Sessions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.