Wednesday, May 7, 2025 | 1:45–2:15 p.m.
Empowering Arcadians: Leading the AEC Industry Into an AI-Driven Future
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025 | 1:45–2:15 p.m.
Speaker
Freek Matheij
Global Citizen Development & AI Director
Arcadis
Based in New York, Freek is the Global Citizen Development & AI Director at Arcadis, a global leader in sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy. With over 36,000 professionals across 70+ countries, Arcadis tackles critical challenges like climate change, urbanization, and digital transformation.
As a thought leader in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, Freek plays a pivotal role in advancing Arcadis’s vision to reshape the future of work through emerging technologies. With over 13 years of experience, he leads the integration of low-code platforms, AI and digital tools, like ArcadisGPT, driving operational transformation across the company. He is also spearheading an ambitious corporate objective to upskill 2,000 Arcadis citizen developers by 2026, ensuring they are more digitally and AI literate and making them a more productive and future-ready workforce while minimizing risk for the company.
Freek holds an MBA focused on citizen development, low code and AI with his research featured in All Hands on Tech, a book by Thomas Davenport and Ian Barkin.
Freek Matheij
Global Citizen Development & AI Director
Arcadis
ABOUT THE SESSION
Discover how Arcadis is transforming the AEC industry by integrating AI, low-code platforms and digital tools, like ArcadisGPT, to drive sustainable innovation and operational excellence. In this session, Freek Matheij shares how Arcadis is empowering 2,000 citizen developers by 2026 to build a future-ready, digitally fluent workforce that can tackle global challenges like climate change and urbanization.
