Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 8:45–9:30 a.m.
Time to Get Savvy About AI: Defining & Preparing for the Transformation Ahead
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 8:45–9:30 a.m.
Speaker
Darren Martin
Chief Digital Officer
AtkinsRéalis
Darren is an industry-recognized thought leader on the power of connecting people, data and technology to deliver stronger outcomes and help us engineer a better future for our planet and its people. He thrives on shaping and delivering digital transformation that enables large, complex organizations to leverage innovative new technologies and deliver extraordinary results.
As Chief Digital Officer, Darren leads the global digital strategy for AtkinsRéalis, a world-leading design engineering and project management company that works to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Darren is responsible for developing and scaling the organization’s digital capabilities to help deliver solutions that support strong client outcomes, maximize efficiency and commercial performance, and reduce our environmental impact.
Darren joined AtkinsRéalis from McKinsey & Company, where he was the global CTO for McKinsey’s Operations Practice and Capital Excellence Program, leading innovation on generative AI, software development and data science. He has also served as global CTO at two other energy and built environment consultancies. In these roles, Darren helped deliver digital transformation policies that added $100M to the bottom line and developed practical expertise in everything from identifying client challenges to determining how large organizations can best integrate powerful AI and data analytics into their products and services.
Darren began his career in a startup as a cofounding developer before rising through the ranks to hold a global leadership position at one the world’s largest digital technology organizations.
Darren Martin
Chief Digital Officer
AtkinsRéalis
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ABOUT THE SESSION
As AEC consultancies continue to invest in AI to develop new service lines and transform existing capabilities, a step change is needed across these organizations to monetize the value delivered instantly to clients. Traditional contracts, time-based pricing, and the race-to-the-bottom approach won’t work when selling automated services — the focus must be on value and outcomes. Clients simply won’t pay by the hour for AI-driven automation that can be done in seconds.
So why are so many organizations racing to create AI capability when there’s as much risk in “low and slow” adoption as there is in moving too fast and getting it wrong?
Drawing on extensive experience in technology leadership roles and a strong track record of driving digital transformation in the infrastructure sector, Darren explained why a different approach is needed to monetize the value of generative AI capabilities. From Sales and Marketing to commercials and billing, Darren reflected on lessons learned, success, failure and enduring misconceptions about AI’s place in the AEC sector.
