Community

Talks and presentations from members of our global community. Watch on YouTube; connect on LinkedIn.

Special Guests

Bruce Oreck

U.S. Ambassador to Finland (2009-2015)
▶ Hack like you mean it
David Chiu

California State Assembleymember
Miverva Tantoco

First CTO for New York City
Peter Vesterbacka
Steve Adler

Austin, Texas City Mayor (2015-2023)

Speakers

Check out these great presentations from members of our global community.

Aarni Heiskanen

AEC Business
▶ Digital Construction from Now On
Alice Leung

Brick & Mortar Ventures
▶ Starting A Company In AEC
Amy Marks

Autodesk
▶ Industrialized Construction and Design for Fabrication
Andy Lambert

Milwaukee Tools
▶ Connected Jobsite
Anya Boguslavsky

Greystar Development & Construction
▶ BIM and Smart Building Integrations
Arto Kiviniemi

buildingSMART International
Atul Khanzode

DPR Construction
▶ Lessons learned with technology
Benny Baltrotsky

MSUITE
▶ AEC Happy Hour Chat
Blake Berg

DB Partners
▶ Breaking Down Technology Silos to Deliver Value in Project Delivery
Brek Goin

Hammr
▶ How technology leaders can build the next generation
Bronwyn Barry

North American Passive House Network
▶ Hacking Policy for High Performance Buildings: a Passivhaus Smackdown of Title-24
Bruno Balbinot

Ambar
▶ Productivity & Connectivity Through Digitalization
Caner Dolas

GAMMA Technologies
▶ Construction site management using AR
Cherise Lakeside

RDH Building Science
▶ Let's Talk About Specs Baby
Chris Jervey

BlueBeam
▶ Honoring the Hack
Chris Moor
▶ The Structural Steel Industry
Christie Federico

Siemens
▶ Smart Buildings
Clifton Harness

TestFit
▶ Generative Design & Real Estate Development
Cody Nowak

BIMcube
▶ Building the Built Environment with Immersive Technologies
Curtis Rodgers

Brick & Mortar Ventures
▶ AEC Hackathon alumni update
Damon Hernandez
▶ How 3D Design Enhances Robotic Manufacturing
Daniel Davis

CASE
▶ Buildings = Data
Danielle Dy Buncio

VIATechnik
▶ What's your problem? Problem Focused and Customer Centric Innovation
Dave Fano

CASE
▶ Big Data in AEC
David Beard

Vuforia
▶ Augmented Reality using Vuforia
David de Yarza

Builderbox
▶ Hack it 'till you make it. From Hackathon to Market, and beyond.
Devin Baldwin

Berkeley Lab
▶ My Journey in Web, XR, & Digital Twins
Don Brutzman

Web3D Consortium
▶ Web3D opportunities for AEC BIM
Elizabeth Guzman

Unity Technologies
▶ Unity for AEC
Emily Olman

Hopscotch Interactive
▶ Reality Capture & Prop Tech
Erin Khan

Suffolk Construction
▶ Innovations at Suffolk
Flavio Cambraia

MRV
▶ Innovation At Scale
Fodan Deng

gad Architecture Design
▶ Algorithmic Design in Engineering
Greg Howes

CutMyTimber
▶ Mass Timber in US & Europe
Hugh Geoghegan

Xinaps
▶ Model checking in the cloud
Hugh Seaton

Glimpse Group
▶ Augmented and Virtual Reality in AEC
James Benham

J.B. Knowledge
▶ AEC Future Tech
Jason Li

BSM
▶ OpenBIM-based Intellectualized Design for Interior Design
Jeffrey Ouellette

jō consulting
▶ Counterpoint & Challenge: When Technology is NOT the Problem...NOR the Solution
Joshua Zabel

Kreysler & Associates
▶ Digital Fabrication & Composites
Juan Carlos Germano

Augin
▶ Innovator's Dilemma
Julieta Moradei

New Story
▶ R&D For Impact
Justin Quimby

Quimby Heavy Industries
▶ AEC Industry Adoption Challenges
Kean Walmsley

Autodesk Research
▶ Project Dasher: Autodesk's research into Digital Twins for AEC
Kelsey Taylor

Engage Civil Incorporated
▶ What really happens in civil design
Kevin Carr
▶ When 3D Laser Scanning Meets 3D Printing
Kevin Picchi

Samsung Internet
▶ Intro to Multi-Device Experiences & WebXR
Lauren Vasey

ETH
▶ Towards Adaptive and Autonomous Robotic Fabrication in Architecture and Construction
Leticia Lima das Chagas

VEC Brasil
▶ Building Performance Evaluation
Malcolm Williamson

Center Advanced Spatial Technologies
▶ Geospatial Perspectives of the Built Environment
Marc Kinsman

Mortenson
▶ XR for Construction
Mariana Macedo

Papo Construtivo
▶ 21 Century Construction In Brazil
Martin Fischer

Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
Mike Flaxman

Geodesign Technologies
▶ Geodesign
Natalie Rens

Asteria
▶ Sustainable and autonomous structures for Earth and Mars
Nathan Wood

Construction Progress Coalition
▶ Supply and Demand of Interoperability in AEC
Niels Falk

HD Lab
▶ Blockchain for AEC
Paul Doherty

The Digit Group
▶ Smart Cities ▶ AEC In the Age of Pandemics
Regina Ruschel

UNICAMP
▶ Scientific Research Inspiring Innovation
Ricardo Khan

Mortenson
▶ Using Virtual Reality to Walk Through Buildings
Rich Blomseth
▶ Preparing for the Industrial Internet of Things
Rick Bawcum

CSI
▶ CSI Crosswalk
Salla Eckhardt

Microsoft
▶ If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on
Shajay Bhooshan

Zaha Hadid Architects
▶ Agile and participatory BIM-from 3D printing to games & houses
Shiya Luo
▶ Web3D API for AEC
Simeon Gow

PCSG
▶ UK Perspective on AEC
Simon Hart

Innovate UK
▶ UK Innovation & Transforming Construction
Stefan Schneider

Cut My Timber
▶ Digital Fabrication & Timber
Stephanie Bay

Nohara Holdings
▶ Nohara Holding, innovation with a 400 year old construction company
Steve Holzer
▶ ABC's of IFC
Stuart Maggs

Scaled Robotics
▶ Construction Robotics & AI
Tadeh Hakopian

HMC Architects
▶ Building Your Tech Stack
Teemu Lehtinen

KIRAHub
▶ Hacking AEC one experiment at a time - Highlights from Finland
Tiago Ricotta

Athie Wohnrath
▶ Keep It Simple
Timo Hartmann

Contecht
▶ Hacking cloud exchanges - Finally BIM Collaboration
Todd Wynne

Rogers-O'Brien Construction
▶ In AEC, the C is not silent
Torben Klitgaard

BLOXHUB
▶ BLOXHUB - Nordic hub for sustainable urbanization
Torbjørn Grimstad

Moicon
▶ Battle-tested & gamified Digital Twins innovating manufacturing workflows
Vanessa Ching

GeoWorks / Singapore Land Authority
▶ 3D Singapore Sandbox
Vincent Kuo

VXT Research
▶ Three ways to forecast the future of artificial intelligence in AEC
Vishal Porwal

Builderbox
▶ Hack it 'till you make it. From Hackathon to Market, and beyond.
Vivin Hegde

Hilti
▶ Life Beyond the Hackathon
Xiaoye Zhuang

Shanghai BIM
▶ AEC Hackathon campaign in China
Zhihe Wang

University of Southern California
▶ Augmented Reality for Room Acoustics