Damon works with various industries regarding web based 3D, virtual environments, mirror worlds, and other mixed reality/Metaverse related technologies for over 20 years. He is passionate about the web’s convergence with other technologies including IoT, GIS, CAD/BIM/CAM, AR/VR, mobile, and wearable devices. To help in the adoption of new tech, he organizes various events and hackathon communities.”

Ben is a doctoral qualified urban and civil planner with 20 years commercial experience running Urban Circus 3D Planning. He’s built a 3D planning technology to support clients and users do better planning and make better plans. Better plans means contextualised and integrated in 3D reality, faster to build and easy to comprehend at the human scale for construction, users and maintenance. Better planning means multi-disciplinary, cross-organisation, collaborative, negotiated openly, clear and understood. In actuality much planning tends to be obfuscated, schematic, closed with vertically segregated silo-thinking. When Ben brings the new 3D Planning methods to projects and organisations – transformations in planning quality, efficiency, culture and alignment tend to occur. This applies to planning for works, layouts, operations, development, construction, townscape and everything in between.

After completing her research project on Generative Design, Jacqueline kick-started her career with a job at Tesla. Being one of the first people on the ground at Gigafactory Berlin, she wore many hats and ultimately managed the design of the entire automotive factory. She now moved on to pursue her passion to make our industry greener with a MBA degree in Building Sustainability. If she seems familiar to you, you might have watched on of her videos about BIM or Sustainability that she posts on her YouTube-Channel „That BIM Girl“.

Reid Senescu is Doxel’s Vice President of Product Management and leads the development of AI-powered software for commercial construction projects. With a PhD in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and numerous product leadership positions in ConTech, including most recently commercial building IoT platform service provider Enlightened (acquired by Siemens), Reid has a unique perspective on the industry and the development of new use cases for advanced technology in construction.

Niknaz is the CEO and co-founder of aec+tech, an all-in-one innovation platform and community connecting AEC/O (Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Operations) professionals with the latest tools and technologies. Prior to launching aec+tech Niknaz practiced architecture in the bay area, California, both as a design professional as well as a design technologist. Niknaz is a member of AIA San Francisco design technology committee, and has also been developing curriculum and teaching architecture courses online to Bahai students in Iran who continue to be deprived of access to universities in their own country.

Renaissance Futurist Tero Vanhanen is a luminous visionary from Finland. At WDBE, he will show how creativity can be scaled with certain mind-set, co-creation and digitality. Tero has given hundreds of inspiriting speeches during a last decade. He works for Fira; an innovative and lean Finish construction company with ambitious targets to renew the traditional construction industry. In addition to his experience as an architect, he has wide executive-level experience in the fields of real estate, development and town planning. After town planning officer years, Tero has worked as Chief Creative Officer in VVO Group (Kojamo), Neapo Ltd and Hartela Group.