Crowne Plaza Riyadh RDC Hotel
22 October | Main Conference, Exhibitions, Meetings
Crowne Plaza Riyadh RDC Hotel
22 October | Main Conference, Exhibitions, Meetings
Governor
The PIF DevCos are pioneering a tech-first approach to overcome the complexities of building at unprecedented scale and speed. Automation of quality control and snagging, reality site capture, schedule optimisation and design reviews (all identified as key pain points to delivery) are delivering measurable gains in accuracy, risk mitigation and delivery confidence. This is also a call to the global ConTech ecosystem: the Kingdom’s giga-projects need scalable, interoperable, and production-ready solutions. The need for innovation is real—and the market is open.
Contech Advisor
VP - Project Delivery
Group Head of Technical Project Management Office
Chief Development Officer
Chief Project Controls Officer
Saudi Arabia’s mega projects are embracing a single-platform vision to transform infrastructure delivery at scale. This presentation will show how data aggregation and visualization enhance control, tailored solutions accelerate execution, and AI-driven analytics unify insights for smarter decision-making—offering a behind-the-scenes look at how these innovations are reshaping project delivery under one unified vision.
Director, Industry & Customer Advisory Strategy - Saudi Strategic Projects
In alignment with Vision 2030 and Saudi Arabia’s pledge to reach Net Zero carbon emissions by 2060, the Kingdom’s real estate and construction sectors are undergoing a critical transformation. This session will explore how the industry is responding to this bold commitment including spotlights on innovative materials & manufacturers, digital delivery and carbon conscious design, looking to global leaders and Saudi Arabia’s strategic pathway to decarbonising the built environment.
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Principal, Design Director, Board of Directors
Chief Operating Officer
Executive Director
Head of Sustainability
Vice President, Assets Construction Delivery
Executive Director – P&C Transformation
As the construction industry stands at the edge of unprecedented opportunity, emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, robotics, augmented reality are no longer just possibilities-they are the catalysts for a smarter, safer, and more sustainable future. And it’s never been more important to stay competitive by knowing what’s coming in the future. Please join Procore to take a deep dive into what the next 2, 5 and 10 years of construction will hold, based on today’s data and trends.
Industry Transformation Leader
In an era of unprecedented investment and ambition, Saudi Arabia’s giga-projects still face persistent inefficiencies. New research reveals the hidden costs of fragmented collaboration, rework, and technology fatigue across the industry. With 55% of regional leaders reporting budget overruns of 11–20%, and time — not cost — identified as the main barrier to digital transformation, urgent change is needed. This session will reveal how leading projects within the PIF portfolio are laying the foundation for more efficient project delivery by unlocking real-time collaboration, reducing delays and rework, and ultimately cutting waste.
Regional Director Middle East and Africa
Discover how 4D digital construction is reshaping project delivery. By linking models, schedules, and site processes in one environment, digital twins give teams full visibility, stronger collaboration, and greater control over cost, time, and quality. With giga-projects and Vision 2030 setting the pace, 4D platforms are becoming the backbone of smarter, faster, and more sustainable delivery
Account Manager, Enterprise
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) are redefining how value is created and delivered across the built environment. By combining digital design, off-site manufacturing, and integrated project delivery, MMC is breaking traditional silos to accelerate timelines, cut waste, and raise quality standards. This session highlights how shifting to an industrialised approach transforms the entire value chain—enabling smarter collaboration, scalable efficiency, and more resilient outcomes for the Kingdom’s ambitious projects.
Senior Technical Manager
Client Executive
Where giga-projects, rapid urbanisation and mega-event deadlines are driving unprecedented construction volume, modular building offers a powerful solution to overcome labor, logistics and time constraints. It has proven its value globally in delivering speed, efficiency and waste reduction, but to realise full potential beyond data centers and supporting infrastructure in the Kingdom, a broader mind shift is required. This session explores what must happen to accelerate the adoption of modular construction at scale—from regulatory alignment and industry readiness to standards, cost acceptance and end-user perception.
Partner
Business Development Manager
Construction and Engineering General Manager
Director of MMC
Chief Engineer
Business Development Manager
In a world racing to build faster, smarter, and more sustainably, Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) is emerging as a cornerstone of modern construction. But with this promise comes a critical shift in mindset: construction and design can no longer happen in parallel. This session presents a case study of a recent DfMA-driven project where success hinged on one non-negotiable principle—early design finalisation. Learn how the team navigated the cultural, technical, and contractual shifts needed to lock down information early and avoid the cost and chaos of late-stage changes.
Head of DfMA
Digital twins are transforming how construction and real estate professionals plan, design, and manage built environments. But today’s digital twins largely remain reactive—mirroring physical assets and responding to human input. The next leap is autonomy: intelligent digital twins capable of independent learning, decision-making, and predictive action. Explore how AI, IoT and real-time data integration are enabling digital twins to move beyond visualisation into self-optimising systems that can anticipate needs, autonomously manage operations, and even negotiate across networks of assets.
Senior Vice President, Digital & AI
Effective governance is the backbone of giga project success. By combining RIBA Stage Gates (0–7) with digital governance enablers, project leaders can ensure alignment, transparency, and control from vision to delivery. This session highlights how structured, data-driven oversight transforms governance into a catalyst for performance and value realization across Saudi Arabia’s mega developments.
Industry Director & Customer Specialist
As the construction and development sector accelerates its digital transformation, the next big challenge isn’t just implementing digital tools—it’s integrating them. From estimation to project controls and document workflow, many critical operational functions are nonnative to traditional ERP ecosystems, leading to inefficiencies, silos, and missed opportunities. Discover how forward-thinking organisations are redefining what an ERP can do by seamlessly integrating the full spectrum of project delivery functions weaving them into a unified, industry-modern ERP platform.
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Information Officer
Chief Information Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Information Technology Director
As AI becomes more structured and intuitive, most major companies are embedding dedicated frameworks and strategies to explore how Generative AI can benefit their business and leverage existing data for the best use-cases. But minimal applications beyond chat bots exist in the market and integration with existing ecosystems still poses a challenge. With the Kingdom investing heavily in Gen AI, this session explores the state of Gen AI applications and the associated integration and data challenges.
Masterplan Design Director
Information Technology Director
Chief Digital Officer
Senior Development Director
Former Head of Construction Technology and Applications
Vice President - Global Strategic Services
Digital Transformation Director
By learning building behavior, predictive AI is reshaping how mixed-use spaces run—cutting waste, reducing costs, and elevating occupant experience.
Vice President Innovation & Smart Building Solutions - MENA
When risks escalate or disputes emerge, generative AI steps in as a strategic partner—spotting issues early and supporting fair, data-driven resolutions.
CEO & Co-Founder
Schedules are no longer static; parametric intelligence creates living, data-rich timelines that adjust instantly to change and uncertainty.
Director of Technology Advancements
How private AI streamlines document management to deliver instant insights, saving time and boosting efficiency across the design and portfolio phases
Director Digital Project Delivery (BIM & GIS)
Hard hats meet smart data—AI surveillance and analytics are redefining site safety by predicting hazards before they become accidents
Technology Hub & AI Solutions Director
Great buildings aren’t judged at handover—they’re judged in operation. This session shows how BIM and VR can turn design intent into operational efficiency. Learn how to simulate user flows, validate maintenance access, and deliver data-rich models that fuel smarter facility management. By engaging operations teams early and testing scenarios in immersive environments, you’ll see how to cut lifecycle costs and create assets built for long-term performance.
CEO
In Saudi Arabia’s rapidly evolving construction landscape – efficiency, sustainability, and digital delivery are no longer optional. This session explores key data and design considerations that must be embedded into Building Information Modeling (BIM) from the earliest stages to optimise the entire lifecycle of built assets. BIM done right starts early. Embedding the right data and design thinking from the concept phase ensures a smarter, more constructible, and maintainable built environment—delivering on Vision 2030’s promise through digital precision.
Associate Director - Digital
Innovation Lead – Digital Delivery & Reality Capture | MENA Region
Digital Construction Director
Globally there is still a clear disconnect between data created during construction and data required for smart and green operations, with asset operators often starting from scratch or undergoing huge data reorganisation between phases and projects. The ability to harness data streams created from concept to delivery and ensure consistent operations is the next frontier for major projects but still faces major challenges. Hear how these organisations are attempting to close the gap by collecting data in the construction phase that can be used for operational benefit.
Chief Technology Officer
Projects Digitalisation Executive Director
Group Director, Strategy & Development
General Manager
Vice President
Digital Design & Delivery Director
While building-level digital twins are already transforming construction and real estate, the next frontier is city-level twins: dynamic, data-rich models that represent entire urban ecosystems. These city-scale twins integrate infrastructure, utilities, mobility, and real estate into a single intelligent system—providing city leaders, developers, and investors with unprecedented insight into how urban environments function and evolve.
This session explores how city-level digital twins are being developed and deployed and how they can simulate urban growth, optimise infrastructure investment, improve sustainability, and enhance citizen well-being.
Head of Asset Management
Lead Smart Cities and Digital Twin
Manager
Senior Digital Consultant
| Day 2: Thursday, 01 May, 2025 | ||
| Track 2 | ||
| Track 2 | Hall B | ||
| 10.00 | Opening |
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| 10.05 | Panel: Closing the Capex | Opex data gap – the next vital frontier for mega projects Globally there is still a clear disconnect between data created during construction and data required for operation, with asset owners often starting from scratch or undergoing huge data reorganisation between phases and projects. The ability to harness data created from concept to delivery and ensure consistent operations, from sales lead management to property management is the vital next frontier for major projects and needs to be defined early. Hear how these organisations are attempting to close the gap through BIM, AI models and integrated platform plays and who will be responsible for maintaining the data throughout the asset lifecycle. Led by: Cristina Savian, CEO and Founder, BE-WISE In conversation with: Amr El Etreby, Managing Director of Project Management and Cost Consultancy, Land Sterling Anastasios Dimas, Regional Technology Director ME, AtkinsRéalis Claire Huhes Munro, Chair, UAE Regional Advisory Board, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Dana Al Mahmoud Nahas, Corporate Technical Director, Trojan Construction Group Garry Murray, Community Management Expert |
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Success stories: Operational digital twins only! Tangible examples & results Tired of theoretical digital twin frameworks? We searched the globe to shed light on tangible digital twins in practice from representing design data for better stakeholder engagement & marketing, to feeding in site data for progress monitoring and reducing carbon/cost in project handover and building operations. |
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| 10.50 | Success story: Construction monitoring, cycle time and carbon reduction Roger Wahl, Chief Technology Officer, Innovo |
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| 11.05 | Success story: From static models to living twins: keeping your digital twin alive and aligned Wissam Hijazi, VP Innovation - MENA, EllisDon |
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| 11.20 | Success story: Seamless integration in sales to asset management Sunder Jagannathan, Co-founder | CEO, PropVR |
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| 11.35 | Success story: Driving efficiency from BIM to boardroom: Scaling intelligence across urban infrastructure Zubran Solaiman, Director, Industry Strategy Cities, Bentley Systems |
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| 11.50 | Morning networking break |
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| 12.15 | Panel: Digital twin strategies 2025 As the digital twin concept gains maturity, many tier 1 projects in the region are executing a digital twin strategy. This session reviews the latest digital twin strategy developments and use-case scenarios in mega projects from construction to operations and customer experience. Led by: Wissam Hijazi, VP Innovation - MENA, EllisDon In conversation with: Andrew Bevan, Technical Director - Head of Digital Solutions EMEA, Parsons Corporation Aqeel Bafadel, VP - Smart City & Innovation, KAFD Asim Rehmani, Manager- Business Transformation, DHRE, Dubai Holding Real Estate Jatin Lad, Lead - Smart Cities & Digital Twin, Ardara - PIF Kendall Wilson, Senior Manager, Digital Twin, Modon Real Estate |
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| 13.00 | Panel: Revolutionising urban living through true smart cities As the built environment undergoes rapid digitalisation, we are edging closer to realising true smart communities and cities. The region's giga- and mega-cities will be reliant on the information that smart systems through monitoring will provide, creating safe, secure, and sustainable urban environments. This session explores the pivotal role of technology in enhancing urban living through connected services that integrate building management, city operations, transport and mobility, energy, water and waste management, public safety, cybersecurity, and digital citizen services. Led by: Mohamed Misbah, Director, Digital Services, Middle East & Africa, Khatib & Alami In conversation with: Marwan Abu Ebeid, Digital Construction Lead, Turner Construction – International Mohammed Shah, Smart City Director, Knowledge Economic City Sebastien Miller, Manager of Public Realm, Masdar City |
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| 13.30 | Close of day 2 | Track 2 |
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| 14.00 | Awards networking reception | Construction Technology Awards |
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| 15.00 | Awards ceremony | Construction Technology Awards |
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