Innovation Professionals – Your Guide to Advancing Construction Technology 2026
If you’re responsible for innovation, you’ll leave with a grounded view of how firms are turning emerging technology into scalable operational value.
Why Advancing Con Tech 2026 is unmissable for you
- Benchmark how peers are prioritizing innovation amid market uncertainty.
- See how firms are governing pilots, AI, and experimentation responsibly.
- Learn what separates successful scaling from stalled pilots.
- Understand how people and culture enable innovation. Not block it.
Priority Sessions & Content
Building Security, Trust & Accountability in Enterprise AI Adoption
- Learn: How construction firms are setting governance guardrails for AI while balancing innovation pressure, data security, brand integrity, and user trust.
- Apply: Draft or refine an internal AI usage framework that aligns legal, IT, HR, and operations before AI tools scale informally.
Workshop: Defining High-Value, Practical Use Cases for AI in Construction to Maximize Efficacy
- Learn: Where early adopters are prioritizing AI use cases (e.g. estimating, scanning, project controls) and why input quality and workflow fit dictate success.
- Apply: Audit your current AI experiments against core business priorities and sunset use cases that lack clear operational owners or KPIs.
Piloting New Tools with Precision to Ensure Best Fit & Maximize Value
- Learn: How peers design pilots around real workflows, define success metrics upfront, and avoid common pilot failure traps.
- Apply: Redesign your pilot playbook so every pilot has defined users, success criteria, and a clear scale-or-stop decision point.
• Panel Discussion: Balancing Leadership Pressures with Your Firm’s Digital Maturity to Responsibly Operationalize AI
- Learn: How leaders reconcile top-down pressure to “do something with AI” against the reality of uneven digitization across teams.
- Apply: Reset leadership conversations around digital readiness milestones, rather than tools-first experimentation.
Vetting Trade Partners’ VDC Capabilities to Elevate Project Outcomes
- Learn: How construction technology leaders evaluate vendors beyond hype, manage innovation without lock-in, and build long-term partnerships.
- Apply: Update vendor evaluation criteria to include integration maturity, exit options, and cultural fit, not just functionality.
Questions to Ask
What killed your last pilot?
How do you say no to leadership ideas?
Where does innovation ownership sit?
Which KPIs changed decisions?
What Our Past Attendees Have Said
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EVP Corporate Development, CF Evans Construction
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