The Future of Integration Summit

As AI rapidly reshapes the built environment, questions remain about its role in one of the construction industry’s most critical responsibilities: building safety. This panel brings together leading building safety and digital construction specialists to explore how AI is currently being used, and could be used, in the design, assessment and operations of safer buildings. Through expert discussion and real world perspectives, the panel will examine where AI adds genuine value, where its limitations and risks lie, and how it can complement (rather than replace) professional judgement and regulatory oversight.

Moderated by Women in BIM to encourage open debate, this session will challenge assumptions, highlight practical applications and consider what guardrails are needed to ensure AI supports better, safer outcomes for people and places, both now and in the future.

Cities around the world are becoming “smarter” through the likes of digital technologies such as sensors, data platforms, digital twins and AI-driven systems. But does smart automatically mean intelligent? This head-to-head discussion, hosted by Women in BIM, brings together two contrasting perspectives to challenge how we define intelligence in the built environment.

The session will explore whether today’s smart city initiatives genuinely improve decision making, resilience, inclusivity and quality of life, or whether they risk prioritising technology over people. From data led urban planning and digital infrastructure to governance, ethics and wellbeing, the speakers will debate what true intelligence in cities really looks like and who gets to define it. Fast paced and thought provoking, this discussion will question prevailing narratives, surface uncomfortable truths and invite the audience to rethink how digital tools should serve cities, communities and future generations.

For years we’ve looked at data through a narrow lens: dashboards, reports, and backward-looking KPIs that describe what happened after it already mattered. That model made sense when data lived in silos and systems were too brittle to respond in real time. But now data lives in the cloud, and AI agents can actively reason over it, summarize it, simulate outcomes, and personalize it on demand.

This session introduces Datagentism: the shift from data as passive “information” to data as an interactive, agent-powered force that shapes environments and decisions in the moment. We will explore how this reframes storytelling with data, not as visualization, but as orchestration: agents that adapt meeting rooms, command centers, campuses, venues, and immersive experiences based on context, intent, and outcomes. For the AV integration world, this is a breakout moment. Integrators can move up the value chain from installing hardware to delivering living systems that sense, decide, and communicate, securely and responsibly, across every space they touch.