Ben co-founded Remap. Remap is a digital transformation consultancy that improve the way that built environment organisations work using in-depth knowledge of technology, design and construction. Founded by built environment professionals turned self-taught software developers, the team bring over 30 years’ combined industry expertise spearheading digital transformation with some of the largest built environment organisations in the UK. With a solid foundation in design & construction and a passion for using technology to solve problems, Remap are on a mission to transform the industry from a fresh perspective.
The world feels broken and our leaders seem to have no answers. Their reflex (and ours) is to hand control to machines. It happened with the financial system in 2008. It happened with social media, where basic algorithms gave us echo chambers and served shareholders, not citizens. Now AI arrives with the same promise and bigger stakes: hallucinated answers, outsourced thinking, contested authorship, and a productivity arms race dressed up as freedom. For an industry that designs places for people, the tools we use matter. This talk argues for questioning the methodology, knowing how our tools work, and remembering the order: people, ideas, machines.
(with Jack Stewart)
