Hey friends,

Welcome to the Nexus Pro member digest… a collection of recent highlights you shouldn’t miss.

These digests are designed to save you time and allow you to catch up on the whole month. Then you can dive deeper wherever you’d like.

Enjoy.

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1—Members-only goodies from March 2022

1. Members' reactions to JCI lawsuits—Since I sent out the news about JCI suing upstarts, I’ve received 35 email replies and our LinkedIn post has been viewed over 25,000 times. I even learned about a third lawsuit—this time versus KMC Controls. It’s an understatement to say this has struck a nerve within our community. I wrote more about your reactions here. Since many of you responded with the desire to take action, I created this dedicated space to discuss collaboration. After some initial energy around this, it seems to have died down... sigh...
2. Vendor Landscape—After January's big update, I heard from many of you who shared your own versions of the Vendor Landscape. I'm working on auditing all of those and adding them to the master landscape. I added about 75 this month. I'm still working on categorizing and tagging all of the new ones!
3. SME Workshop with Pete Swanson on The Elephant and the Giraffe—In March's SME workshop, Pro member Pete Swanson, Digital Technology Lead (AUS) at Mott MacDonald, presented on his experience in navigating how to brief with clients, how to understand what they really want, how to convert that into something a contractor can practically implement, the best ways to address the inevitable value engineering / cost management process and 3 key ways to ensure that when you deliver an Elephant your client isn’t expecting a Giraffe. Check it out if you missed it!
4. Member Gathering: Dream's Net Zero Target—In addition to the usual fun, Pro member Lee Hodgkinson, Head of Sustainability & Technical Services at Dream Unlimited (one of Canada’s leading real estate companies with approximately $10 billion of assets under management), chatted with the group about Dream's plans for Net Zero and the technology involved. (Recording will be posted here soon)
5. KPIs Database—Let's all collaborate on the most important KPIs to calculate and measure the success of smart building technology!

2—Interesting member posts and conversations

• Technology assessment framework by Ben Bartling
• Sticking to Standards avoids Patent Infringements ? by Mike Barker
• Cybersecurity stuff for GEB by Ben Bartling
• Building Decarbonization Happy Hour (In person in NYC) by Ben Birnbaum (and me)

3—New Members

Here are our new members from February. If you see these names around Nexus Connect, take some time to say hello!

1. Sadaf Askari
2. Jonathan Gritz
3. Kyle Tooke
4. David Bailey
5. Robert Hemmerdinger
6. Alyssa Jean
7. Zach Overholser
8. Connor Donovan

(If you don't see your name on here, you haven't created your profile on Nexus Connect!)

4—SME Workshops featuring… you!

What are you an expert in? I know that each of you has a deep expertise that would help us move forward as a community. Our SME workshops are a great way to get your name out there, build relationships, and get feedback on your ideas.

To grab a spot on our calendar in the future to teach the community... just hit reply and we'll work out the details.

5—Upcoming ways to get involved

There's a lot of fun to be had in April! Here are a few things to look forward to...

• Subject Matter Expert Workshop: Co-Founders of LogCheck, Mike Brown (Pro Member) and Ben Ragheb will present on LogCheck's value prop and their experience starting and selling the company to Building Engines.
• Member Gathering: Pro members Alec Manfre (Bractlet), Christopher Naismith (Audette), and Matt Brown (buildee) will discuss the trend towards digitizing the energy / decarbonization project development process. (We'd love to add a female panelist here... let me know if anyone is interested and knowledgable!)

Invites to come...

6—New community features

Nexus Connect is always improving! Take a look at the newest update on member profiles...

You can now search from members based on their location, role, and anything else in their profile.

Here's the catch though: in order for you to show up in search results, you need to update your profiles with a headshot and bio information.

Do it now, please?!! 🙌

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Thanks for reading and thanks for being a Nexus Pro member. As always, I’d love if you hit reply and let me know how we can improve your membership.

—James

P.S. for all of you new members, here are some handy links:

• ​Anonymous member feedback form (constructive criticism is always appreciated!)
• ​Modify your account (E.g. modify your plan from monthly to annual, switch credit card, etc - just click account in the upper right corner)
• Submit your podcast interview idea​
• Submit your friendly rant podcast idea​
• Add the Nexus Pro podcast feed to the player of your choice
• ​The Nexus Vendor Landscape​
• ​The Archive (all posts with a ⭐  are for members only)
• Add your project to the Nexus Labs consulting waitlist​

P.P.S Did you know we have enterprise memberships? Hit reply if you'd like to see more of your colleagues in Pro.