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When
5.5.2020 - 5.8.2020
Where
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DIGITAL SUMMIT DEMO DAY | May 5th
BuiltWorlds has many opportunities to hear from some of the industry's leading technology startups, even digitally. Our Digital Summit 2020 Demo Day provides the opportunity for startups to present their game-changing solutions, virtually, to a panel of investors interested in built world technology across categories like ConstrucTech, PropTech, Smart City Tech, and FinTech.
Analyst Call: Building a Technology Roadmap
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Summit Speakers
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2020 Summit Agenda
Over four days – May 5-8th, we will host a series of 17 “live” webinars, which will be recorded and uploaded to the BuiltWorlds Video Site for members to reference in the months and years to come. The Digital Summit will be a live opportunity for members from all our in-network companies to join our sixteen amazing Summit sessions, hear our talks, ask questions, see who else is involved, and learn and grow together – all from the comfort and safety of their homes or offices.
All times are Central Time.
Day 1 Schedule
Venture Demo Day
A presentation based event where a group of built industry startups will pitch their product & investment opportunity. A group of expert judges will grade each company based on criteria such as: Leadership, Product, Technology, Market Opportunity, & Competitive Landscape.
Day 2 Schedule
BuiltWorlds Analyst Briefing
Hear from the BuiltWorlds Analyst Team as they present survey results on the industry’s most pressing tech trends and widely adopted solutions, collected via the BuiltWorlds Benchmarking Surveys.
FMI Senior Leader Panel
Jay Snyder, Technology and Innovation Practice Leader | Russ Young, Technology Consultant | Jay Bowman, Managing Director - Research | Tyler Pare, Principal and Performance Leader | Brian Moore, Principal
Join us for a first ever panel featuring FMI leading principals representing expertise across the industry. We will engage in discussions about the current state of the market, new dynamics, and industry trends that are forming as a result of COVID-19 disruptions. We will also discuss a forecast of how the market and contractors are likely to recover and restart work. This panel will include brief intro’s and perspective by each panelist followed by an open forum Q&A where questions will be presented by attendees.
HUB International Workshop | Preparing for the Hard Insurance Market – Looking Beyond the COVID Crisis
Kirk Chamberlain, EVP, National Construction Practice Leader, HUB International | Raffi Elchemmas, National Manager, Health & Safety, Milwaukee Tool | Cory Davis, CEO, Real Time Risk Solutions, LLC
Join HUB International for an interactive panel discussion and workshop on how contractors can manage rising insurance costs – and even use this “hard market” to their advantage.
The panel will consist of technology, risk and insurance experts that will discuss market conditions, new trends in technology, and safety management best practices – all in the name of positioning contractors to be the most attractive risk to underwriters.
Day 3 Schedule
Panel: Innovation for Emerging and Mid-Sized Contractors
Wesley Palmisano, CEO, Palmisano LLC| John LePak, CEO Omaha Electric | Casey Bell, CEO X3 Builders
With fewer resources technology adoption may be a challenge for smaller firms, but with less cultural inertia to overcome, newer and smaller firms may actually have an easier path to adoption and may be leveraging technology more effectively than their larger and older counterparts. In this opening session we will take a look at how the emerging players on the industry side are approaching technology adoption and what innovation looks like for newer and smaller construction companies.
Panel: Innovations in Horizontal Building (Heavy Civil Infrastructure)
Christian Tricoire, Chairman, VINCI Construction LLC
Technology is changing how we design, build, operate, and maintain the built world’s infrastructure assets. We’ll hear from key stakeholders in the heavy civil space to discuss the innovative practices they’ve implemented to drive efficiency across a number of projects.
Keynote Presentation: Building Automation and the User Experience
Emily Watkins, Managing Director Americas Lead, JLL Flex
How do we leverage technology to make our spaces more responsive to users and efficient for owners and operators? With an intensifying focus around user experience and productivity in the workplace, we’ll have a discussion of how one of the largest real estate companies in the world is leveraging emerging technologies to meet that challenge.
Panel: The State of “Smart Buildings”
Brandon Tinianov, VP Industry Strategy, View, Andy Schnack, Senior Manager, Xfinity Communities, Comcast, & Chris Hoyes, Principal, Roland Berger
Where does the current environment leave the smart building products, materials, systems, and services sector? We’ll look to explore smart building technology adoption rates, different end market focuses, and customer demand given COVID-19 concerns. Will healthcare or other end markets will see a surge in interest in features like touchless entry, occupancy management, or sanitation?
Case Study: Leveraging Tech for Preconstruction & Planning
Sunil Dorairajan, CEO, Pype | David Letlow, Director of Project Analytics, Skanska
We’ll explore how Skanska, ranked #7 on the 2019 ENR Top 400 Contractors, is utilizing Pype to quickly Analyze specification documents and gain greater visibility into submittals and requirements. Learn how AI and Machine Learning are being applied in order to streamline the preconstruction process, and what that means for all project stakeholders.
Fireside: Advancing Equipment for Safety & Productivity
Chris Hummel, CMO, United Rentals
Equipment Managing and Monitoring Systems. Autonomous Equipment and Robotics in the Field. Data Collection Devices and Management Platforms. As the construction industry continues its effort to digitize, advances in the equipment we use are making for more efficient and safer operation. In this session, we’ll (virtually) sit down with United Rentals to discuss how they’re helping their customers understand the changing tech landscape as it relates to equipment and where they can help.
Case Study: Managing New Tech on the Jobsite
Jennifer Suerth, Vice President of Technical Services, Pepper Construction | Burcin Kaplanoglu, Executive Director, Innovation Officer, Oracle
This session will look at Oracle’s Industries Innovation Lab, which brings to life the connected worksite of tomorrow, empowering visitors to experience the potential of wearable and sensor technology, drones, autonomous vehicles, and visualization technology for themselves. Burcin and Jennifer will talk through how the Innovation Lab came about, what it aims to achieve, how it’s evolved and lessons learned during its construction.
Panel: Leveraging Predictive Analytics at the Executive Level
Jit Kee Chin, Chief Data and Innovation Officer, Suffolk | Erin Roberts, Global Engineering & Construction Leader, EY
Predictive Analytics has quickly become a topic of interest for construction professionals across the industry. Leveraging predictive analytics to spot early indicators of potential cost overruns, schedule delays, and safety incidents before they can have an extreme impact on any company’s bottomline. We’ll hear from industry experts about how they’re utilizing predictive capabilities across construction operations and learn how other industry players can do the same.
Day 4 Schedule
Panel: A CEOs Perspective on Positioning Your Organization Today for Tomorrow
Richard Wood, CEO, Plaza Construction | Ryan Maibach, CEO, Barton Malow| Marc Dutil, CEO, Canam
How are you managing your business in an environment of rapid technological change? A high-level, strategic focus is an important differentiator - especially from a C-Suite perspective. Hear from top construction executives as they discuss how they’re positioning their company for a successful, tech-enabled future.
Panel: Driving a Culture of Innovation
Tom Emison, Vice President Strategy and Innovation, Kraus Anderson | Dan Gilbane, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Gilbane Building Company | Tonya Dittman, Director of Engagement, Performa Inc. | Weston Tanner, Director, Construction Technology & Innovation, Graycor
Do you know the most pressing tech trends, or who the major players are? Is your company positioned to identify, understand, and select new solutions? Creating, driving, and measuring a culture of innovation can be difficult, so we’ve tapped top strategy and innovation leaders from the BW Member Network to discuss how they’re making it happen.
Panel - Fueling Innovation Through Corporate & Sector-focused Venture Capital
Nick Billotti, Managing Partner, Shibumi | Eric Lamb, Managing Director, WND Ventures | Ty Findley, Managing Partner, Ironspring
There is no substitute for industry expertise as a built tech startup develops, and as such, the role of VC players is more important than ever. In this session, we’ll hear from Venture leaders on how they are approaching investments in the built space, what kind of technology they're most excited about, and how the VC asset class is evolving past traditional models.
Panel: Building a Construction Technology Roadmap
Chloé Clair, Chief Technical Officer, VINCI Construction | Chris Dill, VP of Technology & Chief Information Officer, Kiewit | Kim Arrant, Vice President, Business Transformation, APTIM
How can construction innovation strategists and operations specialists ensure that a new solution fits appropriately into their pre-existing tech ecosystem, and then drive adoption enterprise-wide to confirm a successful implementation? We’ve gathered top built industry thought leaders to discuss the processes, training, and other strategies they’ve set in place to accomplish just that.
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