SMART BUILDINGS SHOW 2026 PREVIEW


Smart Buildings Show Conference Programme 2026


Wednesday 14 October 2026


10:00 – 10:35 MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● The $100 million breakthrough: Unlocking campus efficiency and sustainable growth at NSU Florida — Richard Scannell, CEO – Lambent


IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Powering resilience behind the scenes: How intelligent networks deliver security, visibility, control, and zero downtime — Will Curtis, technical director – Trust Systems


10:35 – 11:10 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● Automating the optimisation roadmap: Where AI actually earns its place — Haibo Chen, head of global services – Bueno Analytics


11:10 – 11:45 IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Creating real outcomes for real estate with self driving networks — Jon Howell, HPE AI networking, smart spaces lead WW – Hewlett Packard Enterprise


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Closing the performance gap:Why buildings underperform and how intelligent controls can fix it — Ron Purcell, VP of the BCIA and product manager at Siemens – Building Controls Industry Association — Snigdha Jain, director, head of ESG – Turley — George Ablett, head of sustainability – EQUANS — Netza Jack, technical services lead – JLL


11:45 – 12:20 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● Beyond handover: Why smart buildings still underperform — Vivek Shrivas, associate, building performance & systems (Controls) – Arup


IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Excel Exhibition Centre - structured cabling infrastructure upgrade — Magnus Leask, head of digital solutions – Hoare Lea


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Retrofit-ready controls: Unlocking smarter, more sustainable commercial buildings — Simon Ward, senior director of business development EMEA – Distech Controls


12:20 – 13:00 CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Connected Edge 2.0 system — Jim Sword, area sales manager – iSMA CONTROLLI S.p.A.


13:00 – 13:35 CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● From sensors to strategy — Andy Camsell, technical director – Sontay Ltd


13:35 – 14:10 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● Utilising energy data to identify


optimisation opportunities and engagement — Mai Muhammad, energy and water manager – Lloyds Banking Group


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Connecting the pieces: Turning metering data into smarter, better- performing buildings — Laura Bishop, director – HI Group — Chris Bishop, technical director – DMS Metering Solutions


IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Retrofit or future-fit?Why Europe’s buildings need digital foundations, not decoration — Tom Keeling, smart buildings solutions architect – Hereworks


MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● De-risking technology delivery — Christian Lowes, technical director building technology systems – WSP


14:10 – 14:45 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● Managing energy with AI-based optimisation — Domenico Di Canosa, EMEA sales director – J2 Innovations


IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● What makes a smart building smart: Roundtable — Anna King, CEO & founder – Informare


MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● From connected buildings to connected decisions — Andre Bothma, n managing director – Bellrock Group


14:45 – 15:20 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● The shift from smart to human-centric autonomous buildings — Brett Smith, head of digital & software – Siemens Buildings — Valerie Williams, BMS innovation and consulting manager – Siemens Buildings


MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● Most buildings are not operated - how AI is changing that — Roman Ruthofer, CEO/founder – oqdo


15:20 – 16:30 IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Building smarter digital infrastructure with LoRaWAN: From connectivity to actionable insights — Neil Carey, VP of sales, EMEA and APAC – MultiTech — Rob Whitcomb, director – inBiot Monitoring S.L — Ian Lloyd, market development manager – Pressac Communications


15:20 – 15:55 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● Energy, simulation and capital decisions from one model: The machine readable building — Spacy Bondarenko FCIAT, independent consultant, built environment data and regulatory compliance – CIAT


MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● Why AI in smart buildings gets stuck, and what operators do differently — Benas Sidlauskas, co-founder and CBDO – Turing College


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● The next challenge for BEMS: Scaling growth and project delivery in a skills- constrained market — Leo Hitzert, program manager market introduction – Priva BV


15:55 – 16:35 MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● Beyond tag and map: Building long-term memory twins with LLMs and real-time telemetry graphs — Mark Sorsa-Leslie, founder – Auttaa AI Oy


15:55 – 16:30 CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Tackling the demand for skilled professionals — Dan Woods, ECS standards & development manager – Electrotechnical Joint Industry Board/ECS


Thursday 15 October 2026


10:00 – 10:35 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● HVAC is imperfect. AI can help — Lawrence Dudley, founder – Parallax


MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● Schrödinger’s building:Compliance realities and the resilient future — Steve Watson, technical strategy lead – FPC Global


IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Delivering the BIM level 3 promise: Turning a handed-over model into an operational digital twin that cuts energy — Nick Tune, CEO – Optimise AI


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Who will engineer the smart buildings of tomorrow? — Josh Steel, chair, Building Controls Industry Association young engineers network and sales manager, Electracom — Alice Williams, vice president digital energy - UK & Ireland – Schneider Electric — Jen Johnson, MD – learnd UK — Stan Thomas, UK sales manager-South – Sontay — John Clarke, managing director – One Sightsolutions


10:35 – 11:10 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● Condition-based maintenance in the age of AI:Putting the tools in the right hands — Harry Wilson, senior customer success manager – Bueno Analytics


IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Your smart building is generating data. Why isn’t it generating intelligence? — Ikechukwu Ukaegbu, lead technical architect – Centrical PLC


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Airzone climate control: Pioneering energy management and conscious climate solutions — Sophie Decorte, business development coordinator NM EU & UK – AIRZONE


11:45 – 12:20 ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE


● From auditing through to analytics: Learn about the best practice for energy and carbon reduction strategies — Jonathan Webb, head of energy solutions – Acorn Integrated Systems


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Connecting the dots:How co-operative principles will deliver building resilience — Iain Gordon, president KNX UK & MD GES Digital – GES Digital — Alp Chirakli, GIRA key account manager – Wandsworth, GIRA UK


IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Would you let the building run itself? — Conor Cleary, technical director – Tekifi


12:20 – 13:00 MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● Technology should follow the story: Why smart buildings need a narrative before a solution — Ross Powell, technology director PM – Knight Frank


13:00 – 13:35 CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Lighting and climate convergence: A new paradigm for smart buildings — Ashley Bateup, managing director – Chess Wise Ltd


ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● Energy as a service for smart buildings: Turning AI insights into verified savings — Liam Velani, client partner – Infosys Ltd


13:35 – 14:10 MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE From the front door to the cloud — how smart access infrastructure shapes the resident experience — Aleksandra Minařík Bubela, EMEA real estate manager – 2N


IT & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEATRE ● Beyond more apps: Connecting smart buildings into one AI-powered workplace experience — Ben Gauthier, general manager - workplace experience – LumApps


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● The building that acts: Moving beyond dashboards to adaptive control — Navjeet Birdi, country manager UK&I – bGrid


ENERGY MANAGEMENT THEATRE ● Closing the gap, or just describing it? The case for a continuous performance audit — Horace Cyrus, founder – GRIOTech


14:10 – 14:45 MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● Closing the performance gap: Why smart buildings need asset intelligence across the full lifecycle — Nick Hutchinson, founder & managing partner – Glider Technology


14:45 – 15:20 MANAGEMENT & PROPTECH THEATRE ● What if your building could talk? — Adil Ayi, founder & CEO – PLEQ


CONTROLS & NETWORKS THEATRE ● Blueprint for closing the skills gap — Luke Beardall, head of sales – CIOB Academy


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