Challenging Current and Future Thinking

International and Local Quantity Surveyors and Cost Engineers to Attend ICEC-PAQS Conference 2018 in Sydney

The theme, ‘Grassroots To Concrete Jungle: Dynamics in the Built Environment’ is sure to challenge current and future thinking.

Attendees will meet over three days in November, at the International Convention Centre Sydney, to hear onpoint presentations from industry experts and discuss with industry colleagues, the latest construction and cost management techniques and technology, standards and issues facing the industry today and in the future.

In this article, we feature two keynote speakers:

PROFESSOR GENEVIEVE BELL

A cultural anthropologist, technologist and futurist, Professor Bell is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.

Professor Bell completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University, California in 1998.

After having spent 18 years in Silicon Valley, helping guide Intel’s product development by developing the company’s social science and design research capabilities, Prof Bell joined

ANU in February 2017.

Professor Bell is now focused on building a new applied science around the management of artificial intelligence, data, technology and their impact on humanity at the 3A (Autonomy, Agency and Assurance) Institute, launched by the Australian National University (ANU) in collaboration with CSIRO’s Data61 - Australia’s leading data innovation group.

Professor Bell is the inaugural appointee to The Florence McKenzie Chair at ANU, named in honour of Australia’s first female electrical engineer. Florence McKenzie

exemplifies the pioneering spirit and lifelong pursuit of inclusive use of technology in society this Chair represents, and we proudly acknowledge and celebrate Florence Violet McKenzie and her legacy.

The task is to redefine what it means to exist in a technologically driven world and how to drive fit-for-purpose technological development.

Whilst presenting the highly acclaimed ABC Boyer Lectures for 2017, Professor Bell interrogated what it means to be human, and Australian, in a digital world.

Dr Guy is a Doctorate Qualified Urban Planner as well as a Psychologist and Physicist.

Dr Guy established Urban Circus more than a decade ago. As Founder and CEO, his passion is building creative and collaborative cultures. He uses visual tools like digital 3D to build intuitive workflows to ensure shared understanding across stakeholders in real-time.

According to Dr Guy, a circus (for example Oxford Circus in London) is an urban outcome with an emergent ‘spirit of place’ creating high economic value with integrated functionality across elements.

Dr Guy believes that such outcomes should be the de facto in city development and has built a planning system and service to support this thinking. Now deployed in many major jurisdictions and projects, this system empowers clients to control project planning, ensure integration and maintain stakeholder alignment for accelerated progress with quality outcomes.

ICEC-PAQS Conference 2018 will also incorporate the 3rd International QS BIM Conference into the three-day program.

For program details and to register, visit icecpaqs2018.com