What is urban supersensing?

Urban supersenses offer us a constantly evolving toolbox to improve our everyday work, from architectural design to facility management. These senses originate from innovative use of intelligent technology solutions. The combination of digital + humane will unlock new ways of exploring and improving our built environment.

The main question of WDBE in 2021 is: How the developments in the interplay between humans and computers are changing our way of creating and interacting with buildings and cityscapes?  

And what is the WDBE Community?

WDBE brings together CDOs, CTOs, CIOs, architects, experts and researchers working with BIM, VDC, AR/VR, Big Data, analytics, IOT solutions, virtual project delivery etc. around the world.  Our aim is to accelerate transparent and sustainable systemic change through our global ecosystem of change makers.

We have opened the Call for Proposals and invite you to share your findings at our WDBE Community Sessions as well as the WDBE summit! 

The main question of WDBE in 2021 is: How the developments in the interplay between humans and computers are changing our way of creating and interacting with buildings and cityscapes? We welcome presentations from all around the built environment, ranging from land use planning and zoning to building and tenant services as well as end-of-life and circularity solutions.

We hope that the submitted proposals will also look to highlight the various aspects of digitalisation, from sustainability impacts, new business models and the role of ecosystems to user experience. Additionally, presentations covering all of the various enabling technologies are welcomed.

The call closes on 30th April. After this deadline, we will contact everyone who submitted a proposal. Presentations can become part of the Community Sessions or the WDBE Summit main event. If your proposal is selected to the Summit, a speaker fee (99€ + VAT) is required from all presenters.

WDBE has become a platform for the global community of future builders to share the latest research and innovation. We want to continue to spread inspiring examples globally. By subscribing to the WDBE Community, you will gain access to our world of future builders and monthly stream of free professional content. 

The culmination of the year, WDBE Summit 2021, will take place on 28-29 September 2021 and concludes the shared sensemaking of the theme “Unlocking Urban Supersensing” with the best inspirational keynote speakers and most profound thought-leader panel discussions.

WDBE2021 Summit brings the forerunners of the digital built environment together for the fourth time in a row. Welcome to spend two inspiring days unlocking the urban  supersensing! The first day will be dedicated to WDBE Community Talks highlighting the brightest minds and innovations under our theme of the year – the discussion gathered from our  free Community Sessions will create a comprehensive background from where to start. The second summit day is packed with inspirational keynotes,  panel discussions, solution highlights and matchmaking opportunities with our  global ecosystem of industry  forerunners. 

We have now published our first Summit Keynotes from industry thought-leaders and released our limited edition batch of Early Bird tickets (129€+VAT 24%) available until 30th June.

The WDBE experience is co-created by our community of future-builders throughout the year. This means that you can use your extraordinary expertise to help us all strenghten our super senses!