Where AI Becomes Real

As a winner of Forrester’s 2025 Technology Strategy Impact Award, CBRE shows how high‑performance IT drives business impact through its Ellis AI platform, boosting software development, AI-powered products, and employee productivity.

“The thing that distinguishes what you can do with AI is data,” says Sandeep Davé, CBRE Chief Knowledge Officer.

"AI is freeing brokers' time to focus on what's important, the consultative and advisory piece," says CBRE's Laura Barr.

Ampily Vijay shares how CBRE Investment Management integrates operating models that prioritize data, talent, and measurable impact.

The Digie Awards honor companies advancing the built environment through innovation, automation, and forward-thinking solutions.

Ellis AI helps analysts focus more time on value-add activities and less time hunting for documents.

The Realcomm award reflects CBRE's extraordinary level of business process automation and innovation with data at scale.

AI can enable business transformation to deliver positive outcomes for clients and propel sustainability goals.

Recognizing that the commercial real estate industry was ripe for AI and machine learning enhancements early on, Sandeep Davé and his team have tested countless use cases across the enterprise ever since.

“Across this whole spectrum of efficiency through transformative ways of working, we’re only scratching the surface. There’s a significant efficiency gain to be had," says Sandeep Davé, Chief Digital & Technology Officer

Strategic alignment and clear ROI have enabled AI deployment at scale.

Says CBRE's Chief Digital & Technology Officer Sandeep Davé, "[Our AI platform] allows CBRE employees to do a range of things. It is a phenomenal gain, all due to the step change in technology that we are seeing.”

AI-powered services include virtual maintenance, automated maintenance and dynamic services that offer insights into how space is being used.