The Year in Infrastructure and Going Digital Awards (YII 2022)

Digital twins are being adopted in various infrastructure assets around the world. Being comprised of operational, engineering, and information technologies, owner-operators are finding immediate value in the digital twins’ ability to streamline operational workflows. 

The addition of real-time monitoring through IoT sensor data further empowers decision-makers with critical insights on the performance of their assets. This has been especially apparent with dams, telecommunication towers, and transmission power lines, where issues with inspection, reliability, tenancy availability, and vegetation management have been costing owners billions of dollars in lost revenue and decreasing the efficacy of their services to the general public. 

In this session, you will learn how Bentley’s strategic investment fund and incubator, Bentley acceleration initiatives, is facilitating the creation of evergreen digital twins within the telecommunications and overhead utilities industries through their portfolio including, OpenTower IQ, PLS , and infrastructure IoT.

Speaker:

• Santanu Das, Chief Acceleration Officer at Bentley Systems

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Bentley Research: Tuesday, November 15 11:30 A.M. to 12:00 A.M. GMT

Digital twins can enable research for public good, which in turn influences policy and practices that move us closer to sustainable development goals. Bentley Research is contributing by laying the data-driven foundations for digital twins of campuses, as microcosms of cities, to explore pathways for improving the quality of life. In this session, you will hear from partner universities in Dublin and Kaunas, on how they are using co-created digital twins to support a clean energy transition, improve the overall campus environment, and create more accurate air quality models by federating real-time data. You will also receive an overview of diverse projects in our research portfolio. For example, our most recent Ph.D. at Cambridge University is evaluating the metaverse as a prototype for the visualization of, and interaction with, expressway digital twins.

Speakers:

• Nabil Abou-Rahme, Global Research Officer at Bentley Systems
• David Robertson, Director, University Partnerships at Bentley Systems
• Dr. Darius Pupeikis, Head of Centre for Smart Cities and Infrastructure at Kaunas University of Technology
• Kieran Mahon, Smart DCU Projects Facilitator at Dublin City University

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Cohesive partners with its clients to bring the power of data and process together, using digital twins as a foundation for decision-making, and expanding the value through thoughtful strategic advice and alignment of people and technology. We use artificial intelligence and the latest digital solutions to transform the way assets are designed, constructed, operated and optimized to help you overcome the most complex business challenges. Together we build assets, businesses, and cultures for better long-term sustainable results. In this session, we will introduce Cohesive, why we are on a mission to drive better outcomes for a better world, and how we achieve transformational outcomes by supporting our clients through the full asset lifecycle.

Speakers:

• Mark Bew CEO, Cohesive
• David Armstrong Director, Consulting, Cohesive

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