Estates thinking: Projects end – estates don’t

Most digital estates are stupid – not because the people are stupid, but because the information was designed to die young. Projects end. Estates don't. But almost everything we create is optimised for the first two years of a building's life. This talk is about the other 98. We'll introduce Estates Thinking: a mindset that treats information as a long-term estate asset rather than a short-term project deliverable. You'll discover why project-first behaviour keeps producing document-heavy handovers, confidently wrong dashboards and "digital twins" that are really just expensive mirrors; and how flipping to Estate First > Projects Second turns IM, digital tools and AI into something finally worthy of the word 'smart'.

Speakers:

Scott Pilgrim

RLB Digital

Software Development Consultant

Putting patients first – why people-centred Intelligent Hospitals aren’t just a tech stack

Find out why the New Hospital Programme will not only deliver new Intelligent Hospitals but also set a new national benchmark for digitally-enabled healthcare infrastructure. Hear about how its innovation in the built environment will potentially bring benefits for patients and staff for years to come.

Speakers:

Ben Raybould

Turner & Townsend

Health Delivery Partner, Digital Lead for New Hospital Programme

Eamonn Gorman

NHS England

Deputy Director of Digital Transformation and Clinical Informatics – New Hospital Programme

Building a smarter, data-led digital estate: Ark Schools’ journey to a trust-wide Digital Twin

How can large education estates modernise without disrupting live operations or overspending on technology? This real-world case study reveals how Ark Schools and One Creative Environments used a digital twin proof of concept to transform estate data, condition surveys and facilities management at King Solomon Academy, creating a scalable foundation for a trust-wide smart estate. Ideal for estates, FM, capital and digital leaders looking to move from reactive maintenance to predictive, data-led decision making while supporting net zero and long-term funding strategies.

Speakers:

Vicki Reynolds

One Creative Environments (ONE)

Technical Director of Digital Estates

Jason Whittall

One Creative environments (ONE)

Director

Digital Twin case study, powered by the SFT SIMP – Woodmill & St Columba’s High School (Dunfermline Learning Campus)

How BAM UK & Ireland delivered digital construction excellence via the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) Standard Information Management Plan (SIMP) and enabled a live Digital Twin powered by Autodesk on the world's largest Passivhaus school. BAM UK & Ireland are heading to Digital Construction Week to showcase how best practice information management delivers real-world sustainability. George McFaulds & Mark Turner will be presenting a deep dive into the Woodmill and St Columba's High Schools, driving the digital and information management delivery that enabled BAM UK & Ireland to manage this project across its full lifecycle. By aligning with the Scottish Futures Trust Standard Information Management Plan (SIMP) and working closely with our client teams from Hub East Central Scotland, Fife Council (client) and Okana (client information manager) we ensured every byte of asset data served a purpose – bridging the gap between BAM Construction and FM operations. Key performance milestones: Efficiency: Operating 20% better than original energy targets and cutting energy bills by £433,392 and reducing energy consumption by 48% in its first year of operation. Airtightness: Achieved 0.4 air changes/hour, exceeding the Passivhaus 0.6 requirement. Digital QA: Leveraged Autodesk BIM 360 to accelerate and evidence stringent Passivhaus certification. Digital Twin: Rich asset data (COBie) and NBS Uniclass structured digital handover information enabled a seamless transition to Autodesk Tandem, monitoring 150 metering points every 30 minutes for real-time comfort and efficiency. Join our session to explore: SFT SIMP (PIR, AIR, EIR): Navigating standards for high-performance delivery. COBie to Tandem: Enabling the seamless live Digital Twin transition. Post-occupancy reality: Turning digital innovation into long-term operational ROI.

Speakers:

George McFaulds MCIOB BSc (Hons)

BAM UK & Ireland

Senior Digital Project Solutions Lead

Mark Turner BSc (Hons)

BAM UK & Ireland

Head of Systems and Reporting

AI and Digital Twins: Are we ready for self-managing buildings?

Are our buildings ready to think for themselves? As Digital Twins become mainstream and AI capabilities mature, the built environment is edging closer to automation at scale. This session explores the promise and the pitfalls of self-managing buildings, from predictive maintenance and real-time energy optimisation to the risks of losing control, accountability and trust. This is a practical, thought-provoking session for anyone responsible for digital twins, FM, smart estates or net zero strategy, and anyone asking how far automation should really go.

Speakers:

Vicki Reynolds

One Creative Environments (ONE)

Technical Director of Digital Estates

Procuring smart building technology

From IoT sensors and building analytics platforms to fault detection diagnostics (FDD) and artificial intelligence applications, the session will introduce a framework for making informed decisions when purchasing smart building technology. It will give practical guidance on the system and process changes needed to optimise building operations, reducing energy and maintenance costs, and enhancing sustainability and occupant experience.

Speakers:

John Taylor

BSRIA

Publications Manager

Asset intelligence: The missing discipline in the built environment

Across the built environment, at every stage of the lifecycle from design and construction to operation, we are facing the same systemic problem: we still don't have reliable, connected asset information. Data is produced in silos, lost at handover, inconsistently governed or never created at all. The result is familiar to everyone with performance gaps, duplicated effort, rising compliance pressure and decisions made on incomplete or unreliable information. This session introduces Asset Intelligence as a new discipline designed to address this industry-wide challenge. Rather than focusing on tools or standards in isolation, Asset Intelligence defines the foundational capability that allows information to flow consistently from design and construction into decades of operation. In this talk, Nick Hutchinson will outline why traditional approaches to BIM, digital handover and asset management haven't closed the gap and what a practical, modern framework for Asset Intelligence looks like. Attendees will learn how to recognise the true root causes of information failure, how both new and existing estates can establish Asset Intelligence through different pathways, and what "good" looks like in practice. Whether you're delivering a project, running a facility, or managing a national estate, this session will give you the clarity and structure to start strengthening your organisation's information foundations. You'll leave with a simple model for assessing your current maturity, a shared language to take back to your teams and practical steps for building a digital strategy that delivers real operational value – not just more data.

Speakers:

Nick Hutchinson

Glider Technology

Founder & Managing Partner

Smarter surveys at scale: Integrating digital tools to assess thousands of assets

Learn how Mott MacDonald Bentley delivered over 3,000 asset surveys at pace by rapidly deploying an integrated digital ecosystem. This session showcases how Autodesk Construction Cloud: Build, Moata Geospatial and the Moata Reporting Framework were combined to create a unified workflow across ten partners, enabling real-time field data capture, logistics coordination and transparent reporting for all stakeholders. Discover how this streamlined, collaborative approach accelerated delivery, improved data quality and became critical to project success.

Speakers:

Gareth Burt

Mott MacDonald Bentley

Unit Digital Lead

The death of O&M: A light-hearted autopsy

Tired of O&M manuals that are all bulk and no bite? This session reveals how a forward-thinking client and developer tore up the rulebook to create concise, meaningful, and truly usable building information.

Speakers:

Ed Riby

JLL

Director

Foundation and flow: Correcting the structural misalignment in digital operations

Most smart buildings fail at handover – and suffer from performance drift thereafter – because "Foundation" (the digital spine) is disconnected from "Flow" (the operational activities required to deliver business outcomes). Join the Digital Operations Working Group (DOWG) for a high-level fireside chat that moves beyond the hype of new tools to focus on right-to-left design for performance – specifically, the operationalisation of digital transformation. Featuring Steven Boyd MBE and Gordon Mitchell, this session reveals the overarching logic of the Digital Operations Playbook. Discover how to bridge the project-to-performance gap, mitigate commercial risk, and turn digital ambition into boardroom-level operational integrity.

Speakers:

Steven Boyd MBE

Longstone Consulting

Director

Justin Kirby

Start With Smart

Founder

Gordon Mitchell FIWFM

Wholus

Co-Founder

Universal data spine

The built environment sector has struggled to find a standard way of sharing data effectively through whole life. The Universal Data Spine solves this challenge by capturing minimum, structured location and asset data, which then forms the core of asset registers for whole life. The use of the Universal Data Spine and newly aligned data standards create a single data system that works effectively with multiple use cases.

Speakers:

Steven Boyd MBE

Longstone Consulting

Director

Andrew Green

AtkinsRéalis

Technical Director

Cybersecurity and the golden thread: Protecting your digital assets

As the built environment becomes increasingly digital, cybersecurity is no longer just an IT issue – it's a safety, compliance and business-critical challenge. From BIM models and CDEs to AI-driven workflows and operational asset data, digital information now underpins how buildings and infrastructure are designed, delivered and managed. This CPD-approved session explores how cyber threats such as ransomware, email fraud and data leakage are targeting the construction and engineering sector, and what this means for the golden thread of information under the Building Safety Act. Using real-world examples from construction projects, including a £60,000 intercepted invoice fraud attempt, Bellingham IT will show how cyber risks can disrupt projects, compromise safety data and damage trust. Attendees will learn practical strategies to secure digital workflows using zero trust principles, multifactor authentication, Microsoft 365 security controls and cyber-aware culture building. The session will also cover AI governance and how to protect intellectual property and sensitive data in an era of generative AI. If you're responsible for digital delivery, asset data, BIM, project delivery or compliance, this session will give you actionable insights to protect your digital construction ecosystem without slowing innovation.

Speakers:

Paul Heigham

Bellingham IT

Managing Director

59 hours to 7 minutes: Unlocking the predictive power of legacy asset data with human and AI workflows

Join Hoppa and AtkinsRéalis to see how human and AI collaboration transformed decades of legacy asset data into a predictive maintenance engine for a major UK airport, by extracting critical information 500× faster than manual methods. Mining historic infrastructure records for key facts greatly reduced the need for on-site surveys and unlocked analytics opportunities previously blocked by the high cost of manual data wrangling, while keeping expert engineering judgment at the heart of decision-making in a highly regulated environment.

Speakers:

Sam Rees

Hoppa

CEO & Co-Founder

Quintin Viljoen

AtkinsRéalis

Associate Director

Campus to clinic: Leveraging research to enhance intelligent hospital infrastructure

AI in hospitals often stalls at the same hurdles: fragmented building systems, inconsistent data, and unclear routes from prototype to operational use. This session shares a practical, repeatable model for overcoming those barriers through a focused research collaboration, linking NHS Trust use cases, the New Hospital Programme's intelligent hospital agenda, and a live partnership between Okana, Ryder and Computer Science students at Northumbria University. You'll hear what the research explored – e.g., predictive maintenance, energy optimisation, environmental monitoring, and smarter operational scheduling – and what it found about where AI can genuinely improve efficiency, resilience, and human-centred care outcomes. The session will also unpack what needs to be in place to make AI workable in practice: robust data infrastructure, stronger system connectivity, and clear governance. Grounded in real constraints and real use cases, this is a practical look at how cross-disciplinary research can accelerate AI-enabled smart hospital capability while keeping patient and staff experience at the centre.

Speakers:

Dr Melanie Robinson

Okana

Associate & Strategy Lead

Dr John Naylor

Ryder Architecture

Senior Researcher

Smart buildings, same outcomes: Why commissioning deserves centre stage

Commissioning & validation are one of the most important elements in project delivery - yet they are often the most undervalued and squeezed. When commissioning is rushed and operations are treated as an afterthought, project risk is increased, FM ends up on the back foot and occupiers pay the price through poor comfort, wasted energy, and avoidable operational issues. Join a cross-disciplinary panel covering contractors, commissioning managers, FM and digital monitoring experts to explore the role of validation, improving soft landings, and how MBCx and CCx are reshaping validation and lifecycle accountability. If you care about delivering buildings that actually work for the people inside them, this session is not to be missed.

Speakers:

Justin Kirby

Start With Smart

Founder

Mike Darby

Demand Logic

CEO & Co-Founder

Dean Jelfs MCIBSE C.Eng B.Eng

Dome Consulting

Technical Director

Joanna Harris FRICS

Sodexo

Head of Technical Services

Jordan Collins MIET CMgr MCMI

SES (Engineering Services)

BMS Principal Technical Manager

Digital Twins or expensive mirrors? How to stop building theatre and start building intelligence

Most "Digital Twins" are just expensive mirrors – high-resolution theatre that flatters your BIM model but changes nothing. In this provoking session, we expose why so many twins fail: weak information foundations, no identity, no memory, and project-first data that dies the moment the keys are handed over. You'll learn how to escape the illusion of knowing and navigate the real journey from model → shadow → twin → hub; from looking clever to actually being intelligent. If your twin doesn't think, adapt, or remember… it isn't a twin. It's confidence in 3D. Come learn how to build the alternative: a second brain for your estate.

Speakers:

Scott Pilgrim

RLB Digital

Software Development Consultant

One estate, many buildings, evolving standards: How The Defence Housing Service (DHS) is bringing order to a complex asset data landscape

Across one of the UK's most varied and historically complex estates, the Defence Housing Service (DHS) faces the familiar challenge of inheriting decades of inconsistent asset information created under multiple delivery approaches, contractors and evolving standards. In this fireside chat, the DHS' Bryn Turner will share how they're cutting through legacy data issues, prioritising pragmatism over perfection and reshaping their information requirements to serve real operational needs. This session will explore what they stopped doing, what they changed and what's actually working – offering honest lessons learned and practical guidance for anyone trying to move from information overload to information that matters. Facilitated by Glider's founder Nick Hutchinson, this discussion shines a light on the realities of estate-wide digital operations and the mindset shifts needed to make progress at scale.

Speakers:

Nick Hutchinson

Glider Technology

Founder & Managing Partner

Bryn Turner

The Defence Housing Service (DHS)

Asset Management & Data Lead

Capsule to cloud: Building smart modular homes with IoT

The concept of capsule homes is quickly becoming a reality, but "smart" only works if the digital layer is incorporated from the start. The entire process from a factory-built capsule unit to a cloud-connected home that tenants can manage from any location is broken down. Discover how to design the smart infrastructure, choose the appropriate IoT devices for energy, security, lighting, and climate monitoring, and commission the system to ensure its dependability after installation. Additionally, you will learn how user access and alarms may be set, how data flows into a web app dashboard, and how to expand and maintain smart modular houses across numerous units. Anticipate useful lessons, real-world pitfalls, and a structure that you may use again for your next project.

Speakers:

Miracle Sunday-Isreal

Miratek Global

Founder

The master systems coordinator: Separating logic from labour through design for performance management

Most smart buildings fail to reach their potential because the technical logic is lost in the noise of construction delivery. When the integration "logic" is buried as a sub-package of the mechanical or electrical works, the owner-operator pays the price through decades of operational friction. Join a cross-disciplinary panel moderated by One Sightsolutions, featuring owner-operators, design, build, and operations teams, to explore the emergence of the master systems coordinator (MSC). We will discuss why the industry must shift to a design for performance management model – separating logic from labour to ensure that the AEC team delivers a building that is operationally ready on day 1. Discover how the MSC acts as the vital bridge, partnering with commissioning to ensure the "digital handshake" is a catalyst for successful soft landings and AI-driven smart FM.

Speakers:

Justin Kirby

Start With Smart

Founder

John Clarke

One Sightsolutions

Operations Director

Duncan Greene

One Sightsolutions

Project Infrastructure Lead

Dr Victoria Tink

Klimatica

Co-founder and CTO

Virtual site access

Experience Virtual Site Access (VSA) from AtkinsRéalis, a secure service that turns 360° and LiDAR capture into secure Digital Twins for real-time remote site access via desktop, VR, and immersive rooms. See the full workflow from capture and AI processing to delivery, plus a deployment playbook covering tooling, workflows, human factors, and cybersecurity. It is proven across flagship UK energy and infrastructure programmes. Learn how immersive collaboration and safe AI redaction accelerate reviews, training, and decisions today, with a clear roadmap toward robotic inspections.

Speakers:

Evgeny Rodionov

AtkinsRéalis

Lead Product Manager

Bye COBie, say hello to AOH: How buildingSMART is creating a purposeful asset handover

COBie has played a significant role in standardising asset information handover, but its one-size-fits-all approach has increasingly resulted in waste, misinterpretation, and poor long-term asset value – it is time for something new. buildingSMART's new Asset Operations Handover (AOH) framework represents a fundamental shift – giving us a use-case-driven, modular, and up-to-date approach which is now fully inclusive of infrastructure as well as buildings! This session explores how AOH effectively replaces the need for COBie, not by redefining what information is needed, but by changing how and why that information is specified, produced, validated, and exchanged. It will examine how recent work on AOH addresses long-standing industry issues. The session is aimed at asset owners, clients, digital leads, and information managers seeking a scalable, interoperable, and future-proof alternative to COBie that supports real operational outcomes rather than compliance-driven data exchanges.

Speakers:

Alex Plenty

Skanska

Head of Digital Construction

Project Colin – rethinking documentation in the context of ISO 19650

Project Colin tackles one of the industry's biggest blind spots: documents. Despite all the talk of digital transformation, we're still held back by shaky information foundations and a stubbornly paper-based mindset. This session takes a fresh, honest look at documents and asks some deceptively simple questions: what if we focused on content rather than titles? What if documentation followed a consistent naming logic and breakdown? And what if documents were treated not as information inputs, but as purposeful outputs – presentations of information designed to meet real use cases? We'll explore how understanding purpose and information requirements can reshape delivery planning and transform how documents are broken down, named, structured, and reused. By applying consistent syntax and repeatable patterns, duplication and overlap can be significantly reduced. We'll also show how a smarter use of the common data environment (CDE) allows information to be grouped flexibly, assembling outputs like O&M manuals and health and safety files without recreating content each time. Let's stop patching cracks and start building better information foundations.

Speakers:

Emma Hooper

RLB Digital / nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Head of Information Management Strategy / Vice Chair of nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Rob Jackson

RLB Digital

Head of Information Management Services

The skills gap solution: Practical AI-powered training strategies for technology adoption and workforce readiness

The digital skills gap is slowing technology adoption across the AECO and manufacturing industries and traditional training methods are no longer enough. In this session, discover how leading firms are using AI-powered training to accelerate software adoption, validate project-ready teams, and turn internal data into scalable institutional knowledge. Drawing on industry research and real-world strategies, we’ll explore how “just-in-time, just-enough, and just-for-me” learning can be embedded directly into your corporate ecosystem. You’ll leave with practical frameworks to close skills gaps, increase ROI on technology investments, and build a workforce ready to keep pace with digital transformation.

Speakers:

Jessa Tracy

Global eTraining

Director of Marketing

William Myers

Global eTraining

Director of Operations

Single-use data: Why digital construction needs a circular data economy

What if the biggest data problem in digital construction isn't lack of data, but waste? This session challenges the industry's habit of creating single-use data and makes the case for a circular data economy. Using DAMA principles and practical examples, discover how designing data for reuse unlocks analytics, AI, and long-term asset value.

Speakers:

Mia Dibe

Arup

Senior Data & AI Consultant

Tom Mossop

Arup

Associate  |  Data & AI

Nima – the home of information management – be an individual part of a bigger voice!

If information management is important to you, find out what nima is doing to build a community of voices that will be louder than the sum of its parts.

Speakers:

Stuart Bell

Amodal

Chief Executive Officer

Unlocking the UK’s digital whole life value: A joint CPC & nima blueprint for global leadership

The UK has built world-leading strength in digital construction and whole-life information management; but global demand is accelerating faster than ever. In this joint CPC and nima session, discover how the UK can turn its standards leadership, professional expertise and digital innovation ecosystem into a powerful international export advantage. Hear the latest insights from the Digital Whole-Life UK Capability and Export Opportunity work, and learn how coordinated action across industry and government can secure the UK's position as the global partner of choice for lifecycle-driven, data-led asset performance.

Speakers:

Dr Anne Kemp OBE

nima / AtkinsRéalis

Chair of nima / Fellow & Technical Director of AtkinsRéalis

Gordon Mitchell FIWFM

Wholus

Co-Founder

Hadeel Saadoon

Connected Places Catapult

Digital Construction Technical Lead

Adam Matthews

Connected Places Catapult

Head of Strategy & Engagement for Digital Construction International

Passivhaus certification as a golden thread for quality information management

The Passivhaus Standard acts as a golden thread that integrates and sustains quality information management (QIM) across the lifecycle of high-performance buildings. Rooted in rigorous performance criteria for energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and airtightness, Passivhaus certification requires a structured and transparent approach to data collection, validation, and documentation from design through construction and post-occupancy verification. Our panellists deliver both large and complex and small and social projects – proof that the Passivhaus Standard works at all scales.

Speakers:

Ann-Marie Fallon

Passivhaus Trust

Co Director

Harry Bowen

MWP

Project Manager

Steve Holland

Laing O'Rourke

Project Director

Will South

Etude

Consultant

Automating workflows to minimise errors and maximise efficiency

Our solution automates traditional, manual review processes, reducing human error and improving efficiency. By structuring your Common Data Environment (CDE) to align with contract and HRB regulations, we ensure the client retains ownership and control. In Design and Build (D&B) contracts, we automate approval workflows for clients, main contractors, sub-consultants, and sub-contractors. Our system, aligned with ISO 19650 standards, organises project information into WIP, Shared, Published, and Archive folders, ensuring a smooth flow from quality assurance (QA) to publication. Key automation features include Series (for organising and sharing files) and Work Packages (for defined project deliverables). Using Autodesk's Auto-Trigger feature, files undergo automated QA checks, and upon review, are automatically moved to the Published folder, ready for the main contractor team. This innovative approach streamlines traditionally manual processes, ensuring faster, more accurate reviews and better control throughout the project.

Speakers:

Valentina Grassi

GRFN

Information Manager

Predict, control, deliver: The future of digital PMO

Discover how modern PMOs are transforming project delivery through digital tools and data-driven decision-making. This session reveals practical strategies to turn information into insight, anticipate risks before they arise, and drive measurable outcomes across complex projects. Attendees will leave with actionable frameworks to harness digital technology, strengthen governance, and lead teams with confidence in an increasingly connected construction environment.

Speakers:

Alex Lianos MSc MArch MAPM

Mace Consult

Associate Director - Project Controls

ISO 19650 revision and the IMI Framework

Since 2019, the Information Management Initiative (IMI) Framework has provided the standards, guidance, and resources which support the UK's implementation of information management using building information modelling (BIM). This framework is expected to significantly change following the revision of ISO 19650. During this session, our speakers will introduce the IMI Framework, outline its content, and provide an overview of the recent and planned changes to ensure the IMI Framework continues to capture good practice to support the UK following the revision of ISO 19650. If you do information management/BIM as part of your role, and are interested in seeing what is happening to the UK's approach, come listen in!

Speakers:

Dan Rossiter

BSI

Built Environment Sector Lead

David Churcher

Hitherwood Consulting

Director

Prof Sarah Davidson

University of Nottingham

Prof. of Information Management / Dir. Education & Student experience

BIM: Ten years later (or “what’s changed from 2016 to 2026?”) – a retrospective journey through the same old same old

In 2011 the Government Construction Strategy set a deadline of 2016 for publicly procured projects to be all public projects to be “fully collaborative 3D BIM (with all project and asset information, documentation and data being electronic)”. It’s now 2026 and things have certainly changed. But you know what they say – the more things change the more they stay the same. Nigel Davies, Director at Evolve Consultancy, and Craig Hardingham, Digital Technical Director at Sweco, will take you on a journey through the last 10 years since the UK BIM mandate took effect. It just so happens that Craig is exactly 10 years younger than Nigel and is the same age now as Nigel was in 2016. So what was happening ten years ago, back in Nigel’s youth? What were people trying to understand? What were the key topics of conferences of the day? What were the industry experts telling you? But more importantly, what have we learnt in the last 10 years? How has the industry improved? Has it improved? Grab a coffee, sit back, and join us on a trip back in time to when Trump was President (!) and Level 2 BIM was BIM. Together, Craig and Nigel will look at how the focus has changed and asking whether we’ve been successful. Can we demonstrate a decade of development? Or have we merely endured ten years of tribulation? If we were a business, what decision would we make on future investment based on past performance?

Speakers:

Nigel Davies

Evolve Consultancy

Founding Director

Craig Hardingham

Sweco

Digital Technical Director

From geometry to fabrication: The interoperability gap we don’t see

Geometry alone isn’t enough! Discover why digital models fail in fabrication and how embedding tolerances, constraints and manufacturing intelligence can break the costly redraw cycle. From design to production, make your models truly buildable.

Speakers:

Rita Baltasar

Hinkley Point C

Lead Digital Engineer

The AI liability risk minefield: Some practical advice

GenAI and agentic AI are being implemented at pace across the industry. Yet we see headlines of AI hallucinations, copyright risks and confidentiality breaches. How is your organisation managing these risks? Do you know what is in your contracts about AI? In this session, a leading legal specialist will provide practical overviews and suggestions on mitigating the common issues and discuss what the near future looks like in this area.

Speakers:

May Winfield

Buro Happold

Global Director of Commercial, Legal & Digital Risks

From words to action: Why organisations must step up now

Attend this lively panel session, with 3 panellists who are nima organisational members, to find out why organisational commitment is essential to driving real progress in information management. Learn why sector-wide improvement depends on organisations stepping up, not just individuals. Learn how organisational membership of nima and participation in the IMI Initiative create tangible value and also hear about practical steps organisations can take now to move from intention to action.

Speakers:

Dr Anne Kemp OBE

nima / AtkinsRéalis

Chair of nima / Fellow & Technical Director of AtkinsRéalis

Fergus Harradence

Department for Business & Trade

Deputy Director, Infrastructure & Construction

Neill Pawsey

Iceni Digital Consulting

Managing Director

Ian Chambard

Network Rail

Principal Engineer (IM)

Michael Litterick

NHS Property Services

Head of Architecture

The AI renaissance: Elevating human ability in the new industrial revolution

Artificial intelligence is redefining how work gets done across AECO and manufacturing. But history shows that technology alone does not create progress. The organisations that thrive are the ones that learn fastest. In the AI renaissance, discover how AI can elevate human ability rather than replace it. Drawing lessons from past technological shifts such as CAD and BIM adoption, this session explores how structured learning, workflow integration, and effective change management turn AI from a disruptive force into a competitive advantage. You will walk away with practical strategies to close the learning divide, accelerate adoption, and position your workforce to thrive in the new industrial revolution. The future belongs to organisations that compete on speed of learning.

Speakers:

Jessa Tracy

Global eTraining

Director of Marketing

William Myers

Global eTraining

Director of Operations

Boring on purpose: ISO 19650 on Toronto’s Ontario Line

Canada's Ontario Line became a proving ground for introducing ISO 19650 and modern digital ways of working where they weren't the norm. Instead of leading with tools, we led with change: contract-anchored requirements, robust automations, bespoke configurations, and a steady rhythm of training and communication. These led to seamless project delivery, enhanced trust in the process and winning at the Bentley Going Digital Awards. This session shares that change journey, and the strategy that underpinned it.

Speakers:

Hamza Bin Iftikhar

Mott MacDonald

Graduate Digital Consultant

Amelia Margiotta

Mott MacDonald

Digital Consultant

Samuel Soh

Mott MacDonald

Senior Digital Consultant

Digital overload: Are we solving problems or creating them?

The construction industry has more technology than ever before, but is it delivering insights and value? Join industry leaders as they challenge the “more tech is better” mindset and unpack the reality of digital overload. Discover how organisations can simplify their tech ecosystems, cut redundancy, and build a smarter, value-driven approach to digital transformation.

Speakers:

Josh Myers

Asite

Director, Major Accounts

Phil Hannabuss

Asite

Solutions Engineer

Liza Langford

Skanska

Lead Information Controller

Dr Martin Geach

AtkinsRéalis

Technical Director

The lean CDE diet: Lose the bloat, keep the brains

Learn how global data centre developer Digital Realty cut CDE bloat, eliminated duplication, simplified structure, and rebuilt confidence by instructing RLB Digital to design for behaviour, not features. This session shows how a lean, metadata-led CDE can reduce friction, improve adoption and prepare organisations for AI without buying new platforms.

Speakers:

Scott Pilgrim

RLB Digital

Software Development Consultant

Nour Abdelmoaty

RLB Digital

Senior Developer

Binder-filled basements and dysfunctional databases: How to transform chaotic documentation collections into useful resources

How usable is your building's documentation, really? How many problems is it causing you across projects, engineering, and facilities? I'm a consultant specialising in 'sorting out' building documentation archives and 'fixing' unruly modern O&Ms, and I'll be using this session to talk through some mini case studies of the approaches I've taken to helping clients with documentation issues of varying sizes and complexities. I'll be focusing on practical considerations, working with what you've got, scaleable solutions that aren't software-specific, and generally giving you ideas on how to tackle your own particular documentation challenges.

Speakers:

Sarah Cole

TIME/IMAGE

Documentation Consultant

The hidden asset strategy: Mining competitive advantage from dormant data using zero-cost internal AI

Are you ready to unlock the power of AI without risking your data or your budget? Many construction firms are priced out of enterprise AI or terrified of uploading sensitive IP to public cloud servers. In this session, Mohsen Heidari (Deetu Consulting) unveils the blueprint for "sovereign AI" – a practical framework for running secure, internal AI models entirely within your own infrastructure. Discover how to deploy GDPR-compliant tools for contract analysis and risk prediction that operate offline and off-grid. Stop renting intelligence; come and learn how to build your own.

Speakers:

Mohsen Heidari

BWB / Deetu Consulting

Systems Manager

Beyond BIM: AI, Digital Twins and real-time delivery

This panel explores how the AEC industry is moving beyond BIM by integrating AI, Digital Twins and real-time data across construction and operations. Speakers will share practical examples of how connected Digital Twins can improve delivery, reduce risk and support long-term asset performance. Focusing on real-world challenges and lessons learned, the session examines how organisations can break down data silos, align teams and turn static models into living systems that deliver value throughout the asset lifecycle.

Speakers:

Vicki Reynolds

One Creative Environments (ONE)

Technical Director of Digital Estates

Lilian Ho

AECOM / Zigurat Institute of Technology

Associate Director / AI Masters Program Director

How do we ensure that information management education is fit-for-purpose?

This session will explore the short and long-term nima strategy for upskilling and education, including: What are the IMI learning resources you want? How to create an educational supply chain which is focused on the learner. How you can help to define a universal framework for IM upskilling. Ideas for a marketing drive for attracting young talent… and more.

Speakers:

Paul Woddy

nima

Vice Chair

Delivering construction Digital Twins in aviation and nuclear with GeoBIM

Transforming digital delivery of mega projects in nuclear and aviation industry through a systems-thinking digital delivery strategy. The session will discuss data integration across time, cost, quality, risk, design and construction followed by practical use cases in real-world projects founded in the integration of the BIM and geospatial domains.

Speakers:

Georgios Floros

AtkinsRéalis / Great British Energy – Nuclear

Director - Digital Construction

Calling all information managers! An introduction to PAS 1958:2026 – joining the dots of information management

Over the past two decades, the built environment has produced a growing number of standards, guides and resources aimed at improving information management. While this has driven real progress, the lack of an overarching framework has created fragmentation, with overlaps, gaps and contradictions leaving many organisations struggling to see how the pieces fit together. PAS 1958:2026 addresses this challenge head on. It provides a holistic guide that brings together the core concepts from across built environment information management standards, offering a clear "picture on the box". Its focus is not on compliance or checklists, but on understanding how information behaves, how it flows, and how it delivers value. Crucially, PAS 1958 shifts thinking away from a project-centric view towards an organisational one, recognising information as a critical business asset in its own right. This session introduces the key principles of PAS 1958, showing how information management can be embedded into everyday organisational and project processes to support a joined-up, value-driven approach across the whole asset life cycle.

Speakers:

Emma Hooper

RLB Digital / nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Head of Information Management Strategy / Vice Chair of nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Dan Rossiter

BSI

Built Environment Sector Lead

Structured data, smarter decisions: Enabling agentic AI with ISO 19650 workflows using the medallion architecture

This session will demonstrate how Capgemini’s expertise in digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and innovation at scale supports organisations across the AECOO sector in strengthening their information management capabilities. Through a real‑world case study for the utilities sector, attendees will see how Capgemini introduced the medallion architecture using a CDE platform, which is empowered by utilising agentic AI to improve operational performance and capital project delivery. This session will outline common challenges created by fragmented information across an asset’s lifecycle, introduce the medallion architecture and its alignment with existing AECOO data models, and show how Capgemini enhances it using ISO 19650 principles and workflows. It will also highlight how AI agents convert governed information into structured, asset‑centric datasets and how they leverage the final layer of the architecture to generate insights that support operational decision making. Finally, the session will explore how future AI agents will augment and collaborate with teams to progressively automate manual ISO 19650 processes, enabling the progression toward autonomous, AI‑enabled CDEs.

Speakers:

Goulielmos Floros

Capgemini Invent

Senior Consultant

People, process, then AI: How McLaughlin & Harvey leverages AI for project certainty

How does a 170-year-old contractor become a leader in digital maturity? Join McLaughlin & Harvey for an inside look at a full-scale cultural and digital shift. Discover the blueprint used to align technology with ISO 19650 standards, the role of AI-driven knowledge bases in streamlining 40+ live projects, and the measurable results in productivity and project certainty that followed. Learn why the most successful transformations focus on people and process first, then use smart, integrated tech to do the heavy lifting.

Speakers:

Pavlina Nikolova

Egnyte

AEC Practice Leader, EMEA

Glenn McCaffrey

McLaughlin & Harvey

Digital Construction Director

Overview of practical information management – nima and the Information Management Initiative

Find out where to go to understand why and how you, as an individual or as an organisation, can get better at managing your data and information, driven by the outcomes you need or want to happen.

Speakers:

Dr Anne Kemp OBE

nima / AtkinsRéalis

Chair of nima / Fellow & Technical Director of AtkinsRéalis

BIM without borders: How JLL standardised BIM across EMEA

Discover how tétris achieved the impossible: Standardising BIM workflows across 800+ people in 13 EMEA countries for fit-out delivery. This unique case study reveals practical strategies for international BIM transformation, from overcoming cultural barriers to demonstrating ROI in fast-paced fit-out environments. Learn actionable insights for scaling digital construction practices across borders and markets.

Speakers:

Benoit Valla

JLL

Digital Director

Chiara Di-Battista

JLL

BIM Manager Southern Europe

Krishna Sankar

JLL

BIM Manager Northern Europe

Everyone’s responsibility: Scaling ISO 19650 training beyond technical specialists

Information management isn't just for BIM specialists – it's everyone's job. Join industry leaders as they share how they've trained entire workforces in ISO 19650 processes, enabling more informed conversations with clients and better collaboration across business functions. Discover practical strategies for turning the 90% who "don't do BIM" into competent contributors to your information management process.

Speakers:

Paul Shillcock

Operam Academy

Chief Learning Officer

Steven Gee

Laing O’Rourke

Lead Digital Engineer

Ian Besford

Mott MacDonald

Global Digital Delivery Leader

Chloe Obi

AtkinsRéalis

Associate Director - Asset and Information Management

Colin Bell

Kier Group

Digital Director

Digitally reimagining a UNESCO World Heritage icon: The Palace of Westminster

Discover how one of the world's most iconic heritage buildings is being transformed into a rich, intelligent digital asset. This session reveals the digitalisation process of the Palace of Westminster – from 19th-century Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin drawings to one of Europe's largest and most detailed heritage BIM models. Learn how advanced surveying, point cloud capture and innovative modelling techniques have enabled an unprecedented level of accuracy for a Grade I listed building, overcoming complex geometry and limited access. Join us to see how digital innovation is reshaping heritage practice, proving that cutting-edge BIM and centuries-old conservation challenges can work hand-in-hand, and creating a digital legacy that will support the stewardship of this historic estate for generations to come.

Speakers:

Richard Middleton

Houses of Parliament Restoration & Renewal Programme Delivery Authority

Head of Digital Design

Muhammadou Ndure

Houses of Parliament Restoration & Renewal Programme Delivery Authority

BIM Technician

Closing out without burning out – rethinking handover on mega projects

Mega projects generate an overwhelming volume of handover information – but what if there was a smarter way to manage it? Join us to explore how we transformed one of the most stressful phases of project delivery into a streamlined, data-driven process. By restructuring our workflows, tagging information intelligently, automating reporting and pull-through via API, and giving clients real-time visibility, we've removed the reliance on manual trackers and end-of-project pressure. This session reveals how we reimagined digital handover from the ground up, the technology that made it possible, and how capturing the right information earlier can dramatically reduce risk, improve quality, and change the way we deliver close-out forever.

Speakers:

Jenny Jones

Laing O'Rourke

Regional Information Manager

Jen Vickers

Laing O’Rourke

Regional Information Manager

Practical, purposeful, private – AI in UK construction

AI is changing construction, but without structure, it increases risk. Join us to discover the "3Ps" framework – practical, purposeful, private – for deploying AI within a governed Common Data Environment. Learn how to move your organisation from chaotic data silos to a structured, AI-ready maturity model. You will gain insights into real-world applications that accelerate delivery times, improve schedule reliability, and protect your margins through intelligent, secure information management.

Speakers:

Pavlina Nikolova

Egnyte

AEC Practice Leader, EMEA

The why, what and how of information management: Bringing the information management initiative to life

UK construction is awash with data, but value only appears when information flows to the right person, in the right format, at the right moment. In this fast-paced session, Kevin Reeves shows why information management underpins digital design, industrialised construction, and AI-enabled decision-making; what that means for programme risk, cost, and quality; and what to do on Monday morning to make it real. Expect relatable stories, a live ‘bad vs good information’ demo, and a practical IMI checklist aligned to ISO 19650 and good information management practices.

Speakers:

Kevin Reeves

KJR Digital

Managing Director

nima Information Management Initiative projects – joining the dots to unite the built environment

The built environment is at a turning point for information management. Change is accelerating, activity is fragmented, and organisations need clarity, consistency and direction. This presentation centres on nima's Information Management Initiative (IMI), driving real transformation across the sector, organised along two closely connected strands: organisational and technical. Learn how nima's IMI projects connect purpose, requirements, data structures and delivery, providing a kit of parts for organisations to use. The presentation explores progress across each project, how they interrelate, and how organisations can engage to help shape a unified, sector-led approach to information management.

Speakers:

Emma Hooper

RLB Digital / nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Head of Information Management Strategy / Vice Chair of nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Knowledge representation… the next steps for information management and the grounding for AI

As AI adoption accelerates, organisations are racing to make their data 'AI-ready' – often without addressing the information foundations that really matter – creating risk through bias to inaccuracy. The only real way to tackle those risks is through better information… which means finally getting serious about knowledge representation. This is the piece we've ignored for far too long, and we can't keep pushing it aside. The aim of the presentation is to put knowledge at the centre of the conversation. It's one of the most critical topics for the future of information management, yet barely anyone talks about it because it's scary. Concepts like ontologies, taxonomies, semantics and knowledge graphs might sound daunting, but they're exactly what we need if we want both information management and AI to mature responsibly, providing more accurate and transparent results. Reflecting on lessons learned from BIM, the session argues that we cannot afford to repeat the same mistakes with AI. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how information management must evolve, why knowledge representation should sit at the heart of AI strategy, and how this approach helps retain trust and control in an increasingly AI-driven world.

Speakers:

Emma Hooper

RLB Digital / nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Head of Information Management Strategy / Vice Chair of nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Leading the digital leap: A woman’s perspective on BIM and Digital Twins in Morocco’s path to African leadership

How is Morocco shaping the future of African infrastructure? Join architect and senior PM Amal Maizi as she shares her journey leading complex BIM projects and Digital Twin research at the forefront of the continent's digital shift. Discover how human-centric technology and more than 10 years' mastery of BIM are empowering a new generation of leaders to build more resilient, data-driven cities.

Speakers:

Amal Maizi

LUSEO

BIM Manager

Building the future digital campus: How UCL is aligning estate strategy, information and data

How does one of the UK's largest university estates turn fragmented project data into trusted capital projects and operational intelligence? Join UCL, Amodal and Asite to hear how UCL is aligning capital projects, estates operations and digital strategy to build a connected, decision-grade estate. This real-world case study explores stakeholder engagement, CDE implementation and practical adoption of new information standards across a diverse and historic landmark estate.

Speakers:

Joe Jones

University College London

Head of Data & Digital Estates

Benjamin Bizzell

Amodal

Senior Consultant

Josh Myers

Asite

Director, Major Accounts

The MIH is coming – why are policymakers backing it?

You’ve probably heard about The Manufacturers’ Information Hub (The MIH). But why are policymakers so keen to support this initiative? What makes it different? A pan-European not-for-profit organisation owned by manufacturers, The MIH is run by manufacturers for the benefit of all users of their product information. The MIH platform will be a single access point for users of product data/information to draw the core interoperable information they need. It will also be a service provider for Digital Product Passports. For this lively panel session, we have invited those policymakers and key industry representatives to put their cards on the table and explain to our sector why they advocate for The MIH. You will start to understand what it can offer to construction product information users across Europe, how it will unlock interoperable product information and what EU and UK initiatives it will enable, straight from the horse’s mouth. Join this session to learn the policy perspective and then come to our stand to learn how you can get a head start. The MIH is set to not only enable the seamless, automated, flow of verified manufacturers’ product information, but also play a key role in the wider digital transformation of the construction sector.

Speakers:

Dr Anne Kemp OBE

nima / AtkinsRéalis

Chair of nima / Fellow & Technical Director of AtkinsRéalis

Melissa Zanocco OBE

UKRI Missions Accelerator Programme (RDMAP)

Challenge Director, Growth Mission

Alex Small

Tata Steel UK

Digital Platforms & Innovation lead

Fergus Harradence

Department for Business & Trade

Deputy Director, Infrastructure & Construction

Christophe Sykes

Construction Products Europe

Director General

Stop calling it handover: Building decision-grade asset information from day one

Handover into the Asset Information Model is still where many projects fail. Join leading developers, contractors and asset owners as they explore how to strengthen handover, manage changing standards and build usable, trusted asset data on major projects and masterplans.

Speakers:

Stuart Bell

Amodal

Chief Executive Officer

Andrea Scrutton

Balfour Beatty Vinci

CDE Systems Manager

Ishka Heart

Sovereign Network Group

Head of Digital Building Information

Matt Warren

Lendlease

Head of Digital

Thomas Flannery

McLaren Construction

Head of Digital Information Management

What if your BIM model could say no? Automating compliance with data and AI

Compliance remains one of the biggest sources of risk, rework, and late design change in construction largely because it is still treated as a final check rather than a design input. But what if compliance could be embedded directly into the model, using open, interoperable data that works across disciplines and platforms? This session explores how OpenBIM principles, structured information models, and AI-enabled rule checking are enabling a shift towards "compliant-by-design" workflows. Drawing on real UK practice, the talk demonstrates how building regulations, fire and life-safety requirements, accessibility, and carbon performance can be tested iteratively within digital design environments rather than retrospectively at gateways or handover. Attendees will see practical examples of AI-driven model interrogation, automated rule checking, and performance simulation operating across OpenBIM environments, helping teams identify issues earlier, improve consistency, and strengthen accountability without constraining design quality or creativity. The session also cuts through the hype to address the real challenges facing compliance automation – including data quality, interoperability maturity, and information governance – and why robust OpenBIM-based information management, not proprietary tools alone, is essential for scalable, trustworthy automation.

Speakers:

Dr Mohammad Mayouf

Birmingham City University

Associate Professor in Digital Construction

Reimagining robotic layout: Adapting construction robotics for rebar cages prefabrication on a mega project

Robotic layout is typically associated with partitions and MEP. This session explores what happens when that same technology is pushed beyond its conventional use. It presents a live case study from the Hinkley Point C nuclear project, where robotic layout has been adapted to support rebar cage prefabrication in a high-volume production environment. Faced with time-intensive manual setting out and increasing productivity demands, the team rethought how robotics could be integrated into an unconventional workflow to improve efficiency, consistency, and accuracy. The session will share the practical realities of implementation, from workflow redesign and transforming reinforcement IFC models and data into print-ready outputs, to how printing strategies and operational constraints influenced technical decisions. Attendees will gain practical insight into extending construction robotics beyond conventional applications and a clear understanding of what it takes to make innovation deliver on site, unlocking measurable value through digital implementation and process improvement.

Speakers:

Abdulquadri Ademakinwa

BYLOR JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics & Laing O'Rourke)

Senior Digital Engineer

24 hours early: How model-driven delivery changed everything on a major motorway

In complex infrastructure, the gap between a 3D design and a muddy trench is where projects lose time, money, and safety margins. In this session, we move beyond "BIM for the sake of BIM" to explore a practical, digital-centric framework used to deliver a massive motorway project ahead of a strict deadline.

Speakers:

Sam Lemon

MJ Church

Head of Construction Technology

Engineering access: How digital and product-led thinking is helping deliver step-free rail faster

We’re using digital tools and product-led design to remove barriers, accelerate step-free access, and make travel easier for everyone.

Speakers:

Sam Ward

Laing O'Rourke

Head of Vertiq

DfMA in motion: Digitally rehearsing the offsite journey from factory to site

See how hyper-realistic digital rehearsals make DfMA and offsite manufacturing predictable, safe and flawlessly executed.

Speakers:

Tom Regan

Laing O'Rourke

Digital Leader

Glen Jordan

Laing O’ Rourke

Senior Digital Engineer

Rob Parsons

Laing O’ Rourke

Lead Digital Engineer

IDS-driven QA processes in Solibri

Shaping the next generation of QA with IDS and Solibri. Information Delivery Specification (IDS) is beginning to shape a new generation of QA workflows in BIM projects. But what does that mean in practice? This session provides a look at how IDS can help structure and clarify information requirements, enabling more consistent and data-driven model checking across project teams. We will explore how IDS concepts align with Solibri's existing strengths, what benefits they can bring to everyday QA processes, and how this emerging approach supports more reliable and predictable information quality. Ideal for BIM managers, coordinators and digital construction professionals who want to understand how structured information requirements connect to model validation in practice. Attendees will gain: A clear understanding of what IDS is and how it fits within openBIM workflows Insight into how IDS can support everyday QA processes A forward-looking view of how IDS may shape future Solibri workflows

Speakers:

Simon Gilbert

Solibri

BIM Consultant

Behind the Bricks: The CDW arches

‘Behind the Bricks’ explores the design and fabrication of two sculptural stone arches built for Clerkenwell Design Week 2025, using a fully parametric workflow developed with Grasshopper, Rhino, Human UI, and Rhino.Inside.Revit. This custom design engine responded dynamically to 2D and 3D geometry updates, allowing rapid design iterations while maintaining a continuously live set of construction drawings. The project represents a typology of end-to-end computation, one that could be replicated on future projects and design processes.

Speakers:

Elise Colley

HawkinsBrown

Architect

Lizzie Terry

HawkinsBrown

Architect

A connected solution to drive productivity and profitability

How does a leading civil engineering firm cut a survey task from 8 hours to just 10 minutes? Join Scott McCaw (BIM Manager, George Leslie) and Stuart Campbell (Trimble) for an inside look at their digital transformation. They'll move past the hype to share the "hard numbers" behind their move to a unified Trimble ecosystem – resulting in 690+ hours saved and £15k in gains per scanner, annually. Get an honest look at the implementation reality and discover how they built a "golden thread" of data from site to office.

Speakers:

Scott McCaw

George Leslie

BIM Manager

Stuart Campbell

Trimble

Senior Manager

From scan to strategy: How LiDAR + AI are rewriting construction workflows

Join us to learn how mobile LiDAR and artificial intelligence are transforming construction site data into real-time 3D intelligence. In this joint session from NavLive’s CEO and CTO, you'll discover how AI-powered 3D mapping reduces survey time, improves coordination, and turns raw spatial data into faster, smarter project decisions. If you want to understand the future of reality capture in construction, this session is for you.

Speakers:

Dr David Wisth

NavLive

CTO & Co-Founder

Turning AI into performance across the built world

Artificial intelligence is becoming embedded across the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations industry, but real value comes from performance, not pilots. In this session, Julian explores how AI moves beyond demonstrations to deliver measurable impact across projects, portfolios, and the full building lifecycle. From faster decisions and reduced risk to improved quality and resource efficiency, AI must translate intelligence into tangible outcomes. The future of AI in AECO is not about more tools, it's about performance at scale.

Speakers:

Julian Geiger

Nemetschek Group

Chief AI Officer

Build it virtually first: A real contractor case study in digital validation

See how DPR Construction used digital simulation to validate a prefabricated production system before committing to build. A real-world case study showing how virtual rehearsal reduced risk, improved certainty and enabled right-first-time deployment, with lessons applicable across construction.

Speakers:

Ricky Cartwright

Prodtex

Head of Technology

Masterclass: Digitising design reviews and pre-construction

In this masterclass you will get an inside look at how an award-winning office design team transformed design reviews and pre-construction workflows by going fully digital with Bluebeam. We'll walk through a real use case and share best practices you can implement immediately – from standardised markups to calibrated take-offs, faster sign-off and early cost visibility. If you want practical methods to reduce rework and strengthen cost control, this session is for you.

Speakers:

Poojan Vyas

Bluebeam

Inside Sales Representative

Beyond scanning: From construction certainty to operational advantage

Construction validation at scale in live data centre environments is fundamentally different from traditional as-built capture, and getting it wrong can mean costly rework, delays, and reduced client confidence. Learn how our experts approach continuous construction validation across active, mission-critical projects. From the realities of working on live sites to the breakdowns in traditional workflows, they’ll walk through how their teams have evolved from periodic checks to a more continuous, reality-capture-driven approach.

Speakers:

Lisa Patterson

NavVis

Director of Product Management, Reality Access

Annika Debes Vestergaard

Ramboll

Reality Capture Team Lead

Lindsie Bristow

NavVis

Director of Business Development

Peter Hewitt

Laing O'Rourke

Engineering Leader

Improving design review alignment across distributed teams

Think VR is just for dazzling clients? Think again. Join Sweco to discover how Autodesk Workshop XR is revolutionising internal design reviews for large, international engineering teams. Learn how stepping inside the model straight from your home office boosts team engagement, uncovers hidden clashes, and elevates the final design quality long before the client ever sees it.

Speakers:

Willem Bastiaens

Sweco

BIM Expert

Dinos Ipiotis

Sweco

Digital Technical Director

Enhancing digital delivery across the Royal BAM Group: The role of visual intelligence

In this practical case study session, Harrison O'Hara shares how BAM is standardising visual intelligence across its projects, integrating 360 site captures, drone imagery, BIM, and AI-powered progress tracking directly into BAM’s digital ecosystem. Joined by Michael Jones of OpenSpace, this session explores how visual data moves beyond documentation to become an operational asset across the business.

Speakers:

Harrison O’Hara

BAM UK & Ireland

Head of Advancing Technologies & Innovation

Michael Jones

OpenSpace

Senior Director of Product Management

Reducing rework throughout the construction lifecycle

Beyond materials: Solving the hidden costs of rework Rework is one of the most significant drains on construction profitability. But how do we solve it? This session identifies the root causes of errors and explores how to build a defence against them. We'll cover how to combine modern methods of construction with smart technology to streamline your delivery, reduce site errors, and guarantee a secure "golden thread" from concept to completion. Join us to learn how to move from reactive fixing to proactive prevention.

Speakers:

Ben Wallbank

Trimble UK

Digital Strategy & Partnership Manager, EMEA

Why AI is the best thing to happen to construction since Brunelleschi

Construction is on the brink of its biggest transformation in 600 years. AI is not just improving workflows – it's redefining how buildings are designed, estimated, and produced. From automating coordination and predicting risk to enabling factory-scale construction, AI is turning construction into a faster, more precise, and more scalable industry. Drawing on a decade in technology and a front-row seat at Suffolk Technologies – where we've evaluated and partnered with hundreds of the most advanced startups in AI, robotics, and automation – this session cuts through the hype to reveal what's real, what's coming next, and who will win. If Brunelleschi's dome marked the beginning of modern construction, AI marks the beginning of its industrialisation. The question is no longer if AI will transform construction, but who will lead the transformation.

Speakers:

Diana Kay

Suffolk Technologies

Partner

Human-centric BIM processes in an ever-evolving “AI” industry

Digital evolution in construction is moving faster than ever, but it risks leaving people behind. While AI and automation dominate discussions around transformation, they don’t remove the need for clear workflows, accountability, and strong design management. In this session, Maber Architects share a people-first approach to BIM delivery, using their experience as BIM manager for the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) as a blueprint. This complex NHS project involved multiple stakeholders, legacy information, and critical safety requirements that required focus and decisive prioritisation regarding digital ways of working. Rather than treating BIM as a specialist activity, Maber embedded digital processes directly into everyday design and construction workflows. By digitising clash detection and issue management using BIMcollab, they replaced static spreadsheets with a shared, accessible platform that designers actually engaged with, resolving thousands of coordination issues and reducing project risk. The session will explore how human-centric BIM processes can scale across large projects, how issue management can become a core part of design management, and how technology can deliver value without leaving people behind. If you’re navigating digital change, struggling with adoption, or questioning the role of AI in construction, this session offers a grounded, real-world perspective on what works.

Speakers:

Josh Chrystal

Maber Architects

Head of Digital

Careys digital delivery in action: The Autodesk playbook of a specialist contractor

Join Careys – one of the UK's largest specialist contractors – as they reveal how Autodesk's digital tools have transformed their approach to project delivery, asset management, and compliance. This session will demonstrate how real-time data, connected workflows, and integrated dashboards drive efficiency, transparency, and better decision-making across construction projects. Learn how Careys created a connected ecosystem using Autodesk's solutions and other Common Data Environments (CDEs) to manage assets, improve safety, and ensure compliance – all while improving project outcomes.

Speakers:

Derek O’Neil

Careys

Director of Planning & Project Controls

William Benson

Careys

Project Director

Bluebeam Max in practice: AI‑powered workflows for building services and design delivery

Get a head start on how to get the most out of Bluebeam Max with Sweco. Explore new features including AI-driven markups, automated takeoffs, natural-language commands and intelligent design-issue detection. We'll also discuss how to standardise tool chests and digital workflows to maximise consistency, quality and team-wide adoption. If you want to see real world examples of AI in action across design engineering and project and building services teams, don't miss this session.

Speakers:

Nathan Deacon

Bluebeam

Global Strategic Account Manager

Constructing with confidence: The Autodesk construction cloud role in delivering 105 Victoria Street and 1 Appold Street

Discover how Autodesk Construction Cloud is driving digital transformation on 105 Victoria Street and 1 Appold Street – two landmark UK projects adopting ACC at scale. From tracking mega planks and steelwork to 3D cladding monitoring, NCR management, and innovative asset tracking, this session showcases practical, real-world applications. See how integration with Power BI delivers real-time insights that enhance accountability, boost efficiency, and enable data-driven project delivery.

Speakers:

Chris Owen

Skanska

Digital Construction Manager

Agi Jankowska

Skanska

Digital Construction Manager

Digital as default: How Sisk made infrastructure data work in the real world

Infrastructure delivery is complex. Multiple stakeholders, multiple systems, and multiple data formats. This session explores how John Sisk have simplified that complexity. By implementing our CDE through a structured bronze – silver – gold service model, we've connected design, construction and operational data into one integrated environment. See how real-time dashboards, field integration and structured workflows are turning digital ambition into measurable delivery performance.

Speakers:

Rupinder Wilkhu

John Sisk & Son

Infrastructure BIM Lead (UK & Ireland)

Samantha Mead

John Sisk & Son

Infrastructure Information Manager (UK & Ireland)

The “digitise or decline” era

Most digital transformation programmes in construction fail for the same reason: the technology gets chosen, but the people don't follow. Daniel Kavanagh spent over a decade as a project manager before joining Procore as a CDE and compliance specialist. In this session, he'll talk honestly about what makes adoption stick – and what doesn't – and how the shift to a truly connected Common Data Environment changes the calculus for both the business and the people delivering the work.

Speakers:

Daniel Kavanagh

Procore

Solutions Specialist, Industry Compliance

Your biggest vulnerability isn’t digital – it’s human

What if your biggest cyber risk isn’t a hacker… but your most helpful team member? In today’s digital construction projects, we collaborate at speed, share information freely, and trust our partners to keep work moving. And that’s exactly the problem. This Inspire Stage session flips the cyber conversation on its head. Instead of firewalls, threats and technical jargon, it explores cyber risk as a human challenge, shaped by trust, urgency, good intentions and everyday behaviour on fast-moving projects. You’ll discover why most cyber incidents don’t begin with technology failing, but with people doing what they’re paid to do: responding quickly, reusing information, sharing access and solving problems under pressure. Drawing on behavioural economics, nudge theory and lessons from high-trust industries like aviation, healthcare and finance, this talk reveals what really drives decision-making and why awareness alone rarely changes behaviour. Delivered with clarity, real-world stories and a dash of Yorkshire humour, Gary Hibberd makes cyber risk relatable, relevant and surprisingly empowering. You’ll leave with a fresh mindset, practical insights you can apply immediately, and a new way to influence behaviour and reduce risk without slowing collaboration or adding complexity. Cyber risk is no longer an IT issue. It’s a leadership one.

Speakers:

Gary Hibberd

Consultants Like Us

The Professor of Communicating Cyber (Co-Founder of Consultants Like Us)

Rebecca Forward

Consultants Like Us

Senior Consultant

AI and the bottom line: Hype, risk or real commercial advantage?

In this interactive session, Michael Neidow challenges common assumptions through live audience voting and executive insight. Focused on margin, leadership accountability and operational readiness, this session helps senior decision-makers separate commercial advantage from industry noise.

Speakers:

Michael Neidow

Hilti Group

Executive Vice President I Head of Business Unit Construction Software

Would I AI to you?

Based on the hit TV show "Would I Lie to You", Vicki and Dan will present each other with AI-related scenarios to attempt to sort fact from fiction! This light-hearted session covers the risks associated with the misuse of AI, drawing on news stories from the built environment and beyond.

Speakers:

Dan Rossiter

BSI

Built Environment Sector Lead

Vicki Reynolds

One Creative Environments (ONE)

Technical Director of Digital Estates

ERP will not save you: 10 hard truths construction CFOs must face

Most ERP projects in construction start with optimism. Many end with compromise. In this bold summit keynote, we reveal 10 hard truths about finance transformation drawn from hundreds of real-world implementations. Discover why over-customisation destroys ROI, why timing matters more than features, and why technology alone never fixes broken processes. If you are planning finance system change, this session could save you time, money, and credibility.

Speakers:

Hannah Munro

itas Solutions

Finance Transformation Leader | Podcast Host | Director at itas

Industrialised construction: Are we there yet?

Industrialised construction is gaining attention, but its widespread adoption is still evolving. When does it move from an innovative practice to the norm? This session, backed by fresh global research from top construction markets, delves into how prefabrication, productisation, and DfMA are shifting from tactical tools to strategic solutions. We’ll explore the key indicators of systemic adoption, including early design choices, procurement alignment, digital enablement, and supply chain collaboration. Moving beyond isolated technologies, we’ll present industrialised construction as a comprehensive organisational and market transformation. Attendees will gain a maturity framework to assess their current position and discover what needs to change to scale effectively.

Speakers:

Az Jasat

Autodesk

Director, Industrialised Construction Strategy

Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP

Dodge Construction Network

Industry Insights Research Director

Will an AI-enabled construction industry still need main contractors?

Most AI sessions focus on efficiency. This one focuses on survival. As AI-enabled coordination platforms evolve, connecting subcontractors, managing documentation, predicting risk and optimising workflows, the fundamental question for main contractors isn’t 'How do we use AI?' It’s: Why will clients still need us? This session explores how platform disintermediation could reshape procurement, margins and market power. Drawing on recent strategic acquisitions in the sector, it challenges leaders to think beyond automating existing processes and instead examine where value is moving in the construction ecosystem. Attendees will learn: Why efficiency without strategic repositioning accelerates commoditisation. How to distinguish optimisation from long-term competitive positioning. What practical leadership decisions preserve optionality in a rapidly shifting market. This is a board-level discussion about business models, risk, and value capture in 2030, not a technical walkthrough of AI tools. If coordination becomes automated and transparent, what exactly are clients paying you for?

Speakers:

Suzanne Hill

AI for SMEs

Business Strategist in AI

Suicide prevention in construction

Brent has suffered a number of episodes of anxiety and depression in his 54-year life but is dedicated to sharing his experience to help others and is a passionate advocate for suicide prevention.

Speakers:

Brent Leyshon

Transport for London

Programme Manager

Clippy’s guide to not becoming a paperclip

What do leading economists and management consultants say about the impact of AI on labour and capital substitution? How will this impact those of us working in built environment professions such as construction or asset management? How should we prepare personally, and within our organisations, to adapt to new ways of working in the AI age?

Speakers:

Ian Gordon

National Grid

Head of Data & AI

Dr Patrick Owen

Tideway London

Asset Information Management

Industrial AI lessons for construction: Where to start and why

Most construction companies are being told they need an AI strategy. Most do not. They need a starting point and a step-by-step approach. The bottleneck is not strategy; it is execution. Across construction projects and AI deployments in heavy industry, AI rarely fails because the technology is not good enough. It fails because no one captured the business logic, defined the workflow it had to fit into, or prepared the people who had to use it, through education and trust-building. This session is a working view of what is actually being deployed in industrial AI today, the construction-relevant places to start (progress tracking, admin automation, defect spotting, risk reduction), and the operational conditions that make it work inside real construction workflows. The opportunity for AI to transform construction is real: More resilient businesses, more efficient delivery. This session is about where to start, and why.

Speakers:

Gaspard Duthilleul

Galyos

Founder

5 examples of how AI has enhanced Sir Robert McAlpine’s project delivery

Join a fireside chat with Nick Leach, Director of Digital Construction at Sir Robert McAlpine, and Tommy Cooke, Regional Director, UK, Ireland and Nordics at Buildots, as they uncover the results from Sir Robert McAlpine’s leading use of AI on their construction projects. Through their use of performance-driven construction management and automated AI insights, SRM is able to foresee risk, streamline workflows and deliver with better clarity, transparency and confidence. Listeners will have the opportunity to learn from SRM’s successes in combining efficient construction practices with data-driven insights, and how it’s positively impacted project delivery. Listeners will also have the opportunity to ask questions during the dedicated Q&A portion at the end of the session.

Speakers:

Nick Leach

Sir Robert McAlpine

Director of Digital Construction

Tommy Cooke

Buildots

Regional Director, UK, Ireland & Nordics

The three ages of digital construction: Solving the career conundrum

Not quite the riddle of the Sphinx, but how do you build a career in digital construction? How do you get into it in the first place? How do you make your mark when you've arrived? Should you embrace the squiggly career? These questions and more will be tackled by three would-be Thebans: Asad Vatchha, a recently graduated apprentice at BAM UK & Ireland; Emine Taylor-Unlu, assistant information manager at Balfour Beatty VINCI and Digital Rising Star of the Year 2026; and a seasoned digital construction professional (TBA).

Speakers:

Asad Vatchha

BAM UK & Ireland

Digital Project Solutions Engineer – London Region

James Daniel

HS2 Ltd

Head of Digital Engineering

Justin Stanton

Digital Construction Plus

Editor

Emine Taylor-Unlu

Balfour Beatty VINCI

Assistant Information Manager

What’s working now: Insights from construction and AI leaders

AI is no longer optional for construction, but delivering real value is harder than it looks. Hosted by 4PS by Hilti, this fast-paced fireside chat brings together leaders from VolkerWessels, Microsoft, and Grant Thornton, offering industry, technology, and advisory perspectives. This session cuts through the noise to explore what is actually working with AI in construction, what is holding organisations back, and how leaders can move from experimentation to real, scalable impact.

Speakers:

Ayushi Chandani

Turner & Townsend

Senior Consultant

Kayla Gray

4PS UK

Product Director

Nick Elms

VolkerWessels UK

Director of Information Technology

Siphe Mlangeni

Microsoft

Senior Solution Engineer

Coding without a clue: How AI tools are transforming workflows and supercharging productivity

AI tools are often promoted as assistants for everyday admin tasks – but their real value extends far beyond that. In this session, I'll share how I moved from relying solely on software applications to using Python and AI to directly manipulate and extract data from IFC models. While exploring how IFC files are structured, I realised that because they're text-based, they can be reshaped and interrogated with code – often more flexibly and efficiently than traditional software allows. Coming from a non-developer background, coding once felt daunting. But AI changed that. By using AI not just to draft emails or summarise documents, but to help me understand, write, and refine Python scripts, I found an accessible path into data-driven automation. I began with simple, testable scripts: restructuring IFC data to match internal standards, extracting model information, and exporting it into Excel. These were tasks I used to perform through multiple software tools – now automated, repeatable, and tailored to my workflow. This session will explore that journey and show how AI can empower anyone, regardless of coding experience, to build custom data-manipulation processes. Attendees will learn how combining AI assistance with Python automation can unlock new levels of efficiency, accuracy, and control in model-based workflows.

Speakers:

Oliver Robinson

BYLOR at Hinkley Point C

Lead Digital Engineer

Digital paradox: Owning the building but not the data

You are paying millions to design and construct a building, so why don't you want to own the project data? This is the ultimate digital paradox. Why do building owners leave their Common Data Environment (CDE) exclusively in the hands of the supply chain? Is it because hosting it is technically too hard, restricted by contractual complexities, or simply because they don't see the value in data? Whether you are in the early design phase, midway through construction, or navigating final handover, you might suddenly find yourself with no access to your project's information. This can happen due to contractual disputes or insolvencies. When this scenario happens, do you know who controls your drawings, compliance evidence, and financial reports? "The digital paradox" explores the nightmare scenario of losing access to your project's critical information because it is locked away in a CDE you have no right to access. We will unpack the true financial cost for clients and explore how forward-thinking, major portfolio owners like The Crown Estate and NHS Scotland mandate client-owned (or shared ownership) CDEs from day one. Attendees will learn actionable strategies to take direct ownership of their digital assets and solve the digital paradox for good.

Speakers:

Johnny Furlong

Dalux

Building Owners Advisor

The BIM Olympics! Shanghai 2026 and Aichi 2028

Learn how the WorldSkills "BIM Olympics" is shaping the next generation of digital construction talent. In this session, you'll hear first-hand how competition drives skill development, confidence, and collaboration. Join us for an inside look at what it takes to train for – and compete in – the global stage of digital construction.

Speakers:

Daniel Chesson

Bond Bryan

BIM Manager

Brunel’s Bees: How to transform the built environment from home to cities

In this session, Sam Stacey introduces the central ideas behind Brunel's Bees, a systems-level exploration of why progress in the built environment fails to compound. Moving beyond familiar explanations such as skills shortages or lack of innovation, the session focuses on learning, memory and stewardship – and why these become decisive once technology and capital are no longer scarce. The session offers attendees a clearer diagnosis of systemic failure, a new language for discussing responsibility and value, and fresh insight into what it would take for improvement to endure.

Speakers:

Sam Stacey

A7C

Director

Why is BIM not intuitive, responsive or user-friendly like an AI tool?

BIM is often discussed as a single tool or a standalone process, but in reality, it works more like a sum of different parts that only function properly when working together. And given that the person who owns the parts knows how to put them together! This Women in BIM panel discussion will explore how digital tools, data inputs, people and workflows come together throughout the design process, and where BIM sits within that ecosystem. Using the idea of "HEY BIM" as a digital assistant, the discussion asks whether BIM could (or should) act like Siri, Google, or Alexa – a central point of access for information, coordination and decision-making. Panellists will unpack how BIM supports design thinking, collaboration and information flow, where expectations currently exceed reality and what needs to evolve for BIM to become more intuitive, responsive and user-friendly.

Speakers:

David Philp

Bentley Systems

Chief Value Officer

Mohammad Shana

Morta

CEO

Natalia Olivera

Estudio ESE

Partner

Digital co-supervision platform for Smart Construction Management

SmartEye, developed by the Development Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong SAR, offers the first-of-its-kind digital co-supervision platform for managing a broad variety of construction works. Empowered by its patented innovation including the groundbreaking 4D LiDAR technology with an AI-driven dashboard, this innovative system provides a tailor-made solution for all-weather, real-time, round-the-clock, remote supervision of construction projects. It redefines the basics of site supervision by transforming traditional practices into a fully digital process. SmartEye is designed for joint use by clients, consultants and contractors, allowing co-supervision of construction projects by these parties and facilitating "early detection, early follow-up and early resolution" of on-site issues. It helps augment the effectiveness and efficiency of site supervision by assisting users in identifying and prioritising areas for detailed site inspection. The concept of co-supervision aligns well with the collaborative approach to managing construction contracts. The system is well suited for supervising construction works including site formation, deep excavation, foundation construction and building works.

Speakers:

Anthony So

Development Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government

Project Assistant Secretary (Works Policies)

Tony Ho

Development Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government

Deputy Secretary (Works)

Land always comes with people: Developing systems that remember them

Every infrastructure project starts with land, and land always comes with people. Yet as projects become more digitised, it's easier than ever for the people most affected by infrastructure decisions to slip out of view. Digital transformation doesn't reduce human responsibility, it increases it. This session brings together industry experience from Mott MacDonald alongside digital delivery expertise from Mettle Studio to explore a simple but critical principle: if potential impact on land is in the system, potential impact on people must be too. Through real project examples, we'll consider paradoxes of increased digital tooling, including balancing improved engagement with efficient decision making and compliance. If digital and AI can optimise only what it can "see", where does it quietly turn real human impact into edge cases? When reputation, compliance and project momentum are on the line, these blind spots matter. We'll explore a practical lens to identify who is overlooked by digital processes, the risks this creates, and de-risking next steps. We'll consider how projects that actively consider human impact early achieve smoother delivery, better stakeholder outcomes, and stronger returns on digital investment. Digital tools don't make decisions for us – they make some decisions easier, and others harder to see.

Speakers:

Isobel Clode Fiske

Mettle Studio

Senior Strategist & Service Designer

Kaye Toland

Mott MacDonald

Senior Land Consultant

Canary Wharf Group’s digital construction journey

Discover how the Canary Wharf Group digital construction team transformed the Wood Wharf and 1 North Quay developments using cutting-edge digital tools and AI-driven workflows. Learn practical strategies to boost efficiency, collaboration, and safety on complex projects, and gain actionable insights to embed technology into everyday workflows for lasting results. Walk away ready to transform how you plan, manage, and deliver projects.

Speakers:

Roman Baran

Canary Wharf Group

Senior Manager – Digital Construction

Rethinking who we build for (and with)

We talk about transforming the built environment, but who gets to shape that future, and who is still on the outside looking in? In this Inspire Stage session, the founder of We Build Too shares an experience-driven perspective on digital transformation, culture change and inclusion in construction. You'll hear about women who find their way into the industry, love the work, but often remain invisible in data, strategy and day-to-day decision-making. Often leading to them leaving, disengaging and disguising opportunities from the next generation. Connecting construction's challenges to wider debates about AI, bias and psychological safety, the session asks what happens when we design systems and tools around an unspoken "default" worker and what we could gain by changing that. It will introduce We Build Too's early-stage work to create clearer pathways, community and evidence for women in construction, and invite delegates to see inclusion as a core part of innovation, not a side project. You'll leave with fresh questions, practical ideas and a renewed sense of what's possible when we rethink who we build for, and with. As well as the impact that could have on efficiency, profitability and innovation.

Speakers:

Anna Rzepczynski

We Build Too

Founder

World models: Turning data into real-world impact for the built environment

AEC/O players are facing pressure on speed, sustainability and resilience, while productivity has barely improved in decades. World models represent a step-change beyond point solutions and narrow AI, enabling reasoning over complex, real-world context at asset and portfolio scale. Google Cloud and Nemetschek bring together hyperscale AI infrastructure and a deep AEC/O software footprint, making this highly relevant to DCW's audience and timing. This panel discussion connects frontier research (Genie 3 and world models) with pragmatic use cases, governance considerations and ecosystem implications.

Speakers:

Julian Geiger

Nemetschek Group

Chief AI Officer

Alvaro Silva Santisteban

Google Cloud

AI Solution Lead

Talent, tech and the hybrid workforce: Solving talent gaps and accelerating digital transformation in construction

Construction is transforming fast but the talent gap is widening. Join industry leaders as they unpack how to build a future-ready workforce that blends craft expertise, digital skills, and hybrid collaboration. Learn practical strategies to solve resource strain, develop tech-forward roles, and lead teams across site, office, and remote environments. If you're navigating digital transformation and workforce challenges, this is the session you can't miss.

Speakers:

Emma Hooper

RLB Digital / nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Head of Information Management Strategy / Vice Chair of nima and buildingSMART UK&I

Prof Sarah Davidson

University of Nottingham

Prof. of Information Management / Dir. Education & Student experience

Mark Hansford

Mark Hansford Consulting Ltd

Director

Nigel Davies

Evolve Consultancy

Founding Director

Pierre Saunal

airc.digital

Managing Director /Architect

James Chambers

Nemetschek Group

Director Global Industry Development, Build + Construct Division

What performance is possible through effective design phase collaboration

What impact can be unlocked by embracing digital tools, effective collaboration and robust project management tools during the design phase of projects to improve delivery certainty? Come and explore where LOR is leveraging all these levers and more through global design partner frameworks to move the dial on design maturity and hear what is going to have the biggest impact next!

Speakers:

Paul Drayton

Laing O'Rourke

Head of Digital

Elliott Crossley

BDP

Director of Digital Delivery

Harriet Belk

Laing O'Rourke

Senior Design Manager

Heidi Meakin

Laing O'Rourke

Regional Information Manager

Lilian Ho

AECOM / Zigurat Institute of Technology

Associate Director / AI Masters Program Director

Michael Boyd

WSP

Director, UK, Ireland & Central Europe Digital Lead

Industrialised construction: Building at pace

Join us for a high-impact panel exploring the scale of change reshaping UK construction. With £85 million committed through the Industrialising and Digitalising Construction Challenge, the sector is entering a new phase of accelerated transformation.

Speakers:

Henry Fenby-Taylor

Athenophilia

CEO

Katie Rudin

Akerlof

Housing and Innovation Director

Keith Waller

High Value Manufacturing Catapult

Director - Industrialised Construction

Susan Hine

Jacobs

Local Government Director

Melissa Zanocco OBE

UKRI Missions Accelerator Programme (RDMAP)

Challenge Director, Growth Mission

Ron Lang

AtkinsRealis

Director

From maps to meaning: Building Britain’s geospatial data foundation

Speakers:

Debbie Wilson

Ordnance Survey

Head of Geospatial Data

Paul Naylor

Ordnance Survey

Senior Geospatial Consultant

Simon Navin

Ordnance Survey

Head of Geospatial Services

Tina Kennedy

Ordnance Survey

Chief Customer Officer

Advancing the UK’s 3D geospatial data landscape

Speakers:

Christopher Wandel

VU.CITY

Key Account Manager Public Sector

Fergus Craig

NV5 Geospatial

Chair at AGI & UK Sales Manager

Laura Pullen

Nottingham City Council

GIS Business Development Manager

Ralph Coleman

Bluesky International

Chief Commercial Officer

Robert Goldsmith

Devon & Cornwall Police

Geospatial Manager

Who ate my lunch? The AGI Foresight Report 2030 – six months on

Speakers:

Mia Dibe

Arup

Senior Data & AI Consultant

Ed Parsons

Edparsons.com

Digital Geographer

Rebecca Firth

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Executive Director

Richard Flemmings

The Association for Geographic Information

Director

Will Cadell

Sparkgeo

CEO

From data to decisions: Geospatial workflows in the age of automation and AI

Speakers:

Aaron Addison

World Geospatial Industry Council

Executive Director

The race for compute: How data centres are redefining the built environment

The data centre construction market is expanding rapidly with the demands of AI. Join this panel to understand the scale of the opportunity, the challenges of building data centres and how they are shaping the future.

Speakers:

Henry Fenby-Taylor

Athenophilia

CEO

Maira Bana

RED Engineering Design

Head of Computational Engineering

Harsh Singh

Criad

Co-Founder and CEO

Tony Playford

Atlas Edge

Senior Design Manager

Malcolm Linton-Auteis

Atlas Edge

Senior Design Manager

Setting up and delivering projects as systems: How AI and connected data are reshaping infrastructure

Infrastructure projects are no longer collections of isolated assets – they are living systems. This session challenges traditional project thinking and explores how treating projects as integrated systems unlocks new levels of performance, resilience, and value. As complexity increases across infrastructure ecosystems, success depends on how well we connect data, processes, technologies, and people across the full project lifecycle – from planning and design through delivery, operations, and long-term asset management. This session explores how AI and connected data platforms are transforming infrastructure delivery by turning fragmentation into coordination and complexity into clarity. It is a practical and strategic call to action for leaders shaping the next generation of infrastructure – showing how thinking in systems, powered by AI and connected data, is essential to delivering projects that are smarter, safer, and built to last.

Speakers:

Nathan Marsh

Bentley Systems

Senior Vice President, Regional Executive EMEA

Structured for scale: Building a digital ecosystem that transforms construction

The construction industry is evolving from traditional project‑centric delivery to connected, data‑centric ecosystems. Reds10 has spent the last several years building a fully integrated digital ecosystem powered by Autodesk technologies, enabling structured information management, automated design workflows, and a seamless connection between design, manufacturing, and site operations. This session provides a detailed, practical walkthrough of how an Autodesk‑based ecosystem can be designed, deployed, and scaled across a growing portfolio of complex projects. Attendees will see how standardised data, automation, and integrated workflows deliver measurable improvements across productivity, quality, and collaboration.

Speakers:

Scott Laird

Reds10

AI and Technical Director

Built to sell: What drives successful exits in construction tech

Most construction tech start-ups exit through acquisition – but how do those deals actually work in practice? This panel brings together founders and acquirers to unpack how companies are positioned, valued and bought, and what it takes to turn a transaction into a genuinely successful integration.

Speakers:

John Priestland

Priestland Consulting

Director

Ali Nicholl

Connected Places Catapult

Strategic Engagement Director for Data & Digital

Jonathan Hunter

Eleco

CEO

Robert Shear

OpenSpace

VP of Business Development & Strategy

Shweta Saxena

AI Gizmo

Founder & CEO

The reality gap: Why the distance between plan and build is still construction’s biggest problem

Construction is a game of millimetres played on a field of miles. Despite decades of progress, the gap between office and field remains one of the industry's most persistent and costly problems – eroding trust, inflating budgets, and leaving project managers making critical decisions on data that's already out of date. Join us to discover how to bridge this gap. This session introduces the Sandwich Theory of construction management: a new framework for understanding how location acts as the connective tissue that binds every data set – from 2D drawings to 3D point clouds – into a single, irrefutable picture of your project as it truly is. We'll explore how putting simple capture tools in the hands of field teams doesn't just improve documentation; it lays the foundation for agentic AI that reads site reality, closes the loop on schedule and budget, and frees your teams to build with certainty. The gap between plan and build is closable. This session shows you how.

Speakers:

Nathan Patton

Trimble

Sr. Product Manager

Developing tomorrow’s skills today through the power of collaboration

Speakers:

Simon Navin

Ordnance Survey

Head of Geospatial Services

Dr Claire Evans

Bloxham School

Head of Geography / Co‑Creator, Bloxham Sustainability Challenge

Harry Allen

Bloxham School

6th Form Student

Joanna Middleton

Dalcour Maclaren

Head of Talent Acquisition

Dr Katie Hall

Esri UK

Head of Education

Matilda Bonnington

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls

6th Form Student

Theo Flint

The Warriner School

6th Form Student

The GeoAI UK outlook: So what?

Speakers:

Luca Budello

Innovate UK

‘It’s all geospatial to me’: Simplifying language, expanding impact

Speakers:

Magdalena Low

Ordnance Survey

Managing Geospatial Consultant

Unknown waters: Navigating a changing careers landscape

The future of skilled work in construction is changing year on year, with the advent of AI the need for professionals to adapt has never been greater.

Speakers:

Henry Fenby-Taylor

Athenophilia

CEO

Ian Brant

Construction Industry Council

Chair

Dr Simeon Shtebunaev

Social Life

Senior Researcher

Aled Williams

University of the Built Environment

Pro Vice Chancellor

Bel French

Gleeds

Senior Project Manager

How AI-driven data centres are breaking traditional modelling – and why dynamic simulation is the answer

AI is pushing data centre rack densities up to 1MW, doubling global energy consumption, and overwhelming traditional design methods. This session reveals how physics-based dynamic simulation and Digital Twins are delivering breakthrough sustainability outcomes – including a hyperscale case study achieving 95% water reduction and industry-leading PUE of 1.16. Discover why static, peak-day calculations are no longer fit for purpose, and how 8,760-hour modelling is enabling smarter, faster, more sustainable data centre delivery and operation at global scale.

Speakers:

Colin Rees

IES

Co-Head of Consultancy

Visualising retrofit: Utilising spatial analysis for project identification and management

As the drive to retrofit the UK's homes accelerates, the challenge isn't just what to upgrade – but where to start. In this session, we lift the lid on how spatial analysis is transforming retrofit strategy, unlocking effective project identification, stronger funding bids, and better-targeted interventions. We'll showcase a modelling approach developed for the Warm Homes Local Grant fund through the RISE support service – designed to pinpoint eligible homes and highlight high-impact clusters. Using interactive online mapping, we enabled local authorities, housing providers, and community organisations to explore opportunities and shape viable, data-driven project proposals. Join us to discover how geospatial tools can streamline decision-making, strengthen collaboration, and create retrofit programmes that are ambitious, fundable, and built for scale.

Speakers:

Bernie Lozowski

Turner & Townsend

Principal Consultant, Sustainability

The impact of early stage design decisions on whole life carbon

Good early design decisions can reduce whole-life carbon by up to 40%. Led by architect and researcher Catherine Sinclair, this session offers a rare insight into how research-led tools can actively change design outcomes. Speaking to D-CARB, a fully open-access tool embedded within Autodesk Revit, the session demonstrates how early-stage carbon insight can become a shared foundation, enabling design teams across the industry to reduce emissions when influence is greatest. The session will be relevant to architects, engineers, consultants, and clients seeking practical ways to embed carbon awareness into early-stage design decision-making.

Speakers:

Catherine Sinclair

SPACE Architects

Head of Research

Digitised pre-demolition audit tool

This session will focus on automated digital tools for converting paper-based drawings into interactive BIM. It will explore how AI-driven workflows and computer vision techniques can transform unstructured 2D information into interoperable BIM models. A central challenge addressed in this session is the discrepancy between as-drawn documentation and the as-built reality – a critical issue in existing buildings. The session will highlight practical applications in refurbishment, repurposing, deconstruction, and demolition, demonstrating how these tools reduce manual effort, improve data consistency, and support circular construction objectives.

Speakers:

Olumide Fasanmi

University of Salford

Researcher

Inés Díez Ortiz

Tecnalia Research & Innovation

Researcher

Muhammad Omer

The University of Manchester

Research Associate

From files to facts: Cost, carbon and connected data

Cost leaders from Turner & Townsend, TSA Riley and RIB explore how evidence, data discipline and digital workflows are redefining cost intelligence. A practical, industry-wide conversation on what "good" looks like in 2026, and how organisations can build more trusted, consistent and assured cost insights.

Speakers:

Mark Rogers

Turner & Townsend

Head of Net Zero Carbon, Cost Management

Chris Donachie

TSA Riley

Regional Director, Head of Cost Management, UK, Ireland & Canada

Matthew Jackson

RIB Software / ZERO Construct

Senior Strategy Manager at RIB Software / Co-Founder at ZERO Construct

Helen Engwell

Turner & Townsend alinea

Associate Director, Digital Delivery

From design to delivery: Closing the materials data gap in construction

Material-related issues are one of the biggest drivers of waste, rework and carbon in construction, yet they’re often invisible until it’s too late. This session reveals how connecting real-time materials data from site back into design unlocks better decisions, stronger compliance and more sustainable outcomes.

Speakers:

Brittany Harris

Qualis Flow

CEO

Sustainability without compromise: A user-centric, data-driven approach

How can you build a bridge between digital models and real-time data to become more sustainable? Technological University Dublin is embarking on a digital transformation to reduce carbon emissions, improve energy performance by up to 20%, and share knowledge and tools to benefit its users. This session will reveal how TU Dublin is implementing an advanced data-driven facility management system to unify disparate data into a single platform. Delegates will see how the university uses real-time analytics, predictive modelling, and digital building insights to identify energy waste, optimise HVAC operation, automate reporting, and support evidence-based decarbonisation planning. The project integrates BMS systems, IoT sensors, utility meters, weather data, and detailed BIM models, creating a powerful digital ecosystem capable of delivering measurable environmental impact. The session will walk through the system architecture, data strategy, user experience, and the operational insights available to facility teams. Real examples will show how anomalies are detected, how comfort can be maintained while reducing consumption, and how digital models help verify savings and close performance gaps. If you're exploring how to modernise building operations, reduce emissions, or develop a digital estate strategy, this case study provides a practical and replicable blueprint grounded in real deployment experience.

Speakers:

Dr Philippe Lemarchand

TU Dublin

Head of Sustainability Intelligence

Nigel Robinson

Service Works Global

UK General Manager

Laurent Couillard

InUse

Technology Entrepreneur and CEO

Reinventing UK EPCs for a net zero future

Energy performance certificates (EPCs) are a cornerstone of the UK's strategy to decarbonise buildings, but are they ready for a more digital, data-driven future? With planned EPC reforms now expected in 2027, the industry has a valuable opportunity to rethink how energy performance information is generated, used, and integrated across the built environment. While EPCs play an important role in property transactions, retrofit planning, policy compliance and other functions, many still operate as static documents, outside the increasingly connected digital ecosystem of modern buildings. This session explores what the next generation of EPCs could look like in the UK and how digital tools can support this transition. Drawing on international research into EPC methodologies, the session will demonstrate how comparing approaches used across Europe can provide useful insights for future UK reforms. A live demonstration of a digital platform will show how EPC methodologies can be analysed, benchmarked and visualised to support more transparent, data-driven discussions about energy performance. If you're interested in net zero delivery, Digital Twins, asset data, or the future of building performance, then this session will offer a fresh perspective on how EPCs might evolve to support the UK's decarbonisation journey.

Speakers:

Veronica Annor

BRE

Principal Energy Consultant

Beyond compliance: Driving towards delivering tangible sustainability outcomes leveraging AI and agents

The next era of sustainable construction won't be built on spreadsheets. It will run on connected data from IoT devices, supply chain, procurement, people – aggregated in real time and reasoned by AI agents acting as digital workers across every project. This session looks at what this operational stack makes possible: live dashboards at the point of decision, automated compliance reporting, and emissions reductions that show up in project outcomes as well as within annual disclosures. A forward view for leaders thinking about how to deliver sustainability compliance along with delivering tangible sustainable project outcomes.

Speakers:

Harris Karim

IFS

Senior Product Manager for Sustainability Applications

The great construction quiz – do you REALLY know?

Join ZERO Construct for an interactive quiz to test your knowledge on the construction industry's impact on the world. And yes there will be PRIZES for the smartest in the room. DO NOT MISS OUT!

Speakers:

Matthew Jackson

RIB Software / ZERO Construct

Senior Strategy Manager at RIB Software / Co-Founder at ZERO Construct

Poppy Harrison

Great British Energy – Nuclear

Systems Engineer

Giulia Papi

innDex

Data Product Manager

Fast-tracking net zero: Scaling planning carbon compliance through digitalisation

Whole life carbon compliance is becoming a bigger part of planning – but the industry still needs a better way to adapt. This session explores how digitalised WLCA submission workflows can improve scrutiny, consistency, auditability, data collection and benchmarking without creating unnecessary friction for project teams. Using findings from live implementation case studies of PACER (Planning Application Carbon Evaluation and Reduction), it challenges the industry to think about how better reporting and smarter review processes can support both delivery and climate goals.

Speakers:

Michela Ravaglia

Preoptima

Head of Partnerships & Sustainability

From design data to sustainable decisions: Automating carbon-aware design workflows

How can sustainability become part of everyday design decisions instead of a last-minute check? This session shows how automation, BIM, and AI can turn design data into carbon-aware insights, helping teams make smarter, more sustainable choices earlier and faster.

Speakers:

Jordana de Castro Rosa

WSP

BIM Manager

Sustainable digital wood: Framework for wood circular economy by digital construction

We are a Japan-based cross-sector consortium of industry and academia dedicated to advancing environmentally sustainable and efficient construction practices through research and technological innovation that directly enable timber material circulation. We focus on wood as a renewable, carbon-sequestering resource central to a circular construction. By systematically capturing and managing information on the unique properties and ageing of timber throughout its lifecycle and integrating this with automated processing and construction practices, we aim to give buildings high metabolic capacity, allowing them to function as part of a continuous timber circulation system, while simultaneously supporting a broader societal framework that efficiently accumulates and redistributes wood. This session seeks to transform the industrial structure of timber production, distribution, processing, construction, recovery, and reuse through digital technology. Recognising that challenges in timber material circulation are shared globally, we invite ambitious international collaboration to jointly validate and advance specific technological solutions adapted to local contexts. To realise this vision, we integrate four key technologies: (1) Material Passports for continuous lifecycle data management; (2) Bundled Construction Methods for disassembly and reuse; (3) a Digital Twin Design Environment for monitoring and simulation; and (4) Small-Scale Distributed Robotic Construction. Together, these systems demonstrate a practical pathway toward a circular wood-based construction economy.

Speakers:

Dr Yasushi Ikeda

The University of Tokyo

Project Professor

Taiki Takemura

Azusa Institute of Research

Senior Researcher

Designing for density: Sustainable data centres in an era of AI uncertainty

As AI drives unprecedented density and power demand, this session explores how embedding sustainability, adaptability, and computational design into the earliest architectural decisions can transform data centres into high-performance, low-carbon infrastructure built for uncertainty.

Speakers:

Hristo Dobrev

Bryden Wood

Project Architect

Turning carbon data into a competitive advantage in construction

This session will share practical ways to embed carbon insights into everyday operations, turning compliance into commercial value and positioning your business for long-term success in a low-carbon economy.

Speakers:

Tom Rickey

Sage

Partnerships Lead

Charlie Wedgwood

McGee

Head of Pre-Construction

David Mason

Skanska UK

Head of Sustainability – Technical

Hesham Ahmad

Rider Levett Buncknall

Senior Sustainability Consultant

Carbon, cost and programme: Joining the dots for UK contractors

Carbon is increasingly required in bids and project reporting, but it is still too often handled as an afterthought outside normal estimating and planning workflows. In this session we look at how to weave carbon into the same processes you already use for cost and programme: structuring estimates so they carry carbon data, connecting that information into planning, and updating it as designs and supply choices change. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for making low-carbon decision-making part of everyday work, not just a line item in a sustainability report.

Speakers:

Ben Taunt

Elecosoft

Commercial Manager

Agentise circularity: How AI agents turn surplus into supply – automatically, safely, and with audit-ready proof

Stop managing circularity in spreadsheets. Learn how AI agents can autonomously convert surplus into supply – creating passports, routing items to the highest-value next use, engaging markets, and delivering audit-ready proof for bids, planning, and carbon reporting.

Speakers:

Christian van Maaren

Excess Material Exchange

Managing Director

Material intelligence and AI smart matching in the circular construction marketplace: The multibillion pound opportunity

Circularity in construction materials fails when it is slower than business as usual. Learn how material intelligence and AI smart matching turn PDF site reports into live, compliant reuse decisions through a circular construction marketplace. See the model in action with a Persimmon Homes example that delivered a 43% cost saving, with no delays and an automated compliance trail, and leave with a practical Monday morning checklist to make reuse the default.

Speakers:

William Rundle

Nexus ReGen

CEO

How AI can push your net zero performance beyond compliance

As investment decisions tighten, every initiative must prove its value. This session explores how AI can enhance productivity, optimise energy performance, and reduce carbon emissions, embedding these outcomes within core business strategy rather than treating them as separate agendas. Featuring Kaleidoscope, Hoare Lea's AI-driven simulation approach, and real project case studies, discover how rapid early-stage analysis and scenario testing can strengthen commercial performance while accelerating net zero delivery. For leaders balancing efficiency, risk, and sustainability, this session offers a practical pathway, shaped by insights from UKGBC and CIBSE, to move beyond compliance and unlock performance-led carbon reduction.

Speakers:

Dr Bahareh Salehi

Hoare Lea – Tetra Tech

Associate, Energy Technical Lead

How can integrated data, AI, and automation accelerate the path to meeting sustainability targets?

What role should integrated data, AI, and automation play in transforming how organisations measure, manage, and reduce their carbon impact?

Speakers:

Kenny Ingram

IFS

VP – Construction & Enginering Presale Transformation

Turning fatigue from a hidden threat to clear, actionable KPIs

Fatigue is a major workplace risk. Yet many organisations are unknowingly compromising safety and losing productivity because they lack the tools to measure and manage it effectively. Third Pillar of Health's new biomathematical fatigue model changes that. Built from extensive real‑world data across multiple industries, it transforms fatigue from an invisible threat into a set of clear, actionable KPIs. This enables proactive intervention, stronger assurance and measurable improvements in safety performance.

Speakers:

Marcus de Guingand

Third Pillar of Health

Managing Director

Making digital adoption work: Real lessons from 60+ live construction sites

Everyone talks about the savings achieved through digital adoption. But few are honest about how they actually got there. Join Paul Dyster, Group HSE Director at Hill Group, alongside Harry Marffy and Pietro Leo from innDex, for a candid discussion on what it really takes to implement digital tools at scale across live construction projects. Drawing on Hill Group's experience embedding digital workforce and site management solutions across 60+ live projects, this session will unpack the early scepticism, resistance, and practical challenges faced and how they were overcome. The transformation has delivered measurable results, including: £60,000+ saved through digital permits in one year 50 minutes saved per permit One full day per week returned to site managers – the equivalent of 52 days saved per year This is an honest, real-world conversation about moving digital beyond pilots and into business-as-usual by focusing not just on technology, but on people, confidence, and sustained adoption.

Speakers:

Paul Dyster

Hill Group UK

Group HSE Director

Pietro Leo

innDex

Head of Customer Success

Harry Marffy

innDex

Operations Manager

How SOCOTEC uses Bluebeam for strategy reviews, client delivery & team training

Join Bluebeam and SOCOTEC’s Principal Fire Engineer as we demonstrate how fire engineering teams use Bluebeam to review fire strategies, mark up layouts, coordinate schedules and communicate clearly with clients. Discover how SOCOTEC standardises tool chests and workflows to improve quality, consistency and onboarding for new engineers. A practical session for fire engineers, design managers, MEP and building safety professionals.

Speakers:

Anne-Marie Falano

Bluebeam

Customer Success Manager EMEA

Tabea Uhr

SOCOTEC

Principal Fire Engineer & Training & Development Manager

The hidden cost of digital innovation

Digital tools promise efficiency — but only if organisations understand the real cost of adoption. In this session, Donatella Fiorella from Skanska Digital Construction, lifts the lid on the hidden effort behind successful innovation: testing, training, behavioural support, resource planning, and sustained engagement. Drawing on large-scale rollout experience, she reveals the common pitfalls and the operating model needed to deliver digital change that sticks. This session outlines the essential steps for delivering digital innovation successfully.

Speakers:

Donatella Fiorella

Skanska

Digital Construction Manager

Bridging the gap: Communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

We are delivering projects in increasingly digital, data-rich environments — yet many senior leaders report feeling less clarity, not more. Why does better data so often fail to produce better decisions? In this session, Astrid will explore the gap between technical reporting and executive understanding. As dashboards multiply and analytics mature, the limiting factor in performance is no longer access to information, but how that information is structured, prioritised and communicated. Drawing on experience across complex technical and delivery environments, she examines why reporting frameworks frequently create noise rather than insight, and how cognitive load, narrative design and visual discipline directly shape stakeholder confidence. This session will focus on reporting as a strategic leadership capability, not an administrative output, because competitive advantage does not come from generating more data. It comes from turning complexity into clarity, and clarity into confident decision-making.

Speakers:

Dr Astrid Blee

th3rdcurve

Digital Consultant

Why digital tools fail when decisions matter most

Why do digital tools appear successful on paper – yet fail when real decisions need to be made? This interactive session challenges the assumption that poor adoption is primarily a behavioural problem. Based on research into adoption barriers in digital construction tools, it reframes adoption breakdown as a structural issue: moments where systems do not yet provide enough clarity or confidence for people to rely on them. Through a short, guided diagnostic exercise using a real-world handover scenario, participants explore where confidence in a system breaks down, who absorbs the resulting risk, and how this shapes long-term behaviours and workarounds. Rather than judging tools or prescribing solutions, the session provides a practical way to distinguish between behavioural change challenges and systemic design gaps – helping teams target the right problem before defaulting to training or change programmes. Ideal for anyone involved in digital delivery, information management, or transformation, this session offers a fresh lens on adoption that supports more effective, people-centred digital change.

Speakers:

Luis Javier Berraco

Bovis

Digital Construction Manager at Bovis / Postgraduate Researcher at King’s College London

Making a change land: Aviation change management

This session shows how structured change management, supported by strong information practices, can turn complex transformation efforts into measurable outcomes. You’ll learn how to plan change with clarity, capture the right data, and track real benefits rather than assumed success. It’s a practical, grounded look at why so many change programmes fall short and how to fix that by connecting people, process, and information in a way that stands up to scrutiny.

Speakers:

Ayushi Chandani

Turner & Townsend

Senior Consultant

Fuelling innovation

Delivered by Duncan Evans, Digital Development Leader at Laing O’Rourke. We’ve grown a team from scratch in the past five years from having nothing more than a few slides, to now having multiple innovations, supporting multiple projects at the same time. Oh and we’ve picked up a few awards on the way.

Speakers:

Duncan Evans

Laing O'Rourke

Digital Leader - Capability

Sheryl Wylie

Laing O'Rourke

Senior Digital Developer

Victoria Jones

Laing O'Rourke

Principal Digital Developer - Digital Capability

From manual checks to meaningful work – AI that frees human potential

Discover how we turned one of our biggest project challenges into a breakthrough innovation. Faced with thousands of design files and time-critical quality checks, we knew manual review was holding our teams back. So instead of building bigger teams, we built a smarter solution. Our new AI-powered assurance tool automatically reviews vast volumes of information in minutes, freeing our people to focus on meaningful, high-value work. Join us to hear how we designed it, what it's already delivering, and how AI is empowering our teams while transforming the way we manage design quality.

Speakers:

Lorna Kimber

Laing O'Rourke

Technical Leadership DE&IM Discipline Lead

Bridging the moat: Information, accountability and better outcomes

The stakes are higher now – the real shift is cultural, not technical. Better workflows drive better decisions – the value is not admin, it is visibility, learning and earlier intervention. Collaboration and fair accountability drive better outcomes – the platform should not be a moat – it should be a shared space for transparent delivery.

Speakers:

Matthew Reeve

ACT Developments

Operations Director

Beyond awareness: Scaling the impact of ‘Get Construction Talking’

In September 2025, the construction industry reached a turning point at the summit of London’s iconic Gherkin. Hosted by Fred Mills (The B1M) and Sasha Reed (Procore), the Construction Mental Health Summit brought together change-makers from three continents to confront a sobering reality: suicide rates in construction remain nearly four times the national average. In this session, Fred and Sasha return to the stage to recap the powerful outcomes of the Get Construction Talking initiative. They will share first-hand accounts from the Summit’s "Labour voices" and "Policy" panels, detailing how the campaign has already raised over $900,000 for global charities. Moving beyond "tick-box exercises," this talk explores the systemic shifts needed – from payment practices to substance abuse support – to protect the industry's most valuable asset: its people. Attendees will get an exclusive look at the next phase of the global campaign and how digital integration can help scale these life-saving conversations across the jobsite.

Speakers:

Fred Mills

The B1M

Founder & MD

Sasha Reed

Procore

Senior Director, Industry Transformation

Stop breaking down silos, start making them work

Breaking down silos is not always the answer. Sometimes it creates decision paralysis, rework and delay. This session teaches “better silo working”: how to improve collaboration between design, commercial, delivery and digital teams by tightening decision ownership and cleaning up interfaces. You’ll learn a 10-minute Outcome and Boundaries Brief and a one-page Decision Log so decisions stick and handovers stop causing churn. We’ll also show how to use AI to capture and share decisions clearly, without adding noise. Templates provided via QR code, with printed copies available too.

Speakers:

Colin Tomlinson

150CLD

Construction Leader Development Specialist & Managing Director

Why AI keeps getting it wrong (and what actually helps)

AI tools promise a lot but often deliver generic, erroneous output that needs heavy editing or worse, slips through unchecked. This talk shares three practical techniques that dramatically improve AI output quality, drawn from real experience solving real problems in architectural practice. You'll leave with something you can try on Monday.

Speakers:

Raina Armstrong

Architype

Digital Operations Specialist

Slavery, scrutiny and the fair work act: Lessons from the Nordics

As the Fair Work Agency comes online and scrutiny of modern slavery and labour standards intensifies, UK construction faces a new reality: inspections and questions about who is really in the supply chain are inevitable. This session shows how Nordic construction has already moved from fragmented, manual right to work checks to digital workforce ecosystems that give real-time visibility of entire subcontractor chains. Instead of focusing only on individual workers at the gate, Nordic platforms are built to govern which companies are allowed onto projects, how subcontractor chains are structured, and how data flows between contractors, clients and financiers. The session will share practical lessons from Nordic collaboration models where banks, asset owners and contractors work together to drive better labour standards and more resilient supply chains – insights that are directly relevant to a post-Carillion UK market. Attendees will see how a "client's cockpit" approach can provide pre-approval rights, live monitoring of who is on site, and robust audit trails for both regulators and investors. The result is a clear roadmap for moving from reactive compliance to proactive, ecosystem-level control of workforce and supply chains.

Speakers:

Viktor Broberg

Infobric Group

Head of Value Creation

Building what we can’t see: Data, bias and belonging

We say construction is becoming "data-driven", but what if the people we most need to understand barely show up in the data at all? In this interactive workshop, We Build Too, an initiative focused on women's participation in construction, shares early insights from research with tradeswomen, learners and career changers. You'll explore why women often feel invisible or unsafe in training and on site, and how those realities are rarely captured in the metrics leaders depend on. Through short stories and practical exercises, you'll map where women and other underrepresented groups are missing from your own people data, and how bias and assumptions can quietly shape decisions about digital tools, recruitment, training and culture change. You'll leave with a simple, repeatable framework to start improving the quality of your insights, combining qualitative feedback, segmented metrics and lived experience and three actions you can take in the next 3 – 6 months to build a more inclusive, evidence-informed approach. If you're responsible for people, change or digital transformation, driving productivity and profits, and you want your decisions to truly reflect the workforce you're building for, this session is for you.

Speakers:

Anna Rzepczynski

We Build Too

Founder

Turning information into action and taking out the data trash

Most organisations are drowning in data but starving for intelligence. They collect mountains of unused data, but the problem is not a lack of access; it is the absence of a structured process to transform that raw data into actionable intelligence. The process to do this is readily available through structured information management, so the real question becomes: why do so many businesses within the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) sector still struggle to use their data efficiently and effectively? The answer lies in the lack of a systematic approach for converting raw data into meaningful insights. To move from data overload to better project delivery, businesses must adopt a clear intelligence cycle: define the decisions that matter, collect only the data that supports them, process it consistently, analyse it for patterns and feed the insight back into project teams in time to act. Too often, project data is gathered retrospectively or stored in disconnected systems, making it difficult to translate into forward-looking intelligence. Join this Women in BIM panel discussion to hear more about data and information management solutions that treat data as a strategic asset rather than an administrative by-product and help your business take out the data trash!

Speakers:

Vicki Reynolds

One Creative Environments (ONE)

Technical Director of Digital Estates

Lilian Ho

AECOM / Zigurat Institute of Technology

Associate Director / AI Masters Program Director

Hadeel Saadoon

Connected Places Catapult

Digital Construction Technical Lead

Angana Ghosh

WSP

Region Lead (BIM/ Digital)

Data quality vs data honesty

We've all seen it: a project dashboard glowing green with perfect metrics, only for the project to "suddenly" collapse at the finish line. In an era where we have more data than ever, why are we still surprised by delays? In this session, Isaac Dyer (Project Controls Consultant) challenges the industry's obsession with "Data Quality" and introduces the missing ingredient: Data Honesty. Drawing from his experience at major utilities like Severn Trent and South East Water, Isaac explores why high-quality data can still result in "schedule gaslighting" and how Goodhart's Law – when a metric becomes a target – is creating a breeding ground for hidden project risks.

Speakers:

Isaac Dyer

Movar Reply

Project Controls Consultant

Carlos Sanchez

Movar Reply

Solutions Lead Principal

From data to impact: Turning site data into real performance improvement

Across construction and infrastructure, organisations are capturing more site data than ever, yet performance is not improving at the same pace. Why does so much investment result in so little impact? Because data on its own does not change how work gets done. In this session, Charlie Burtt, Partner at Spitfire, shares a real-world case study from a large-scale highways maintenance operation. Millions of lines of operational data were captured every day, yet rarely used to improve outcomes. Charlie explains how that data was turned into trusted, actionable insight, and why this was only the starting point. The session challenges the belief that dashboards drive performance. Instead, it shows how leadership capability, frontline management behaviours, and practical problem-solving must work alongside digital investment to deliver real results on the ground. You will leave with a practical, proven approach to making site data work – an approach that supports better decisions, improved productivity, stronger margins, and greater confidence in delivery.

Speakers:

Charlie Burtt

Spitfire

Partner

People and AI: Building your competitive workforce strategy

Construction companies are navigating more workforce challenges than ever – and those that stay ahead are using a compelling combination of technology, data, and even AI. Join operations leaders from leading UK contractors BW Interiors and Sir Robert McAlpine, alongside Bridgit VP of Strategy & Operations David Pimiskern for an in-depth conversation on how forward-thinking construction leaders are maintaining a competitive edge while keeping human expertise at the centre of their operations.

Speakers:

Nadeem Mirza

Sir Robert McAlpine

Resource & Workforce Planning Director

Tomas Hollingsworth

BW: Workplace Experts

Director of Technology

David Pimiskern

Bridgit

VP, Strategy & Operations

Fresh eyes on old problems: How apprenticeships are reshaping digital construction – a different pathway to the same professional capability

This session explores how digital transformation in construction is driven as much by people and perspectives as by technology. Drawing on his experience as a Digital Consulting Apprentice, Paul Watson-Peters shares how learning on the job and early exposure to live projects can bring fresh perspectives that challenge established ways of working, support innovation, and strengthen long-term digital capability. It highlights how apprenticeships can play a meaningful role in digital transformation – not just simply as an entry route, but as a way of developing adaptable, capable professionals in real project environments. Attendees will gain insight into how organisations can better integrate and develop emerging talent by prioritising mindset, adaptability and the ability to learn alongside technical skills, helping teams deliver lasting value in digital construction.

Speakers:

Paul Watson-Peters

Mott MacDonald

Degree Apprentice Digital Consulting

Digital construction in emerging and complex markets

Digital construction looks very different when delivered in emerging and complex markets. Varying levels of digital maturity, fragmented supply chains, regulatory uncertainty, and cultural diversity challenge traditional approaches to digital delivery. In this session, Turner Construction shares real-world insights from delivering large, complex projects across diverse global markets, exploring how digital strategies can be adapted to succeed where standardisation cannot be assumed. Moving beyond tools and technology, the discussion focuses on leadership, governance, and people as the true enablers of digital transformation. Attendees will gain practical lessons on aligning global best practices with local realities, building digital capability across project teams, and using information management to unlock long-term value from design through operations. This session offers a candid look at what works, what doesn’t, and how digital construction can drive performance and resilience in the world’s most challenging project environments.

Speakers:

Mehmet Sami Kılıç

Turner Construction Company

Vice President for Europe

Resilience in construction: Surviving the chaos or designing it out?

Most projects aren’t failing because of one big disaster. They’re failing through a thousand small fractures. Poor information. Broken processes. Disconnected teams. Late decisions. And when pressure hits, those cracks don’t just show, they widen. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: • We don’t have a resilience problem. • We have a predictability problem. This session flips the narrative. Instead of talking about how we recover from disruption, we’ll challenge how we design resilience into projects from day one. Through better data. Clearer accountability. Connected teams. And systems that don’t fall apart the moment something changes, which it always does. Through the lens of data integration and real accountability, this panel will tackle three questions head on: • The vulnerability map: Where are we most fragile today, and why are we still ignoring it? • Resilience in practice: What does a genuinely robust project look like on the ground, not in a slide deck? • The non-negotiables: What are the three things you would change tomorrow to stop projects breaking under pressure? Expect straight answers, real examples, and a few uncomfortable truths. Because resilience isn’t about reacting better. It’s about building projects that don’t break so easily in the first place.

Speakers:

Tomas Hollingsworth

BW: Workplace Experts

Director of Technology

Brett King

Procore

Director, Industry Transformation EMEA

Helen Gawor

Building Strategy

Consultant Director

Meet Bluebeam Max: AI-powered design review and workflow automations

Get an exclusive look at Bluebeam Max in action – the brand-new AI-powered upgrade to Revu launching in 2026. This showcase walks you through intelligent markups, automated takeoffs, natural-language commands, AI-driven design review tools and 2D–3D coordination workflows. If you want to understand how AI is reshaping drawing reviews and project delivery, this is the session to attend.

Speakers:

Jarrod Hall

Bluebeam

Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Enhance construction planning with SYNCHRO +

Reduce rework and save time by identifying issues before construction starts with 4D planning. Learn how AI makes construction planning easier, faster and removes entry barriers. In this session, we will show how an innovative cloud platform enables real-time collaboration, provides seamless workflows and handles large models with outstanding performance.

Speakers:

Morgan Hays

Bentley Systems

Senior Director of Product Construction

One platform, total visibility: Tracking people and assets across every site

Discover how innDex is helping construction teams improve compliance and site visibility without adding extra admin. In this session, we’ll showcase two major platform upgrades: a streamlined digital guest induction process for visitors and drivers, and a new company-level asset management tool that tracks equipment allocation, inspections, and certification history across multiple projects. Through real on-site scenarios, we’ll demonstrate how these enhancements reduce risk, improve record keeping, and support safer, more efficient site operations.

Speakers:

Pietro Leo

innDex

Head of Customer Success

Harry Marffy

innDex

Operations Manager

Enhancing construction performance through AI

Buildots is a global construction technology leader, bringing the power of AI and computer vision to automate on-site progress tracking. Buildots transforms construction management by unlocking accurate data and predictive performance metrics. This empowers construction teams to make truly performance-driven decisions for the first time. With the platform, Buildots’ clients – top global contractors, consultants and owners – get more visibility, greater efficiency, up to 50% fewer delays and a higher chance of successful project delivery. This technology is already being used by some of the world’s leading contractors, making waves in the industry and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making. Don’t miss out!

Speakers:

James Gregory

Buildots

Account Executive

Cooperlink Hub: Practical cases to boost SharePoint into an ISO 19650 CDE or to connect Asite, ACC, Dalux and Aconex together

Stop juggling with information silos and disconnected tools. Join Axel Palmaers, CEO of Cooperlink, for an insightful session on Cooperlink Construction Hub. This last connects partners and tools together, creating digital bridges between architects, contractors, and owners. It allows you to synchronise information and automate data flow between different software ecosystems (DMS, CDEs, ERPs, …). Concrete cases will be illustrated: - how to transform your SharePoint environment into an integrated and ISO 19650 compliant Common Data Environment (CDE) - how to create a Common Data Environment where your company tools (e.g., Asite), your site tools (e.g., Dalux), and your partners' tools (e.g., Aconex) are linked to ensure everyone has the right, up-to-date information and an independent copy of the data

Speakers:

Axel Palmaers

Cooperlink

CEO

Trimble ProjectSight: Project management, all in one place

Construction teams are under pressure to deliver faster, with less margin for error. This session explores how simplifying project management workflows can reduce manual effort, improve coordination and provide real-time visibility across projects. Learn how teams can standardise processes, reduce risk and stay in control from site to office.

Speakers:

Andrew Brennan

Trimble

Senior Product Manager

AI and the money: Why construction’s commercial function has been left behind

Every AI conversation in construction is about safety, design, and project delivery. Nobody is talking about the part of the business where the money is made or lost. Variations that drag on for months. Payment applications submitted late or disputed on arrival. Final accounts that bleed margin nobody saw coming. These are the commercial realities that define whether a project is profitable — and AI has barely touched them. This session explores what it actually looks like to apply intelligent automation to the commercial function: where the quick wins are, what the data requirements look like, and why getting this right matters more to the bottom line than almost anything else happening on site.

Speakers:

Michael Loizias ·

StoneRise Technology

Co-Founder & Chief Software Architect

From surveys to decisions: Why construction data still isn’t working

Construction has more data than ever, but fewer confident decisions. This session explains why fragmented systems hold projects back – and how integrating data into a shared intelligence layer turns surveys into real decision-making power.

Speakers:

Dr Daniel Clarke

StirlingX

Chief Technology Officer

Autodesk Forma – unifying workflows across teams

Join Jonny Pye and Calin Gruia from Autodesk for an insightful demo on how data-driven decisions are revolutionising project success. Discover how Autodesk’s powerful tools can help you predict project outcomes, optimise workflows, and reduce risk before the project even begins. This session will provide valuable insights on how connected data and streamlined workflows lead to smarter, more efficient, and predictable project delivery.

Speakers:

Jonny Pye

Autodesk

Senior Technical Specialist, Construction

Calin Gruia

Autodesk

Senior Technical Specialist, Construction