Ebby Fills the Winspear: Much-Anticipated Summit Takes Place Sept. 16

Ebby Halliday Companies is going all out with an exclusive, agent-only event on Monday, September 16, at the beautiful Winspear Opera House in Dallas. It’s called CONNECT EHC Summit 2024, a day for agents from all the local Ebby Halliday Companies — Ebby, Dave Perry-Miller, and Williams Trew — to learn from the very best, connect, and just have a morning of real estate fun.

And CandysDirt.com was invited to participate! We are getting back into the booth business after 15 years. That’s how long it’s been since we were at Pebble Beach’s tony Concourse D’Elegance, me in a little booth surrounded by hot vacation home media. That was where I met Jay Leno, Clint Eastwood, the Terminator, and a host of connected, terrific people who liked a different kind of real estate: collectible cars.

Conferences are really still the best place to network!

When Steve Smith, Vice President of Marketing for Ebby Halliday Companies, invited us to participate in this day-long summit with a short video and sponsor booth, we got giddy. Then we rolled up our sleeves and went to work. The company has hosted smaller summits in the past, but this is the first event of this scale and you can feel the Ebby folks are giddy with excitement, too.

Featured speakers will cover current top trends in the real estate market, thriving in an AI-powered world, the intersection of risk mitigation and competitive edge, and mastering the art of connections — basically everything you need to be a well-rounded agent in 2024.

Featured speakers include:

Dr. Jessica Lautz, deputy chief economist and vice president of research at the National Association of Realtors. An in-demand speaker, Dr. Lautz has testified before Congress on behalf of NAR and regularly interacts with local and national media.

Rajeev Sajja, senior vice president of digital marketing and innovation at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach Realtors. With over two decades of expertise in marketing and technology, Sajja hosts a weekly AI podcast, Real Estate AI Flash, to make AI approachable and actionable for agents. He was named a RISMedia Real Estate Newsmaker in the Futurist category for 2023 and 2024.

Jessica Edgerton, chief legal officer/executive vice president of industry and learning at Leading Real Estate Companies of the World. In this role, she oversees legal affairs and risk management, as well as learning and development, preferred vendor relationships, industry relations, and corporate-compliance protocols for the prestigious LeadingRE network.

Agent Panelists include some of Texas’ finest: Craig Browning of Phyllis Browning Company (San Antonio); Gay Puckett of JBGoodwin Realtors (Austin); and Jeremy Fain, Greenwood King Properties (Houston).

And every agent knows they basically get 7 seconds to snag a sale: thus the Summit’s keynote speaker is internationally renowned speaker Sylvie di Giusto whose address is titled, “You Have Seven Seconds, Make Them Count.”

We all know that Ebby Halliday Companies daily provides its agents with a level of marketing, educational and technical support very rarely seen in the residential real estate industry. With EHC Summit 2024, they’re raising the bar even higher. I can’t wait to share more with you from Monday’s summit! This event is ONLY open to Ebby Halliday, Dave Perry-Miller, and Williams Trew agents.