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Energy Management
Energy Management

Operational efficiency and cost reduction have never been more important, making visibility into energy usage and the ability to proactively manage energy essential. The more you know about your energy, the better you can manage it.

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Controls & Networks Theatre
Controls & Networks Theatre

This theatre will look at the physical devices in smart buildings including building controls, energy efficiency, BEMS, sensors, shading and lighting. The theatre will also look at the importance of networks, connectivity, power and cabling.

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IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre

Smart Infrastructure is the result of combining physical infrastructure with digital infrastructure, providing improved information to enable better decision making, faster and cheaper. Without a smart infrastructure there are no smart buildings.

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Management & Proptech Theatre
Management & Proptech Theatre

This theatre will look at how a smart building is managed, including FM, software, security, sector analysis and market information, integration, data analysis and services. We will also look at workplace management and the emerging proptech market.

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Smarter Buildings Without the Carbon Trade-Off: Retrofitting Networks for the Future

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Building owners are under increasing pressure to modernise ageing BMS and controls networks, improve connectivity and introduce smarter building technologies — but does upgrading really have to mean replacing existing infrastructure and adding more copper-intensive cabling?

This presentation explores a practical approach to upgrading and extending existing building networks using modern controls technologies, including T1L, while retaining and making better use of existing infrastructure wherever possible.

We will look at how intelligent controllers and emerging network technologies can help overcome the challenges of retrofit projects, reduce installation disruption and support the deployment of smarter, more connected buildings.

The session will also consider the often-overlooked carbon impact of network upgrades. By moving beyond traditional approaches based heavily on Cat 5/6 cabling and using technologies such as T1L where appropriate, there is an opportunity to improve network capability without automatically increasing the embodied carbon associated with the installation.

Join us to explore how smarter network design can help deliver better-performing buildings, future-ready controls and more sustainable retrofit — without assuming that smarter always has to mean more cabling.

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Procuring and winning with smart building technology

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

From IoT sensors and building analytics platforms to fault detection diagnostics (FDD) and Artificial Intelligence Applications, the session will introduce a framework for making informed decisions when purchasing smart building technology, and give independent advice on how to succeed with implementation and deliver maximum benefit. 

The author of the recent BSRIA guide 'BG 91 Procuring Smart Building Technology' will give practical guidance on the system and process changes needed to optimise building operations, reducing energy and maintenance costs, and enhancing sustainability and occupant experience. The guide provides independent advice developed with the support of manufacturers, suppliers, installers, and clients of smart building technology.

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The $100 Million Breakthrough: Unlocking Campus Efficiency and Sustainable Growth at NSU Florida

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Stop guessing and start optimising. Nova Southeastern University transformed its institutional budget by $100 Million through AI-driven occupancy analytics. By leveraging the Wi-Fi infrastructure they already owned, NSU avoided $70 million in new construction costs and slashed HVAC runtimes by 21%—all without sacrificing comfort. This session will provide a blueprint for facilities leaders to achieve operational excellence, right-size real estate portfolios, and lead the hybrid learning revolution by turning underutilised space into strategic capital.

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Powering Resilience Behind the Scenes: How Intelligent Networks Deliver Security, Visibility, Control, and Zero Downtime

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

The UK’s digital backbone depends on networks that do more than connect services, they must continuously protect them. In modern smart building environments, downtime is no longer tolerated, security threats are constant, and complexity is the norm. Reactive operations simply don’t scale.

This session explores how intelligent networks, designed with visibility, control, and operational awareness at their core, are transforming the way critical infrastructure is operated across connected buildings and estates. Rather than responding to incidents after they occur, intelligent network environments enable teams to anticipate risk, maintain stability, and operate with confidence in live, mission-critical conditions.

Trust delivers end-to-end network and infrastructure capability across some of the UK's most demanding environments, combining resilient network architecture, large-scale deployment, embedded engineering teams, and 24/7 operational assurance. This joined-up approach ensures that networks remain secure, observable, and controllable at all times, not just during incidents.

Rather than focusing on individual technologies, this talk demonstrates how networks, platforms, and operations must work together to deliver what modern smart buildings ultimately depend on: security, visibility, control, resilience, and uninterrupted service delivery, working quietly and reliably behind the scenes.

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KEYNOTE: AI in Facility Management: From Idea to Operational Value

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in facilities management conversations, but turning it into real operational impact remains a challenge, especially with rising cost pressures, ageing assets, talent shortages and growing compliance demands. This session looks at what it actually takes to get AI working inside FM operations, from choosing the right use cases to embedding AI into IWMS and getting teams to adopt it, and then at the harder step that follows: the leadership and governance decisions that turn a working system into real value, including who owns a decision once AI surfaces it and how fast that ownership moves through the organisation.

Drawing on industry research and real-world platform experience, the session covers the realities of AI adoption, and helps FM leaders understand how to approach AI safely, strategically and at the right pace for their organisation. Attendees leave with a clearer view of where AI creates operational value within FM, and a sharper sense of how leadership and governance decisions shape whether that value is actually realised.

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KEYNOTE: The Building Operating System: Why Data Will Define the Next 10 Years of Smart Buildings

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Over the next decade, data will become the foundation of every smart building. As AI, decarbonisation and new regulations reshape the industry, success will depend on how effectively buildings collect, share and act on information across all systems.
This presentation explores why open, interoperable platforms are becoming essential for turning building data into better energy performance, lower operating costs and smarter decision-making. It highlights how the next generation of buildings will move beyond automation toward continuous optimisation, using data as the key enabler. 


Key Takeaways:
1. Open platforms create future-ready buildings.
2. Interoperability beats vendor lock-in.
3. Data is the foundation of the smart building.
4. The value is not in the devices. It's in the data.
5. AI starts with open, accessible data.
6. Better data drives better energy performance.
7. Buildings must evolve from reactive to predictive.
8. The next decade belongs to buildings that learn, adapt and improve.

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KEYNOTE: Run Before You Fly: Where AI Actually Earns Its Place in Building Optimisation

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

AI has changed how building optimisation is done. Opportunities that once took weeks of manual trend analysis can now be found, scoped and quantified by AI, continuously, across a whole portfolio.

But AI is only as good as the data model underneath it, and very few vendors publish how often their analytics get it wrong. This session looks at where building AI earns its place, why one mislabelled point can flow through to every result after it, and why a polished interface proves nothing without validated results at scale.

Using real examples, it shows how autonomy is earned one task at a time, with people verifying before anything changes in the building. It also covers how AI helps prioritise improvements and build roadmaps for performance ratings including NABERS UK, and gives owners three questions to ask any AI vendor.

Attendees will learn

  • Where AI is already changing building optimisation, and what it still can't do on its own
  • Why the data model decides whether AI output can be trusted
  • What earned autonomy looks like, from AI suggests to fully automated
  • How AI helps prioritise improvements and build roadmaps for ratings such as NABERS UK
  • Three questions to ask any AI vendor about accuracy, data quality and verification

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Extract that golden data and achieve real-world energy savings with a 2 year ROI

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Integration and smart buildings veteran, Ged Tyrrell takes you through how to open up data from your building systems as part of rapidly deployable solutions that start to deliver dramatic energy savings in weeks, no matter your building shape and size. With case studies and detailed technical insights, Ged will demonstrate how these outcomes are achieved in today’s real world and why every building operator or owner needs to consider this approach seriously, with inevitable energy and taxation increases to come, while having a positive impact to the environmental challenges we face.

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KEYNOTE: Creating real outcomes for Real Estate with Self Driving Networks

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

See how you can leverage your building network to achieve real business outcomes with IoT and Location Based Services, with HPE AI Networking. Learn how to leverage your existing network to be able to connect with your BMS, analytics or cleaning platforms, therefore saving money and gaining efficiencies across your estate.

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Closing the Performance Gap: Why Buildings Underperform and How Intelligent Controls Can Fix It

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Despite significant advances in building technology, many buildings continue to consume more energy than predicted, fail to deliver consistent occupant comfort, and fall short of their intended operational performance. This disparity between design intent and actual operation, commonly known as the performance gap, remains one of the greatest challenges facing the built environment.

What if your building's biggest energy-saving opportunity is already installed, but simply not being fully utilised?

This session will explore why buildings fail to meet expectations and demonstrate how Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS) and Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) can help bridge the gap between design intent and real-world performance.
Gain practical insights into how intelligent controls can identify hidden inefficiencies, support ongoing optimisation, and unlock significant energy, carbon and operational savings.

In this session the panel will explore: 
• Why actual building performance often differs from design intent.
• What is the real cost of doing nothing. 
• Is the route to better performance already installed? 
• What practical steps buildings owners can take to close the performance gap.

Chair of panel: Ron Purcell, Vice President BCIA and Product Manager at Siemens
Panellists to be announced soon.

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From Smart Readiness to Smart Decisions: Making the SRI Work for Real Buildings

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

The Smart Readiness Indicator is becoming an increasingly important framework for assessing how ready buildings are for smart technologies and intelligent operation. But what does the SRI actually mean in practice for building owners, operators and technical teams?
This session takes a practical look at how the SRI can be used to assess buildings, identify potential and support digitalisation decisions. It will cover what the SRI measures, how its services, domains and impact criteria provide a structured view of a building’s smart readiness, and where its limitations lie.
A particular focus will be on connecting the SRI with real building data. How can data from building automation systems, sensors and other digital sources support the assessment? And how can SRI results be translated into concrete measures and digitalisation strategies?
The session will also look at how the SRI is evolving and what role it can play in the future of smart buildings.

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KEYNOTE: Robot Ready Smart Buildings

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Robots are easy to buy, but the buildings meant to host them mostly aren't ready for the job. In this rapidly evolving space, there's a real risk that deployments could stall long before the technology does. This talk looks at why smart buildings may be a strategic advantage for these new entrants to the workforce.

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Beyond Handover: Why Smart Buildings Still Underperform

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Modern buildings are increasingly equipped with Building Management Systems (BMS), smart technologies, analytics platforms and digital tools. Yet many continue to underperform long after handover, falling short of their energy, carbon, operational and occupant comfort objectives.

This presentation explores the gap between what is designed and installed, and what is ultimately achieved in operation. Drawing on real project experience and building performance reviews, it examines the common issues that prevent buildings from delivering their intended outcomes, including control strategy challenges, scheduling issues, poor data quality, sensor inaccuracies, underutilised analytics and operational practices that drift over time.

The session will demonstrate how Health Checks and performance-focused reviews can uncover hidden inefficiencies, improve building operation and help organisations realise greater value from their existing systems without major capital investment.

Attendees will gain practical insights into:

- Why many smart buildings still underperform after handover.
- Common issues identified through building performance and controls reviews.
- The role of controls, data and operational practices in achieving better outcomes.
- Practical approaches to improving energy performance, occupant comfort and decarbonisation.
- How building owners and operators can unlock more value from existing systems and technologies.

Whether you are a building owner, facilities manager, operator, asset manager, project manager, or building performance professional, this session will provide practical lessons and real-world examples that can be applied to both new and existing buildings.

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KEYNOTE: Excel Exhibition Centre - Structured Cabling Infrastructure Upgrade

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Excel Exhibition Centre are going through a transformation program, that includes the addition of Phase 3, to increase the size of the Exhibition Centre to complete on a global scale, with global clients.

The upgrades of both the passive and active infrastructure, Wired & Wireless to ensure customers, visitors and staff enjoy the latest technology to support their dynamic events.

This presentation will focus upon the challenges of the current / original infrastructure and the planned road map, aligned with venue use changes with the opening of new areas of the venue.

As Excel are focusing on a move to 10Gbps at the edge to support a range of endpoint devices, current and planned.

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KEYNOTE: Three Estates, Three Journeys: What It Actually Takes to Turn Analytics Into Outcomes

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Analytics case studies usually start at the happy ending, the savings number, the fault count, the tidy ROI. This session goes back to the beginning.

We'll walk through three real deployments that reached strong outcomes by entirely different routes: a life sciences estate, where compliance, validated environments and uptime set the terms before energy ever entered the conversation; a service partner transformation, where the hard part wasn't the technology but rebuilding how engineers work, how contracts are priced, and how planned maintenance is justified; and a university campus, where a small in-house team covering a sprawling mixed estate — labs, lecture theatres, residences, decades of inherited plant — had to decide what to fix first against a net zero target and a finite capital budget.

For each, we'll cover what the client was trying to fix, what the data actually revealed, where the deployment stalled, what changed operationally, and the outcomes delivered — in cost, comfort, carbon and engineering time. The through-line: the technology is rarely the constraint. What separates the estates that get value from the ones that don't is data readiness, ownership of the actions, and whether anyone's job actually changed.

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KEYNOTE: Retrofit-Ready Controls: Unlocking Smarter, More Sustainable Commercial Buildings

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

As commercial buildings face growing pressure to deliver better energy performance, lower carbon emissions, improved occupant experience and long-term operational resilience, smart controls are becoming central to both new build and retrofit strategies. From landmark developments designed around intelligent infrastructure from day one, to existing assets that need to modernise without the disruption of full refurbishment, advanced building automation technologies are helping owners and operators create more flexible, efficient and future-ready buildings.

The presentation will combine strategic insight with real-world project examples, including a major new build scheme, 40 Leadenhall in London, where intelligent building technologies have been deployed to support energy efficiency, flexibility, occupant wellbeing and future-ready operation. This project demonstrates how intelligent controls can be integrated from the design and construction stages to support sustainability targets, operational flexibility, occupant wellbeing and future adaptability. This project incorporates Distech Controls solutions as part of a sophisticated BMS strategy, supporting ambitious sustainability performance targets including BREEAM Excellent, NABERS 5 Star and WELL Platinum certification ratings. 

While the technical route may differ between a new development and an existing building upgrade, the core principles remain the same; open, interoperable, secure and scalable controls that enable buildings to perform better over time.

Drawing on the shift towards open, interoperable, IP-native and cloud-ready control systems, the session will explore how these technologies can be applied across both new build and retrofit environments. For new developments, this means embedding flexibility, cybersecurity, data visibility and future innovation into the building from the outset. For existing assets, it means modernising legacy infrastructure, improving energy performance and enabling analytics and AI-driven automation without unnecessary disruption.

Delegates will leave with a clearer understanding of how intelligent control strategies can support smarter building outcomes across the full project lifecycle, whether embedded into major new developments from the outset, or applied to existing building upgrades to improve performance, efficiency and long-term asset value.

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Why Microgrids can't afford to be Micro anymore

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
40 minute session

The UK's electricity grid is fast becoming one of the biggest barriers to decarbonisation.
From EV charging hubs and logistics parks to industrial facilities and smart commercial buildings, developers are finding that the power needed to support electrification, renewable generation and future growth simply isn't available when they need it.

As a result, organisations are increasingly turning to private networks and microgrids, not just as resilience measures, but as critical infrastructure that can unlock projects, reduce costs and support long-term energy flexibility.

In this session, Eclipse Power will explore how microgrids are evolving beyond isolated energy systems to become the foundation of future energy estates, industrial parks and smart buildings. We'll examine the impact of grid constraints, the growing role of private networks, battery storage and local generation, and how independent network operators are helping organisations accelerate projects while supporting the wider energy transition.
Attendees will leave with practical insight into how energy infrastructure is changing, why traditional grid connections are no longer enough, and what organisations can do today to futureproof developments against growing power demands.

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Beyond Automation: How AI Is Revolutionising Building and Facilities Management

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
40 minute session

Automation has always been a goal of buildings and facilities managers. There have always been barriers to this process, but has software finally caught up?

AI has become a watchword in the sector, with companies now embracing AI to monitor and manage their buildings. But in practical terms how does this work and who is the right person to manage this process and does the industry have the skills to implement this technology?

Find out at the AI Hub panel session sponsored by J2

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KEYNOTE: Are We Buying Smart Buildings Right?

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
40 minute session

The building opens. Every system is commissioned. Every dashboard is green. But the building still doesn't do what was promised. Sound familiar?

Our industry has learned to define smart buildings well, design them well and install them well. Yet deployments keep underdelivering, and the usual suspects (immature technology, skills gaps, poor integration) don't fully explain why.

Brahm's contention, after 25 years spanning controls engineering to boardroom advisory, is that we've been asking the wrong question. It isn't whether we're building it right. It's whether we're buying it right.

Here's why it matters now: tenants, lenders and valuers have all started paying for building performance, and the gap between promise and delivery has a price on it. If your projects keep producing buildings that work on paper and disappoint in operation, this session names the cause, and it isn't where you've been looking.

You'll leave with a five-minute test you can run on any live project the same week, and one question that will change how you read every contract that crosses your desk.

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From Data to Decarbonisation: Deploying Scalable IoT Monitoring Across Heat Networks and Multi-Site Energy Infrastructure

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
40 minute session

The UK's energy transition depends not only on generation and grid transformation, but also on improving visibility, control, and operational intelligence across existing buildings and utility infrastructure.

Many district heating systems, multi-occupancy buildings, leisure sites, and distributed utility networks still operate with limited real-time insight into energy consumption, asset performance, or network behaviour. This lack of visibility creates challenges around efficiency, billing accuracy, compliance, fault detection, and carbon reduction.

This paper explores how scalable IoT monitoring platforms can be deployed across heterogeneous and often legacy infrastructure to enable actionable operational intelligence without requiring full system replacement.

Drawing on real-world deployments across residential buildings, district heating environments, utility metering applications, and distributed energy assets, the session will examine:

* practical approaches to retrofitting existing infrastructure;
* integration of mixed communication technologies including LoRaWAN, M-Bus, Modbus, NB-IoT and cloud-native systems;
* challenges associated with interoperability and fragmented legacy estates;
* transforming large volumes of utility and asset data into operational actions;
* enabling compliance, tenant billing transparency, and ESG reporting;
* lessons learned from scaling deployments across thousands of connected assets.

The paper will also discuss how real-time monitoring supports:

* earlier fault detection;
* optimisation of heat network performance;
* reduction in operational inefficiencies;
* improved customer transparency;
* and more informed decarbonisation strategies.

Rather than focusing on future concepts alone, the presentation will share practical implementation experience and deployment insights from operational environments where digitalisation is already delivering measurable outcomes.

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The network you already have: turning IT data into building intelligence

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Your building’s IT network already generates rich operational data — from occupancy and device usage to environmental conditions and movement patterns — yet much of it is never collected or shared beyond IT. This session shows facilities, real estate, and workplace teams what existing network and digital infrastructure data can reveal about employee experience, health and wellbeing, and energy use, without duplicating investment in stand-alone sensor estates. Delegates will leave with a practical view of what IT can already see, what it cannot, and how to turn that into answers stakeholders actually need.

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You Can't Save What You Can't See: Why Metering Visibility Comes Before Energy Efficiency

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Most energy reduction strategies start in the wrong place. They start with a target, a piece of equipment, or a retrofit, before anyone has actually established where the energy is going and why. The result is guesswork dressed up as strategy: cuts that look good on paper but don't survive contact with a real building.

This session makes the case for starting somewhere less exciting but far more effective: visibility. You cannot make meaningful cuts to consumption or cost that you cannot see, measure, and attribute. Submetering and granular energy monitoring aren't just a compliance checkbox or a nice to have dashboard, they are the foundation that everything else in an energy management strategy is built on.

Kuldeep will walk through why so many buildings are, in effect, flying blind: relying on a single monthly utility bill to understand a year's worth of complex, dynamic energy use across dozens or hundreds of circuits, tenants, and systems. He'll unpack the hidden costs that stay invisible without proper metering, from phantom loads and base load creep to equipment running needlessly outside occupied hours, and explain why these costs are often larger, and easier to fix, than most facilities teams assume.

The session will also cover how visibility changes behaviour, not just budgets. When tenants, occupiers, and facilities teams can actually see consumption in near real time, and when that consumption is tied to accountability through tools like tenant billing, energy use starts to fall without a single piece of new equipment being installed. Kuldeep will share practical examples of how submetering and tenant billing work together to shift incentives and encourage the kind of everyday behaviour change that top down efficiency mandates rarely achieve on their own.

Finally, the session looks ahead to what becomes possible once visibility is in place: connecting metering data into building and energy management systems (BMS and EMS) to automate responses, build a genuinely defensible business case for further investment, and give facilities and sustainability teams the confidence to make faster, better informed decisions.

Attendees will leave with a clear, practical framework for thinking about energy management in the right order: see it, understand it, then cut it. Whether you're responsible for a single site or a large portfolio, this session will change how you think about where an energy strategy should actually begin.

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Too much, too little or the wrong space? The hidden cost of poor space decisions

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Property professionals have traditionally recognised that making good property decisions is part art and part science. We have to make decisions about the future without ever having perfect information.

Flexible and hybrid working, changing working practices and evolving expectations of the workplace have made those decisions more complex. The number of people using a building can vary significantly from day to day, while the types of space people need --- and what they expect the workplace to provide --- are also changing.

Getting these decisions wrong can be expensive. Too much space can mean paying for capacity that remains unused for years. Too little can constrain an organisation and leave it trying to acquire additional space when suitable property may be difficult or expensive to obtain. And having the wrong type of space can mean that an estate appears underutilised while users still struggle to find the space they actually need.

These decisions occur over different timescales. In the long term, organisations decide how much space to own or lease. In the medium term, they decide how that space should be configured and fitted out. In the short term, they decide how it should be allocated between teams and users.

Better information cannot predict the future or replace professional judgement. It can, however, provide a much better understanding of what space an organisation has, what it is intended for and how it is actually being used.

This session explores how better evidence can support decisions across these different timescales, helping organisations balance cost, flexibility and risk when deciding how much space they need, what kind of space they need and how best to use it.

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From Sensors to Strategy

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

The presentation centres around the need to consider the contribution of operational data when considering a building’s asset value. The focus is on the trend for building portfolios to include their capacity for energy efficiency as part of their overall value. We then consider the role of sensing technology to provide the operational data to support this along with the need to promote a shift towards installing sensors as infrastructure. We look at how future-proofing our sensor networks and ingesting as much data as possible into the BEMS from the outset adds flexibility to the system to meet with current and future legislative and environmental goals.

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Utilising energy data to identify optimisation opportunities and engagement

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Energy data is the starting point for any meaningful optimisation work. The first question is: where does the data come from? It may be drawn from utility metering, Building Management Systems, or manual meter readings, and the source will vary depending on the building portfolio. Just as importantly, we need to understand the quality and reliability of that data. In my experience, this can be influenced by a range of factors, including the type and age of the meter, its location, and the frequency of readings. Even new buildings can experience metering issues, such as intermittent communication or connectivity problems.


Once the data has been collected and consolidated, it needs to be stored, reviewed, and analysed in a way that supports informed decision-making. Energy data platforms, including those linked to Building Management Systems, can help identify trends, highlight anomalies, and provide insight into how energy is being used across a building or portfolio. However, the technology alone is not enough. As energy managers, we need to be able to interpret the analysis, challenge what the data is telling us, and determine the right corrective or preventative actions. That means considering wider variables such as weather, occupancy, building performance, HVAC systems, controls, mechanical and electrical infrastructure, and maintenance activity. I can bring to life some examples of this.

Having practical knowledge of these variables is what enables us to move from data analysis to real optimisation opportunities. It helps us identify where action is needed, prioritise interventions, and develop a credible plan. Successful delivery depends not only on the quality of the energy data, but also on reliable information about the building services and on delivery partners who can manage and implement optimisation projects effectively.
After implementation, it is essential to capture the results. This supports continuous improvement and helps demonstrate the value of the work to stakeholders. At project level, outcomes should be clearly linked to wider corporate energy and sustainability targets, as well as to portfolio priorities and investment frameworks.

Too often, this is where the energy management story ends. But we should also think about engagement and storytelling as part of the process. By explaining the impact of an optimisation project in a way that is relevant and accessible, we can help building users, the public, and other stakeholders understand the benefits and feel part of the journey. Ultimately, effective energy management is not just about data and systems; it is about helping people understand the role they can play in delivering better outcomes.

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Connecting the Pieces: Turning Metering Data into Smarter, Better - Performing Buildings

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Accurate metering is essential, but installing a meter is only the beginning. To create genuinely smart, efficient and better-performing buildings, the right meters must be selected, correctly commissioned, reliably connected and supported by a data collection system that turns information into meaningful action.

In this practical session, Chris Bishop of DMS Metering Solutions and Laura Bishop of HI Group will explore how metering, data collection, controls and building performance can be brought together to create one connected strategy.

The presentation will examine the journey from meter selection through to data collection, monitoring, billing and system optimisation. Chris and Laura will explain the advantages and limitations of technologies including M-Bus, Modbus, wireless M-Bus, pulse systems and LoRaWAN, while demonstrating how the right communication approach can reduce installation costs, improve data reliability and provide greater visibility of building performance.

Using real-world examples, including major healthcare, pharmaceutical and decarbonisation projects, the session will show how outdated or fragmented metering networks can be replaced with more reliable, scalable and intelligent solutions. It will also explore the importance of metering within heat networks and low-carbon projects, helping building owners and operators understand whether their systems are performing as designed, delivering the expected financial returns and achieving genuine reductions in energy use and carbon emissions.

With the introduction of HNTAS placing greater emphasis on heat network performance, monitoring and accountability, this session will provide valuable insight for consultants, designers, contractors, facilities managers, energy managers and building owners looking to prepare for a more data-led future.

Join Chris and Laura to discover how connecting the individual pieces of your metering and energy infrastructure can help close the performance gap, identify inefficiencies and create smarter buildings that perform better in practice, not just on paper.

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Retrofit or Future-Fit? Why Europe's Buildings Need Digital Foundations, Not Decoration

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Eighty per cent of the buildings Europe will occupy in 2050 already exist, and relocating now costs more than renovating. 

This session looks into how smart retrofit can out-return new build, because ageing buildings leak money loudly and improvements are measurable. It covers where retrofit programmes fail and sets out three moves: measure reality, build the digital backbone, iterate and scale.

If you're thinking about moving office, come along and be talked out of it. If you're not, come anyway, and bring your questions.

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De-risking technology delivery

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

As smart technology increasingly becomes commonplace in buildings, it’s crucial to ensure all these different systems work together as one cohesive, secure ecosystem before construction. The WSP technology test lab approach provides a controlled environment to check this, reducing risk and helping teams protect timelines and costs.

This session will explore practical ways to reduce risk and improve outcomes across the smart building lifecycle, including how to:
• De-risk delivery by validating systems and integrations early, before issues reach site
• Strengthen cyber resilience by testing solutions against your security requirements before deployment
• Procure with confidence using independently verified performance data rather than relying solely on manufacturer claims
• Protect programme timelines and budgets through pre-validated technologies that reduce commissioning effort and costly rework

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The Building Knows First: Catching Energy Waste, Water Leaks and Equipment Problems Before They Cost You

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

The biggest building problems rarely start with an alarm in the control room. They start quietly: a fridge drifting out of range, a hidden leak, or equipment running when nobody needs it.

Using three real-world case studies from retail, multi-residential buildings and hospitality, Campbell will show how wireless sensors and existing building systems can reveal these problems before they become lost stock, serious water damage, wasted energy or another urgent maintenance callout. The examples include refrigeration and environmental monitoring across a national retail estate, LoRaWAN leak detection integrated into a Niagara building management system, and building-performance monitoring across more than 1,000 pub locations.

This is a practical session about turning early signals into faster action, lower operating costs and more consistent performance across large estates, without ripping out the systems already in place.

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Managing Energy with AI-based optimisation

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

As energy costs rise and net-zero targets tighten, optimising building performance has become a critical priority. However, many organisations still rely on reactive approaches and disconnected systems that limit their ability to act effectively.

This session explores how AI-driven energy optimisation is transforming the way buildings are managed — shifting from passive monitoring to continuous, intelligent optimisation. By combining structured data and advanced analytics, organisations can identify inefficiencies, predict issues, and automatically improve performance in real time.

We will also explore how open, intelligent control frameworks are enabling a new generation of smart controllers — creating more adaptive, scalable, and future-ready building systems that support long-term sustainability goals. 

What will you learn from this session?
• How AI can be applied to optimise energy performance in real time
• The limitations of traditional, reactive energy management approaches
• How structured data enables more effective energy optimisation
• The role of open frameworks in next-generation building controls
• How intelligent controllers can adapt, learn, and improve building performance
• Practical strategies to reduce energy consumption, costs, and carbon emissions

Who should attend this session?
• Building owners and operators
• Facilities and estate managers
• Energy and sustainability managers
• Smart building and digital transformation leaders
• Consultants and system integrators
• Anyone responsible for reducing operational costs or achieving net-zero targets

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What Makes a Smart Building Smart: A Roundtable Discussion

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

A smart building can understand how it is being used, respond to the needs of its occupiers, and continually improve its performance over time. This roundtable brings together facility managers, fit‑out specialists and wider industry voices to explore how useful that intelligence is, how it is created, how occupiers expectations are shifting, and how the industry can deliver smarter outcomes.

The discussion will also examine the evolution of smart buildings, and the impact of AI in buildings, all while analysing the close collaboration between facility managers, fit‑out and end‑user experience in order to not only support the occupier, but the building itself. 

By uniting these perspectives, this roundtable aims to clarify what truly makes a building ‘smart’, highlighting the future potential of AI and demonstrating how joined‑up thinking from construction to delivery can enhance outcomes for clients.

Session Speakers

KEYNOTE: From Connected Buildings to Connected Decisions

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Smart buildings generate more data than ever before, yet many organisations still struggle to turn that information into meaningful action.

Drawing on Bellrock's experience delivering smart engineering, remote building optimisation, predictive maintenance and Net Zero consultancy, Andre Bothma will explore how data, AI and engineering expertise are reshaping facilities management. The session will discuss how building owners can procure technology more effectively, avoid common implementation pitfalls and focus on creating measurable operational outcomes rather than simply deploying more technology.

Session Speakers

Turning Data into Action: Making One of London’s Smartest Buildings Smarter

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Smart buildings generate valuable data, but how often does it lead to better performance? Envelo and AllioT share the story of 3 Pancras Square, home to Havas UK, where an already efficient building achieved a further 31% reduction in ventilation energy use alongside improved indoor air quality.

 

This session explores how the project began, the challenges encountered and the changes that delivered results. From selecting relevant sensors to resolving control conflicts and independently validating savings, it offers practical lessons for building owners, facilities managers and operators seeking to make more of their existing buildings

Session Speakers

Collaboration for Secure, Future-Ready Buildings

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Building owners may not need to know which technologies, protocols or individual products sit behind their building controls – but they do need confidence that those systems are secure, protect their data, work together and will remain adaptable as technology and regulation evolve.

With cyber threats becoming increasingly sophisticated and new technologies developing at pace, how can specifiers, integrators and building owners avoid creating systems that quickly become outdated, isolated or vulnerable?

Representatives from KNX, BACnet and EnOcean explore how open standards, interoperability and collaboration can help deliver secure, resilient and future-ready buildings – while giving designers and owners the flexibility to embrace new technologies without unnecessarily replacing what already works.

Session Speakers

The shift from smart to human centric autonomous buildings

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

As buildings evolve beyond “smart”, this session explores the shift to truly human centric autonomous infrastructure using Industrial AI. Drawing on insights from Siemens’ Autonomous Buildings whitepaper, the discussion will examine how AI driven systems can learn, anticipate and act and how the UK built environment can use these systems to optimise energy use, comfort, safety and performance. Referencing Siemens’ 2025 Infrastructure Transition Monitor and its Human-Centric Autonomous Buildings Whitepaper, the session will highlight why autonomy is emerging as a critical enabler of decarbonisation, resilience and long-term value in the built environment.

Session Speakers

Most Buildings Are Not Operated - How AI Is Changing That

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

“Most commercial buildings are not truly operated.”

Despite increasing investments in smart building technology, organizations still struggle to manage portfolios at scale due to fragmented systems, outdated BMS, and lack of operational capacity.

This session introduces a practical approach to autonomous building operations using hybrid AI models, combining real-time data, domain knowledge, and scalable infrastructure.

Drawing on real-world deployments, the talk demonstrates how buildings can be transformed from passive assets into self-optimizing systems—without costly renovations.

Key insights include:
• achieving 20–30% energy savings without upfront capex
• reducing onboarding from weeks/months to a single day
• scaling optimization across hundreds of sites and thousands of buildings

The session moves beyond dashboards and analytics to show how buildings can actively optimize themselves through AI-driven control and anomaly detection.
Attendees will gain a framework for transitioning from “smart” to truly autonomous infrastructure.

Session Speaker

Building Smarter Digital Infrastructure with LoRaWAN: From Connectivity to Actionable Insights

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
70 minute session

This panel explores how LoRaWAN is enabling the next generation of smart buildings by connecting sensors, networks, and building management systems into a unified digital infrastructure. Through expert perspectives and real-world examples, attendees will learn how connected building data can be transformed into actionable insights that improve operational efficiency, sustainability, occupant comfort, and building performance. The discussion will highlight the value of open standards, interoperability, and ecosystem collaboration in delivering scalable smart building solutions.

Session Speakers

Energy, Simulation and Capital Decisions From One Model: The Machine Readable Building

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

The industry now holds a great deal: continuous operational data from sensors, meters and control systems; mature machine readable ways of describing building systems; and a full body of specification and asset information created through design, construction and handover. This session looks at what becomes possible when all of it is held in one connected model that a machine can read. It covers four areas of opportunity: simulation grounded in the real components of a real building; capital planning that can be interrogated and evidenced; requirements that a model can verify itself against, including the ability to test a proposed requirement before it is made; and in use performance reaching the manufacturers who can act on it.

Session Speaker

AI in Buildings: From Promise to a 10-20-30 Payback

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

AI could transform how buildings are run and maintained—but where will it actually deliver business value? This session explores how leaders can turn AI into measurable outcomes: lower operating costs, greater energy resilience and a more productive workforce. The real opportunity is not simply adding new technology. It is rethinking how work gets done, scaling what works and breaking down organisational boundaries. The gap between AI's promise and its payoff is opening now. Which side will your business be on?

Session Speaker

The next challenge for BEMS: scaling growth and project delivery in a skills-constrained market

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

BEMS project organisations are faced with the growing challenge of an ageing workforce and a shortage of younger, skilled workers entering the field. How can project organisations increase productivity without having to find new skilled employees? and does technology play a role in this?
Participants will learn how modern building technology can help address two of the industry’s biggest challenges: accelerating the energy transition while overcoming the growing shortage of skilled engineering resource. The session will explore how technology can improve both building performance and project delivery efficiency.

Session Speaker

Beyond Tag and Map: Building Long-Term Memory Twins with LLMs and Real-Time Telemetry Graphs

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
40 minute session

Commercial real estate is a massive global asset class, but its operational performance is bottlenecked by the "Implementation Gap." Modern buildings generate petabytes of telemetry, yet 90% remains "dark data"—cryptic, unstructured legacy shorthand trapped in silos. Traditionally, deploying intelligent analytics required months of manual tagging and mapping, killing project ROI before it began. 

This session details a new approach: replacing the manual data-tagging bottleneck with autonomous, agentic processors. We will walk through the architecture of a Memory Twin—a system that fuses real-time stream data, metadata, and static building documentation (such as manuals and historical logs) into a unified semantic graph. We will explore how to ground LLMs in building physics to prevent hallucinations, how non-deterministic agents reason over mechanical anomalies (distinguishing sensor drift from physical valve failures), and how to capture the transient diagnostics of on-site engineers into a persistent, self-improving operational memory.

Session Speaker

Tackling the demand for skilled professionals

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Join us for an enlightening presentation on the crucial topic of competence in the building controls industry and the paramount importance of personnel certification through the Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS).

In an era where technology and energy efficiency are at the forefront of building management systems, competence has become the linchpin of success. The building controls industry is constantly evolving, and the demand for skilled professionals who can navigate the complexities of modern control systems has never been higher.

In this engaging presentation, Dan will delve into:

• The Role of Competence: Understand why competence is the bedrock upon which the success of building controls projects hinge. Discover how skilled personnel can optimise energy efficiency, enhance system performance, and reduce maintenance costs.
• The Electrotechnical Certification Scheme (ECS): Dan will provide a comprehensive overview of the ECS and its significance in ensuring that professionals in the building controls industry meet rigorous standards of competence. Learn how the ECS standards for building controls have recently been updated through the work of the BCIA, and how certification enhances your professional credibility and marketability.
• Benefits for Employers: Discover how ECS-certified employees can be an asset to your organisation, driving project excellence and customer satisfaction. Learn about the positive impact on your business's reputation and bottom line.
• Career Advancement: For individuals, the presentation will shed light on how ECS certification can open doors to exciting career opportunities, higher earning potential, and personal growth.
• The development of an Experienced Worker Assessment: How those who have been working in the industry for a number of years will be able to demonstrate their skills, knowledge and experience in a time and cost-effective manner. 

This presentation promises to be a thought-provoking and informative session that will leave you with a deeper understanding of the building controls industry's dynamics and the undeniable significance of personnel certification through the Electrotechnical Certification Scheme. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead in an industry that demands competence and join us as we explore how certification can be your ticket to success.
 

Session Speaker

Beyond Electrification: From Design to Real-World Operation in a Low-Carbon Holiday Home

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Replacing gas with electricity is only one part of the challenge in reducing carbon emissions from holiday homes. The wider challenge is how different technologies, systems and user needs can be brought together in a practical solution that works under real operating conditions.

This session follows the development of a low-carbon holiday home from initial design through to long-term living lab operation at a working holiday park. The session will share lessons from moving from design assumptions to real-world operation. It will also consider how operational experience can inform the future development of more responsive and effective energy management approaches.

The project is supported by the EPSRC-funded SWITCH to Net Zero Buildings Place Based Impact Acceleration Account, led by Kingston University and the University of Hull, brings together with Swift Group, Blackhills Caravan Sales and John Fowler Holidays.

Session Speakers

HVAC is imperfect. AI can help

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Technology lives in the land of 1s and 0s: on or off, perfect or imperfect. Buildings aren't like that. Walls aren't straight, and every fitout carries a thousand small compromises that add up. Ours has a two-pipe HVAC system dropped into an open space on the basis that it was probably enough BTUs, resulting in five years of unwinnable aircon wars.

The thing that makes AI frustrating for many applications, non-deterministic output, is exactly what makes it good at this. Imperfect buildings don't need certainty, they need compromise, and compromise requires reasoning. Traditional if-statement logic you'll find in a BMS has never been good at that.

I'll walk through what we built: temperature, CO2, presence, solar output and room calendars feeding a model that re-plans every 15 minutes and writes its own rules from the results. What worked, what it cost, and where this approach earns its keep in a real building.

Session Speaker

Schrödinger’s Building: Compliance Realities and the Resilient Future

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Buildings are often called compliant, but compliant with what? Regulations are just one slice. True operational compliance is whether a building is actually performing as intended. Comfort, efficiency, cyber resilience and design intent. Inspired by Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, this session looks at the gap between assumption and verification. We'll explore how continuous commissioning, digital twins, and governance automation keep compliance alive day to day. Then we'll look ahead, where AI agents monitor drift in real time, explain causes and trigger fixes. So compliance becomes a continuous intelligence function, not a periodic audit. Attendees will leave with a practical view of today and an exciting sense of how AI will reshape assurance tomorrow.

Session Speaker

Delivering the BIM Level 3 Promise: Turning a Handed-Over Model Into an Operational Digital Twin That Cuts Energy

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

The original promise of BIM went far beyond creating better 3D models. It was intended to improve the quality, cost and efficiency of designing and constructing buildings and infrastructure by enabling everyone involved to collaborate around consistent, trusted information throughout the asset lifecycle.

The greatest opportunity was meant to come after construction. A complete and accurate as-built model would be handed over to the asset and facilities management teams, giving them a rich source of information for operating, maintaining and improving the building.

In practice, this rarely happens. Models are often incomplete, disconnected from operational systems or delivered in formats that facilities teams cannot easily use. As a result, many organisations resurvey their buildings and create entirely new asset information repositories. Meanwhile, thousands of valuable BIM models are sitting unused.

This talk explores how we can finally deliver the BIM Level 3 promise by turning handed-over construction models into operational digital twins. It will explain how information about a building’s geometry, fabric, spaces, mechanical and electrical systems, and the relationships between them can be validated, enriched and connected to live operational data.

Using OptimiseAI’s semantic and AI technologies, Nick Tune will demonstrate how this information can support practical applications such as understanding building performance, identifying energy and water waste, evaluating improvement measures and helping asset managers make better investment decisions.

The construction model should not be the final output of a project. It should become the digital foundation for operating the asset more efficiently throughout its life.

Session Speaker

Who Will Engineer the Smart Buildings of Tomorrow?

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

This session will explore the skills, knowledge and mindset that the smart buildings industry—and the next generation of engineers—will need to meet growing demand for more connected, efficient and sustainable buildings. 

Through insights from a range of industry experts, the discussion will consider how roles and skillsets are evolving alongside technologies such as building automation, data analytics, artificial intelligence and IoT, while highlighting the importance of core engineering expertise, interpersonal skills, digital skills, collaboration and continuous learning. The panel will also examine how the sector can work together to attract, develop and support the talent needed to design, deliver and operate the smart buildings of the future.

Session Speakers

KEYNOTE: Condition-Based Maintenance in the Age of AI: Putting the Tools in the Right Hands

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Planned preventive maintenance schedules are built on assumptions about how equipment behaves. Condition-based maintenance (or Data Driven Maintenance) replaces those assumptions with evidence, servicing equipment when the data says it needs attention rather than when the calendar says so.


Getting there requires analysis that runs continuously across every connected system, identifies genuine faults rather than noise, quantifies each one, and puts a clear instruction in front of the person who can act on it.


This session examines what condition-based maintenance looks like when it works, using real examples from commercial property and retail portfolios. It covers the practical barriers, what site teams actually need from these tools, and why the goal is to remove tedious analysis rather than to remove people.

Session Speaker

Building of the future: from digital twins to AI agents for data-smart operation

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Buildings generate vast quantities of operational data, yet most of it remains trapped in disconnected systems and beyond the reach of the people who manage them. This presentation explores how semantic digital building twins, which give operational data shared meaning and structure, are becoming the foundation for a new generation of AI agents capable of overseeing building operations. Moving beyond dashboards and conventional BMS workflows, we will show how agents reason over a building's semantic model to detect faults, verify performance against design intent, and support asset and portfolio decisions, with live demonstrations drawn from research at UCL and its commercial translation through Tacit Analytics. We will examine what it takes to create these semantic foundations at scale, the technologies that make agentic operation practical today, and what this shift means for how buildings will be managed, operated, and valued.

Session Speaker

Your Smart Building Is Generating Data. Why Isn't It Generating Intelligence?

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Artificial intelligence, digital twins and advanced analytics are rapidly becoming central to smart building strategies. However, many organisations continue to struggle with fragmented information spread across Building Management Systems (BMS), IoT platforms, energy management systems, digital twins and enterprise applications. As a result, valuable data often remains isolated, limiting the effectiveness of analytics, automation and AI.

This presentation explores how semantic modelling and linked data technologies can provide the missing foundation needed to unlock the full potential of smart buildings. Rather than replacing existing systems, semantic technologies create a common information layer that enables data from multiple sources to be understood, connected and used consistently across an organisation.

Drawing on practical industry experience, the session demonstrates how semantic information models can connect building assets, sensors and operational systems to support digital twins, improve operational efficiency and create a scalable foundation for AI-enabled decision making. The presentation will examine common interoperability challenges, explain why data context is as important as data quality, and show how organisations can move beyond disconnected smart systems towards intelligent, integrated building ecosystems.

Attendees will gain practical insights into building an information architecture that supports future innovation while maximising the value of existing technology investments.

Session Speaker

Airzone Climate Control: Pioneering Energy Management and Conscious Climate Solutions

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Empowering Energy Flexibility and Demand Response: The Role of Airzone in Transforming HVAC Management: This presentation will align with the keynote speaker's insights by showcasing Airzone's strategic advancements in energy management through the introduction of Enerface, a sophisticated energy consumption meter for HVAC systems. We will explore how Airzone's integration capabilities with heat pump systems are crucial for aggregators in the UK, enabling them to unlock energy flexibility and demand response. Our technology, compatible with nearly 200 HVAC manufacturers and over 40 home automation systems, positions Airzone as a market leader in control technologies. This session will highlight Airzone's role in advancing the conscious energy ecosystem and setting new benchmarks in sustainability and efficiency within the UK residential and commercial markets.

Session Speaker

Nobody loves a building for its data.

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Modern buildings are full of brilliant, incredibly useful data, but no rational human has ever loved one for it.

Analytics matter, but what people actually love about a workspace is how much easier it makes their day. Tenants want an office that's warm when they walk in, a visitor pass that works first time, and a meeting room that's actually free when they've booked it. Building operators want to hear about a fault the moment it happens, reach everyone in the building with one announcement, and know how many people are in. Landlords want to keep tenants, simplify compliance, and fill empty space quickly.

All of that depends on lighting, access, visitors, booking, signage and HVAC working together. Yet we still run them as separate systems, and every gap between them is a moment someone's day gets a little bit worse: the pass that doesn't work, the room that's double-booked, the office that's freezing until 10am.

The best buildings do the opposite. They quietly get on with it in the background, smoothing out the speed bumps before anyone hits them. A great building experience is felt, not seen, and certainly not fiddled with.

Chris Dinsdale, Head of Product for Smart Core, argues that data matters enormously, but it's only half the job. The other half is making it useful to the person who has no idea as to what goes on behind the door to the plant room, but they sure know when their office feels cold.

This is a no-pitch session for the people who decide how buildings get built. Chris starts by taking apart the buzzword "smart" and swapping it for a better question: how many jobs can this building do, and how easily can it learn a new one?

From there, he makes the case for one unified infrastructure instead of a hundred siloed systems, one shared language for rooms, people and kit, and a building you can simply ask a question.

You'll leave knowing how much more the systems you already have could be doing for the people inside them, and wondering why you've put up with dumb buildings for so long.

And yes, some of you will love the data. We're not judging.

Session Speaker

Breaking Down Building Software Silos: Why Energy, Power and Building Management Are Converging

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Building Management Systems, Energy Management Systems and Power Management Systems have traditionally evolved as separate software domains. But as buildings become more electrified, sustainability targets become operational priorities, and AI reshapes how facilities are managed, those traditional boundaries are starting to disappear.

This session explores the forces driving the convergence of energy, power and building management, why fragmented software architectures are becoming increasingly difficult to scale, and how unified operational platforms can help organizations improve efficiency, resilience and decision-making. It concludes with a preview of Schneider Electric's vision for the next generation of facility operations.

Session Speaker

KEYNOTE: What’s Next for Smart Buildings? Unlocking Flexibility, Transparency and Scalability with Hybrid Building Management

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

As smart buildings evolve from isolated controls to connected, data-driven environments, the next challenge is balancing operational resilience with enterprise-wide intelligence.

This keynote explores the journey from traditional building management systems through cloud adoption and AI-driven ambitions, highlighting the limitations of siloed data, vendor lock-in, cybersecurity concerns and scalability challenges.

The presentation introduces Hybrid Building Management as the next stage of building automation, combining the strengths of edge computing and cloud platforms.

Using the WAGO Zaphire Building Management platform as an example, it demonstrates how building owners, developers and integrators can achieve greater flexibility, transparency and scalability through open architectures, secure connectivity and vendor-agnostic integration.

The result is smarter decision-making, simplified deployment and future-ready building operations.

Key Messages

  • Smart building technology has evolved through five phases: local controls, centralised BMS, cloud-connected buildings, AI-enabled operations and now Hybrid Building Management.
  • The future is not edge or cloud. It is a hybrid approach that places intelligence, data and control where they create the most value.
  • Hybrid architectures deliver resilience, real-time control and local autonomy while enabling portfolio-wide analytics, sustainability reporting and AI services.
  • Open, vendor-agnostic platforms improve interoperability, reduce integration complexity and avoid technology lock-in.
  • Flexible deployment options allow organisations to start locally and scale seamlessly to cloud or hybrid environments as requirements evolve.
  • Security, transparency and scalability are foundational requirements for next-generation smart buildings.

Session Speaker

KEYNOTE: The Path to Autonomous Portfolios: Why Managing Digital Infrastructure is the Real Bottleneck

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Autonomous operations need enterprise-scale digital infrastructure management. Leading CRE firms build this with IT, cybersecurity and partners. JLL's resilience-first architecture now readies networks and builds AI's data foundation. Autonomous portfolios arrive within a decade. This session shows how to get there.

Session Speaker

From auditing through to analytics: learn about the best practice for energy and carbon reduction strategies

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

This session will show how building operators can move from energy auditing to actionable analytics to reduce energy use, carbon emissions and operational cost. Drawing on real project experience, AIS BMS will outline a practical three-step approach: audit building performance, investigate control and HVAC issues, and manage ongoing improvement through data, rules-based analytics and FM workflow integration. Attendees will learn where to start, how to identify savings opportunities, and how smarter controls and performance monitoring can improve comfort, resilience and long-term building efficiency.

Session Speaker

Connecting the Dots: How Co-operative Principles will deliver Building Resilience

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Explore the transformative power of co-operation - using open-protocol principles to create flexible, sustainable, and human-centric spaces. Tailored for consultants, architects, and future industry leaders, this seminar demonstrates how interoperable technology drives energy efficiency, simplifies future building adaptation, and directly elevates the daily lives of local communities.

This does not mean consigning existing systems to recycling but opens the possibility to work with existing infrastructures to create better, more economically sound, energy efficient and people friendly buildings.

Session Speakers

Occupancy Data Is Not Workplace Intelligence: Why Smart Buildings Still Make Dumb Decisions

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Smart buildings are producing more data than ever, yet many organisations still struggle to make better workplace decisions. This session challenges the assumption that occupancy data, dashboards and sensors automatically create intelligence. It will explore the gap between utilisation, behaviour, collaboration and business outcomes, and explain why workplace intelligence requires a combination of technology, psychology, strategy and operational context. The presentation will show how smart building data can move from passive reporting to decision support.

Session Speaker

Would You Let the Building Run Itself?

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Buildings are becoming increasingly connected, data-rich and automated. BMS, analytics, AI and autonomous controls can now identify faults, optimise performance and make decisions with less human intervention.

But if a building starts making decisions for itself, who is responsible when something goes wrong?

This session explores the opportunities and risks of autonomous building operation, from improved performance and energy efficiency to questions around liability, insurance, warranties and operational responsibility.

Conor will examine what needs to be in place before owners and operators can genuinely trust a building to act for itself, including robust controls, good data, interoperability, cybersecurity, commissioning and clear governance.

The session will also consider where responsibility sits if an automated decision causes equipment damage, poor conditions or operational failure: with the owner, operator, controls contractor, integrator or software provider?

Ultimately, the session asks: if your building could make better decisions than you, would you let it, and who takes responsibility when it gets one wrong?

Session Speakers

Energy Management Starts at the Door: Tackling the Hidden Cost of Air Infiltration

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
40 minute session

Smart buildings are becoming increasingly sophisticated at monitoring and managing energy use, from intelligent HVAC controls and sensors to building management systems and demand-led operation. But one of the most significant sources of energy loss can remain largely unmanaged: the building entrance.

Doors are essential for accessibility, movement and day-to-day operation, but in busy commercial buildings, frequent door openings and open-door policies can create a significant pathway for uncontrolled air infiltration. Conditioned air is lost, external air enters, heating and cooling systems work harder, and the area around the entrance can become uncomfortable for occupants.

This session will explore why entrances should be considered as part of a building's wider energy-management strategy. It will examine the relationship between air infiltration, energy consumption, thermal comfort and indoor air quality, and consider the technologies and strategies available to manage these challenges.

Using examples from retail, supermarkets, healthcare and commercial buildings, the session will look at how smarter entrance management can reduce energy demand while improving occupant comfort and making previously uncomfortable or underused areas around entrances more usable. It will also explore how responsive, sensor-led technologies can complement wider building controls and energy-management strategies, rather than treating the entrance as an isolated part of the building.

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of the session, attendees will:

  • Understand how air infiltration at building entrances can affect energy consumption, heating and cooling demand and overall building performance, particularly in buildings with high footfall or frequently open doors.

  • Recognise the relationship between entrance performance, energy management and occupant experience, including the impact of uncontrolled external air on thermal comfort, indoor air quality and the usability of spaces close to entrances.

  • Understand the different approaches available to manage air infiltration, from building design and operational strategies through to active, sensor-led entrance technologies.

  • Learn how responsive entrance management can complement existing HVAC and building-management strategies, using real-time environmental conditions to help reduce unnecessary energy use rather than relying on fixed-output systems.

  • Identify opportunities to improve the performance of existing buildings without compromising accessibility or operational requirements, particularly where open-door policies, high footfall or constrained entrance spaces make conventional approaches less effective.

Session Speaker

Smart Buildings - Are we getting the basics right?

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
40 minute session

Join the CIBSE IT & Controls Group for an open discussion on the foundations required to deliver genuinely smart, high-performing buildings.

As the industry embraces digitalisation, AI, digital twins and advanced analytics, many buildings still struggle with the fundamentals of controls, commissioning, interoperability and operational performance.

This session explores whether the drive towards smart buildings is causing us to overlook the basics. Are systems being commissioned correctly? Is data trustworthy? Are open protocols being used effectively? And are occupants actually benefiting from the technology being installed?

SFG20: Are We Maintaining Smart Buildings Properly - A smart building is only as smart as the data coming from its assets

TM39: Can We Trust the Data? - Before talking about AI and optimisation, do we have the metering and data quality required to make informed decisions?

CIBSE Guide M: Are Buildings Performing as Intended? - Smart buildings should not end at practical completion; they should support the people operating them for the next 20 years.

Session Speakers

Why Your Smart Building Still Feels Dumb to the People Inside It.

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
40 minute session

Buildings have never been smarter, yet the experience for the people inside them often hasn’t kept up. Discover how connecting the technology you already have can turn fragmented systems into one simple, intelligent workplace experience.

What you'll take away:
Why "smart" infrastructure and a smart experience aren't the same thing and where most organisations lose the difference.
How to unlock more value from platforms you already own before buying anything new.
A look at how one consolidated approach turns multiple disconnected systems into a single experience.

Session Speakers

KEYNOTE: Technology Should Follow the Story: Why Smart Buildings Need a Narrative Before a Solution

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
40 minute session

Today's buildings are shaped by increasingly sophisticated occupier expectations, ambitious landlord visions and a rapidly advancing technology landscape. Yet there is no universal blueprint for a smart building. Every asset has its own story, purpose and audience. The most successful technology solutions are those that support and enhance that narrative rather than define it. While the emergence of data, automation and AI presents extraordinary opportunities, these capabilities can only flourish when they are built upon the right operational, digital and cultural foundations within the property itself.

In this session I will use real life examples of challenges and opportunities and how the engineering and technology solutions will make building narrative a reality.

Session Speaker

The occupancy blind spot: why space decisions are still made on the plan, not the reality

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

In one UK university's own survey, 44% of timetabled hours saw an empty room. In the same week, more than a quarter of the hours in which rooms were in use had no booking at all. The plan was wrong in both directions.

Most buildings are still managed from a half-complete version of the truth. Timetables, booking systems, floorplans, and capacity assumptions describe how a building is supposed to be used. They don't describe how people actually use it. That gap matters when estates teams decide which spaces to keep, consolidate, or refurbish, where to invest, and how much energy goes into conditioning rooms that may be empty.

This session tests the plan against reality using two sources. Universities' own space utilisation surveys, released under the Freedom of Information Act, produced by whatever method each institution used: clipboard headcounts, timetable analysis, Wi-Fi and sensor data. And continuous sensor data from live university deployments, hour by hour, set against the bookings for the same rooms.

Where a figure comes from the timetable, teaching rooms appear 65% to 75% full when in use. Where an actual count is available, the same rooms are 22% to 48% full. Institutions surveying twice a year saw their headline figure swing by eight points between waves. Others have stopped surveying because counting cost more than it was worth, and now report timetable-derived figures as it’s all they have.

The same questions apply to any large estate. Are decisions made on how people are expected to use the building, or on how they actually use it? Is the evidence a week's sample or a continuous record? And who, if anyone, is counting?

Delegates will leave with three tests to apply to their own occupancy data, the headline figures from the research, and a view of what continuous, privacy-first occupancy counting adds alongside booking systems and other building data.

Session Speaker

Lighting and Climate Convergence: A New Paradigm for Smart Buildings

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

The session will be delivered with Tridonic and Giacomini as Mymesh Ready Partners.

Together, we will show how intelligent lighting, smart hydronic climate control and wireless IoT can converge through a practical, partner led ecosystem.

This is not a theoretical future vision. It is a simpler, lower risk and more scalable approach to smart building delivery.

For too long, smart buildings have been built around separate systems: lighting, BMS, heating, cooling, sensors, metering and analytics. Each layer is often procured and delivered separately, creating complexity, duplicated infrastructure, fragmented data and integration risk.

This session presents a new paradigm: the convergence of lighting and climate control through occupancy led intelligence.

Lighting is already one of the most distributed infrastructures in a building. Climate control is one of the largest drivers of energy use, comfort and operational performance. By bringing these two worlds together, buildings can move beyond fixed schedules and siloed systems, responding instead to how spaces are actually being used.

Mymesh will show how a secure, robust and scalable wireless IoT platform can act as the digital backbone for this convergence. Occupancy becomes the common signal. Lighting responds to presence and need. Climate responds to actual use, demand and space conditions. Data becomes more valuable because it reflects the live operational reality of the building.

Delegates will learn how the Mymesh Ready approach can reduce complexity for consultants, contractors, OEMs, system integrators and end clients. By embedding intelligence into partner technologies, and avoiding unnecessary reliance on heavy cabling or single vendor lock in, smart building projects can become easier to design, install, commission and scale across estates.

The session will explore how occupancy led lighting and climate control can reduce energy waste, improve comfort, support retrofit and unlock richer operational insight.

This is about moving beyond connected products and towards connected outcomes: secure, scalable, manufacturer agnostic and ready for the next generation of energy efficient smart buildings.

Session Speaker

Energy as a Service for Smart Buildings: Turning AI Insights into Verified Savings

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

As energy costs rise and sustainability targets become more ambitious, organizations are seeking smarter ways to manage energy consumption across their buildings and facilities. This presentation explores how Infosys Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS), combines AI, digital technologies, and integrated energy management to help enterprises monitor, manage, optimize, and monetize their energy usage. 
The session will demonstrate how organizations can move beyond traditional energy dashboards to achieve measurable outcomes through AI-driven optimization, renewable energy integration, and real-time performance monitoring. Attendees will learn how EaaS provides visibility across campuses, offices, and industrial facilities, enabling reduced energy costs, lower carbon emissions, improved operational efficiency, and verified sustainability outcomes. 
The presentation will also highlight how data, AI, and outcome-based energy management are transforming smart buildings into intelligent, self-optimizing environments that deliver both financial and environmental value.

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Smarter by Design: The Next Chapter in Digital Buildings

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Smart building ambitions are often set early in a project and then lost somewhere between design and handover. In this session, the Digital Building Council (DBC) shares highlights from 3 initiatives that look at where that value goes missing and how to keep it: Enhancing the RIBA Smart Overlay, BIM to Smart, and Healthy Buildings.

The speakers will discuss how smart building responsibilities can be embedded from the earliest project stages through to long-term operation, why building data is so often underused once a building is occupied, and how shared naming conventions, standards and well-governed AI tools can connect design models to live building systems.

The session will also address the less explored benefits of light, health and wellbeing, including how to specify technology that answers genuine operational questions rather than feed unused dashboards, and how healthier buildings can show a clear return on investment.

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From the Front Door to the Cloud — How Smart Access Infrastructure Shapes the Resident Experience

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

The entrance to a building is no longer just a door. It is the first moment a resident, visitor or delivery interacts with the building — and in premium residential and mixed-use developments, that moment sets the tone for everything that follows.
This session explores how smart access infrastructure — from IP intercoms and e-locks to cloud management and third-party integrations — is transforming the way buildings are experienced, managed and valued. Drawing on real projects across EMEA including residential, assisted living and hospitality developments, this presentation shows how access technology connects the physical and digital layers of a building into a seamless, scalable system. From smartphone entry and elevator integration to remote access management and visitor flow — all the way to the cloud platform that ties it together.

Delegates will learn:

- How access infrastructure connects to the broader smart building ecosystem
- What developers and property managers are getting wrong when specifying access control
- How smart access directly impacts resident satisfaction, operational costs and asset value
- What a future-proof access specification looks like in 2026 and beyond
- How to brief technology partners and integrators to get the right outcome from day one

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Beyond more apps: Connecting smart buildings into one AI-powered workplace experience

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Smart buildings today are more connected than ever — yet the day-to-day experience of working in them often feels anything but seamless. Employees book a meeting room in one system, check office attendance in another, receive workplace announcements through a third channel, navigate a separate visitor management process, and rely on yet another tool entirely to request services or report a maintenance issue. Each system may work well on its own, but together they create friction rather than flow.

The uncomfortable truth is that this fragmentation doesn't just frustrate employees — it actively undermines the ROI of the smart building investments organisations have already made. More sensors, more dashboards, more standalone apps rarely solve the problem. In fact, they often make it worse, adding complexity for IT teams to maintain, diluting adoption, and leaving expensive infrastructure underused.

This session argues that the next real challenge for smart buildings isn't more technology — it's connection. Rather than layering on yet another isolated tool, forward-thinking organisations are learning to connect the systems they already have — calendars, room and desk booking, visitor management, workplace services, building screens, intranets, and collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams or Google Chat — into a single, seamless entry point for the workplace experience.

AI agents play a pivotal role in making this possible, acting as an orchestration layer that lets employees simply ask, book, find, or solve everyday workplace needs — from reserving a desk to getting a contextual recommendation to reporting a broken light — directly from the tools they already use every day. The building doesn't need to be reinvented. It needs to be made usable.

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The Building That Acts: Moving Beyond Dashboards to Adaptive Control

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

This session explores a common challenge in building automation: lighting control, climate control, sensors, BMS and FM systems are often designed and delivered as separate layers. Wireless/battery based sensing or siloed solution approaches, can provide a practical route to monitoring occupancy and environmental conditions, but sensing alone does not automatically create smarter control.

Delegates will learn how to think about sensing, controls and automation as one connected strategy: reducing duplication, simplifying installation and commissioning, helping buildings move from static schedules and manual intervention towards more adaptive control.

Smart buildings are often presented through dashboards and data, but the real value comes when that data improves how the building operates.

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Closing the Gap, or Just Describing It? The case for a continuous performance audit

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Between the building you designed and the building you operate, a gap opens. Sensors drift. Setpoints wander. Overrides are applied for good reasons and never removed. Within a few years most commercial buildings are running materially below the intent they were commissioned against, not because anything has broken, but because everything has drifted.

The operational stack built to close that gap has not closed it. BMS analytics, fault detection, smart building operating systems and digital twin were each architected around the same primary job: to describe what the building is doing. Describing is not the job. The job is to judge whether what the building is doing is right, and to say so in terms someone can act on the same day.

This session makes the case for a different category. Not another analytics layer, but a continuous performance audit, defined by five principles: continuous in time, causal in reasoning, conclusion-first in communication, ranked by recoverable value, and verified against baseline. All five, or it is a rebrand of the tools we already have.

The argument is worked through on a single real fault on a real commercial building. One valve, quietly failing. The session traces its impact upstream to the plant driving it and downstream to the zones absorbing it, with cost attributed at every node in the chain, and follows it through to verified closure.

It closes with five questions to put to any building performance platform, and what a good answer to each one sounds like. One of the five concerns architecture rather than capability: where AI sits in the diagnostic chain, and what happens to the conclusion when it is wrong.

The intention is that you leave able to answer the question in the title about your own buildings, on your own evidence.

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The missing layer: why smart buildings are only as smart as their site data

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Smart building strategy tends to focus on one layer: sensors, BMS, networks, and the physical-to-digital tech stack. But there's a layer underneath that rarely gets the same attention: the compliance, inspection, and installation data captured on-site by the trades who actually build and maintain the asset. This talk makes the case that site-level data capture is infrastructure too—and that a building running on paper trails and PDF folders from subcontractors isn't really smart, whatever's bolted on top of it. If the foundation is incomplete, everything built on it is too.

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Smart Retrofit Strategies for Future-Ready Healthcare Facilities

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

In this session, Simon Ward of Distech Controls will explore how smart retrofit strategies can help healthcare facilities unlock better performance from the buildings they already have. Attendees will discover how open, interoperable and IP-native controls can improve visibility, reduce energy waste, strengthen cyber resilience and support the journey to net zero, without the disruption of full redevelopment.

Drawing on real challenges facing healthcare estates teams, the session will show why a controls-first approach can deliver practical gains today while creating a smarter, safer and more sustainable foundation for the future. It will also reference Distech Controls’ recent work with Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, where a phased, open-platform BMS strategy is helping modernise legacy infrastructure across live hospital sites, improve estate-wide visibility and reduce operational risk.

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Unlocking Operational Data: From Data Silos to Digital Twin Intelligence

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

IES Live is more than a building dashboard. It is an operational data layer connected to a calibrated IESVE building performance model, combining real operational data with physics-based modelling to support verification, optimisation and continuous performance improvement.

Buildings generate large volumes of operational data, yet much remains trapped within separate BMS, metering, renewable energy, and third-party systems. Drawing on hands-on experience, this session explores how to bring data from fragmented sources into a single connected environment and the challenges of making that data reliable, structured, and useful enough to act on.

With clean, connected data, IES Live supports fault detection, energy performance analysis, and commissioning verification. The deeper value comes from integration with IESVE: operational data combines with the building performance model to identify, test, and quantify Energy Conservation Measures before any money is spent on implementation.

IES Live closes the loop by tracking actual building performance against the modelled prediction. This allows teams to verify whether measures delivered the expected savings and understand any performance gap. The result is a continuous improvement cycle: model the opportunity, implement the measure, monitor the outcome, verify the result, and feed those lessons back into the next decision.

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Closing the Performance Gap: Why smart buildings need Asset Intelligence across the full lifecycle

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

Smart buildings promise better performance, lower cost and more informed decisions. Yet six months after handover, FMs and operators are still chasing what was installed and how it should perform. 

Phone calls to subcontractors. Repeat surveys. Drives full of PDFs that no-one can navigate. The information exists, but it cannot be found, trusted or acted on. The result is cautious decisions, avoidable cost and a persistent gap between design intent and operational reality. This is the Performance Gap. 

The Performance Gap shows up in four recognisable information states: information lost at handover, fragmented through change over the life of the building, never created in structured form in the first place, or buried in the volume of documents the operator now holds. As investment in sensors, platforms and integration grows, the value of good information increases and the cost of poor information multiplies. Smart building investment runs into all four. Better sensors and dashboards amplify the value of good information and amplify the cost of bad information. 

Asset Intelligence is the discipline that addresses this. It is the practice of finding, trusting and acting on the information needed to keep buildings safe, compliant and performing across the full lifecycle. It sits alongside, and depends on, ISO 19650 for information management in delivery and ISO 55001 for asset management in operation. Standards set the expectation. Asset Intelligence is the operating discipline that lets organisations meet it in practice. 

In this session, Nick sets out why design, delivery and operation have each professionalised inside their own boundaries, and why the discipline gap is between them. He introduces a practical framework for closing that gap, showing how organisations build progressive confidence in their information across two pathways: Create, where new projects deliver information assets that survive into use; and Recover, where existing estates rebuild trust in the information they already hold. This applies across systems, platforms and operational teams responsible for smart buildings in use. 

For anyone responsible for delivering or operating smart buildings, this session reframes the challenge. Smart building performance is not a technology problem. It is a discipline problem, and it has to be solved across the full lifecycle if buildings are to perform as intended.

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What if your Building Could Talk?

Theatre Management & Proptech Theatre
35 minute session

How smart is a smart building if it cannot speak?

Smart buildings already generate enormous amounts of data. Occupancy sensors, energy meters, climate systems, access control, maintenance platforms and workplace technologies continuously capture information about how a building is performing and being used. Yet much of this data remains fragmented across separate systems, dashboards and databases.

In this interactive session, PLEQ will demonstrate what happens when AI becomes the intelligence layer connecting these systems.

Using BuildingGPT, we will bring a real building to the stage and allow the audience to speak directly to it. Rather than watching another dashboard presentation, delegates will be able to ask the building their own questions using natural language and explore real operational data.

How busy was the building today? Which spaces are consistently underused? Where are occupancy and energy consumption misaligned? Which areas could be cleaned less frequently based on actual use? What changed compared with last week? Where should a facilities team focus its attention?

BuildingGPT demonstrates how these questions can be answered conversationally by connecting data across occupancy, energy, climate, maintenance and other building systems. The objective is not simply to create a chatbot for buildings, but to introduce a reasoning and interaction layer that makes complex building data easier to access, interpret and act upon.

The session will also explore an important development behind this new generation of building intelligence: Model Context Protocol (MCP). Today, connecting building technologies often requires individual API integrations between platforms. MCP introduces a different approach, allowing systems to expose structured data and capabilities in a way that AI applications can understand and work with directly. For building owners and technology teams, this could significantly reduce integration complexity while providing greater control over how building data is accessed and used.

We will demonstrate what this means in practice and discuss how AI could change the way building owners, facilities teams, asset managers and engineers interact with their buildings. Instead of navigating multiple dashboards or commissioning another static report, users can begin with a question and allow the intelligence layer to find, combine and interpret the relevant information.

The implications extend across building operations: identifying underused space, understanding occupancy patterns, investigating energy consumption, improving cleaning schedules, supporting maintenance decisions and providing management with faster insight into portfolio performance.

Most importantly, this will be an interactive demonstration rather than a theoretical presentation. Delegates will be invited to ask questions themselves and see how a real building responds.

The session is relevant to building owners, property and asset managers, facilities and workplace leaders, smart-building consultants, engineers, system integrators and technology teams interested in AI, IoT, building data and the future of property operations.

Come prepared to ask a real building a question and experience what happens when a smart building finally finds its voice.

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Why Modern ERP Is the Business Backbone of Smarter Buildings

Theatre IT & Digital Infrastructure Theatre
35 minute session

Smart buildings are generating more operational data than ever, but more data doesn't automatically mean better decisions. In this session, George Pilling, explores why a modern ERP platform is the business backbone that turns building data into real insight - connecting operational and financial information so teams can see what's working, what to do more of, and what to stop. Drawing on Microsoft's Frontier Firm strategy and the rise of AI agents in enterprise systems, George will talk about why a trustworthy, governed foundation is now essential - not just for reporting, but for enabling AI to help run smarter, more responsive buildings

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Blueprint for closing the skills gap

Theatre Controls & Networks Theatre
35 minute session

Join Luke Beardall, Head of Sales at CIOB Academy, as he breaks down the construction sector skills gap, detailing a blueprint for success to help industry thought-leaders close the skills gap and provide standout training for the next generation of construction specialists.

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Turning building occupants into sensors: how feedback-driven software cuts energy use without new hardware

Theatre Energy Management Theatre
35 minute session

Many buildings have sophisticated BMS controls, but still have unhappy occupants who are uncomfortable; high emissions; and out-of-control energy bills. Through turning every-day comfort complaints into usable data, we demonstrate how you can reduce energy demand while making occupants more comfortable.

In this session expect to learn about how to collect feedback from users; and how it can be used to fine-tune temperatures for each space in the building.

We’ll share some examples from Klimatica’s projects, including energy savings; integration methods; and issues we have had along the way. Also expect to hear about communicating with users and facilities teams, to make the change needed.

This session is for Facilities managers, BMS and controls engineers, energy managers, and building operators who want to get more out of the systems they already have - at low cost and without a hardware overhaul.

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