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2023 Venture West Conference

When

3.20.2023 at 8:00AM - 3.22.2023 at 5:00PM

Where

The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square 335 Powell St. San Francisco, CA 94102

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>> 

  • Objective: An opportunity to connect with industry-leading VCs & corporate venture groups  
  • Time: 8:00 am to 6:00 pm (3/21 & 3/22)
  • Attendees: Open to all Conference Attendees
  • 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 >>

  • Location: DPR – 945 Front St, San Francisco, CA 94111
  • Time: 3:00-5:00PM 
  • Attendees: Venture Forum Members Only

BuiltWorlds Venture Forum Reception >>

  • Location: DPR945 Front St, San Francisco, CA 94111
  • Time: 5:00-7:00PM 
  • Attendees: Venture Forum Members Only

BuiltWorlds E&C Tech Adoption Leaders Forum & Lunch >> 

  • Location: WeWork (Salesforce) – 415 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, Room 38A
  • Time: 12:00-2:00PM
  • Attendees: E&C Forum Members Only

Women in Construction Tech: Venture West >> 


Conference Post-Event:

BuiltWorlds Building Tech Forum & Lunch >> 

  • Location: The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square335 Powell St.San FranciscoCA 94102
  • Time: 12:00-2:00PM
  • Attendees: Open to all Conference Attendees

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2023 Speaker Lineup

Di-Ann Eisnor

CEO, Crews By Core

Sidharth Haksar

Head of Strategy, Autodesk Construction Solutions, Autodesk

Eric Lamb

Managing Director, DPR Construction

Sarah Liu

Partner On The Real Estate Technology Investment Team, Fifth Wall

Ray Levitt

Operating Partner, Blackhorn Ventures

Cutler Knupp

VP - Strategy and Technology Investment, Haskell

Jennifer Marcus

Director, Home Depot

Clifton Harness

Co-Founder and CEO, TestFit

Ty Findley

Co-Founder & General Partner, Ironspring Ventures

Guillaume Bazouin

Partner EMEA, Brick & Mortar Ventures

Meg Baldini

VP, Corporate Development, Procore

Vivin Hegde

General Partner, Zacua Ventures

Kathleen Egan

CEO, Ecomedes

Joe Morgan

Managing Director, Piper Sandler

Chris Callen

Founder and CEO, PLOT

Ajey Kaushal

Investor, JLL Spark

Susan Stone

CEO, Ubiquitous Energy

Robert Mazer

President, Flexnode

Eric Law

Co-Founder and CEO, Urban Machine

Aaron Toppston

Managing Partner, GS Futures

Joel Serface

CEO, Infiniblaze

Prabhakar Karri

Director, Andersen Corporation

Shuntaro Kano

Manager, Shimizu

Daniel Laboe

Director of Venture Investments, BuiltWorlds

Mateo Zimmermann

VC Investment Manager , Cemex Ventures

Tristen Magallanes

Research & Development Leader, DPR Construction

Faisal Mostamandy

Senior Vice President, Silicon Valley Bank

Tyler Sewall

Senior Director, BuiltWorlds

Amelia Miller

Investor, Insight Partners

Scott Ellison

Partner, Headwaters Growth

Kaushal Diwan

Corporate Director, Strategic Investments & Partnerships, DPR Construction

Sean Wrenn

Senior Analyst, BuiltWorlds

Michael Heller

Senior Associate, Navitas Capital

Mayra Soto

Senior Associate, Building Ventures

Aaron Anderson

Director of Innovation, Swinerton Builders

Ralph Gootee

Co-Founder and CTO, TigerEye

Ali Agha

CEO, AIH

Tim Schoenheit

Senior Innovation Manager, Goldbeck

Jen Carlile

CTO, Outer Labs

Jon Berkoe

Digital Delivery Leader, Arup

Omri Sorek

CEO & Founder, Trusstor

Nick Deraney

Venture Analyst, Saint-Gobain

Jeff Herriman

Managing Director, Big Blue Innovations

Yuji Doi

Director of Innovation and Incubation, Kajima

Dai Ohama

General Manager, Innovation and Incubation Office, Kajima

Janis Pieterwas

Innovation Manager Construction, Goldbeck

Mark Austin

BIM Subject Matter Expert, Autodesk

Bill Wagner

CEO, Penta Technologies

Masahiro Indo

Research Fellow--Institute of Technology, Shimizu

Eric Whobrey

VP of Innovation, ARCO/Murray

Gabe Greenbaum

General Partner, B Capital

Hung Nguyen

Director of VDC, Herrero Builders

Mark Skender

President/Co-Founder, RaaP

Niko Suvorov

CEO, Sitelink

Diana Swenton

Vice President - Venture Capital, Suffolk Technologies

Fauzan Maulana

Co-founder and CEO, Rekava

Ben Price

Investment Director, Orbia

Sang Yoon Choi

General Manager, GS Futures

Arnav Jain

Co-Founder, CUBE

Michael Dalman

Sales Engineer, alwaysAI

Brad Ruffkess

CEO, BoxLock

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

8:00AM-9:00AM

Breakfast & Registration

9:00AM-9:05AM

Welcoming Remarks

9:05AM-9:30AM

Keynote: Construction Tech's Historic Opportunity

Presented By:
Di-Ann Eisnor, CEO, Crews by Core

9:30AM-10:15AM

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

10:15AM-10:30AM

Networking Break

10:30AM – 11:15AM

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

11:15AM-12:00PM

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

12:00PM-1:00PM

Lunch

1:00PM-1:15PM

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.

1:15PM-1:55PM

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

1:55PM-2:35PM

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

2:35PM-2:50PM

Networking Break

2:50PM-4:15PM

Demo Day Competition

4:15PM – 4:25PM

Networking Break

4:25PM – 5:10PM

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

5:10PM-7:00PM

Networking Reception & Demo Day Winner Announcement

Day 2 Schedule

8:00AM-9:00AM

Breakfast & Networking

9:00AM-9:50AM

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

9:50AM-10:30AM

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

10:30AM-10:45AM

Networking Break

10:45AM-11:25AM

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

11:25AM-12:00PM

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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The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square 335 Powell St. San Francisco CA 94102

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