Is AI Eating the World? – Venture East 2025 Panel Session

AI is rapidly transforming the built environment, driving massive change across design, construction, operations, and infrastructure. In a panel moderated by BuiltWorlds CEO Rosemarie Lipman and titled “Is AI Eating the World,” industry leaders Ty Findley (Ironspring Ventures), Rene Morkos (ALICE Technologies), Patrick Lalonde (EllisDon), Tom Scarangello (Thornton Tomasetti), and Arvind Veluvali (Fresco) met to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping processes, unlocking new efficiencies, and creating both challenges and opportunities for companies in this space. Using real real-world applications, panelists explored hurdles to adoption and what the accelerating growth of AI means for the future of built world innovation.