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COMIT 2026 Conference

About the Event

The 2026 COMIT Conference presented the latest projects, developments, and upcoming technologies that will contribute to productivity gains. The COMIT conferences provide educational networking opportunities enable industry members to demonstrate innovative practices, technology, and process improvement.

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As a global community of capital project professionals and stakeholders, COMIT projects gathers members and guests in conference at least once a year to discuss advancements in productivity, as well as new and emerging technologies.

Main Track - Day 1

COMIT Sessions

Main Track - 9th & 10th September 2026

Conference 2026 Event Introduction - Day 1

9:15 am

COMIT Exec

The COMIT Conference 2026 will present the latest projects, developments, and upcoming technologies that contribute to productivity gains in the UK Construction Sector.
This event is an educational networking opportunity enabling industry members to demonstrate innovative practices, using technology and process improvement, such as AI in Construction.

Keynote by Capgemini and Panel Session

9:45 am

Paul Haggerty
- Capgemini

Panelists: Dinesh Sathianathan - Vice President, Nuclear and Capital Delivery, Capgemini
Karen Haggerty - EVP, Head of Sales and Growth Industries, Capgemini
Richard Middleton - Head of Digital Design, Houses of Parliament Restoration & Renewal
Loic Hares - Associate Director, Grid Tech Business Dev, Cambridge Consultants
Andy McAvan - Chief of Staff, Strategic Infrastructure, National Grid
Jim Coid - Digital Director,
Hinkley Point C

COMIT Projects Update

4:00 pm

COMIT Exec

The COMIT Exec team and COMIT Project partners provided updates to active Community development

Insight Lab Playback - Hosted by Insight-AWP

4:30 pm

Geoff Ryan - Insight-AWP

Geoff Ryan presents initial findings from the Insight Lab hosted by Insight-AWP

COMIT Star Awards

4:45 pm

COMIT Exec

The COMIT Star Awards are presented to Community members that have gone above and beyond in projects and Community engagement - The 2026 Star Awards were sponsored by Iceni Digital Consulting Ltd.

Exhibitors 'Speed Date' Showcase

5:00 pm

COMIT Exec

'Quick Fire' presentations from COMIT2026 Exhibitors including:
- Capgemini
- Aveva
- HTA
- Royal Engineers
- ProScope
- Insight-AWP
- Octave
- BT
- Iceni Digital Consulting
- Fulcro

Day 1 Closing Remarks

5:30 pm

COMIT Exec

The COMIT Exec provide a round-up of Day 1, and closing remarks to the conference plenary

Conference 2026 Event Introduction - Day 2

9:00 am

COMIT Exec

The COMIT Conference 2026 will present the latest projects, developments, and upcoming technologies that contribute to productivity gains in the UK Construction Sector.
This event is an educational networking opportunity enabling industry members to demonstrate innovative practices, using technology and process improvement, such as AI in Construction.

Keynote - AI in the Real World: Delivering Measurable Engineering Value at Nissan

9:15 am

Sarah Dorey - Nissan

Keynote presentation by Sarah Dorey, Senior Engineer, Cyber Security, e-Planning (Design & Test), EIPF of Nissan, focusing on:
- How Nissan is bringing practical, high‑value AI into the R&D toolkit through a new system that blends engineering expertise with live ECU data to accelerate problem‑identification, increase iteration speed, and reduce resource load.
- A candid look at the challenges teams face, how they overcome them, and what it really takes to deliver meaningful change in a complex engineering environment.

Insight Lab Playback - Hosted by Octave

3:30 pm

Mateja Matko, Edouard Podolak, Cyrus Sorab & Mukesh Mistry - Octave

The Octave Team presents initial findings from the Insight Lab hosted by Octave

Insight Lab Playback - Hosted by BT

3:45 pm

Emma Gould & Sarwar Khan - BT

The BT Team presents initial findings from the Insight Lab hosted by BT

Day 2 Closing Remarks

4:00 pm

COMIT Exec

The COMIT Exec provide a round-up of Day 2, and closing remarks to the conference plenary

Capgemini

Capgemini Agentic AI Event

The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI, hosted on the 9th September 2026

Welcome & Agenda Overview

11:00 am

Hardik Pithadia - Capgemini

The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI - Hardik Pithadia from the Capgemini AIE provided the event overview

Introduction to Capgemini

11:15 am

Paul Haggerty - Capgemini

Introduction to Capgemini , provided by Paul Haggerty, VP ET&U - The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI

Capgemini POV on AI

11:30 am

Adrian Caswell & Sarah Hammond - Capgemini

Capgemini POV on AI, provided by Adrian Caswell & Sarah Hammond - The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI

Client Presentation - Houses of Parliament R&R

12:00 pm

Richard Middleton - Houses of Parliament

Richard Middleton from the Houses of Parliament R&R programme provides insight on how data and AI are helping accelerate capital delivery - The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI

Partner Presentation - Microsoft

12:30 pm

Jenni Rantakari - Microsoft

Jenni Rantakari from Microsoft provides a Hyperscale view on Capital Delivery and where cloud infrastructure enables better outcomes - The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI

Morning Session Close

1:00 pm

Hardik Pithadia - Capgemini

Session Chair Hardik Pitadia, Capgemini AIE Director, closes the morning session - The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI

Afternoon Session Open

1:45 pm

Hardik Pithadia - Capgemini

Session Chair Hardik Pitadia, Capgemini AIE Director, opens the afternoon session - The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI

Capgemini Partner Presentation - AVEVA

2:00 pm

AVEVA - Andrea Scaringi

Andrea Scaringi from AVEVA provides a view on Integrating digital workflows, real-time readiness, and AI to improve project outcomes - The 'Reimagining Capital Delivery in an Agentic World' event hosted by Capgemini, as part of the COMIT2026 conference, brought clients, partners, and thought leadership together with a focus on Agentic AI

Advanced Work Packaging (AWP)

Industrialised Construction

& Advanced Work Packaging Track - 9th September 2026

Constraint-Free Intelligence: AI Driven AWP Execution: Talking to your schedule

11:00 am

Geoff Ryan - Insight-AWP

This session focuses on:
- An AWP Chat-Bot presentation demonstrates how project data structured through Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) can be accessed in real time using conversational AI.
- The session shows how Engineering, Procurement, and Construction data stored in a digital warehouse enables instant answers on IWPs, constraints, materials, and schedule readiness.
- The chatbot acts as a single source of truth, improving decision speed, productivity, and predictability across mega-projects.

AI & Industrialised Construction: Risk, Reality and the Road Ahead

11:30 am

Jamie Adams - ProScope

This session focuses on:
- Industrialised construction promises speed, certainty and scalability but this only works if data, process and execution align. AI is accelerating the shift in unlocking new efficiencies in planning, forecasting and delivery, while introducing new risks around data integrity, over-automation, and loss of human judgement.
- This session aims to explore where AI adds value, where it can mislead and how organisations can adopt it responsibly.
- We will outline practical steps to balance innovation with control ensuring AI strengthens rather than destabilises delivery.

“AWP – Back to Basics”

12:00 pm

Stuart Block - Fluor

This session focuses on:
- Revisiting core concepts that drive successful project delivery with an AWP mindset - from early planning, through engineering / procurement in preparation for construction, exploring how AWP creates alignment, improves predictability, and enables efficient execution.
- The importance of planning with the end in mind, focusing on readiness, and ensuring work is executed in the right sequence, providing practical reminders that successful implementation is not about the complexity of the process, but about consistently applying the fundamentals that deliver project success.

Industrialized Construction Track - Panel Session

12:30 pm

Geoff Ryan, Jamie Adams, and Stuart Block

This panel session brings together the speakers from the Industrialized Construction track to answer live audience questions

Data In Construction Track

Data in Construction Track

9th September 2026

The Cloud: Turning Fragments of Data into a Complete Picture

11:00 am

Jaroslaw Szczepanek & Gareth Williams - Fluor

This session focuses on:
- The distinct and complementary roles of BIM and GIS within a connected digital ecosystem.
- The use of cloud technologies to transform disconnected information into meaningful insights.
- The benefits of integrating engineering and geospatial perspectives within Digital Twins.
- Practical approaches to improving collaboration, data visibility, and decision-making across the asset lifecycle.

Biodiversity Net Gain will be NSIP Mandatory in November - is your data ready?

11:30 am

Dr Katie Dawson - EcoSpatial

This session focuses on:
- Biodiversity Net Gain will become mandatory for NSIPs from November 2026, increasing the importance of trusted spatial data and digital validation.
- Poor BNG data requirements are creating growing costs for infrastructure organisations, with GIS teams spending significant time correcting avoidable errors and reworking datasets.
- Implementing FRIDAS principles from the start can reduce rework, improve coordination between teams, strengthen confidence in submissions, and support more reliable long-term BNG outcomes.

Agentic Sustainable Construction: Driving towards delivering tangible sustainability outcomes leveraging AI and Agents

12:00 pm

Harris Karim - IFS

This session focuses on:
- In construction, the carbon problem is a data problem, not a measurement problem.
- Agents shift sustainability and project teams from producing the emissions numbers to acting on it.
- Compliance should be a by-product of capturing emissions data, not the objective.

Data in Construction Track - Panel Session

12:30 pm

Jaroslaw Szczepanek, Gareth Williams, Katie Dawson, and Harris Karim

This panel session brings together the speakers from the Data in Construction track to answer live audience questions

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Track

AI in Construction Track

9th & 10th September 2026

A structured approach for AI-supported Immersive Virtual Reality client engagement

2:00 pm

Dr Fadi Castronovo - Okana

This session focuses on:
- AI and immersive VR enhancing client engagement in AECO through workshops, highlighting how immersive VR adds value, key use cases, and research insights, then provides a step-by-step workflow, from defining objectives and selecting areas to technical setup and facilitation.
- It emphasizes managing expectations, assigning roles, capturing decisions with AI, and avoiding common pitfalls to ensure effective, outcome-driven VR sessions.

Streamline construction Hinkley & Sizewell Projects with EAM - Bouygues Success Story

2:30 pm

Stanislas Burkhart - Bouygues UK & Cyrus Sorab - Octave

This session focuses on:
- This session will open with an overview of where EAM fits into the Design, Build & Operate pillars, talking about the importance of the handover of quality information between them.
- After this Bouygues will present their story of how EAM has helped them drive efficiency of their construction projects at Sizewell & Hinkley

One Project, One Digital Thread: Integrating Design, Planning, and Execution

3:00 pm

Andrea Scaringi - Aveva

This session focuses on:
- Projects perform better when engineering, procurement, and construction are connected through a single digital execution strategy, bridging the gap between the design environment (BIM/CDE) and field execution enables better visibility, fewer handoffs, reduced rework, and more predictable outcomes.
- AI and integrated project data are transforming project execution from reactive management to proactive decision-making, by combining real-time project data, constraint management, analytics, and AI, organizations can identify risks earlier, improve work readiness, and make better decisions.

AI Track - Panel Session

3:30 pm

Fadi Castronovo, Stanislas Burkhart, Cyrus Sorab, and Andrea Scaringi

This panel session brings together the speakers from the AI track to answer live audience questions

Why Your AI Pilot Will Fail, and How to Make the Next One Work

10:30 am

Alex Luketa - Xerini

This session focuses on:
- Most AI pilots never make it to production, and the reasons rarely make it onto a conference slide.
- We have built data and AI systems for diverse clients, and learned the hard way what separates a clever demo from something people trust on site.
- This session shares the honest lessons: where AI breaks, why data readiness decides everything, and the questions to ask before you spend a penny on your next pilot.

The Uncommon Sense about AI Adoption

11:00 am

Helen Dawson - Helen Dawson & Associates

This session focuses on:
- AI capabilities are advancing at extraordinary speed. What these tools can do now genuinely surprises people. But capability isn't adoption, and adoption isn't value.
- Most organisations are using AI to do the same work slightly faster and calling it transformation.
- This talk presents a set of practical design principles, from rethinking roles and reworking processes to governance, data quality, and delegation, that help leaders treat AI as software they already know how to manage, not magic they don't.

InEight Intelligence
Connected project intelligence with InEight

11:30 am

Mike Laws - AECOM

This session focuses on:
- AI in construction is only as good as the data behind it, and disconnected tools don’t give you enough context to act with confidence.
- Learn how the InEight platform connects cost, scope, and schedule to create the foundation for more predictable outcomes, better visibility, and scalable project intelligence

AI Track - Panel Session

12:00 pm

Alex Luketa, Helen Dawson, and Mike Laws

This panel session brings together the speakers from the AI track to answer live audience questions

AI in Safety: Bridging the Gap to the Frontline

1:30 pm

Rakesh Hirani - Navatech

This session focuses on:
- This session explores how AI can bridge the gap between safety strategy and frontline reality.
- Learn how multilingual, real-time guidance can reach workers in the moment, how everyday tools like WhatsApp can turn site conversations into actionable safety data, and how better visibility helps teams intervene earlier, reduce risk, and build a stronger safety culture.

Sustainability in Project Management Consultancy: Strategies for Lasting Impact

2:00 pm

Sultan Qureshi - NS Nordics

This session focuses on:
- In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, sustainability is no longer optional - it is a strategic imperative!
- Project management consultancies shape how organizations deliver value while minimizing environmental and social impact. Learn how sustainable thinking can be embedded into every phase of project management, from planning & procurement to execution, with practical strategies, innovative tools, and real-world approaches.
- How integrating sustainability enhances project outcomes, strengthens client trust, ensures regulatory alignment, and drives long-term success. Join us as we examine how forward-thinking project management can create lasting impact - for businesses, communities, and the planet.

Augment don’t replace

2:30 pm

John Tapsfield - Exteroceptive

This session focuses on:
- Start small: How to trial AI on one tedious, bounded workflow with a clear owner and measurable benefit.
- Augment people… Don’t replace them: Let AI find, compare and draft, while humans check evidence and retain decision authority.
- Prove value safely: How to run a controlled pilot, measuring time saved alongside review effort, quality and risk.

AI Track - Panel Session

3:00 pm

Rakesh Hirani, Sultan Qureshi, John Tapsfield

This panel session brings together the speakers from the AI track to answer live audience questions

Insight-AWP Lab

Insight Lab

Hosted by Insight-AWP - 9th Septermber 2026

Insight Lab Playback - Hosted by Insight-AWP

4:30 pm

Geoff Ryan - Insight-AWP

Geoff Ryan presents initial findings from the Insight Lab hosted by Insight-AWP

Octave Lab

Insight Lab

Hosted by Octave - 10th September 2026

Insight Lab Playback - Hosted by Octave

3:30 pm

Mateja Matko, Edouard Podolak, Cyrus Sorab & Mukesh Mistry - Octave

The Octave Team presents initial findings from the Insight Lab hosted by Octave

BT Lab

Insight Lab

Hosted by BT - 10th September 2026

Insight Lab Playback - Hosted by BT

3:45 pm

Emma Gould & Sarwar Khan - BT

The BT Team presents initial findings from the Insight Lab hosted by BT

Conference 2026 - Photos

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