KEYNOTE: Run Before You Fly: Where AI Actually Earns Its Place in Building Optimisation
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
Session Speaker
Haibo Chen is Head of Global Services at Bueno Analytics and one of the most experienced practitioners working in smart building analytics today. He leads service delivery across Bueno's operations in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Europe and North America.
Haibo began his career in sustainability consulting, where he was closely involved in the development of NABERS, the world's first legislated building performance standard. That grounding in how building performance is measured and verified has shaped his work ever since.
He joined Bueno in 2014, in the company's first year. Over more than twelve years he has led engineering, product and customer success before taking on his current role, playing a central role in developing the advanced analytics capability the platform runs on today. Throughout, he has worked directly with customers and partners in every market Bueno operates, turning complex building data into practical insight that drives energy efficiency, operational improvement and measurable sustainability outcomes.
Haibo speaks globally on building analytics and building performance, and is equally at home in the deepest technical detail or the portfolio-level strategy conversation. He is driven by a clear mission: to help great people create a better built environment through the power of data.
