Digital Construction Week reveals main stage speakers

There will be more than 230 CPD-accredited speaker sessions staged across two days at DCW, held at London’s ExCel on 3-4 June. The organisers announced the programme for the other stages a fortnight ago. 

On the main stage in the afternoon of day one, Laing O’Rourke’s Paul Drayton will ask: What performance is possible through effective design phase collaboration? Joining him to answer that question will be representatives from WSP, BDP and Aecom.

Then a panel led by Nemetschek’s James Chambers will discuss “how to build a future-ready workforce that blends craft expertise, digital skills, and hybrid collaboration”.

The third session will focus on industrialisation, with speakers from AtkinsRéalis, Akerlof and Jacobs. The final session of day one, entitled ‘World models: Turning data into real-world impact for the built environment’, features Nemetschek and Google Cloud representatives.

Day two starts with Bentley Systems’ Nathan Marsh, who will “challenge traditional project thinking and explore how treating projects as integrated systems unlocks new levels of performance, resilience, and value”.

The second session on day two returns to industrialisation with two directors from Reds10 detailing their digital ecosystem. Then a Trimble representative will discuss “why the distance between plan and build is still construction’s biggest problem”.