The Inman Real Estate Connect Conference, San Francisco, will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, July 13 - 15.

For more than 14 years, Brad Inman, publisher/founder of Inman News, has brought the best minds in real estate and technology together for three power-packed and inspiring days. The San Francisco session has more than 150 speakers slated and expects more than 2,000 in attendance. Among the programming for the weekend:

• New Product Smack Down: Online real estate leaders unveil their newest innovations before our panel of expert judges, including Robert Scoble and Kara Swisher.
• Franchise Wars, Innovation and Market Recovery: Do Real Estate Brands Matter? with Alex Perriello and Bradley Inman.
• Connect Download: Ten Ways To Measure Your Way to Web Success with Gahlord Dewald.
• Keynote Address: Online Real Estate Futurama with Errol Samuelson.
• What is Google Doing? with Carter Maslan.
• Debate: Is the MLS System Broken? with Michael Wurzer and Simon Baker.
• Keynote Address: The Location-Based Future of Online Real Estate with Matt Galligan.

Saturday afternoon features two separate "innovation tracks," one for The MLS and the other for Technology and Media.

Those who register for the Real Estate Connect Conference prior to Friday, June 4 will be entered into a drawing for a free iPad.

Read more at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference San Francisco website.

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In this video from Inman's Real Estate Connect Conference 2008, Michael Shermer, founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine and author of the new book, "Mind of the Market", discusses market psychology and its role in the current real estate downturn, including his thoughts on how a better understanding of markets is the key to turning bad situations around.

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In Part Two of her Trends and Gems from Connect NYC two-part series, Inman News' Bernice Ross reviews four hot, FREE Web tools for real estate agents:

1. StatCounter.com
2. Tumblr.com
3. Meetup.com
4. Foursquare

Read more at Inman News.

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If you can imagine what the future of real estate looks like, you may win some prizes or be a published writer featured in Inman News.

Inman News is exploring what the next decade may hold for real estate professionals in "2020 Re-Envision: The Future of Real Estate Brokerage," an editorial project that features a survey and related articles.

Guest essays will be chosen and published and prizes for survey takers and writers include Amazon gift certificates and tickets to the upcoming Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco.

Visit Inman News for more details and the link to take the survey.

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In this video from Inman News of the 2010 Real Estate Connect conference, Charles Moore, president and CEO of McGuire Real Estate, says he expects to see an "equilibrium where prices are meeting demand" in the housing market this year, with activity up from 2009. It will still be a "hard year," he says, even though he expects 2010 will be an improvement from the "great transition" in 2009. 2011 "will ultimately be the year we celebrate," he adds.

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