Venture West 2024 | BuiltWorlds | 3 April 2024 | The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square, 335 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA

This event brings together corporate leaders, innovators, and investors at the heart of the built environment’s digital transformation.

BuiltWorlds series has become the world’s premier symposium for innovators and investors driving the development of emerging technologies across construction and the built ecosystem.

This panel will dissect the different strategies AEC founders have taken to penetrate this slow to adopt industry. The panelists will assess the best/worst paths forward for built world innovators across technology types.

This discussion will look at how different AEC innovation teams approach new innovation. Questions that will be addressed include: What are the best practice when partnering with a built world startup? How do you vet out the studs from the duds? How to assess the business impact following a product pilot?

The construction and solar industries are experiencing massive growth opportunities. At the same time, weak productivity and labor shortages are threatening delivery times and margins. During this session, Xpanner will unpack some of our industries’ challenges and share the automation solutions they are rolling out.

BuiltWorlds proprietary research presentation highlighting investment activity in the prior 12 months and what to expect over the next year.

Digital financial solutions have become top of mind for contractors, subcontractors, and tradesmen, that can't afford to wait 30-days to get paid for work they've already completed. This panel will discuss emerging FinTech & Insurtech solutions in the AEC space and their potential impact on this space.

Having the right balance of corporate venture capital (CVC) and traditional VC is critical for success in this nuanced innovation niche. This panel will dive into the benefits and drawbacks of both strategic and financially motivated venture ownership.

Interest in robotic solutions has grown materially in recent quarters as the skilled labor shortage becomes an apparent issue. Labor augmenting robots could be the answer, but join this session to learn more.

The physical infrastructure of the built world needs a facelift as we enter the next-stage of our advancing civilization. Regulators, legacy AEC players, innovators, and investors are pouring an enormous amount of resources into the build out of the next generation of our infrastructure. This panel will discuss the latest infrastructure innovations and what the future of this part of the built world could look like.

The built world accounts for ~40% of global emissions. This panel will discuss where leading AECO players are adopting sustainable technologies and the innovations at the forefront of this adoption curve.

This panel will focus on startup exits in an industry that hasn’t seen very many. The discussion will dive into what that exit process could look like and how investors and founders should prepare.

2024 Speakers

Mihir Somalwar
Corporate Innovation Lead, Hensel Phelps

Dai Ohama
General Manager, Innovation and Incubation Office, Kajima

Zach Aarons
Co-Founder & General Partner, Metaprop

Allison Myers
Co-Founder & General Partner, Buoyant Ventures

Santhosh Krishna Chandrabalan
VP & GM of Business Development & Ventures, Cornerstone Building Brands

Atul Khanzode
Chief Technology Officer, DPR Construction

Leila Banijamali
CEO, Symbium

Benny Baltrotsky
VP of Commercialization, Stanley Black and Decker

Diana Swenton
Vice President - Venture Capital, Suffolk Technologies

Parker Mundt
Vice President of Platform, Suffolk Technologies

Bassem Hamdy
CEO, Briq

Chris Fortunato
Vice President, CRH Ventures

Burak Gursel
Acquisition & Integration Manager, Simpson Strong-Tie

Eliot Jones
Principal, Corporate Venturing and Partnership Development, Trimble

Rodrigo Zetina
Strategy and Business Development Manager, Progreso X

Sadanand Sahasrabudhe
CoFounder, CEO, ConstructivIQ

Ray Levitt
Operating Partner, Blackhorn Ventures

Alice Leung
Vice President, Brick & Mortar Ventures

Igor Starkov
CEO, Teleworker AI

Kevin Albert
CEO, Canvas

Tomas Henninge
Head of Construction, Startuplab

Joselyn Lai
Co-Founder/CEO, Bedrock Energy

Daniel Dart
General Partner, Rock Yard

Gabe Greenbaum
General Partner, B Capital

Nick Martin
Co-founder & COO, Carbon Reform

Rae Oakley
Investment Manager, Prologis Ventures

Caleb Carr
CEO, Vita Inclinata

Yuji Doi
Director of Innovation and Incubation, Kajima

Serena Crivellaro
Managing Director, KPMG

Gavin Myers
Managing Partner, Prudence

Ariana Pareja
President, Co-founder, Pareja Foundation

Maxime De Scheemaeker
VP Sales, Juunoo

Breton Birkhofer
Managing Director, DivcoWest

Brendan Hermalyn
CEO, Thalo Labs

Kaustubh Pandya
Partner, Brick & Mortar Ventures

Jeral Poskey
Founder & CEO, Swyft Cities

Rosemarie Lipman
Director, BuiltWorlds

Jae Choi
Chief Operating Officer, Xpanner

Grant McCullagh
Director, Thornton Tomasetti

Darren Bechtel
Founder & Managing Director, Brick & Mortar Ventures

Jeff Herriman
Managing Director, Big Blue Innovations

Michael Khait
Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer (CTO), TrustPoint

Luke Mairo
Chief Operating Officer (COO) & Co-Founder, Voltpost

Henri Lee
CEO & Founder, Xpanner

Derrick Morse
Founder and CEO, Rugged Robotics

Marc Krichman
CEO, 811 Spotter

Krishna Ramaswamy
Co-Founder & CEO, ClimeCast

Seth Nickinson
Head of Product, Sewer AI

Akihiro Manda
Deputy Manager, Kajima

Adam Yellin
Founder and CEO, REQpay

Matt Wheelis
SVP Strategy, Build & Construct, Nemetschek Group

Allen Preger
Partner, Building Ventures

Noel Brady
COO, ProjectMark

Scott Fairley
Founder & CEO, Optimotive Technologies

2024 Sponsors

SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR:
• Xpanner

GOLD SPONSOR:
• Kajima Corporation

SILVER SPONSOR:
• Simpson Strong Tie

STARTUP SPONSORS:
• Shibusa Systems
• ConstructivIQ
• Big