Mr. Thomas HO, JP, is the Chief Executive of Gammon Construction Limited, a Hong Kong based construction group with operations throughout China and South-East Asia, jointly owned by Jardines and Balfour Beatty. Gammon has a turnover of around USD2.5 Billion and employs over 5000 professional staff. He possesses over 30 years of experience in construction industry. He has been dedicated to spearheading project management and general management, safety initiatives and innovation excellence in the construction industry. He is very active in community services and professional institutes’ services and is recognized by the Industry as the figurehead in promoting Excellence in Construction Management and Quality Construction. His passion and commitment in pursuing safety in the workplace, as demonstrated in the series of CEO Safety Forum for which he pulls together the efforts of government officials and industry leaders, is applauded by all stakeholders. He was the Chairman of CITAC which serve to develop the Centre to be the knowledge hub and to demonstrate local application. It is also the intention of the Centre to promote Innovation Culture within the Industry and Community at large.

Dubbed the architect of the green building movement in Singapore, Dr. John John KEUNG is the first Southeast Asian to be conferred the Chairman’s Award by the World Green Building Council (WGBC) in 2015. He was also named one of the Top 25 Newsmakers of the Year 2013 by Engineering News- Record (ENR), USA.Dr. KEUNG was formerly the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) from June 2006 to May 2017. Under his leadership, BCA moved Singapore into the position of a global leader in green buildings in the tropics, raised construction productivity drastically by a cumulative 12% from 2010 to 2017 and transformed its built environment sector into one that is sustainable, digitally and technologically advanced through the adoption of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) and Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD). He was the Deputy CEO and Acting CEO of the Housing & Development Board (HDB) from 2001 to 2006 and the Deputy CEO and Deputy Chief Planner of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) from 1997 to 2001.Dr. KEUNGeung also holds Adjunct Professorships in the National University of Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore University of Social Science. Dr KeungHe is a Chartered Town Planner and earned his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Wales, UK.

MSc. in Computer Science and graduate in Business Administration (ESCP Europe, Paris in 1994), Mr. Jean-Daniel KUHN holds a strong background in project and innovation management. Before co-founding XtreeE, he was managing the innovation portfolio of SYSTRA, one of the leading engineering firms in the field of infrastructures, very active in the Middle East and Asia. He also held management positions at Arte Charpentier Architects, LafargeHolcim and Accenture. At XtreeE, Mr. KUHN is in charge of international business development & operations, focusing on the priority zones of XtreeE: Europe / Asia / Middle East. He is also responsible for strategy and IP-related questions.

Dr. MESSNER is the Director of the Computer Integrated Construction (CIC) Research Program and the Charles and Elinor Matts Professor of Architectural Engineering at Penn State. He specializes in Building Information Modeling (BIM), immersive technologies, and lean process transformation. Dr. MESSNER led the development of the BIM Project Execution Planning Guide and the BIM Planning Guide for Facility Owners Guide, both incorporated into the US National BIM Standard, along with the Lean Deployment Planning Guide sponsored by the Lean Construction Institute. Dr. MESSNER was a Task Lead for the Building Energy Informatics task in the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI). He has received several National Science Foundation grants for investigating the application of advanced visualization in construction engineering education and the AEC Industry. As a part of these grants, two Immersive Construction (ICon) Labs were developed, which are large, 3 screen immersive display systems for visualizing design and construction information. He previously worked as a project manager on various construction projects for a large general contractor and an infrastructure development company. He has taught courses in virtual prototyping, BIM, strategic management in construction, international construction, and project management at Penn State.

An early adopter of practical change and purposeful collaboration Prof. David PHILP is a Chartered Construction Manager by background and Global Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Information Management (Consultancy Director) for AECOM, the global, fully integrated services firm. Prof. PHILP has been involved in delivering innovative digital asset management strategies across the globe from Singapore, Australia and the Baltics. He is currently heading up the National Health Service (NHS) Scotland digital estate programme. He was seconded in the UK Cabinet Office in 2011 as Head of BIM Implementation and has been a key figure in the UK public sector BIM mandate and continues to support through his role with the UK Government’s Centre for Digital Built Britain programme. He was also seconded into the Scottish Future Trust (SFT) as Chair of the BIM Delivery Group and UK BIM Task Group as part of the core team. He is now part of the UK’s Centre for Digital Built Britain change team. He is a Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) where he is also Vice President of the Policy Board. Additionally, He is Vice Chair of the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre. He has over 100 Keynotes undertaken from RTC Australia, Fiatech Texas, KCC Budapest and Autodesk University, Moscow. He is also joint author of the Dummies Guide To BIM.A Fellow of the ICE, RICS and CIOB he has completed the Virtual Design and Construct at Stanford University, CA. and is a Professor at Heriot-Watt University. He is also a member of the BSI BIM Standards Committee.

Mr. Lex RANSIJN has a background as BIM manager for a large general contractor in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He loves to share his experiences with BIM from the past 10 years working on projects in the Dutch construction industry. In 2018, he and the team, won the “openBIM Award for Construction from buildingSMART International” with the project Pontsteiger. Right now he has his own company and does mentoring on projects and companies to help them with their BIM adoption. Together with some other BIM experts he launched a 2 pages document for minimum BIM requirements. Right now he is the chairman of the expert committee from that BIM basic IDM