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DCN reveals 50+ best practice sessions

Justin Stanton

Editor, DC+

8 October 2025

Digital Construction North (DCN) has revealed the 50+ best practice CPD-certified sessions for this year’s event at Manchester Central on 19 November.

Audience at DCN in 2024 — Digital Construction North will feature five presentation stages

The sessions take place across four stages: information management, innovation, technology and transformation. There are more than 70 speakers drawn from organisations including RLB Digital, Okana, BIMBox, AtkinsRéalis, Chetwood Architects, Jacobs, Turner & Townsend, nima and Women in BIM.

The main stage sessions and speakers will be announced soon.

Here are the 10 sessions that have grabbed DC+’s attention.

10.30-11.00: BIMBox’s Arva Arsiwala and Louis Cowan will “solve the IFC puzzle”, taking you from “chaos to clarity”.

11.30-12:00: In an intriguing move for a software vendor, a quartet of Procore’s management team will deliver a session that will reveal “why construction needs to lead its own tech revolution”.

11.30-11.45: In the first part of a 4D double-whammy in the Transformation Hub, MWH Treatment’s Clare Taylor and Melanie Chung will focus on 4D model-based planning for time-critical asset commissioning.

11.45-12.00: More 4D with Iain Riley from John Sisk & Son, who will argue that 4D is the foundation of successful delivery.

11.45-11.55: On the Tech Stage, Tom Neighbours of 12d UK will detail CDE 2.0.

12:00-12.30: Lucas Cusack from Glider, in the Transformation Hub, will reveal the “dirty truth about what happens to your 100% compliant building information models after handover”.

12:00-12.30: Emma Hooper and Rob Jackson from RLB Digital will offer a “fresh take on how documents fit into an ISO 19650 workflow” and “will challenge how we define, structure and manage documents in a digital-first world”.

2:00-2.30: Okana’s Dr Melanie Robinson and Dan Black will demonstrate “how a highly intricate real-world project was navigated using a structured golden thread approach, turning fragmented information into a clear, regulator-ready safety narrative”.

3:00-3.30: On the Information Management Stage, Fran Parkins from Rider Levett Bucknall will highlight the importance of the missing pillar of digital transformation: namely, practicality.

4:00-4.30: Also on the Information Management Stage, Johnny Furlong from Dalux promises a PowerPoint-free demonstration of how to embed RIBA trackers into the golden thread.

As well as the speaker sessions, there will be more than 50 exhibitors.

Due to venue capacity, tickets for DCN are limited. All registrations go through a vetting process, and places will be approved on a first-come, first-qualified basis. Register to attend DCN.

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