When
6.16.2025 - 6.19.2025
Where
Produced In Association With Major Partners:
Europe's Premier Gathering of Global Buildings and Infrastructure Leaders
Since 2019, the BuiltWorlds Paris Summit has been a premier gathering of the world's built environment innovation leaders.
Facilitated by BuiltWorlds' dedicated analyst team and informed by their primary research, the Summit brings together leaders for intimate, high level investigation of key topics such as sustainability, offsite construction, global construction tech investment trends, smart infrastructure, AI-driven design and project management, construction robotics, and more.
The Paris Summit Agenda at a Glance
Monday, June 16 // 4:00PM
Inside Hilti's $300M Fieldwire Acquisition: A Construction Tech Success Story
Hilti Group Paris Offices
Stephane Denerolle, VP of Product at Fieldwire | Darren Bechtel, Managing Director at Brick & Mortar Ventures | Antonia Elisa Soler Blasco, VP of Marketing at Fieldwire and Head of Hilti Venture
Following Hilti's $300M acquisition of Fieldwire, the business has more than tripled in size, making it one of the construction industry's most successful software company acquisitions. This panel brings together key executives and investors who played crucial roles in the acquisition and integration.
Tuesday, June 17th
Day at Vinci's Leonard Accelerator | Contech France Networking Evening Event
Spend a day at Vinci's dedicated Leonard Innovation Hub with Vinci executives, startup entrepreneurs, and global thought-leaders.
Spend an evening of networking on the Seine with representatives from across France's startup, investor and industry ecosystem, in partnership with Contech France and Vinci.
Wednesday, June 18th
Research Forum Meetings | Demo Day & Reception | CEO Dinner
Thursday, June 19 // 9:00AM - 4:30PM
BuiltWorlds Summit General Sessions, Dealmakers Alley, Exhibitor Hall, and Small Group Discussions.
Salons Hoche
(See Below: Photos From Prior Year Paris Summits)
Thursday, June 19 // 6:00PM - 9:00PM
The Global Innovators Night
Saint-Gobain Headquarters, Winter Garden
A very special evening atop leading building materials company, Saint-Gobain's world headquarters in La Defense. A showplace of sustainability and smart building technologies in its own right, Saint-Gobain's winter garden will provide a spectacular backdrop for us to recognize the 75 leading companies from around the world making the greatest contributions to the support of the innovation in the industry on an international basis.
2025 Speakers
BuiltWorlds Demo Day Judges
This year’s Demo Day and Reception will take place on Wednesday, June 18th at 15hrs in the Suite Honore at Les Salons Hoche. Ten emerging tech entrepreneurs—ranging from early to later-stage—will present their latest innovations to an audience of attendees and a distinguished panel of world-renowned financial and strategic judges, all competing for the title of Paris Summit Demo Day 2025 winner
BuiltWorlds 2025 Paris Summit Exhibitors
This year, BuiltWorlds is pleased to offer a very select few sector tech companies the opportunity to exhibit at the Summit General Sessions in an exclusive exhibit center at the Salons Hoche. For information on remaining exhibitor spots, click here.
2025 Paris Summit Agenda
The BuiltWorlds Paris Summit will take place in multiple venues around Paris over four days of programming. Please see information below the agenda to view information about location of the venues and to register for each event. Many of the events are limited in capacity and will be first come first served.
Day 1 Schedule
Opening Reception and Fireside
A special opportunity to go inside a nearly century old solutions leader in the construction industry that has also been one of the industry's leading technology players with acquisitions of startups such as Fieldwire and Concrete Sensors, development of robotics products such as Jaibot, and partnerships with leading tech player, Trimble.
Speakers:
Darren Bechtel, Managing Director, Brick & Mortar Ventures
Antonia Elisa Soler Blasco, VP of Marketing, Fieldwire by Hilti┃Head of Venture, Hilti
Stephane Denerolle, VP of Product, Fieldwire by Hilti
Day 2 Schedule
A Day at Vinci's Leonard Space
With 2024 revenue of nearly $74 billion and 280,000 employees worldwide, Vinci is a world leader in the transformation of living spaces, infrastructure and mobility. Over the course of a full day at Vinci's dedicated Leonard Innovation space, conference-goers will have the opportunity to hear from high level Vinci executives and meet with and hear from startups and leading influencers from across Leonard's extensive community.
8:30 am - Welcome Coffee
9:00 am - Special Welcome Introduction
Speaker:
Patrick Sulliot, President, VINCI Construction
9:15 am - Construction as a Factory: Where Are We After the $7.8 Billion Modular Mistake?
Speakers:
Christophe Allaz, Project Director - Offsite Construction, VINCI Construction
Mollie Claypool, CEO, Automated Architecture
Jussi Aho, CEO, Fira
9:45 am - How to Implement Advanced Robotics in Construction?
Speakers:
Matt Gray, Executive Chairman, BuiltWorlds
Dai Ohama, General Manager, Innovation and Incubation Office, Kajima
10:15 am - Live Construction Robotics Demos
Presenters:
Kajima, Automated Architecture, Actemium Paris TRS, Sodex, Les companions, Kobots, Bimprinter, Baubot, Acuity Robotics, Acwa Robotics, Hylight, Kumulus, Pillion
11:45 am - Investor Stage with Perspectives on Key Trends in Innovation led by Brick & Mortar
12:15 pm - Network Lunch, Startup Village, Cowork, and Garage
2:00 pm - Nuclear Construction in the 21st Century
2:30 pm - Production + Transportation Energy Infrastructure
3:00 pm - Conclusion + Perspectives
Speaker:
Christophe Pelissié du Rausas, COMEX Member in Charge of Development, Vinci
3:15 pm - Introduction to Demo Day
Speaker:
Kevin Cardona, Head of Innovation Programs and LNRD Invest
3:30 pm - Leonard Demo Day
Speakers:
Antoine Larousse, Seed Program Managers
Anissa Abbassary, Intrapreneurial Program Manager
Louis Cotton, Head of Scale
Bruno Daunay, Head of AI
Severing Faschin, Head of Scale-up!
4:00 pm - Remote Session: Innovation for Safety & Security
Speaker:
Nicolas Wolff, Director Safety & Prevention, VINCI Construction
5:30 pm - Mobility and Transportation
Tunnels of Today and Tomorrow with Tunnel Factory
6:00 pm - Concluding Remarks
Speaker:
Julien Villalongue, Managing Director Leonard
Meet the French Ecosystem - An Evening of Networking with Contech France
Evening Reception on the Olivia Barge and Special Event with ConTech France (Space Is Limited)
BuiltWorlds is proud to support a special event in partnership with ConTech France and Vinci, to support networking between BuiltWorlds Summit attendees and member of the dynamic and growing Contech France ecosystem.
Day 3 Schedule
Construction Tech and Venture Forum Track Meetings (Limited to 20 People)
Located on the site of the Bouygues Construction Matériel technical base in Chilly-Mazarin, in the southern outskirts of Paris, Scale One will be open to companies (start-ups, SMEs and large groups) and institutional players (academics, research institutes and technical centers) from early 2025. Roughly 2,500 m² of testing, coworking and creative spaces will be available, encouraging hybridization with the aim of shaping the decarbonized and digitalized construction site of the future. We will meet and leave from Salons Hoche.
Speakers:
Jérémy Lefevre, Innovation Manager, Bouygues Construction
Damien Bahon, Head of Scale One, Bouygues Construction
Buildings and Offsite Research Track Meetings
This special meeting of our Buildings and Offsite Track will be open to all conference goers and will present an opportunity to learn some of the latest research from BuiltWorlds in this arena and also to visit the cutting edge research center of one of the world's largest, leading building materials companies in this area.
Speaker:
Emmanuelle Gouillart, Scientific Director, Saint-Gobain
Demo Day Keynote Address
Sponsored by Bouygues Construction, BuiltWorlds' Paris Summit Demo Day has become one of the most distinguished opportunities for early stage and growth stage startups serving the built environment to present their solutions. The Day will be introduced with remarks from leadership of global construction giant and innovation champion, Bouygues Construction.
Speaker:
Renaud Digoin Danzin, Chief Strategy Officer, Bouygues Construction
Demo Day Presentations
See short demonstrations by startups from around the world featuring the latest emerging technology. Startups presenting will be in a flight of early/seed stage and then later/growth stage.
Demo Day presenters will present in front of a "friendly" shark tank of ten sector-focused investors who will pose questions of presenters and then crown the "winners" in the competition aimed at helping shine a light on the efforts of the industry's startup entrepreneurs and technologists.
Presenting Companies:
Blic, CSC Robotic Engineering Limited, KayaAI, Specter Automation, Spacio, CALMFLOOR, Document Crunch, Fyld, H2 Corporation, Trilytics
Demo Day Reception
The 2025 Paris Summit Demo Day and the Demo Day Reception are presented with the gracious support of BuiltWorlds member, Bouygues Construction.
Day 4 Schedule
General Sessions Breakfast and Networking
The Vendome Salon at the Salons Hoche will be open for Expo and Networking ahead of the opening sessions.
Tech Expo
General Sessions Opening Remarks
Speaker:
Matt Gray, Executive Chair, BuiltWorlds
Opening Talk
Speaker:
Jean-Philippe Trin, Deputy CEO, Bouygues Construction
Global Strategic Exchange Morning Session
Tables will be set for Five BuiltWorlds Member Investors to take short meetings with startups and other conference-goers. 2025 participants will be announced shortly and signups will be open to Summit participants.
Business Strategy Closed Session: The Future of the AEC Business Model
The industry is on the doorstep of massive changes fueled by advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things and other trends. How will doing business in the sector a decade from now be different? How will business models be disrupted, and how do today's leading companies avoid the classic pitfalls of disruption? Spaces in this special conversation will be reserved first for our Business Strategy Track Members.
Speaker:
Mazen Haidar, Corporate Strategy & Planning Manager, NESMA & PARTNERS CONTRACTING CO. UJSC
Future of Infrastructure
Priorities such as sustainability, resilience, efficiency, and the need to meet increasing demand coupled with technology trends such as advances in the Internet of Things and the rise of Artificial Intelligence are all adding up to challenge our approach to meeting needs for more energy, increased mobility, and better wasted and water management. This panel will explore what all of these shifting priorities and changes mean for the physical designs of our infrastructure, new types of infrastructure, and changes in our processes of designing, building, and maintaining our infrastructure. The topics in this session are covered in our Infrastructure Research Track.
Speakers:
Matthew Valle, Co-Founder & General Partner, Infrastructure Ventures TIDe Fund
Rui Coutinho, Chief Innovation Officer, Mota-Engil
Moshe Dalman, CEO & Co-Founder, RodRadar
Sustainability at the Crossroads
Since the launch of the BuiltWorlds Paris Summit in 2019, Sustainability and Circular Economy have been central themes. Over the past decade, we have seen a major increase in the number and variety of sustainability-oriented startups and solutions. How is the changing political climate in the US and elsewhere affecting the climate for these efforts, and where will the industry go from here?
Speakers:
Jonathan Williet, Director External Ventures EMEA, Saint-Gobain
Will Cavendish, Global Digital Services Leader Arup
Investing in AEC Disruption: Short Term and Long Term
BuiltWorlds Venture Forum has grown to a global network within our network of thirty-six companies investing in early stage and later stage startups promising new and better solutions for the industry. We will ask these experts about the state of investing in the sector for short term as well as for long term gains.
Speakers:
Tim Forman, Partner and Co-Founder Undivided Ventures
Allen Preger, Partner, Building Ventures
Juan Nieto, General Partner & Founder, Zacua Ventures
Luncheon and Expo
An opportunity for members to continue deliberations and networking and also to continue to explore the small group of exhibitors curated for the event.
BuiltWorlds Analyst Research Presentations
Representatives of the BuiltWorlds Analyst team will update attendees on some of the most interesting findings from their recent surveys and other research efforts tied to BuiltWorlds Twelve Research Tracks covering topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Building Materials, Construction Tech, Robotics, Venture, and more.
Current Trends in Offsite and Modular Construction
With the launch of BuiltWorlds Offsite Conference this past December, the Offsite and Modular Construction Research Track has quickly become one of the most popular tracks at BuiltWorlds. We will hear from this group of members about their latest work in this critical area of the larger BuiltWorlds conversation and identify keys to successful modular/offsite strategies.
Speakers:
Pedro Andrade, CTO, Blufab, Grupo Casais
Richard Weeks, Director and Technical Leader, AtkinsRéalis
Rob Leon, Chief Innovation Officer, STO Building Group
Toward the Autonomous Jobsite
AI, Robotics, and other factors are slowly bringing the vision of a more autonomous jobsitte closer to reality. Especially in regions of the world facing more challenging workforce demographics, the need to meet rising demands with an increasingly stretched labor force is just one of many factors driving great interest in a more autonomous job site. We will hear from experts about different interesting initiatives around the world aimed at this objective.
Speakers:
Amin Aljaber, Chief Innovation Officer, NESMA & PARTNERS CONTRACTING CO. UJSC
Dimitri Bastaert, R&D and Innovation - Head of Design-to-Build Lab Bouygues Construction
Gene Hodge, Vice President, I4 Mortenson Construction
Dai Ohana, General Manager, Innovation and Incubation Office Kajima
Global Strategic Exchange Afternoon Session
Tables will be set for Five BuiltWorlds Member Investors to take short meetings with startups and other conference-goers. 2025 participants will be announced shortly and signups will be open to Summit participants.
AI and the Transformation of Project Planning and Design
As artificial intelligence takes hold on the industry, the processes relating to planning, design and reconstruction are being the most significantly disrupted. Will the current pace of development in those processes accelerate, and what are the implications for the a future of how we design and plan that, to many in the industry, now seems much closer at hand?
Speakers:
Tom Scarangello, Managing Principal, Senior Advisor, Thornton Tomasetti
Najib Dalank, Group Head of IT, ALEC Engineering & Contracting
Victoire Saby, Project Director, SHoP Architects
Alain Waha, CTO, Buro Happold
Eric Lamb, Operating Partner, Blackhorn Ventures
The State of Open Innovation in the Built World
As industry leaders wrestle with the enormity of disruption in a $13 trillion sector, they are increasingly exploring opportunities to identify and involve new, collaborative partners. In many cases, the result is a proliferation of "Open Innovation" initiatives sponsored by companies around the world seeking combinations of other industry partners, universities, startups and later stage technology companies, and other stakeholders. In this session, tied to our Venture Track, we will examine some of these initiatives and the ingredients that make them successful.
Speakers:
Thai Nguyen, Director of Innovation, Hensel Phelps
Tanja Kufner, Head of Ventures, Nemetschek Group
Vincent Maret, Innovation Director, Bouygues Construction
Teresa Graça, Head of Open Innovation & Ventures, Mota-Engil
Afternoon Break and Tech Expo
Paris Summit First Class: A Look At Progress Made Since our First BuiltWorlds Paris Summit in 2019 with Entrepreneurs from Startups of the Time
From the development of a venture investor ecosystem to significant advances in numerous technologies, much has changed in the more than a decade since BuiltWorlds was founded. In this session, we will have the opportunity to reflect back on those changes with entrepreneurs who were with us in 2019 at our first BuiltWorlds Paris Summit and others from that era. We'll here their reflections on how the sector has matured and also their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities ahead of us.
Speakers:
Hassan Albalawi, CEO & Founder, WakeCap
Meirav Oren, Co-Founder & Executive Chairwoman, Versatile
Artem Kuchukov, Co-Founder & CEO, Kewazo; David Vauthrin, Co-Founder, there
Raphael Scheps, Co-Founder & CEO, Converge
Closing Remarks
Global Innovators Night
A very special evening atop leading building materials company, Saint-Gobain's world headquarters in La Defense. A showplace of sustainability and smart building technologies in its own right, Saint-Gobain's winter garden will provide a spectacular backdrop for us to recognize the 75 leading companies from around the world making the greatest contributions to the support of the innovation in the industry on an international basis.
Speaker:
Basma Kharrat, VP External Venturing, Saint-Gobain
Information about Pre-Events & Venues
Each day of the BuiltWorlds Paris Summit will be held at different venues around Paris.
(Some pre-events are open to members of specific research tracks, if you have questions on whether or not you are eligible to participate reach out to info@builtworlds.com)
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