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When
3.20.2023 at 8:00AM - 3.22.2023 at 5:00PM
Where
,Venture West Conference Overview:
The BuiltWorlds Venture Conference series has been the world’s premier conference series focused on venture investing in construction and built environment-related emerging technology. Leading built-world venture capitalists, strategic investors, and startups gather twice each year to take the pulse of the industry’s startup ecosystem at the BuiltWorlds Venture Conferences. Get a full breakdown of the agenda and who is speaking on each panel below. The 2023 Venture West Conference is quickly approaching – join our member network and get your tickets soon.
BuiltWorlds Conference themes and discussions are driven by the in-depth research our analyst team conducts. For a look at BuiltWorlds’ 2023 Annual Venture Report → Click here
BuiltWorlds DealMaker’s Alley>>
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Objective: An opportunity to connect with industry-leading VCs & corporate venture groups
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Time: 8:00 am to 6:00 pm (3/21 & 3/22)
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Attendees: Open to all Conference Attendees
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More on DealMaker’s Alley at Venture West –> Click Here
Conference Pre-Events:
On Monday, March 20 – the day prior to the official start of the conference – the BuiltWorlds team will be in San Francisco hosting a series of events in the area. A breakdown of those events and who is eligible to attend each is below:
BuiltWorlds Venture Forum Meeting >>
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Location: DPR – 945 Front St, San Francisco, CA 94111
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Time: 3:00-5:00PM
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Attendees: Venture Forum Members Only
BuiltWorlds Venture Forum Reception >>
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Location: DPR – 945 Front St, San Francisco, CA 94111
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Time: 5:00-7:00PM
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Attendees: Venture Forum Members Only
BuiltWorlds E&C Tech Adoption Leaders Forum & Lunch >>
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Location: WeWork (Salesforce) – 415 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, Room 38A
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Time: 12:00-2:00PM
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Attendees: E&C Forum Members Only
Women in Construction Tech: Venture West >>
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Location: Fieldwire Offices San Francisco
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Time: 3:00-5:00PM
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Attendees: Open to Anyone
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Register Here: EventBrite Registration Form
Conference Post-Event:
BuiltWorlds Building Tech Forum & Lunch >>
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Location: ,
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Time: 12:00-2:00PM
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Attendees: Open to all Conference Attendees
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2023 Speaker Lineup
Venture Forum Support
We would like to thank the members of the BuiltWorlds Venture Forum who provide us with support.
The BuiltWorlds Venture Forum brings together more than 20 leading industry strategics from across the full Built World Ecosystem who learn, invest, and collaborate, while also working to support the growth of the industry’s startup ecosystem. Venture Forum Members share best practices, fuel critical research and a robust investment pipeline, and leverage the BuiltWorlds platform to support their own investment efforts and to give visibility to dozens of startups through monthly startup Demo Days, followed with recordings published to our web site, newsletters, and social media.
Agenda
Subject to Change
Day 1 Schedule
Breakfast & Registration
Welcoming Remarks
Keynote: Construction Tech's Historic Opportunity
Presented By:
Di-Ann Eisnor, CEO, Crews by Core
The State of Built World Strategic Funds
The motivations of Strategic funds may be different from a traditional VC so the benchmark for success can be difficult to define. This panel will dive into the pros and cons of launching an off-balance sheet strategic fund and whether its the right move for your organization.
Moderated By:
Dan Laboe, Director of Venture & Investment Research, BuiltWorlds
Speakers:
Eric Lamb, Managing Director, WND Ventures
Cutler Knupp, Director - Strategy and Technology Investment, Haskell
Mateo Zimmermann, Venture Capital Director, CEMEX Ventures
Prabhakar Karri, Director, Andersen Corporation
Jennifer Marcus, Director, Home Depot Ventures
Networking Break
Lessons Learned from ConTech's Serial Entrepeneurs
Talking with leading industry pioneers from internal innovation teams to groundbreaking startups to prognosticate the future of this space. This panel will provide frontline insights into where future-focused innovators are guiding the built world.
Moderated By:
Tyler Sewall, Director of Technology Adoption, BuiltWorlds
Speakers:
Dustin DeVan, Ex-CEO, BuildingConnected
Chris Callen, Founder and CEO, PLOT Communications
Ralph Gootee, Co-Founder and CTO, TigerEye
Jen Carlile, CTO, Outer Labs
The Modular Model: To Integrate Or Partner
This panel will dive into the the highly debated topic of how best to vertically unify this industry. Does the Tesla model work in construction? Looking into the Katerra downfall: a testament to its market disrupting potential or how not to integrate in the AEC space?
Moderated By:
Dan Laboe, Director of Venture & Investment Research, BuiltWorlds
Speakers:
Ray Levitt, Operating Partner, Blackhorn Ventures
Aaron Toppston, Managing Partner, GS Futures
Robert Mazer, President, Flexnode
Mark Skender, Co-Founder, RaaP
Lunch
The State of Built World Ventures
Director of BuiltWorlds Venture Investments will review investment activity in 2022 and potential implications for the future of the built environment.
Democratizing Design: Stakeholder Collaboration Through BIM
Design has been one of the most digitally adopted segments of a building’s lifecycle but the technologies leveraged in this early conception phase have been largely cut off at the next phase of construction. This panel will review the design technologies at the front-end of the next-generation built worlds.
Speakers:
Jon Berkoe, Digital Delivery Leader, Arup
Tim Schoenheit, Senior Innovation Manager, Goldbeck
Mark Austin, BIM Subject Matter Expert, Autodesk
Raja Ghawi, Partner, Era Ventures
Hung Nguyen, Director of VDC, Herrero Builders
Kajima: External Innovations Across the World
Speakers:
Yuji Doi, Technology Development Manager, Kajima USA Inc.
Dai Ohama, General Manager - Innovation and Incubation Office, Kajima USA Inc.
Janis Pieterwas, Innovation Manager - Construction, Goldbeck
Sang Yoon Choi, Investor, GS Futures
Tristen Magallenes, Director of Product Incubation, DPR
Networking Break
Demo Day Competition
Networking Break
Built-World Venture Capitalists: Investors in The Final Frontier of Innovation
This panel will feature some of the most active AEC investors of 2021 & 2022 and discuss the investment drivers of both the 2021 funding palooza and the more stringent DD involved in 2022 venture investments.
Moderated By:
Dan Laboe, Director of Venture & Investment Research, BuiltWorlds
Speakers:
Vivin Hegde, General Partner, Zacua Ventures
Amelia Miller, Investor, Insight Partners
Sarah Liu, Partner On The Real Estate Technology Investment Team, Fifth Wall
Wan Li Zhu, Managing Partner, Suffolk Technologies
Ty Findley, Co-Founder & General Partner, Ironspring Ventures
Networking Reception & Demo Day Winner Announcement
Day 2 Schedule
Breakfast & Networking
Climate Tech: The Regulatory Impact on the Built-World
This panel will focus on the global acceleration towards environmentally empowered building technology and how government grants/subsidies are being leveraged by startups and investors.
Moderated By:
Sean Wrenn, Research Analyst, BuiltWorlds
Speakers:
Guillaume Bazouin, Head of Open Innovation and Startups, Leonard by Vinci
Aaron Anderson, Director of Innovation, Swinerton Builders
Mayra Soto, Associate, Building Ventures
Kathleen Egan, CEO, Ecomedes
Susan Stone, CEO, Ubiquitous Energy
Real Estate Tech: Will ConTech & PropTech Converge?
This panel will be taking a high-level look at the real-estate value chain from material sourcing to building management/maintenance. Speakers will include Investors & stakeholders across a building’s lifecycle for a comprehensive view of where the gaps/opportunities lie and ultimately how the margin-expanding optimizing impact of tech may only be realized once the entire vertical is digitalized.
Moderated By:
Tyler Sewall, Director of Technology Adoption, BuiltWorlds
Speakers:
Clifton Harness, Co-Founder & CEO, TestFit
Mike Heller, Senior Associate, Navitas Capital
Ajey Kaushal, Investor, JLL Spark
Daniel Fetner, General Partner, Alpaca VC
Networking Break
A Look Inside Shimizu's State-of-the-Art Robotics Lab
Speakers:
Shuntaro Kano, General Manager - Silicon Valley Office, Shimizu
Masahiro Indo, Research Fellow - Institute of Technology, Shimizu
A Year of M&A Activity In AEC-Tech
This panel will bring together the players behind the most notable M&A deals of 2022 and discuss the drivers behind each deal. Whether it was value-seeking distressed M&A or sustainability enhancing acquisitions for future operations.
Moderated By:
Daniel Laboe, Director of Venture Investments, BuiltWorlds
Speakers:
Joe Morgan, Managing Director, Piper Sandler
Sidharth Haksar, Head of Strategy, Autodesk Construction Solutions, Autodesk
Meg Baldini, VP, Corporate Development, Procore
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