Find out what makes a building intelligent. Is it the wired and wireless infrastructure? Is it the smart building control or multi-media communication systems? Or is it simply good design with the user at it’s heart?
Neil Pennell Land Securities Anthony Coumidis McBains Cooper Peter McDermott Buro Happold Rob Myers Sheppard Robson Gary Rawlings make architects Stelio Papastylianos AKT II
08.30
Registration
09.00
The City with a Smart Vision Keynote Speaker: Peter Rees City Planning Officer, City of London
Peter will share his vision of a future city with intelligent buildings. How will these buildings affect the wider place and what should the industry be hoping to achieve?
09.15
A-Z of Intelligent Buildings Chairman: Neil Pennell Land Securities Speakers: Volker Buscher Director at Arup; Prof. Derek Clements-Croome Emeritus Professor at University of Reading and Dr Claire Penny Business Development Executive at IBM
This session will provide information on Intelligent Buildings from the perspectives of a designer, academic and manufacturer. Buildings are a complex, multisystem entity with many control and management systems working at any one time. Learn about what makes a building intelligent and how three basic elements (people, products and processes) can come together to reduce costs, increase efficiency, boost productivity and future proof your investment by ensuring its long term flexibility.
10.30
Coffee Break
10.50
Breakout Sessions (delegates choose one session only)
B1: IntelliTech (now fully booked) Chairman: Malcolm McGougan Applied Intelligent Building Ltd Speakers: Kari Baden Dimension Data, John Monaghan Cisco and Steve Reid Siemens Building Technology
This session will focus on the technology & infrastructure required in an Intelligent Building. Speakers will cover the present and future for building systems technology, business information technology, integration and measuring value. Find out about the future of technology, user benefits and the value this can offer to clients.
B2: IntelliDesign (now fully booked) Chairman: Peter Rees City of London Speakers: Sean Affleck make architects, Andrew Hunter Skanska and Hanif Kara AKT II
Covering the elements of design, construction and building performance, this session will look at current and future innovation. What can the office industry learn from other sectors and is it possible to predict the future? Will immersive reality, robotic construction and algae shading facades be common place in 10 years time?
B3: IntelliPeople (now fully booked) Chairman: Bob Thompson Remit Consulting Speakers: Alan Bainbridge BBC, Benjamin Lesser Derwent London, Gerard Taylor Gerard Taylor Design and Bob Thompson Remit Consulting
People are at the heart of every workplace and organisation. This session looks at the common influences people’s behaviour and expectations, working culture and technology play on the design and occupation of future workplaces.
The evolution of technology and social media is constantly enhancing our ability to connect and engage with colleagues and external audiences. Future office design needs to enable and capture this requirement through flexibility, variety and choice of working environment.
The panel have been specifically selected to initiate the debate of how the design of workplace could be re-cast to better support new working patterns, enhance communication and collaboration whilst achieving organisational drivers.
12.10
Break
12.20
Question Time Chairman:Michael Millar BBC freelance business journalist Panellists: Malcolm McGougan Applied Intelligent Building Ltd, Sean Affleck make architects and Bob Thompson Remit Consulting
Representatives from each of our breakout sessions come together to provide a brief summary of discussions and take questions from the floor.
12.50
The Intelligent City – beyond the buildings! Keynote Speaker: Rachel Armstrong TED Fellow and Sustainability Innovator
Our conference concludes with a keynote session taking you “beyond the buildings”. What will the difference be between the city of the future and the city of today? Where in the world should we be looking for inspiration and best practice? What do we need to do to create a truly sustainable building? Is it all just hype or is this the time to revolutionise the way we design, build & occupy space? This session aims to inspire delegates and will leave you wanting to find out even more…
13.20
Closing Statement followed by lunch
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June 27, 2024 
By BCO Media 
