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1 Singapore EVENT GUIDE 2018

2 Get the free YARDI EVENTS APP WELCOME TO YASC ASIA The Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference is for you the user. It s your opportunity to gain the inside track on Yardi Voyager and the ancillary software you use every day. Learn from the experts, mingle with your peers, and discover the next generation of software solutions to keep your business energised for tomorrow. Set up your conference agenda Stay up-to-date with news and alerts Sign up for classes Find where you're going Give class feedback Download from the App Store Download from Energised for Tomorrow

3 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW STAY CONNECTED Craft your agenda Choose from a wide range of classes, demos, and more to create a schedule that fits your learning objectives. Attend a class and discover the latest software updates and insider functions to keep your skills sharp. Explore new Yardi software during a demo session. All sessions provide ample opportunity to ask questions, discuss your organisation's challenges, and share information with industry experts. Get personal attention Open throughout YASC, the Lab is your onestop-shop for assistance from Yardi staff. Whether it s a new product you d like to demo, a scenario with your current software that you'd like to resolve, or anything else on your mind, come to the Lab to get all your questions answered. Expand your network Learning is first and foremost at YASC, but that doesn t mean you can t enjoy yourself too. Join us post-conference for an hour of specialised networking and a chance to expand your professional network with other YASC attendees and industry peers. Keep on track Take control of your YASC experience with the Yardi Events App. During the weeks leading up to YASC, you can log in from your computer or mobile device to browse courses, build your schedule, and download course materials. While at YASC, use the app to connect with peers at the event, leave feedback, schedule meetings with Yardi staff, and more. Connect on social media We ll be running contests throughout the conference, so get engaged and share your experience using #YASC2018 for conference news, prizes, and more! You ll find on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, on Instagram. Meet the experts Make valuable connections with Yardi's product experts, and hear their insights, tips, and tricks for getting the most out of Voyager and your ancillary modules. Discover new products Not only is YASC the best place to learn about new functionality, it's also your first chance to hear about new products soon to be released. With a first look at our specialist solutions for coworking, residential, and asset management you don t want to miss YASC 2018! On-demand Videos, Documents, and Training Client Central is your go-to resource for on-demand Yardi expertise: y Access a growing library of training videos y Browse conference materials, tech notes, and product manuals y Keep up-to-date on new training opportunities with Asia Client Workshops Stay Connected Follow us on social media for to-the-minute industry insights, tips, or just to keep in touch! Find Yardi on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. And don't miss timely information and valuable stories from The Balance Sheet at Connect now and use #YASC2018 to follow all things YASC. New Products Yardi Experts Classes 4 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018 5

4 THE VENUE The Grand Hyatt, Singapore YASC has moved to the heart of the city, and this year will be hosted at The Grand Hyatt, one of the city's most iconic hotels. Just a short walk to Orchard Road and many of the national treasures that Singapore has to offer, the vibrant surrounds are the perfect backdrop to your YASC experience. On Arrival On Tuesday, 16 October, guests are invited to make their way straight to the ballroom on Level 3, using the escalators towards the rear of the hotel. A light breakfast will be set up alongside the welcome desk, where our friendly Yardi team will sign you in. At the end of the day, don t miss the Networking Reception and prize draws! Getting to The Grand Hyatt The Grand Hyatt is located at 10 Scotts Road, at the start of Orchard Road, the city s main shopping precinct. Only a 5 minute walk from Orchard MRT station, the hotel offers multi-storey parking which is priced at $4 (for the first hour) and $2 for each subsequent half hour. A limited number of free parking vouchers will also be available at the Welcome Desk. Street View yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018 7

5 VENUE LEVEL 3 WELCOME DESK ESCALATORS COFFEE CART BREAKFAST / LUNCH LIFT ACCESS LIFTS BALLROOM TOILETS CLASSROOMS CHARGE STATION THE LAB NETWORKING RECEPTION RESIDENCE 6 GRAND RESIDENCE 1 RESIDENCE 5 BALLROOM GRAND RESIDENCE 2 RESIDENCE 1 LAB & CLOUD DESKS ENTRY VIA ESCALATORS 8 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018 9

6 TIMETABLE CLASSROOM SESSION 1 11:00 11:55 07:45 09:00 09:00 10:30 10:30 10:55 Registration & Light Breakfast Opening Session Morning Tea Classroom Sessions Grand Residence 1 Grand Residence 2 Residence 1 Residence 5 Residence 6 Grand Residence 1 Facilities Manager: Inspections & Planned Preventative Maintenance This course will review the use of advanced features such as planned preventative maintenance and inspections. We will also review the setup and usage of inspections templates and basic planned preventative maintenance and analytic reporting. Grand Residence 2 Yardi Elevate: Introduction to Retail Manager Coming in early 2019, Retail Manager is Yardi s all-new solution built for retail leasing. Part of the Elevate suite, it allows collaboration on the leasing pipeline, and a streamlined, easy-to-use experience for entering and updating permanent and temporary retail leases. Support for casual mall leasing and specialty leasing is built into this product, as are complex permanent leasing deal terms. Your retail centre managers, leasing teams, asset managers, and leasing managers will be able to communicate, share, and approve deals to shorten the lead-to-lease cycle. 11:00 11:55 Facilities Manager: Inspections & Planned Preventative Maintenance Yardi Elevate: Introduction to Retail Manager VENDORCafé Yardi Elevate: Introduction to Construction Manager InvestorPlus & Investor Portal Residence 1 VENDORCafé Learn how VENDORCafé provides a one-stop shop for better vendor management. Pay vendors faster, reduce the need for paper, cut costs, and get better results with VENDORCafé. Discover how to automate your onboarding process and proactively assess vendor risk across your portfolio. 12:00 12:55 Lunch Residence 5 Yardi Elevate: Introduction to Construction Manager Construction Manager, part of the new Yardi Elevate suite of products, answers the question: are your jobs on-time and on budget? Construction Manager provides complete project oversight to executives, development managers, and project managers. 13:00 13:55 Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting: Introduction Orion Business Intelligence PAYscan Job Cost Investment Management: Introduction Risk assessment and milestones provide a much needed, non-financial insight to the status of your jobs. 14:00 14:55 Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting: Forecast Leasing Options (FLO) Leasing Manager Procure to Pay: Purchase Orders Forecasting in Job Cost Investment Management: Investor Transactions & Unit Register Residence 6 InvestorPlus & Investor Portal This session will provide a look at how InvestorPlus and Investor Portal can help your organisation track and manage investors and investments through: (1) interactive investor and investment dashboards and analytics, which present activity, key performance metrics, and the ability to drill into the underlying details; (2) configurable workflows with notifications to keep teams abreast of key milestones and enable fund managers to vet new investors or track potential investment opportunities; and (3) helping you 15:00 15:25 Afternoon Tea manage investor relationships by tracking investor contact details, attributes, and interactions. 15:30 16:25 Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting: Valuations Lease Administration: Scenarios Work Orders Fixed Assets Custom Financials & Account Trees 16:30 17:25 Yardi Elevate : Introduction to Deal Manager COMMERCIALCafé Tenant Portal Facilities Manager: Inspections & Planned Preventative Maintenance A Preview of Coworking Bank Reconciliation: Bank Book 17:30 18:30 Networking Reception & Lucky Draw 10 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC

7 CLASSROOM SESSION 2 Deal Manager 13:00 13:55 Grand Residence 1 Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting: Introduction This class will include a high-level overview of the Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting module. We will walk through common budgeting processes as well as discuss best practices for the module. Topics will include an overview of how to manipulate your commercial revenue forecast, functions to help you gain efficiencies in forecasting expenses, features that will help you pull mortgage and job information into your budget, and will wrap up with some common reports. Close better deals, faster, with Yardi Deal Manager Grand Residence 2 Orion Business Intelligence Discover how Orion Business Intelligence can be tailored to deliver the specific metrics you need to track to improve and grow your business. Learn how to integrate custom data into Orion Business Intelligence, build custom metrics, and explore other customisation techniques through specific examples for the commercial market. We will walk you through how to identify business needs, define necessary metrics, and build solutions using the toolset within Orion Business Intelligence. Residence 1 PAYscan PAYscan delivers consistent policies, eliminates the physical movement of paper, and facilitates electronic invoicing. View the full transaction lifecycle, from converting your paper invoices into electronic invoices, to approval and posting. Learn how to track, review, and process your invoices using PAYscan dashboards and the PAYscan mobile app. Residence 5 Job Cost This course will cover an overview of the Job Cost (formerly Construction Management) module. It will include discussion on jobs, budgets, revisions, contracts, change orders, and closing out a job. Optimise leasing and pipeline management with integrated stacking plans, built-in communication tools and customisable NER calculations. Residence 6 Investment Management: Introduction Yardi Investment Management allows you to automate simple or complex financial consolidation in line with the fund structures. The automation of financial consolidation processes in Voyager should significantly reduce your time and effort in completing month-end, half yearly, and year-end financial reporting. Part of Singapore: Hong Kong: Shanghai: Energised for Tomorrow 12 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018

8 CLASSROOM SESSION 3 14:00 14:55 CLASSROOM SESSION 4 15:30 16:25 Grand Residence 1 Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting: Forecast Leasing Options (FLO) This class will cover "FLO" (Forecast Leasing Options), the latest forecasting functionality to help you manage commercial revenue assumptions for vacant units and expiring tenant leases. Benefits from this new feature include: a more efficient interface, less dependence on market leasing assumptions (MLAs), fewer MLAs required, the ability to copy revenue assumptions from a prior budget, simple lease renewals, and easy access to modify units. The class includes a demo of functionality, administrative setup, and key reports for this feature. Grand Residence 2 Leasing Manager Join this session to discuss features of Yardi Leasing Manager and how it helps to shorten leasing lifecycles and deliver increased operational efficiency to further drive revenue enhancement. Learn how Yardi Leasing Manager helps you to be more customercentric and gives you a 360-degree view of your customer. Residence 1 Procure to Pay: Purchase Orders In this course, you will learn about the benefits of purchase orders in the Voyager system and the streamlining of purchase orders into a more standard and efficient process. This class will cover all aspects of using purchase orders in Voyager. Residence 5 Forecasting in Job Cost This advanced course will cover both the forecasting feature within Job Cost (formerly Construction Management) and forecasting in the new, easy-to-use Construction Manager module. Topics include calculating cost-to-complete, projected final costs, and cash flow in Job Cost, as well as the bulk forecast functionality and how to edit forecasts in Construction Manager. Residence 6 Investment Management: Investor Transactions & Unit Register Automate the complex accounting transactions of fund management to dramatically reduce the analysis required by traditional accounting. Yardi Investment Management allows you to manage your wholly-owned assets, joint ventures, and other investment types for both small and large portfolio investors, from one centralised platform. This session will cover all of the major processes required to configure and create capital transactions including setting up complex investment structures and managing commitments going forward, transaction types, cascade rules, generating capital calls and distributions, tax withholding, partner transfers, income/mv allocations, management fee calculations, and reporting. Grand Residence 1 Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting: Valuations This course will introduce you to valuations, a powerful calculator used by asset managers to help you determine asset valuations, IRRs, and other metrics using the rolling discounted cash flow model and the direct income capitalisation approach. We will also cover key reports for managing valuations, manual revenue/expense entry, and how to apply market assumptions such as market rents, growth rates, and cap rates. Grand Residence 2 Lease Administration: Scenarios In this class, we will discuss common and some less-common scenarios in property management leasing, including first-step rent reviews, indexation methodology, renewals with combined expansions and/or contractions, and others. This class will be collaborative to see how other Voyager users are addressing issues that you bring to the class, with some guidance provided by Yardi. Residence 1 Work Orders This course covers how to use Voyager work orders to manage your day-to-day service requests, maintenance tasks, staff, and materials. We will review work order analytics, various dashboards, and the assignment to completion process of a work order. Residence 5 Fixed Assets This course details the Fixed Assets module. The instructor will review proper module setup and usage, including how to create fixed assets and how to calculate, post, and report on depreciation. Residence 6 Custom Financials & Account Trees Account trees are powerful financial reporting tools that enable you to determine the format and description of your GL accounts at run time. Discover how this feature can save you time by streamlining and customising your report writing processes. 14 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC

9 Investment CLASSROOM SESSION 5 16:30 17:25 Enhance investment transparency with Yardi InvestorPlus Grand Residence 1 Yardi Elevate : Introduction to Deal Manager Deal Manager centralises deal entry, tracking, and approvals in one simple-to-use solution for brokers and asset managers. Ideal for office and industrial clients, Deal Manager significantly improves the workflow of internal and external brokers, while providing enhanced deal pipeline visibility to asset managers. This class will explore the solution s features and the benefits it can provide. Get complete insight into the investment health of your portfolios. Manage investor activities on the go, with an advanced CRM tool available on any mobile device. Grand Residence 2 COMMERCIALCafé Tenant Portal COMMERCIALCafé Tenant Portal is your company s online tenant services portal. Explore how you can provide tenants with bestin-class services 24/7 through access to tenant statements, maintenance requests, sales data entry, and other service offerings. Residence 1 Facilities Manager: Inspections & Planned Preventative Maintenance This course will review the use of advanced features such as planned preventative maintenance and inspections. We will also review the setup and usage of inspections templates, basic planned preventative maintenance, and analytic reporting. Residence 5 A Preview of Coworking This session will provide a preview of KUBE, the software platform built by our newly acquired Coworking division. We ll discuss Coworking spaces, terminology, and market forces before providing a demonstration of KUBE which will be launched in The session will include time for your questions. Residence 6 Bank Reconciliation: Bank Book Learn how Voyager helps make the bank reconciliation process a snap! This course will cover bank account setup, bank reconciliation features, processes, reports, and troubleshooting. Yardi.com/Asia Energised for Tomorrow yasc.yardi.com // #YASC

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11 Procurement Procurement streamlines on Yardi 17:30-18:30 s t h g i N Streamline vendor management via VENDORCafé and paperless invoice processing with Yardi PAYscan. Complete approvals and vendor payments electronically, saving time money, and the environment. Yardi.com/Asia Energised for Tomorrow Level 3, Grand Hyatt End YASC in style! Our Cuban-themed networking reception is all about helping you mingle with industry peers and Yardi experts. Don't miss the photo booth, so you can make memories and have fun with new friends!

12 WORKSHOPS NOTES Maintain your expertise year-round with our range of support and training options Asia Client Workshops These complimentary sessions, available for all Voyager users, are offered online via webinar and in person at Yardi's Singapore office. Upcoming Workshops 8 November: Transactions Logging Best Practices (AR) 22 November: Reporting in Voyager 6 December: Security Administration These workshops help you get more out of Voyager. Covering new topics every quarter, they have been designed to support our clients across Asia. Topics designed to help you streamline your business processes and maximise efficiencies: y Voyager best practices y Asia-specific reporting solutions y Underused functionality y And much more For additional information please YardiASIAworkshop@yardi.com Alternatively, please go to Client Central, and under Product Resources select Training & Videos, then Training Sevices, then the Asia tab to see the latest timetable of training opportunities. 22 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC2018 yasc.yardi.com // #YASC

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15 SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! YASC ASIA 5 NOVEMBER 2019 Singapore Energised for Tomorrow Notice Design and content 2018 Yardi Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Information is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Yardi Systems, Inc. The following list is not all-inclusive and the absence of a product or service name or logo from this list does not imply a waiver of Yardi s trademark or other intellectual property rights concerning that name or logo. COMMERCIALCafé, InvestorPlus, Orion, PAYscan, RENTCafé, VENDORCafé, Voyager, KUBE, Deal Manager, Voyager and Yardi are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Yardi Systems, Inc., in Asia and/or other regions. All other products mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.