ServiceTitan announced that Guy Longworth, a veteran executive with more than 30 years of experience in sales and marketing for global brands, will join the company as its first chief marketing officer.

XOi Technologies, a Nashville-based technology startup focused on developing solutions for the skilled trades industries, reported rapid growth over the past year, thanks to an expanded management team, new strategic initiatives, and acquisition of additional key customer accounts. XOi also announced new features in the XOi Vision platform, a cloud solution for field service.

Is it possible that buildings of the future will be a strategic asset — that they will operate in an intelligent way to be productive facility managers and monetizable for real estate owners? Is it possible that the traditionally conservative and risk-averse building and construction industry would leverage the latest technologies, such as the IoT, big data, cloud computing, data analytics, deep learning, and artificial intelligence, for the benefits of saving energy, reducing operational expenditures, increasing occupancy comfort, and — most importantly — meeting increasingly stringent global regulations and sustainability standards?