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Shaping the Future of Construction
08:00 - 09:00 Registration & Networking
09:00 - 09:05 Conference Chair’s Welcome Address
Dr. Alan Hore, Co-Founding Director, CitA
09:05 - 09:10 Morning Plenary Address
Dr. Claire Penny, Partner Strat-edgy and Director, CitA
09:10 - 09:20 Ministerial Address
Seán Canney TD, Minister of State with responsibility for International and Road Transport, Logistics, Rail and Ports
09:20 - 09:30 Regional Address
Tomás Kelly, AECOM, President of Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland
09:30 - 09:50 Keynote
Frederic Vaeremans, Director of Digital Solutions, TetraTech The industry that builds the world must now build its AI capability: A practical roadmap to AI adoption for Construction leaders
09:50 - 10:10 Keynote
Mairéad Morgan, Community Lead, Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Making Agentic Workflows Work for AEC Teams
10:10 - 10:25 Platinum Sponsor
Daniel Byron, Senior DPS Project Lead, BAM Ireland Design Collaboration in Autodesk Forma: Reducing Manual Effort and Streamlining Model Coordination
10:25 - 10:40 Platinum Sponsor
Jonathan Reinhardt, Consultant Director and Ciaran McLoughlin, Autodesk Technical Consultant, NTI Digital Solutions Ireland From Construction to Operations: An Intelligent Asset Journey with Copilot
10:40 - 10:55 Q&A
10:55 - 11:25 Coffee break, Exhibition & Networking
Breakouts Lough Atalia Connacht 4 Connacht 3
From BIM to Integration: Connecting Design & Delivery Chair: Dan O’Gorman, GS1 Immersive Technology Zone Chair: Darragh Ryan, Etex People, Skills & Innovation: Shaping Construction's Future Chair: Gavin Fox, CPAC Modular
11:25 - 11:40 Rubens Lage Lopes Grangegorman Development Agency Co-Ordination is NOT Clash Detection: How to Measure What Matters John Kerrigan Ireland Manager, Leica Geosystems Survey Workflows from Leica Geosystems RTC700 Laser Scanner Joanne White Founder and Director Women in Construction Ireland Beyond the Technology: Transforming Construction Through People, Diversity and Innovation
11:40 - 11:55 Davitt Lamon Head of BIM, NSAI Patterns, Problems, Progress: What seven years of audit evidence tells us about ISO 19650 Oliver Murray Matterport Specialist, Hitechniques Limited Reality Capture: Connecting the Physical and Digital Built Environment Mary Flynn Assistant Chief Quantity Surveyor, Dublin City Council The Collaboration Conspiracy
11:55 - 12:10 Hayley McAvoy BIM Lead Coordinator, ENGDOC BIM Specialists The reality of day-to-day tasks in BIM Integration & Delivery Johnathan Mudrovcic Senior Consultant, RIB Software From Cost Plan to BQ: Connecting NSBE, ARM5 and ICMS in the New RIB CostX Databooks Gerard Nicholson Lecturer, ATU Galway Mark Costello Director at Tetra Tech Europe and Adjunct Lecturer, ATU Digital Infrastructure Design WorldSkills
12:10 - 12:25 Zulkefly Abu Baker BIM Coordinator, MCA Architecture BIM Beyond Automation: Human–Machine Collaboration with AI and Web3 Mohammad Benotmane 3D Team Lead, Evercam Intelligence on Site: How Integrated Capture Data Becomes an AI Coworker Sébastien Cliche BIM Manager & Head of Digital Innovation, Tetra Tech Beyond the Headset
Connecting Reality Capture, BIM and Spatial Awareness at Tetra Tech
12:25 - 12:40 Stacey O’Sullivan BIM Consultant at Murphy Geospatial, a Woolport Company From BIM to Reality: Closing the Information Gap Brendan O’Riordan Dalux, Irish Country Manager Connected Disciplines - One Platform for your Project JJ O’Hara CEO, Future Cast Skills, Investment and Policy: Enabling the Future of Construction
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch and Networking
Breakouts Lough Atalia Connacht 4 Connacht 3
Connected Disciplines: Data, Integration & Delivery Chair: Andy McNamara, ATU Scaling MMC: Skills, Capability & Adoption Chair: Mary Flynn, Dublin City Council Building Differently: MMC, Offsite & Advanced Manufacturing Chair: Davitt Lamon, NSAI
13:40 - 13:55 Alex Small Manufacturers Information Hub, Founder and Project Lead Is interoperable product data a myth? Or does it just need a Hub? Suzanne Purcell Director, CitA Polina Shost Project Co-Ordinator, Skillnet MMC Accelerate Skillnet MMC Accelerate: From Industry Insight to Business Impact Gavin Fox Director of Business Development, CPAC Modular This Isn't a School. It's a Platform.
- From Prefabs to Industrialised Construction
13:55 - 14:10 Dan O’Gorman Community engagement consultant, GS1 Ireland Digital continuity across disciplines, organisations, systems through nine (9) lifecycle stages Yvonne Foy Enterprise Support – MMC & NZEB / Retrofit, National Construction Campus, Mt. Lucas Upskilling the Transition: People, Practice, and Modern Construction Bronagh Carty Commercial Director, John Paul Construction Mikey Ryan Group Operations Director, Kirby Engineering and Construction Delivering MedTech with Certainty
14:10 - 14:25 Craig Johnson Senior Accounts Executive, Trimble Construction Build Once, Repeat Often - Maintain and standardise the golden thread from design to site Alan Hore Director, CitA Daria Choromanska CitA Skillnet Industry Engagement & Training Manager CitA Skillnet: From Training to Leadership Darragh Ryan Head of Commercial at Remagin Ireland by Etex Supply Chain Integration Across Offsite Construction
14:30 - 14:35 Afternoon Plenary Address
Dr. Alan Hore, Co-Founding Director, CitA
14:35 - 14:55 Keynote
Nata Zaman, Deputy Director of Equipping, New Hospital Programme UK Intelligent Delivery - How the NHS New Hospital Programme is delivering hospitals as a new learning system and what are we learning along the way
14:55 - 15:10 Platinum Sponsor
Allan Murphy, Senior Vice President, Bentley Systems Integration and transformation: Building Ireland's Infrastructure Future
15:10 - 15:25 Platinum Sponsor
Cillian Kelly, Head of Digital Project Delivery, Sisk AI won’t Build the Future: People Will: Building an Intelligent Industry Through People, Data & Technology
15:25 - 15:40 Platinum Sponsor
Richard Williams, Business Development Director, KOSMOS Replacing Fragmented Collaboration With Shared Commercial Clarity
15:40 - 15:55 Q&A
15:55 - 16:00 Closing Perspective
Pat Kirwan, Associate Director, Head of Industrialised Design and Construction, Reddy Architecture and President of the European Association for Industrialised Construction
16:00 Closing Address
Dr. Alan Hore, Conference Chair