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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.