The Digital Transformation of the Construction Industry: From Smart Buildings to Smart Cities

Paul Doherty

President & CEO, The Digit Group Inc., USA

Paul is the Chairman and CEO of TDG (the digit group www.thedigitgroupinc.com). As seen on Bloomberg TV, acknowledged by CNBC as one of America's Business Titans and reported by Forbes as “Changing the World”, Paul is a licensed and registered Architect and is one of the world’s most sought after thought leaders, strategists and integrators of process, technology and business.

A Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and a former member of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Board of Directors, Paul is an award-winning architect, author, educator, analyst and advisor to Fortune 500 organizations, global government agencies, prominent institutions and the most prestigious architectural, engineering and contracting firms in the world.

A pioneer in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and a former Fortune 500 corporate officer, Paul is a prominent and highly rated speaker at numerous industry events around the world each year and has been appointed as a guest lecturer at leading universities throughout the world.

Paul's past successful ventures include Revit Technologies (Sold to Autodesk 2002), Buzzsaw (Sold to Autodesk 2001) and TRIRIGA (Sold to IBM 2011). Paul's current work is focused on Smart Cities real estate developments that include Smart Cities technology implementations, project financing, Executive Project Management Office (ePMO) and delivery, Central BIM Office (CBO) services, Autonomous Vehicle (AV) public transportation solutions and implementing innovative solutions for Smart Cities real estate developments around the world.

TDG’s current Smart Cities real estate development projects are operating in China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Ireland, Canada and throughout the USA. Concurrently, Paul is the co-founder and producer of the critically acclaimed and popular AEC Hackathon (www.aechackathon.com) that launched at Facebook Headquarters in Silicon Valley.