Explore the Agenda
7:15 am Check-In, Coffee & Networking
8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Securing Buy-In to Overcome Tool Fatigue
8:15 am Evolving VDC Into an Integrated & Strategic Business Function
- Discussing why VDC must move beyond BIM and clash detection to include construction workflows, field QC, robotics support, and project handover, and how evolving project scales and delivery methods are creating more opportunity for holistic VDC involvement
- Examining how fragmented processes and siloed offices create skepticism among operations teams who don’t see the full value of VDC, and uncovering how to create enterprise-wide standards
- Right-sizing VDC to delivery methods and project scales
9:00 am The Workforce Planning Revolution: How AI Is Turning Construction’s Biggest Challenge Into a Competitive Advantage
- For decades, general contractors have managed their most critical resource — their people — with tools built for a different era. The result? Reactive decisions, invisible gaps, and a competitive disadvantage hiding in plain sight
- This session traces the full arc: from whiteboards to the first AI-powered workforce planning platform purpose-built for construction. You’ll see what it actually costs when planning breaks down, why the industry’s best operators are moving fast, and how AI isn’t just solving the problem — it’s flipping it into an edge
- The workforce planning revolution is already underway. This is what leading it looks like
9:30 am Panel Discussion: Transforming Field Resistance into Widespread Adoption & Advocacy
- Characterizing the main bottlenecks of field adoption in your firm, including time constraints, resistance to change, and tool fatigue, and how to mitigate trust erosion
- Examining how the introduction of tools can be overwhelming for field teams, especially given the time pressure they are already under
- Identifying one or two features of a tool that truly resonate with field users to spark advocacy and momentum
- Developing intentional, role-specific support workflows to drive buy-in, and ensuring phased introduction and effective change management approaches to reduce friction
10:00 am The Decision Intelligence Layer Capital Projects Have Been Waiting For
- The cost of delayed decisions
- Capital projects lose an estimated $1.6 trillion every year to late and over-budget delivery. We will look at what that actually means at the project level, and why it is a decision problem, not a data problem.
- How decision intelligence works
- What sits between your systems of record and the decisions your team needs to make, and why the assurance layer is what makes the intelligence trustworthy.
- What this looks like in practice
- How Platform Mode, AI Mode, and Autopilot give every stakeholder on a capital project the right intelligence at the right moment, without replacing the expertise already in the room
10:10 am Catch More Errors in 30 Minutes Than a Week of Manual Review
- Structured AI is the most advanced AI-powered QA/QC platform for drawing packages, working across both PDF drawings and native Revit models for architectural, MEP, civil, and structural plans.
- Our AI agents learn your firm’s standards, apply the relevant codes, and read every page of a set, then return a clear list of what’s wrong, where it sits, and how to fix it.
- Run compliance reviews across thousands of pages in minutes, chat with your drawings for sourced answers, build custom checks in plain English, compare versions, overlay disciplines, and close out comments – all within a single platform, with a full audit trail on every finding.
- See a live walkthrough of how multi-disciplinary design firms are using Structured AI to catch 10x more errors, reduce RFIs and change orders, and free their engineers to focus on actual design work.
10:20 am Morning Networking Break
Track 1: Building Information Modeling
Track 2: Applying Technology in the Field
Track 3: Technology & Innovation Strategy
Track 1: Building Information Modeling
Maximizing BIM for MEP
11:20 am Vetting Trade Partners’ VDC Capabilities to Elevate Project Outcomes
Virtual Design & Construction Developer, Stellar
Director of VDC, Stellar Group
- Setting clear expectations for VDC and BIM deliverables during trade contractor selection
- Creating process standards for trade partners to streamline coordination and ensure comprehensive issue detection
- Examining the challenges of transitioning trades from familiar to GC-mandated tools, and how to accelerate this shift
- Securing early trade partner BIM involvement to reduce silos, and determining at what stages each specialty should be involved
11:50 am Innovating VDC Coordination: A Next-Level Approach to Above-Ceiling MEP
Senior Manager, Vdc Bc3 Innovation (Columbus), Turner Construction Company
- Shift from clash-first to design‑intent coordination by starting in preconstruction to align contract documents with prefabrication and installation strategies
- Apply control planes to above‑ceiling MEP to define elevation hierarchy, pipe rack supports, and zones for predictable, buildable layouts that reduce overruns
- Inject builder‑led detail early with the design team to de‑risk cost and schedule, accelerate prefabrication, and improve field installation efficiency
12:20 pm Harnessing BIM Models to Drive Prefab Workflows & Enhance Manufacturing Accuracy
CIO, Windover Construction
- Exploring real-life examples of integrating BIM models into prefab and DfMA workflows to improve efficiency
- Integrating reality capture workflows to coordinate onsite and offsite components and support prefab delivery
- Using model-driven workflows to track the status of completed elements and improve transparency with project teams
- Connecting BIM-driven prefab workflows with real-time coordination across design, fabrication, and field teams to enable end-to-end integration and delivery
Track 2: Applying Technology in the Field
Track 3: Technology & Innovation Strategy
12:50 pm Networking Lunch Break
Modernizing Your Technology Strategy
1:50 pm Panel Discussion: Building Productive, Long-Term Vendor Relationships in a Rapidly Changing Landscape
- Managing innovation amidst the constant emergence of new tools and minimizing vendor lock-in
- Discussing the pros and cons of working with smaller versus larger, incumbent vendors
- Learning how construction technology leaders are building and investing in long-term relationships built on mutual understanding, and how this can be established in the sales cycle
2:35 pm Driving Technology Adoption in High-Complexity Projects: Lessons from Data Center Delivery
- Bridging the gap between technology and field execution: Practical approaches to integrate VDC, BIM, and digital tools into fast-paced project workflows without disrupting delivery
- Turning adoption into impact: Strategies to move beyond tool deployment and ensure consistent usage across teams, trades, and stakeholders in high-pressure environment
- Scaling lessons across projects: What data center projects teach us about standardization, coordination, and building repeatable processes that can be applied across different project types