Summit Highlights

Why Join This Summit

Key Themes That Are Powerfully Relevant To Your Business:

Building Digital Resilience In The Post-COVID Era
How Transport For NSW Overcame Technical, Strategic And Cultural Roadblocks To Adapt To A New “Normal” Post-COVID Scenario
Drones To Ensure Infrastructure Integrity In Next Generation Aerial Surveys
IoT And Digital Transformation To Enable Better City Planning And Design Decisions
Strengthening Lean Delivery, Modularization And Standardization With Digital Engineering & Virtual Reality
Why Many Firms Struggle And Fail At Adopting And Implementing Digital Engineering
Aligning Digital Twins With Infrastructure Project Delivery And Asset Models At Sydney Metro
Victoria Government’s Digital Engineering Strategy For All Infrastructure Assets
Digital Twin Technological Advances And Applications
Intelligent Assets – Integrating IoT, AI And Robotics To Optimize Asset Availability And Reliability
BIM And Prefabrication: How Digitizing Modular Construction Delivers Innovative And Efficient Buildings
How Digital Engineering Across An Entire Project Lifecycle Helped Build New Projects In The Maritime And Ports Sectors
Digital Engineering & IoT In Mining: A Case Study
Digital Engineering And Transformation In The Power Sector: A Case Study

Hot Topics To Be Discussed

Day 1 – Main Summit: 27 January 2021, Wednesday

Delivering Digital Engineering Successfully: Building Digital Resilience In The Post-COVID Era
Maximizing Returns On Mega Projects With Digital EPC Throughout The Project Cycle In The Rail, Mining, Power, Water & Infrastructure Sectors
How Drones Are Used To Ensure Infrastructure Integrity In Aerial Surveys
Planning For Success: How Lendlease Used Digital Engineering And Advanced IoT To Identify And Eliminate Problems At The Planning Design Stage
How Digital Twinning, IoT Enabled Better City Planning And Design Decisions
Why Many Firms Struggle And Fail At Adopting And Implementing Digital Engineering
Managing A Black Swan Event Using BIM Data

Day 2 – Main Summit: 28 January 2021, Thursday

The Victorian Digital Asset Strategy Latest Update
Digital Twin Technological Advances And Applications In NSW
The Use Of Virtual Reality For The Early Design Of Trains And User Feedback
How Digital Engineering Helped Build New Projects In The Maritime And Port Sectors

Day 3 – Post-Summit Seminars: 29 January 2021 Friday

Seminar A: The Strategic Use Of Artificial Intelligence And Analytics In Digital Engineering, With Project Case Studies In Oil/Gas, Building And Construction, Utilities, Mining And Metals Sectors
Seminar B: Intelligent Assets – Integrating IoT, AI And Robotics To Optimize Asset Availability And Reliability
Seminar C: The Concept Of Inheritance In BIM – Design Team Focuses On Their Decision Making Process Relative To Design Intent And BIM/DE Team Builds A System That Inherits Multiple Data Sets From A Single Decision
Seminar D: Augmented Reality, Visualization And Digital Design In New Construction, Building And Infrastructure Projects, With Case Studies

29 January 2021, Friday - Post-Summit Seminars

Seminar A: The Strategic Use Of AI And Analytics In Digital Engineering, With Many Case Studies (10:30am, with break in between)

Join us at this seminar with project case studies in oil/gas, building construction, utilities, mining and metals industries.

The use of deep learning and artificial intelligence methods in data analysis to develop predictive, optimization and making decision models of complex systems
Applications in digital automation
Applications in predictive maintenance
How do you increase energy efficiency, reduce operation and maintenance costs
How do you improve safety and project performance
How do you solve complex industrial problems
Speeding up post-COVID recovery – using AI for COVID-19 tracing in project worksites and among worksite workers
Case studies of advanced AI applications

Dr Ali Soofastaei
AI & Data Science Expert/Global Projects Leader
Vale

Seminar B: Intelligent Assets – Integrating IoT, AI And Robotics To Optimize Asset Availability And Reliability (11:30am – 12:00pm)

Dr Nathan Kirchner
Special Advisor Robotics, Laing O’Rourke
Founder/CTO, Presien

Seminar C: The Concept Of Inheritance In BIM – Design Team Focuses On Their Decision Making Process Relative To Design Intent And BIM/DE Team Builds A System That Inherits Multiple Data Sets From A Single Decision (1.00pm – 1:45pm)

Naveen Dath
Director
Cottee Parker

Quinton Cooper
BIM & Digital Engineering Expert
Cottee Parker

Seminar D: Augmented Reality, Visualization And Digital Design In New Construction, Building And Infrastructure Projects, With Case Studies (1:45pm – 2:45pm)

Jeremy Harkins
Director
Ineni