Event Details:
Monday, September 22th, 2025
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center Room 300 (Mackenzie Room), 475 Via Ortega 3rd Floor, Stanford, CA 94305
Online via Zoom
Hosted by the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE)Explore the Future of Work in the Built Environment: CIFE 2025 Summer Program
Topics and Program Agenda:
Digitalization—generative AI, computer vision, machine learning, foundation models, robotics, and more—is transforming how work will be done across the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry. In the next five years, we anticipate significant changes, such as:
- Enhanced Visualization: More compelling, on-demand visual tools will accelerate decision-making.
- Integrated Information: Seamless data integration will eliminate inefficiencies caused by information silos, enabling optimization across disciplines and project phases.
- Advanced Sensing: Consistent and accurate data from physical and digital processes will lead to productivity improvements through recognizing productive patterns of work.
- Increased Automation: Shortened cycle times will allow faster exploration of design alternatives and streamline the path from design to fabrication.
Many owners, architects, engineers, and builders are already advancing toward the vision of delivering higher-performing facilities through digital innovation.
The 2025 CIFE Summer Program, held September 22–23 on the Stanford University campus, will showcase how professionals across AECO roles are already working differently—and more effectively—through digitalization. Speakers, from project engineers to top executives, will share real-world examples of current practices and offer insights into how their roles and results are expected to evolve in the foreseeable future.
Join us to gain perspective on how digital transformation is reshaping the way we plan, design, and build.
Sept. 22: How owners and designers are benefiting from digitalization
- Keynote
- Morning session 1: Panel of doers with owner responsibilities
- Morning session 2: Panel of managers with owner responsibilities
- Afternoon session 1: Panel of designers
- Afternoon session 2: Panel of managers of design firms
- Networking reception
Sept. 23: How builders are benefiting from digitalization plus strategic implications
- Keynote
- Morning session 1: Panel of builders
- Morning session 2: Panel of managers of construction firms
- Afternoon session 1: Panel of technology leaders in firms
- Afternoon session 2: Panel of top managers in firms
- Rapid introduction of companies at the Summer Program to the new graduate students at Stanford
- Networking reception
Speaker Bios