#CEOConf19

Organised byACE

In partnership withEFCA

Sponsored by Strategic partnerFIDIC

Media partnerInfrastructure Intelligence

Delivering for Society

Conference programme

Welcome from ACE and EFCA

I am delighted to welcome you to the European CEO Conference 2019 for what promises to be an interesting and engaging programme. We meet at a time of political upheaval both here in the UK and around the world with the fallout from the Brexit referendum and the election of the Trump administration causing considerable uncertainty in the world’s two largest markets. Alongside these challenges the rise of a more politically assertive China combined with a slowdown in the Chinese market has added further instability to the global economy. It’s now more important than ever that CEO’s from across Europe’s engineering consultancies meet to discuss the issues that affect our industry and collaborate to meet our mutual goals, hence the new approach to this conference in partnership with EFCA.

The three themes of this year’s conference are the global challenges we face, our clients’ and societies’ changing expectations of our industry and how we can learn together and respond to these challenges and expectations. Our conference will examine our global challenges and client expectations in day one with day two reserved for an examination of how we can better collaborate with each other to ensure a more sustainable and profitable industry. I look forward to meeting you all and hearing your views on these key themes.

Thank you for attending and I hope that you enjoy this year’s conference.

The European Federation of Consulting Engineering Associations, EFCA, is delighted to join with ACE in welcoming you to the European CEO Conference. EFCA represents members across 28 European counties, employing one million staff. At a time when unprecedented political uncertainty across Europe threatens to polarise our communities, segregate our industry and create barriers to trade, ACE and EFCA have created a unique forum for CEOs of engineering consultancies. This networking event provides an unrivalled opportunity for key decision makers from all over Europe to come together to consider, contemplate and collaborate on matters of mutual interest and concern.

An insightful range of speakers has been assembled to examine the impact of global economic, political and climate developments on the future of our industry, allowing us to position our companies to face the resulting challenges.

Kevin Rudden President, European Federation of Consulting Engineering Associations (EFCA)

Hannah Vickers Chief Executive Officer, Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)

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In partnership withEFCA

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Monday 4 November 2019

9.30 - 10.15Registration and breakfast

10.15 - 10.25Welcome and opening statement Hannah Vickers, Chief Executive Officer, ACEKey message and theme for the European CEO Conference 2019: Delivering for society

10.25 - 10.45Global infrastructure disruptorsKeynote speaker: Richard Threlfall, Global Head of Infrastructure, KPMG International

Infrastructure will determine the success or failure of 72% of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It is the biggest lever in the global toolbox to respond to climate change, population growth and ageing, urbanisation and migration. But as we attempt to use that lever, we find it is subject to seismic levels of innovation and disruption.

10.45 - 12.00Volatility of domestic politics across European countriesGlobal macro-economic trends: are we heading for a downturn?Macro disruptors and trends (the panel will discuss the largest external disruptors facing the industry)

Session chair: Richard Threlfall, Global Head of Infrastructure, KPMG International

Panellists:• Henrik Garver, Chief Executive, Danish Association of Consulting Engineers• Bernard Gilliot, Vice President Tractebel, Chair Belgian Federation of Industries, EFCA Treasurer • Rebecca Larkin, Senior Economist, Construction Products Association• Geoffrey Spence, Non-Executive Director, Jersey Ports

12.00 - 13.10 Lunch 13.10 – 14.30Net zero introduction Action needed on climate change and how the built environment can move to a zero carbon future

Session chair: Paul Tremble, Chief Strategy Officer, WSP

Guest speaker 1: Guy Newey, Strategy and Performance Director, Energy Systems Catapult

Guest speaker 2: Matt Palmer, Masterplan Development Director, Heathrow

Panellists:• Mike Cook, Partner, BuroHappold• Natalie Cropp, Tony Gee and Chair of ACE Sustainability Group• David Symons, UK Director of Sustainability, WSP Guest speakers will be joining the panel discussion and in this session we will discuss the nature of the challenge and what is our role and responsibility as a sector.

14.30 – 15.45 Breakout Session 1 - Turing Lecture TheatreEconomic infrastructure: transport – aviation, road, rail, and portsNet zero built environment

Session chair: Mathew Riley, Managing Director, Ramboll UK

Guest speaker: Michèle Dix, Managing Director, Crossrail 2

Panellists:• Benoît Clocheret, CEO, Artelia Group• Georgia Hughes, Chair of Emerging Professionals and Senior Management Consultant, Arcadis• Wouter Schik, Expert, Sustainable Design and Development, Arcadis Netherlands

The panel will be invited to discuss some of the key issues impacting the market sector and how they have responded to clients’ expectations

14.30 – 15.45Breakout Session 2 - Mountbatten ExhibitionSocial infrastructure focus: property, buildings, housing & urban development Net zero built environment

Session chair: Dr. Martin Güldner, CEO, GOPA Consultants

Guest speaker: Keith Waller, Programme Director, Construction Innovation Hub

Panellists• Patricia Brown, Director of Central, Vice Chair, BPF Development Committee• Helen Wylde, Chief Engagement Officer, Connected Places Catapult

The panel will be invited to discuss some of the key issues impacting the market sector and how they have responded to clients’ expectations

15.45 – 16.15Coffee break

16.15 – 17.15Technology and its role in the journey to net zeroDelivering net zero emissions is a huge challenge which requires a re-engineering of our economies in a way unprecedented in peacetime. This session will explore the balance needed between citizen behaviour change and radical technological and system innovation. Should governments pick low carbon technology ‘winners’? Who should be funding the core infrastructure needed to run a net zero emission economy? What role should consultancies play in delivering net zero technology?

Session chair: Simon Innes, Managing Director, Goodson Associates

Guest speaker: Professor Jim Watson, Professor of Energy Policy, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources

Panellists:• Tim Chapman, Director of Infrastructure, Arup• Karin Sluis, CEO, Witteveen+Bos

17.15 – 17.30Day one closing statementKevin Rudden, President, EFCA

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Tuesday 5 November 2019

8.15 - 08.45Registration and breakfast

8.45 - 08.50Welcome and opening statement Kevin Rudden, President, EFCARecap on output of day one and set the agenda for day two programme

8.50 - 10.15The future for delivery of complex services - disrupt or be disrupted• A vision for the future of the delivery of services• New business models for integrating complex services• Disruptors and meeting the common challenges facing companies operating in the engineering and construction

sector • Digital transformation

Session chair: Professor Roger Flanagan, Professor of Construction Management, University of Reading

Guest speaker: Benoît Chauvin, EIC Board Member, COLAS

Panellists:• Peter Reekie, Chief Executive, Scottish Futures Trust• Hannah Vickers, Chief Executive Officer, ACE

The session will focus on the future for the delivery of complex services. Digitalisation is breaking down the barriers between consulting services and site production. New technologies are creating opportunities for off-site manufacturing. The key is design and production integration. How can consultants respond to the challenges? Is there a need for a new dialogue between design and production teams? What are the big challenges for European production teams? How can digital delivery improve profitability, productivity, speed of delivery, and quality? Will Chinese companies be a disruptor or an enabler in the future?

10.15 - 11.15Best practice case studiesThis session includes cases studies from companies that have been identified as delivering good practice in each of the Future of Consultancy’s three areas of opportunity.

Session chair: Craig Huntbatch, Business Line Director, Royal HaskoningDHV

• Rémi Cunin, Deputy CEO and COO, Egis Group Strategic planning and placemaking

• Gerry Carty, Managing Director, RPS Delivering Integrated projects

• Jason Smith, Director, Noel Lawler Green Energy Solutions Data led asset performance

11.15 - 11.45 Coffee break

11.45 – 12.05Data and artificial intelligence Advancing BIM through digital twins

Digital twins are set to take centre stage—advancing rapidly beyond building information modelling and enabling asset‐centric organizations to converge their engineering, operational, and information technologies for immersive visualization and analytics visibility. Digital twins are an opportunity for CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs to add new business value to their firms. They also are an opportunity for engineering firms to extend business value to their clients beyond project delivery to asset performance over the lifecycle. What skills, competencies, IT architectures, collaboration, culture and mindset changes are required to support a successful introduction of digital twins? Digital readiness implies a minimum threshold of digital maturity in resources, systems, and organization upon which digital initiatives can be executed, aligned with business strategy.

Speakers: • Simon Horsley, VP, Regional Executive, UK, Ireland and Africa, Bentley Systems• Glen Worrall, Director, Digital Integration, Bentley Systems

12.05 – 13.15ACE benchmarking results 2019ACE’s annual benchmarking exercise provides key tools for industry trend analysis. Key highlights of both the Large Firm and SME Benchmarking projects will be presented and the trends discussed.

Session chair: Mike Haigh, Executive Chair, Mott MacDonald

Supported by:• Rosalío Alonso, Managing Director for Engineering, Ayesa• Michael Bayliss, Director, Centre for Interfirm Comparison• Jens-Peter Saul, Group Chief Executive, Ramboll Group

13.15 - 13.30Closing statementHannah Vickers, Chief Executive Officer, ACE

13.30 - 15.00Lunch and networking

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Thanks to our Supporters and Sponsors

Media partner Infrastructure Intelligence is an independent information resource which sits at the heart of the growing infrastructure design, delivery and operation sector of the built environment. Our magazine and website provide quality information to unite the multiple and often diverse professions involved in the infrastructure supply chain, creating a communications and knowledge transfer tool to help the whole community to take advantage of the growing business opportunities in the sector.

Strategic partner FIDIC, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, is the global representative body for national associations of consulting engineers and represents over one million engineering professionals and 40,000 firms in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Sponsor Bentley Systems is the leading global provider of software solutions to engineers, architects, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators for the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley’s MicroStation-based engineering and BIM applications, and its digital twin cloud services, advance the project delivery (ProjectWise) and the asset performance (AssetWise) of transportation and other public works, utilities, industrial and resources plants, and commercial and institutional facilities. From inception in 1984, the company has remained majority-owned by its five founding Bentley brothers.

Sponsor Better software means better projects. Deltek is the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses. More than 30,000 organisations and millions of users in over 80 countries around the world rely on Deltek for superior levels of project intelligence, management and collaboration. Our industry-focused expertise powers project success by helping firms achieve performance that maximises productivity and revenue.

Sponsor Lockton provide customised insurance solutions for architects, engineers, contractors and other construction professionals, globally and in the UK. As industry specialists, we provide an end-to-end service that gives access to on-hand claims and risk management teams as well as a dedicated account executive.

Lockton pride themselves on their “Client First” approach and ability to provide innovative products and services designed to meet the ever changing and diverse challenges our client face.

Lockton is the world’s largest privately-owned independent global broker, with over 7,500 associates and 90 offices worldwide.

Partner EFCA is the only federation to represent the engineering consultancy industry in Europe. Founded in 1992, EFCA has member associations in 28 European countries representing, a sector over 10,000 companies and more than one million staff in engineering and related services.

Organised byACE

In partnership withEFCA

Sponsored by Strategic partnerFIDIC

Media partnerInfrastructure Intelligence