JLL CTO Yao Morin on AI, Data Strategy, and the Future of Real Estate

September 1, 2025

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Yao Morin

Chief Technology Officer of Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)

Yao Morin is the Chief Technology Officer at JLL, a Fortune 500 commercial real estate firm operating in 84 countries with over 130,000 employees. With a background in engineering and leadership across data science, Morin has led JLL’s digital transformation, overseeing global data strategy, internal platform development, and AI product delivery. She previously held leadership roles in tech and analytics, and now spearheads initiatives like the APEX program to redefine software engineering in an AI-driven world.

Episode Overview

Can AI transform a 200-year-old commercial real estate company?

In this episode, Peter High speaks with Yao Morin, Chief Technology Officer of JLL, a $24B global commercial real estate leader. Yao shares how she is leading JLL’s AI and data transformation which is reshaping how buildings are operated, how software is developed, and how employees work.

Yao details how JLL is building customer-facing AI products like the JLL Property Assistant, driving cultural change through AI literacy programs, and launching internal tools like JLL GPT that already see 17,000 daily users. She also explains why she believes Scrum teams will shrink, engineers will code less, and AI adoption will soon be table stakes across industries.

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