Stop Talking About AI & Start Building It
Everyone agrees that AI will transform the AEC industry. The real challenge is turning that vision into real business value. In this session, David Felker shares the playbook behind Trilon’s AI transformation. Beyond discussing high-level AI trends, David dives into the practical frameworks, operating model, process mapping methodology, team structure, governance and implementation approach Trilon…
Read MoreAutomate the Task to Elevate the Outcome: Redesigning AEC Workflows Around Client Value
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…
Read MoreFrom AI Pilots to Enterprise Intelligence: What We Learned Scaling AI Across Mott MacDonald
Namitha Vinay shares lessons from Mott MacDonald’s AI journey and explores what it takes to move from promising pilots to enterprise-scale impact. In this session, Namitha explains why scaling AI involves more than technology and demonstrates how information, context, and organizational knowledge create the foundation for AI that learns from the enterprise and helps teams…
Read MoreBeyond Time & Materials: Rewiring AEC Delivery & Commercial Models for the AI Era
AI promises to help AEC firms work faster, smarter and with greater confidence, but real value will not come from automating today’s fragmented processes alone. It requires redesigning workflows and aligning commercial models with shared outcomes. This session asks how leaders can turn AI-enabled productivity into better delivery, lower risk and sustainable value, not just…
Read MoreThe Future of Work: How AI Is Reshaping Talent, Roles & Delivery in AEC
As AI becomes more embedded in the AEC industry, it is changing more than technology strategies — it is transforming how work gets done, how teams are structured and what skills will matter most in the years ahead. In this panel discussion, industry leaders explore how AI is reshaping talent models, redefining roles, and creating…
Read MoreEmbedding AI Where Work Happens
The AEC firms that win with AI won’t be the ones running the most pilots; they’ll be the ones who hardwire AI into how delivery actually works. In this session, Jay Wratten reframes AI as a delivery transformation, not a standalone capability, and outlines the four moves that reliably separate scalable impact from stalled deployments:…
Read MoreEnterprise AI in Practice: 5 Principles for Scaling Value
Drawing on enterprise-scale AI transformation at Jacobs, Michael Brown outlines five strategic principles for driving measurable value. Moving beyond technology-first thinking, the session explores the human, operational and organizational realities required for successful adoption. Michael builds on last year’s presentation about how AI is redefining the asset lifecycle and highlights how a holistic, enterprise approach…
Read MoreBeyond the AI Paradox: Why AEC Firms Aren’t Seeing AI in the Bottom Line
Eighty percent of companies have deployed AI in at least one business function, but eighty percent of those companies still report no material contribution to EBIT from AI. A large contribution to this paradox in AEC firms is that AI is being applied sporadically instead of transforming the way work is delivered. In this…
Read MoreAI at the Frontier
Almost all aspects of the built environment are seeing value from AI across the sectors we serve and the full asset lifecycle. What’s more, the latest frontier AI breakthroughs are unlocking new capabilities that could be even more transformative for built environment work. In this keynote session, Dr. Will Cavendish shares real-world examples of AI…
Read MoreOpening Remarks
Eileen M. Canady opens the first full day of the AI Summit by reflecting on how technology can serve people and businesses in subtle yet important ways, solving everyday problems and making our lives easier. She invites AI Summit attendees to absorb the knowledge and share their insights from the summit in the spirit of…
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