Digital twins are on everyone’s mind these days. And it’s no wonder, considering the widespread benefits they provide. In this roundtable, a panel discusses and shares experiences regarding the benefits and barriers to implementing digital twins for built assets.

In this week's episode of the Future Construct Podcast (40 min interview), we are excited to feature Cristina Savian, Managing Director of BE-WISE. Cristina is a highly accomplished director with two decades’ experience in technology and engineering. As an expert in the built environment, Cristina has driven consulting engagements and delivered the adoption of technology, digital transformation and innovation across a number of sectors. She has been recognized for unsurpassed levels of commercial awareness underpinned by strong problem-solving, client management and leadership qualities. Highlights of Cristina’s interview with host Amy Peck (@AmyPeckXR) include: - The start of Cristina's career, and what inspired her to found BE-WISE - The importance of having the level of confidence for yourself and providing inspiration for others - The rapid evolution of technology, and the role it plays in the progression of different industries. - Her desired gadget or service that would make her life better on a personal level SHOW NOTES 0:37  - Amy Peck introduces Cristina Savian, Founder and CEO at BE-WISE. 01:12  - You have such an interesting background. What was your journey, and what led you to start BE-WISE? 17:05  - Talking about so many cool things, including your crazy clubhouse adventure, which seems to be expanding at an exponential rate. I'd love to hear a little bit about what is the importance of having the level of confidence for you, even just to inspire others? 26:28  - You know, you talked about digital twins. What are some of the things you're hearing that are the honest challenges about how  we leverage digital twins? 37:36  - Let's take a little trip to the future. Let's go 20 to 25 years past that edge you live on, on a daily basis, and you could bring with you any kind of gadget or service or just something that would make your life better on a personal level, what would it be and what would it do?

Join Cristina Savian (Founder & CEO, BE-WISE), Belinda Hodkinson (Director, Magnae), and Amanda Wyzenbeek (Airport Design Manager, Sydney Airport) as they discuss all things digital twins. _____ Speaker: Cristina Savian Founder & CEO, BE-WISE Cristina is the founder of BE-WISE, an international consultancy focused on driving adoption of technology and bringing to market the most promising innovation in the construction and property industries across Europe, the US, and Australia. Cristina has two decades of experience in the civil engineering and technology industries, working on projects ranging from traffic management schemes through to transport planning for major events such as the London 2012 Olympics. As a recognized industry trailblazer Cristina is a regular speaker at international industry events and regular columnist for aec-business.com and holds judge and board positions on engineering and construction panels such as the IET built environment industry panel in the UK. In Australia, she is part of the National Workgroup for the Digital Built and Legal Environment and the Australasian BIM Advisory Board, Asset Management Technical Working Group. Twitter: @cristina_savian LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-savian/ Website: https://www.be-wise.xyz/ _____ Speaker: Belinda Hodkinson Director, Magnae Belinda is an experienced digital transformation strategist, executive director of Magnae, chairperson, and committee member to industry initiatives. She has substantial involvement in the building and construction industry where her leadership has been applied to help organizations embrace technology for their success. Twitter: @bellehod LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindahodkinson/ Website: http://www.magnae.com.au _____ Speaker: Amanda Wyzenbeek Airport Design Manager, Sydney Airport Amanda is the Digital Twin Champion for Sydney Airport. Her role is to discover and translate the actual needs of the organization whilst demystifying the offer from prospective digital technologists and establish those who can meet the business's requirements. From a customer’s perspective, she has hands-on experience with culture transformation, achieving executive buy-in and overall project management of the process, partnering with both the business and the consultant on the digital transformation journey. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandawyzenbeek/ _____ Shadow Summit brings together the most technologically advanced commercial real estate companies, architects, engineers, and contractors to share their lessons on how to innovate in AEC + CRE. Visit our website: https://shadow.vc/ Learn more about Summit: https://shadowsummit.co/ Follow us! Twitter: @shadowventures LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shadowvc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shadowventures Instagram: @shadow.ventures

Digital Construction Innovation Trailblazer - Digital Twins - Blockchain - Al - IoT - ML

Digital Twins offer a wide range of opportunities, benefits, challenges and risks. At Digital Construction Week in 2019, we spoke to experts on how Digital Twins could be applied in the Built Environment. They highlighted the opportunities that Digital Twins provide and what needs to happen next to implement Digital Twins in the Built Environment. What is Digital Twin Technology? Or what is digital twin in manufacturing? Quite simply, a digital twin is a virtual model of a process, product or service. This pairing of the virtual and physical worlds allows analysis of data and monitoring of systems to head off problems before they even occur, prevent downtime, develop new opportunities and even plan for the future by using simulations. For more information, read our white paper on Digital Twins for the Built Environment by visiting: theiet.org/built-environment.

Cristina Savian, managing director and founder of BE-WISE, joins us for the next instalment of our 2018-19 keynote lecture series Constructs: digital innovation in the built environment. The advancement of digital technologies and the adoption of BIM processes in the built environment has enabled the construction industry to catch up with aerospace and manufacturing - made possible through the creation of digital twins. Digital twins aim to be the single source of truth in a built asset, serving the role as a live digital representation of a physical entity through the asset’s lifecycle, from conception to decommissioning. This lecture will explore the double face of digital twins. On one hand they offer an inspiring new frontier in their role as problem-solvers - enhancing asset performance and reducing risk. But some argue digital twins are yet to deliver tangible, measurable benefits. Cristina will analyse the central questions - are we ready for digital twins? And who stands to benefit? The lecture will begin at 18:30 and will be followed by a networking reception from 19:30. Please note that places for this event are limited and seating will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Room G.12 22 Gordon Street London WC1H 0QB United Kingdom The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management http://ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/digital-twin