The National Information Management and Digital Construction Conference 2025
Collaboration, Innovation and Sustainability
Salford Community Stadium 13 February 2025, 9:00am - 4:00pm
8:45am
Registration
9:50am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Marie Grieve, Founder and Managing Director of Costello Palmer Communications, Global Vice Chair of Women in BIM
10:00am
The Current Challenges and Opportunities of a Digital Built Environment
- The importance of information management in the asset lifecycle
- Overview of industry trends and challenges
David Philp, Chief Value Office, Bentley Systems
10:20am
Making Information Management Accessible Across Built and Managed Environments
- Simplifying information management practices for industry-wide adoption
- Strategies to communicate the IMI’s goals and potential benefits to various stakeholders
- Enhancing collaboration between the manufacturing and construction sectors through data-driven practices
Emma Hooper, Head of Information Management Strategy, RLB Digital
10:40am
The Role of AI in Secure Data Management
- Discover how AI and other technologies can streamline data consolidation and management
- Gain insights into overcoming challenges related to data security and retention
- Understand the impact of regulations such as the Building Safety Act on data storage and retention requirements in the built environment
Pavlina Nikolova, AEC Practice Lead, EMEA, Egnyte
11:00am
Questions and Answers Panel
- Speakers from the previous session will join for an audience Q&A
11:10am
Break and Networking
11:40am
Redefining Construction Through Digital Twins: Innovation, Inclusion, and Impact
- Understand how digital twins are transforming construction and cost management, improving accuracy, efficiency, productivity and value-based outcomes, in regulated ‘professional’ services
- #Exploring #PQS2030’s role in challenging industry norms—promoting procedural and cultural change in construction practices
- The vital link between diversity, equity, inclusion, and digital innovation in creating a sustainable, forward-thinking construction workforce
Dr Bola Abisogun OBE, Founder and Chief Excitement Officer, Digital Twin Skills Academy
12:00pm
Driving Cultural Change in Digital Information Management for Transformative Outcomes
- Understand how cultural shifts can drive sustainable digital transformation in the built environment
- Techniques for fostering client collaboration that align information management with operational goals
- Discuss example of promoting gender equity and representation in BIM initiatives
Dr Melanie Robinson, Associate, Okana
12:20pm
Unlock the Power of BIM in the Field with Reality Capture
When you’re using a BIM model on a project, you want to get it into the hands of those doing the building, but working with models requires special skills and learning complicated BIM coordination software. In his talk, Tamas Borodi talks about how OpenSpace helps to solve this challenge by directly tying reality capture data to your BIM model, in an easy to use environment that those working on-site can access to view, navigate, and understand the model alongside site images.
Tamas Borodi, Regional Manager, OpenSpace
12:40pm
Questions and Answers Panel
- Speakers from the previous session will join for an audience Q&A
12:50pm
Lunch and Networking
1:50pm
Raising Awareness of the International Standards for Information Management: ISO 19650
- Gain an overview of the ISO 19650 series and its role in information management
- Insights into the latest updates to the standard
- Exclusive first look at the proposed information management process.
- Questions and answers
Paul Shillcock, Director, Operam
2:10pm
Panel Discussion: The UK Information Management Initiative
- Understand what the UK Information Management initiative is and how the industry can benefit
- Questions and answers
Speakers:
Emma Hooper, Vice Chair, nima
Mo Shana’a, CEO and Co-Founder, Morta
Seb Lessware, CTO, 1Spatial
Chaired by Paul Wilkinson, Vice-Chair, nima and Managing Director, PWcom.co.uk Limited
2:40pm
Embedding the UK Information Management Framework into Everyday Practice
- The principles of information management as set out in the UK Information Management Framework
- Leveraging data and information to enhance efficiency and accuracy in project management
- A security minded approach to foster cooperation and maintain data integrity
- Questions and answers
Sarah Davidson, Professor of Information Management, University of Nottingham
3:00pm
Break and Networking
3:30pm
Ownership, Ethics, and Exploitation in Information Management
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of DIO’s approach to data ownership and asset information security
- Learn how BIM methodologies and secure data platforms are transforming defence asset management
- Discover strategies for addressing ethical concerns and data longevity within collaborative, high-stakes projects
Jane Dudson, Deputy Head of Asset Information Management, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO)
3:50pm
Integrating Sustainability into Information Management Practices
- Assessing the environmental impacts of data-driven decisions
- Practical approaches to use data for resource efficiency and waste reduction
- Using information management to monitor and enhance sustainability goals
- Questions and answers
Carmine Andrea Rago, Associate Director - BIM Manager and Computational Lead, AECOM
4:10pm
Chair’s Closing Summary
*programme subject to change without notice
Marie Grieve, Founder and Managing Director of Costello Palmer Communications, Global Vice Chair of Women in BIM
4:15pm
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