The sold-out 2025 AI/ML Conference brought together industry leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors to explore the critical transformation currently underway in the built environment powered by data, guided by strategy, and empowered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Covering a wide variety of topics relating to AI/ML in construction, sessions helped guide AEC decision-makers through the practical application of this rapidly-evolving innovation to inform effective business strategies. For your convenience, we've collected the 2025 session recordings in one location.
Keynote Address
NVIDIA Director of AECO, Geospatial, and AI Solutions Sean Young delivered this year's keynote, showcasing how AI can revolutionize productivity in design, construction, and operations within AEC. His presentation broke down essential AI concepts through relevant industry examples, demonstrating how organizations can leverage their data and deploy AI strategically to bridge the gap between innovation and practical workflow improvements.
Learning the Lifecycle: AI From Concept to Deployment
Implementing AI is a process from initial concept through to deployment and ongoing maintenance. This panel laid out each stage of the AI lifecycle, including ideation, data collection, model development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement. Experts from Gerdau S.A., Terrascape AI, Teleworker AI, and CivCheck discussed best practices for managing this process, ensuring that AI projects are delivered on time and within budget while meeting the specific needs of project teams.
A Strategic Conversation on Data and AI Implementation
As data and AI continue to redefine the AEC industry, leaders are faced with exciting possibilities and complex challenges integrating data into the decision-making process. Industry leaders from Suffolk, Procore, and Mortenson examined how general contractors can leverage AI to increase efficiency, safety, and profitability for project workflows, supply chain management, and data management.
Confidence in ConTech: How to Build Trust in Your AI
PREMIUM CONTENT
In 2025, the need to integrate AI technology into construction workflows is unquestionable. However, we’re all left to guess if the information we’re getting is reliable. In this sponsored case study, Document Crunch CTO Trent Miskelly and Document Crunch user John Andres (Andres Construction) discussed the need for construction stakeholders to have AI tools they can trust; the best ways to measure AI capability, accuracy, reliability, and transparency; and how to develop trustworthy AI-tools with confidence.
Planning to Execution: How AI is Shaping Project Management and Preconstruction
PREMIUM CONTENT
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we plan, manage and execute construction projects. With experts from SmartPM, Skanska, and TwinKnowledge, this panel explored the latest AI-driven innovations in project management and preconstruction, highlighting how these tools are reshaping budgeting, scheduling, risk management and collaboration across teams.
To Build or Not To Build: Navigating the Landscape of AI-Powered Solutions
PREMIUM CONTENT
As AI becomes a game changer in the AEC industry, companies face a crucial decision: Should they build custom AI tools in-house or invest in ready-made solutions? This panel of industry veterans from Henderson Engineers, The Link, and AMC Bridge dove into the pros and cons of both approaches, helping AEC professionals weigh the benefits of tailored, in-house AI development against the efficiency and scalability of off-the-shelf products.
AI's Impact in the Field - Scaling at Suffolk
PREMIUM CONTENT
This session brought together Trunk Tools and Suffolk Construction for a discussion on the companies' recently-signed agreement. Trunk Tools CEO Sarah Buchner and Suffolk Construction Vice President of Operational Excellence Kelsey Gauger offered insights into Suffolk's pilot program of the AI-powered document management solution and Suffolk's approach to AI across its jobsites. Suffolk Power User Joseph Kodsi offered his experience using Trunk Tools in the field at the Delano Hotel redesign in South Beach, Fla.
From Plans to Reality: The Role of AI/ML in Building Technology
PREMIUM CONTENT
AI and automation are rapidly reshaping the future of building technology, from initial planning and design to digital twins and building automation. This panel of experts from Skema AI, Krane, and ARCO/Murray dove into cutting-edge innovations in the realm of building technology, with industry experts demonstrating how AI-driven models are improving accuracy, streamlining workflows, and enabling better decision-making throughout the planning & design process and building space.
Smart Sites: Cutting-Edge Solutions to Enhance Construction Site Safety and Efficiency
The final panel, made up of experts from Haskell, Boston Dynamics, Hardhat Robotics, Hilti, and Field AI, discussed advancements in robotics solutions that are revolutionizing construction work and the future implications of this evolving technology. Panelists also touched on how the Internet of Things, or IoT, combined with AI is being used to monitor construction sites in real time, improving safety and optimizing workflow efficiency.
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