Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Opening Remarks by Dr. Garfield Jones

How Digital Twins Enable City-Wide Electrification

Digital twin technologies are helping the City of Ithaca identify impactful strategies for electrifying its building stock.

Ithaca’s ambitious electrification plan, one of the most extensive in the U.S., aims to significantly reduce building-related carbon emissions and achieve city-wide carbon neutrality by 2030.

Track: Strategy and Business Value

Becoming Digital Twin Ready - An Evolution Strategy
David Butts

With the dramatic changes in the design community, it's time to evaluate where building information modeling (BIM) has brought us and begin to examine the next generation of digital design and delivery.

The need to understand the impact on people, process, and technology has taken on a higher sense of urgency with concerns about risings costs of labor, environment impacts, and budgetary constraints.

Track: Application & Implementation

Connecting the Dots
Brandon Meinert

Projects are becoming more and more complex these days, generating massive amounts of data at an alarming rate, often going underutilized due to disconnected systems. This, in turn, creates challenges for project teams and stakeholders to maintain a single source of truth and make well-informed timely decisions.

AI for EM: Challenges and Opportunities of Next-Generation Solutions
Emergency management is rapidly evolving, driven by more frequent and intense disasters that demand quick data sharing and analysis. New technologies, like AI, offer both opportunities and challenges. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Management of Tomorrow Research Program, led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is exploring AI's role in emergency management.

Track: Application & Implementation

Leveraging NBIMS-US™ for Big Tech and Telecom: Laying the Foundation for Digital Twins Through BIM Execution Planning
David Morales, Karoline Derse

As the AEC industry continues to adopt innovative approaches to managing the lifecycle of built assets, digital twins are becoming central to improving operational efficiency and asset management.

Track: Strategy and Business Value

Digital Technology Implementation: AECO Viewpoints
This dynamic panel discussion will bring together a distinguished group of experts representing each core sector—architecture, engineering, construction, and owners from the built environment—to share insights on their digital journeys.