Tech+ Architecture Conference 2023

Key Takeways

The Tech+ 2023 Conference showcased the immense potential of AI/ML and technological advancements in shaping the future of architecture. To harness these opportunities, we identified four actionable takeaways:

1. AI/ML at the core of every human activity, fostering the amplification of resources: Embedding an AI/ML Data Analyst in every process to identify patterns and create ML Models to train algorithms that can enhance our internal operations, resulting in an optimization of resources and therefore better customer-facing experiences throughout the entire customer journey. 
2. Leveled Plainfield, a balanced ratio between left and right mindsets: Growing the proportion of highly skilled technologists from all quadrants of the innovation spectrum, from full-stack engineers, UX-UI Data-Driven Designers, Data Scientists, ML/AI Engineers, BIM Architects, to Product Designers and Growth Hackers, we should never stop spreading the mindset and mission+vision of creating a customer-obsessed approach. Technology and innovation, in the end, will serve as copilots to enhance the human experience. 
3. Garbage In, Garbage Out. Everything starts with data: We all need to keep pushing for a more data-driven culture among disciplines to enforce the implementation of clean data structures avoiding the GI=GO principle (Garbage In, Garbage, Out).
4. Digital Twins enabled by adopting AIAS (Asset Information Management Systems) and Parametric Design: The correct implementation of parametric design starts by indoctrinating a data-driven mindset in the core of the team, adopting not only BIM but also creating a well-structured Asset Information Management System that can feed our BIM practices, align with other data point utilized for estimation, customer-facing outputs, and internal handoff protocols can be crucial for the correct implementation of Digital Twins that can help simulate, predict and inform at any stage of the customer journey.