Tuesday, October 16, 11:00 – 11:45 

Join Dustin Parkman and David Settlemyer as they reveal the latest civil design application, OpenSite Designer. This new, all-encompassing site design application enables rapid site modeling and analysis, earthwork optimization and quantification, drainage and underground utility design, automated project deliverables, and more. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how you can rapidly develop site designs, mitigate risk, lower construction costs, and improve your project delivery.

Tuesday, October 16, 11:45 – 12:30  

Greg Demchak, Technical Architect for Project Delivery, and Tom Dengenis, Senior Director of Project Delivery, will outline the value of 4D BIM in virtual design and construction and talk about the history of innovation in construction modelling and planning. Both formerly of SYNCHRO Software, which was recently acquired by Bentley Systems, will also introduce SYNCHRO, the 4D construction software platform which enables teams to enhance the safety, reliability, predictability, efficiency, and quality of complex construction projects. They will share some of the latest developments, including in mixed reality, and part of the presentation will show SYNCHRO in practice. Jeff Campbell, Director of Virtual Planning, and Serelle Corn, President, Project Controls Cubed will discuss the use of SYNCHRO at Echo Water, an approximately $2 billion waste-water treatment project – one of the largest public works projects in the state of California.

Tuesday, October 16, 12:30 – 17:30 

With its recent additions of Plaxis and SoilVision, Bentley has expanded its geotechnical footprint from gINT to create infrastructure’s most comprehensive geotechnical solution. Users of these outstanding applications now benefit from digital workflows that integrate Bentley structural, reality modeling, civil engineering, building design, and other applications to create exciting opportunities for the geotechnical community and for all infrastructure professionals.

As a leading executive at an organization using Bentley geotechnical software, we invite you to join us Tuesday, October 16 for the Geotechnical Roundtable. You will hear our vision from JanWillem Koutstaal, former Managing Director of Plaxis, and Santanu Das, Senior Vice President of design engineering. Join us in interactive discussions, and network and engage with your Geotechnical peers.

Wednesday, October 17, 10:30 – 12:30 

Join Bentley executives to hear Bentley’s vision for structural engineering and to look back on how Bentley built the most advanced structural engineering software portfolio in the world. Santanu Das, Senior Vice President of Design Engineering, will host the session and be joined by Chief Revenue Officer Gus Bergsma, Senior Vice President of Reality Modeling Phil Christensen, and General Director of Portfolio Development for Plaxis JanWillem Koutstaal – the executives who brought STAAD, RAM, FormSys, SACs, Plaxis, and other structural software brands into Bentley’s portfolio.

Then stay to hear this year’s finalists present their projects for The Year in Infrastructure Awards Digital Advancements in Structural Engineering category, where we honor projects that demonstrate excellence and digital advancement in ingenuity, planning, modeling, designing, analyzing, documenting, and detailing the delivery of high-quality structures. Finalist presentations include:

• Arab Engineering Bureau – Burj Alfardan – Lusail, Qatar
• Shilp Consulting Engineers – Alambagh Bus Terminal – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
• VYOM Consultants – K10 Grand Commercial High Rise – Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Thursday, October 18, 13:00 – 14:00 

Join this executive session to discover how leading organizations are accelerating their digital advancement. Going digital allows organizations to work smarter, faster, and be more competitive. However, the organizational challenges of transitioning to digital are enormous.

The goal is to make swift progress, but in assessing their needs, leaders often realize they lack necessary expertise in many critical technology areas. The time is now to evolve as required, but the challenge they face is that developing the required capabilities in-house can take them years.

To accelerate their transition, leading companies and agencies are now adopting a dynamic approach to accessing digital competencies from outside their organization.

In this informative session, you will:

• Learn how leading EPCs are innovating in a new world of fluctuating commodity prices, and shrinking margins

• Understand how government transportation agencies are overcoming their dated and bureaucratic processes to go digital

• Examine how you can accelerate your own going digital process