Keynote Speaker · Real Estate
2026 TIME100 Creators honoree in the Leaders category. Built and led Zen Media for 17 years before selling the company. Keynote speaker for EMAAR and SEMA.
Why Real Estate Organizations Choose Shama
Real estate leaders are weighing changes in AI, buyer behavior, underwriting, interest rates, and customer expectations. A useful keynote can give the room a common way to examine those shifts and discuss which ones matter for its market.
Shama Hyder built and led Zen Media for 17 years before selling the company. She advises leaders at Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce, and JPMorgan Chase, has delivered keynotes for EMAAR and SEMA, and was named to the 2026 TIME100 Creators list in the Leaders category.
Her Strategic Urgency and Applied AI programs examine questions real estate professionals face at an inflection point: which market signals warrant attention, which trends may be noise, and what response fits the organization and its clients?
Shama structures real estate keynotes around a shared set of questions, practical examples, and a framework the audience can discuss in the context of its own market.
“Shama Hyder has delivered keynotes for EMAAR and SEMA and speaks on Applied AI, customer experience, and business strategy.”
Selected Speaking Experience
EMAAR and SEMA
Topics
A framework for discussing market signals, distinguishing structural shifts from cyclical changes, and considering the timing and scope of a response. Designed for real estate association conferences, brokerage leadership summits, and developer forums.
A practical discussion of AI adoption across search, valuation, property management, client service, and internal workflows. The session helps audiences compare potential uses, constraints, and fit. Designed for real estate technology conferences, brokerage training events, and association leadership sessions.
A session on trust, referral behavior, customer experience, and the role of relationships as technology changes the transaction. Designed for luxury real estate events, brokerage culture meetings, and referral-network conferences.
A review of signals affecting residential, commercial, and investment real estate, paired with questions leaders can use to discuss their relevance and possible responses. Designed for annual conferences, investor and developer summits, and industry association keynotes.
Shama covers Strategic Urgency (how to read market signals before windows close), Applied AI for Real Estate (practical adoption for brokers, developers, and property managers), customer loyalty in a disrupted market, and how to differentiate when technology commoditizes the transaction. Every keynote is customized to the specific challenges your real estate audience is navigating — whether that's rising rates, AI-driven search, or generational shifts in buyer behavior.
Shama built and led Zen Media for 17 years before selling the company. She has delivered keynotes for EMAAR and SEMA, advises leaders at Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce, and JPMorgan Chase, and was named to the 2026 TIME100 Creators list in the Leaders category.
Real estate association conferences, brokerage leadership summits, developer and investor forums, regional affiliate events, real estate technology conferences, and leadership workshops can all be discussed with Shama's team.
Event organizers can share the audience, market context, event theme, and questions they want the session to address. Shama's team uses that brief to discuss the appropriate topic and format.
Yes. For luxury real estate, brokerage, developer, investor, and high-net-worth client experience audiences, Shama focuses on Strategic Urgency, Applied AI, luxury client loyalty, trust, referral behavior, and how premium relationships stay valuable when technology commoditizes the transaction.
Availability varies by date and event scope. Submit an inquiry at shamahyder.com/check-availability or email team@shamahyder.com to ask about open dates.
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