TEAM MEMBER
David Ren
Founder & CEO
David leads Bestdream’s vision to fuse data science with high-end residential development. With a background spanning machine learning and property delivery, he champions a product mindset—treating each community as an evolving system that can be sensed, measured, and improved. Under his leadership, the team applies predictive analytics to site selection, design iteration, and sales velocity, while Smart Living and Sustainability features are specified to reduce lifetime operating costs without compromising aesthetics. David partners closely with universities and capital advisors to validate assumptions, structure risk, and scale repeatable models across Queensland and beyond. His north star: homes that feel lighter, safer, and more efficient on day one—and keep getting better with every data point.
Professor Q｜Algorithm Strategy Advisor
CTO｜Smart Energy & Systems Integration Lead
CTO｜Smart Energy & Systems Integration Lead
AI Algorithm Partner / Research Collaboration Lead
Professor Q advises Bestdream on algorithm strategy and academic collaboration. His responsibility is not to make AI “look impressive”, but to ensure every intelligent capability inside Smart Village is mathematically grounded, causally validated, and commercially maintainable. He bridges
AI Algorithm Partner / Research Collaboration Lead
Professor Q advises Bestdream on algorithm strategy and academic collaboration. His responsibility is not to make AI “look impressive”, but to ensure every intelligent capability inside Smart Village is mathematically grounded, causally validated, and commercially maintainable. He bridges peer-reviewed methodology with real-world constraints — turning research logic into operational, productised intelligence.
He focuses on three high-leverage domains:
1) Demand & price-sensitivity forecasting
— informing product mix through behavioural data rather than opinion
2) Computer-vision pipelines for specifications normalisation
— ensuring drawings, finishes and selections are consistently interpreted and built
3) Energy-aware optimisation
— balancing comfort, cost and grid impact with explainable models
He insists on “privacy-by-default” data design and rejects black-box thinking.
For him, algorithm design is not about magic — it is about traceability, causality, and accountable intelligence.
In his worldview, Smart Living is not defined by adding AI.
It is defined by whether the community itself becomes a learnable system — one that improves over time, not through slogans, but through measurable evidence.
CTO｜Smart Energy & Systems Integration Lead
CTO｜Smart Energy & Systems Integration Lead
CTO｜Smart Energy & Systems Integration Lead
Chief Technology Officer / Smart Energy Systems
Bestdream’s CTO oversees the full-stack technical architecture of Smart Living — from metering and controls to energy readiness and multi-layer systems integration. His mandate is not to “connect devices”, but to ensure the home, the street and the community infrastructure share one coherent
Chief Technology Officer / Smart Energy Systems
Bestdream’s CTO oversees the full-stack technical architecture of Smart Living — from metering and controls to energy readiness and multi-layer systems integration. His mandate is not to “connect devices”, but to ensure the home, the street and the community infrastructure share one coherent technical language — one that is reliable on day one, maintainable on day 1,000, and measurable across the entire lifecycle.
His philosophy is simple:
Reliability is the first principle of intelligence. Elegant user experience must sit on top of maintainability.
He structures Smart Village systems around three non-negotiable technical rails:
- metering (know what’s happening)
- control (act in the right place)
- integration (ensure every part works as one)
These are not “features”. These are the neural network of an intelligent community.
He defines interconnect standards across devices, sensors, solar / storage readiness, digital metering and home interaction layers — ensuring that “one app, total control” is not a marketing slogan, but a commissioning-day reality.
He does not optimise for flashiness — he optimises for:
- diagnosable failure modes
- predictable cost
- predictable efficiency
- effortless use without training
In his view, Smart Living is not “technology inside a house”.
It is the foundation layer that supports human living itself.
Real smart is not more complicated —
real smart is lighter, safer, and beautifully under the surface.
Advisors｜Academic & Capital Partners
CTO｜Smart Energy & Systems Integration Lead
Advisors｜Academic & Capital Partners
Academic & Capital Advisors (U.S. & Australia)
Bestdream’s advisors include cross-disciplinary experts from academia, real-estate technology operations, development finance and applied AI research. They are not symbolic “names on a slide”, but active contributors who validate assumptions, stress-test product models and align innovation wi
Academic & Capital Advisors (U.S. & Australia)
Bestdream’s advisors include cross-disciplinary experts from academia, real-estate technology operations, development finance and applied AI research. They are not symbolic “names on a slide”, but active contributors who validate assumptions, stress-test product models and align innovation with commercial feasibility. Their role is to ensure that Smart Village is not aspirational theory — but a governed, measurable and reproducible product framework.
Their advisory lens covers three primary domains:
1) Research validation & methodological discipline
Converting intuitive ideas into causal evidence — using peer-review baselines, structured experiment design and measurement frameworks.
2) Product & capital alignment
Evaluating Smart Living not only for experience value, but for lifecycle cash flow, risk exposure and scalability across future sites.
3) Governance & transparency
Ensuring that intelligent systems are not black boxes, but traceable, explainable and maintainable — technically and commercially.
Their role is not to make Bestdream “more futuristic”,
but to ensure every future-facing claim is backed by evidence,
and every innovation can survive contact with reality.
True innovation is not louder ambition — it is better justification.
Cao Jing｜Head of People & Organisation
Wen Yunhu｜Head of Operations & Delivery Systems
Hu Yan｜Head of Finance & Capital Discipline
Director of People & Organisational Capability
Cao Jing leads Bestdream’s people strategy and organisational capability design. She does not view HR as administration — she views it as a system that produces capability. Her mandate is to ensure talent, culture, structure and incentives align with Bestdream’s product philosophy: Smart Livi
Director of People & Organisational Capability
Cao Jing leads Bestdream’s people strategy and organisational capability design. She does not view HR as administration — she views it as a system that produces capability. Her mandate is to ensure talent, culture, structure and incentives align with Bestdream’s product philosophy: Smart Living must be built by teams who can think long-term, iterate confidently, and execute with precision.
She builds HR on three core anchors:
human-centred culture — belonging, trust, clarity
capability growth — talent pipelines, role definition, internal upskilling
long-term alignment — incentives tied to measurable performance, not slogans
Her work spans end-to-end talent acquisition, competency modelling, multi-disciplinary team formation, training systems and leadership development — supporting product, engineering, energy systems and operations simultaneously, not in silos.
Her philosophy is simple:
people are not a cost — people are the compounding asset of the business.
Cao Jing ensures that Bestdream does not merely “hire talent”，
she ensures the organisation is capable of creating talent,
so Smart Village is not only a technical innovation —
but a human one.
Hu Yan｜Head of Finance & Capital Discipline
Wen Yunhu｜Head of Operations & Delivery Systems
Hu Yan｜Head of Finance & Capital Discipline
Director of Finance / Lifecycle Economics
Hu Yan leads Bestdream’s financial system, capital structure and risk discipline. Her responsibility is not simply “reporting numbers”, but ensuring Smart Village is financially provable — that every feature, every system and every design choice can stand up to lifetime cost logic, capital efficie
Director of Finance / Lifecycle Economics
Hu Yan leads Bestdream’s financial system, capital structure and risk discipline. Her responsibility is not simply “reporting numbers”, but ensuring Smart Village is financially provable — that every feature, every system and every design choice can stand up to lifetime cost logic, capital efficiency and scalable replication.
She treats finance as an evidence engine, not a back-office function.
Her work includes:
- capital modelling from land acquisition → delivery → operating phase
- cost / benefit quantification for energy systems & intelligent infrastructure
- risk identification and mitigation across development cycles
- transforming financial reporting into decision frameworks
Her philosophy is clear:
technology must earn its right to exist — through measurable economic value.
She aligns product, engineering and operations around financial realism ——
turning Smart Living from “brand narrative” into assets that are:
- efficient to run
- predictable to maintain
- transparent to underwrite
In her view, Smart Village can only scale if its financial logic scales.
Innovation is not validated when it “sounds good” —
innovation is validated when its economics compound.
Yang Kunlei｜Head of Technology Integration
Wen Yunhu｜Head of Operations & Delivery Systems
Wen Yunhu｜Head of Operations & Delivery Systems
Director of Technical Integration & Applied Systems
Yang Kunlei leads Bestdream’s cross-layer technical integration — ensuring that Smart Village functionality does not exist as disconnected components, but as a unified, behaviour-aware system. With a decade of experience in intelligent hardware and applied digital engineering, he special
Director of Technical Integration & Applied Systems
Yang Kunlei leads Bestdream’s cross-layer technical integration — ensuring that Smart Village functionality does not exist as disconnected components, but as a unified, behaviour-aware system. With a decade of experience in intelligent hardware and applied digital engineering, he specialises in taking technology out of the lab and embedding it into the physical realities of residential infrastructure.
For him, engineering is not about feature density —
it is about reducing the gap between real-world context and technical capability.
His work focuses on three strategic outcomes:
1) Integration as architecture
— aligning hardware, sensing, data flows and service endpoints into single coherent pipelines
2) Context-based engineering
— designing functions based on how people actually live, not how systems “could” perform in theory
3) Field-validated iteration
— validating improvements through real behaviour, environmental conditions and lifecycle economics
He views technical excellence as “invisible correctness” —
solutions that stay stable in unpredictable inputs, varied weather, variable demand and imperfect human behaviour.
Yang Kunlei ensures that Smart Village is not a set of technological intentions —
but a technically survivable, field-proven operating system for living.
Real technology is not loud.
Real technology fits.
Wen Yunhu｜Head of Operations & Delivery Systems
Wen Yunhu｜Head of Operations & Delivery Systems
Wen Yunhu｜Head of Operations & Delivery Systems
Director of Operations / Scalable Execution
Wen Yunhu leads Bestdream’s operational framework — turning Smart Village from a design and technology system into something that can be delivered, maintained and scaled in the real world. His responsibility is not just day-to-day operations, but ensuring that Smart Living moves from concept → r
Director of Operations / Scalable Execution
Wen Yunhu leads Bestdream’s operational framework — turning Smart Village from a design and technology system into something that can be delivered, maintained and scaled in the real world. His responsibility is not just day-to-day operations, but ensuring that Smart Living moves from concept → repeatable process → reproducible performance.
He believes operational excellence is not “behind the scenes” —
it is the product.
His work focuses on three key dimensions:
1) Standardisation
— defining operating patterns that can be deployed across sites, seasons, builders and user behaviours
2) Coordination
— ensuring technology, construction, energy systems and customer experience run as one ecosystem, not as separate departments
3) Iterative improvement
— using data to refine processes continuously rather than relying on static playbooks
He builds operations with the same logic that engineers build systems:
low friction, predictable outcomes, traceable performance.
For Wen, Smart Living is not proven on launch day —
it is proven over time, through stability, consistency and compounding reliability.
Smart Village succeeds only when life inside it “just works”.
And his mandate is to make that repeatable — not lucky.