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Wednesday, November 11

Automate the Task to Elevate the Outcome: Redesigning AEC Workflows Around Client Value

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Wednesday, November 11

Speakers

Eileen M. Canady
Eileen M. Canady

Chief Marketing Officer

BST Global

Niels Schenk
Niels Schenk

Global Digital Product & AI Director

Arcadis

ABOUT THE SESSION

The greatest potential of AI in AEC is not simply to accelerate existing tasks but to reimagine how expertise is applied and value is created for clients. If digital and AI only reduce the effort required to deliver existing services, the result may be lower fees rather than greater value. The larger opportunity is to use digital and AI to amplify professional expertise, improve client outcomes and create customer experiences that allow clients to leverage the benefits.

In this presentation, Niels Schenk shows that the opportunity for the AEC industry of recent AI advancements is turning domain expertise and client-specific ways of working into scalable digital and AI-supported workflows that can be digitized and enhanced within clients’ existing technology environments, without having to replace enterprise IT systems.

Niels also uses a recent use case to show how the same principles can extend to many other service areas within AEC — moving digital and AI from an efficiency tool to a source of differentiated client value.