Online real estate broker Redfin Corporation today announced its founding participation in Inman ConnectTech, the Web developer conference scheduled for July 26 in San Francisco. A one-day counterpart to Inman Connect, the conference for real estate agents, Inman ConnectTech is the first national real estate event to focus on developers creating the next generation of real estate technologies.

In addition to Redfin, Google, Microsoft, MapQuest and the Center for Realtor Technology are supporting the event; Slashdot founder Rob Malda is scheduled to keynote. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman will be participating in a panel of industry leaders on the future of real estate technology. Inman ConnectTech precedes the San Francisco Inman Connect by one day.

"Redfin first proposed Inman ConnectTech in January, and we immediately recognized the need for such a forum," said Inman CEO Mike Edelhardt. "Web developers in every corner of the world are combining map, search and social networking technologies to build a powerful new class of real estate applications. Our goal is to create an event of, by and for real estate technologists that can be a crucial industry forum for advancing the state of the art."

"Inman ConnectTech is a key platform for propagating our vision of Real Estate 2.0," said Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. "In this vision, technology gives consumers direct access to more information than ever before, and the ability to share questions, comments, ratings, photos and videos with one another. Because real estate information resides in so many different systems, it's important for developers of all stripes to come together to understand how a wide range of technologies can work together to create a rich context for any property."

Inman has worked with Redfin, Google, Microsoft and other leading vendors to build a conference program that addresses the latest industry technologies:

• AJAX, Flash and other rich-client Web technologies to give real estate consumers an interactive, browser-based experience;
• Online maps and global positioning systems to let people easily orient themselves online and in their cars as they look for properties;
• Mashups, programming interfaces and XML standards, for combining data industry, government and other sources;
• Geo-coding, RSS feeds and other viral technologies for sharing information between real estate sites and other Internet resources;
• Analytics for mining real estate data and identifying price inflections in properties and neighborhoods;
• Social networking technologies for creating online real estate communities and collaborative forums in which consumers can work with spouses, agents and lenders.

To register for the conference, visit http://www.inman.com/connectsf/DevDay.aspx.

Inman News (www.inman.com) is the nation's leading independent real estate news service and content provider to 250+ U.S. newspapers and 50,000 Web sites, reaching millions of consumers each day through clients and partners such as The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch, and many more.

Inman News also offers information-based products and services for the real estate professional and consumer, including Inman News Membership, Digital Media and News content for the Web and Special Reports. In addition, Inman produces two technology conferences per year for the Real Estate Industry: Real Estate Connect SF and Real Estate Connect NYC. RE Connect is the real estate and mortgage industry's premier networking event, gathering together in industry's leading decision makers, opinion leader and innovators in an open forum for discussion and debate.

The company headquarters are located in Emeryville, California, 10 miles east of San Francisco.

Redfin (www.redfin.com) is the real estate industry's first online brokerage, combining a customer-focused team of real estate agents with online tools for making the process of buying or selling a home easy. Redfin is the only major search site to feature listings direct from broker databases as well as for-sale-by-owner and foreclosure properties from across the Internet. The company pays its agents customer-satisfaction bonuses, not commissions, and surveys every client, publishing each survey as well as details on the agent's negotiating performance and deal history. Redfin's service is available in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, New York's Long Island and Westchester County as well as most of California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California and Sacramento. To keep track of our daring exploits, subscribe to blog.redfin.com or our Twitter feed @redfin.