Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th of May

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Many thanks to everybody who attended our conference for making it such a memorable and successful event. We had 128 delegates in total, the majority of whom attended both days.

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Special thanks to our Gold Sponsors IFS for making the event possible and to all our other sponsors and exhibitors: Bentley Systems, Bechtel,

City-Insights, Colonel Duck, Costain, Finalcad, Total Mobile and Women In BIM.

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Thanks also to our four chairs for running each day so well and to our many presenters for their fascinating and first-class presentations.

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And finally, but by no means least, thanks to Su Butcher for her sterling efforts in live blogging the whole event.

#comit2017

Conference Blog

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Photographs on Day 1 courtesy of Colonel Duck Productions, photographs on Day 2 by various members of the COMIT team.

Highlights from the Conference courtesy of Colonel Duck Productions
Agenda and Presentations

 

As with last year we had co-chairs for each day of the conference. Many thanks to Chrissi, John, Phil and Esra for helping to ensure the conference was a great success!

Day 1 : Wed 24 May

Chrissi McCarthy

Managing Director at Constructing Equality Ltd

John Pelton MBE

Director, Programme Delivery Partner Highways England at CH2M

Presentations from Day 1

Day 2 : Thur 25 May

Phil Jackson

Royal Academy Visiting Teaching Fellow at University of Surrey

Dr Esra Kurul

Programme leader MSc Project Management in the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University

Presentations from Day 2
Final Agenda
Topics included: 

  • BIM level 3

  • Disrupting Technology

  • The future of contracting

  • Mobile Safety

  • Drones

  • Innovation in Road, Rail, Water & Power

  • Asset Recognition

  • Diversity in Construction

  • Wearable Photogrammetry

  • VR in Construction

  • Interactive Information

  • Digital evolution

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... and more!

Speakers

Many thanks to all of our speakers:

Mark Bew MBE

Phillip Russell

Chairman at PCSG, Director at ECS, Chairman of the UK BIM Task Group

Paul Morris

Head of Innovation at Thames Tideway Tunnel

Harrison O'Hara

HSW Technology Consultant at Thames Tideway Tunnel

Tony Shooter

Director Hub Group, COMIT Chair for Technology

FRICS Director One Oak Development Ltd

Chrissi McCarthy

Managing Director at Constructing Equality Ltd

Cristina Savian

Attract and Promote Lead at Women in BIM

Malcolm Taylor

Head of Technical Information

Crossrail

Andrew Cowell

Chair BIM4Water

Neill Pawsey

Independant

Kenny Ingram

Global Industry Director

IFS Group

Phil Jackson

Independent Consultant,buildingSMART UKI Infrastructure Lead

Dejan Papič

Advancement Academies Manager - Global at Bentley Systems

Dr Max Mallia-Parfitt

Specialist at FULCRO Applied Technologies

Hugh Boyes

Cyber Security expert,  Director Bodvoc Ltd

Jaimie Johnston

Director, Head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood

Steve Slater

IS Operations Manager at Wates Group, COMIT Chair for Construction

Stuart Young

Managing Director Europe & Middle East at Fiatech, COMIT director

James Heaton

BIM manager at Crossrail (Costain) & PhD student at Cambridge

Jaka Kravanja

AssetAI

AGENDA

Harry Parnell

BIM4Highways Co-chair & Head of Digital Project Delivery at Balfour Beatty 

Mike Gardom

Director

City-Insights

Social Media 

We were very lucky to have Su Butcher live blogging both days of the conference.

@SuButcher
Affiliate Organisations

Members of the following Affiliate Organisations were entitled to the discounted tickets:

Many thanks to our Sponsors & Exhibitors