, PropTech, and FinTech, driving digital transformation across capital markets.

Mika Lehtimäki

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tampere University

Founder of StratXcel; DPhil (Oxford); Corporate lawyer. Lehtimäki is a researcher and a corporate lawyer who created the StratXcel software development that brings AI and machine learning excellence to creating complex financial and legal strategies.

Webinar Program

11:00  Welcome, Jaakko Kinnunen, Project Manager, CoreLab, Tampere University

11:05  Recent Advancements in AI technology in Real Estate Finance and Investing, Mika Lehtimäki

11:15  Deep Learning in Real Estate Investment: Myth or Legend, Richard Saldanha

11:35  Practical AI applications in real estate investing, Lawin Chandra

11:55  Discussion

12:15  Final Remarks

 

Registration

Please register through this Forms-link so that we can send you the calendar invitation with a Teams-link: https://forms.office.com/e/czEEFcKCZi

 

The webinar is organised as part of the The implementation models of urban development projects – CityCen project. Cooperation partners in the project are: AFRY Ark Studio, City of Helsinki, Kiinteistönomistajat ja rakennuttajat Rakli ry, KPMG Oy Ab, City of Lahti, Metropolitan Area Transport Ltd, NCC Property Development Ltd, City of Oulu, Skanska CDF Ltd, Talonrakennusteollisuus ry, City of Turku and City of Vantaa.

More information:

Mika Lehtimäki, DPhil
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Tampere University
mika.lehtimaki@tuni.fi

Alisa Hakola
Researcher, CoreLab
Tampere University
alisa.hakola@tuni.fi