Dave is a figurehead in digital engineering with over 30 years of global experience creating value for governments and infrastructure clients. His career, spanning major contractors and consultancies like Balfour Beatty, Mace, and AECOM, has focused on mapping digital developments to critical business objectives across all sectors. As CVO at Bentley Systems he is responsible for driving customer-centricity and creating sustainable value for clients across their asset lifecycle and portfolios. Dave has been involved in delivering innovative projects, digital change strategies and digital asset management strategies across the globe from UK, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Australia and the Baltics. He was seconded in the UK Cabinet Office in 2011 as Head of BIM Implementation and has been a key contributor to the UK public sector BIM mandate (GCS 2011-2016) he was also Chair of the Scottish BIM Delivery Group through the Scottish Futures Trust delivering the BIM requirements of the Scottish Government. Out with the day job he continues to shape the industry as a Professor (Honorary) at Heriot-Watt University and Chair of the Chartered Institute of Building's (CIOB) Digital and Innovation Advisory Panel who led on the AI in Construction Playbook.