David Shepherd is the Digital Product Manager for the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal. Previously, he served as BIM Leader for the House of Commons and, prior to that, led an international consulting team at Autodesk implementing digital construction solutions for major contractors including Balfour Beatty, BAM Kier, Heijmans, Goldbeck, NCC, and Skanska.
As BIM Manager for HOK London, he was commissioned by the RIBA to write the internationally best-selling BIM Management Handbook. His project credentials span some of the world’s most prestigious construction programmes, including Al Mafraq Hospital (Abu Dhabi), LG Science Park (South Korea), and Papworth Cardiac Hospital (Cambridge, UK).
A technology pioneer, David has deployed Azure Digital Twins through his Twin-Genius initiative and is an authorised Microsoft Power Apps developer. With over 20 years of real-world BIM delivery experience, he is a highly rated speaker at international conferences including Digital Construction Week, London Build, and Autodesk University.
As AI promises to upend the AEC industry, the organizations pulling ahead share one thing in common: they got serious about their data first. This panel brings together leaders from across the built lifecycle to explore what outcomes better data is unlocking and the thorny questions every AEC firm is wrestling with right now. Who owns the data? Who can actually get value from it? How do you turn it into new services for clients? And what does the competitive landscape look like for firms that move now versus firms that wait?
Host
Virginia Senf // Speckle
Panelists
– David Shepherd // Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal
– Nick Cameron // Perkins+Will
– Frederic Gal // Bouygues UK
– Stefan Suche // Goldbeck
– Diego Padilla-Philipps // WSP
