Nordic BIM Summit 2023

Alf Rehn

Alf Rehn is a globally noted thought leader in innovation, trends, and creativity; a sought- after speaker, an author and a columnist, as well as a well-regarded commentator on leadership and organizational culture. He has held the Chair of Management and Organization at Åbo Akademi University in Finland, a professorship of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and is currently a professor of innovation, design, and management at the University of Southern Denmark.

Per Carlsson

Per joined Symetri in 2008 and has since held several leadership positions within the company. He is today responsible for Symetri sales and operations for the Building and Infrastructure industry in the Nordics. With 20+ years of experience in the software industry, Per is passionate to make a difference in the industry and believes strongly that digitalisation is the answer to our challenges with urbanisation and sustainability.

Theo Agelopoulos

Theo serves as Vice President or Autodesk’s AEC design business, which includes AutoCAD, building and infrastructure design. Over the past eight years, he has led Autodesk’s AEC design business growth, including industry strategy, go-to-market strategy, partnerships, and M&A. He also played a key role in Autodesk’s overall business model transformation. Theo has extensive knowledge enabling digital transformation through technology. He has several decades of experience in various technology-based disruptions that have impacted the AEC industry, including CAD, BIM, GIS, Cloud, Reality Capture, AI/ML and Digital Twins. He is also actively engaged in industry and sits on the Executive Board of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) and the Center for Infrastructure Renewal Advisory Panel (CAP) at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Autodesk, Theo served in various sales, business development and technical roles at Intergraph Corporation (acquired by Hexagon Systems) and Bloomfield Computing Services (acquired by Topcon). He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering (Honors) from Monash University (Australia).

Cathrine Mørch

Cathrine Mørch, Director of Digitization and Development at Statsbygg, has extensive experience from the consulting industry and the implementation of large projects in and outside Norway. Throughout her career, she has for many years contributed to establish a framework for standardization, management of best practices and digital development in large companies, both in this country and in several European countries. She aims to lead the necessary transformation into a more productive and sustainable industry. Photo: Erik Burås/Fremtidens Byggenæring

Matti Kuittinen

Dr. Matti Kuittinen is professor of Sustainable Construction at Aalto University's Department of Architecture. His scientific work focuses on climate change mitigation by bringing together architecture, engineering and ecology. Dr. Kuittinen is also a Senior Ministerial Adviser at the Finnish Ministry of the Environment where he develops policies for low carbon construction and the circular economy. As an architect, he designs carbon-efficient buildings and humanitarian construction.

Tonje Værdal Frydenlund

Tonje Frydenlund, studied Landscape Architecture at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California, USA. Additionally, she has further education in management, project-management, and elite coaching. Tonje joined SNØHETTA in 2001 and has been part of the Management since 2004. From 2013 -2019 she was Managing Director for Snøhetta Oslo, focusing on the Nordic and European market, and since 2019 she has worked on Business Development in the Nordic region. With over 25 years of experience in the architectural industry, she has been part of multiple projects nationally and internationally. Tonje is passionately pushing the sustainability agenda within the building industry and is currently the Chair of the Research Center on Zero Emission Neighborhoods in Smart Cities and the Chair of Norwegian Green Building Council.

Minttu Vilander

Minttu Vilander believes engineers and software developers will save the world – and that the rescue work will take place in the built environment, especially in cities. She has been creating brands and communications for companies in the built environment for years and sees that people should better understand what kind of miracles are performed in engineering companies. For the past three years, she has also led group level sustainability development of Sitowise, a Finnish listed company. She sees lot of opportunities in the new legislation but feels there is a huge job to be done. New requirements need to be incorporated into everyday practices and corporate culture – and that’s not easy task to do. Before jumping into engineering world, Minttu worked for a long time in the background of political decision-making, which is why she sees that there is a huge need of communication and transparency there where major changes take place – especially in companies.

Sami Lankiniemi

For over 10 years Lankiniemi has worked in the forefront of transforming our built environment to be more sustainable, livable, and future proof. He has helped the industry, in Finland and across Europe, to identify its societal and climate responsibilities and to create common practices, tools and shared understanding. His ambition is to maximize the industry's positive value creation and impact to the society and environment. Additionally, Lankiniemi believes in the power of green tech and has worked with numerous companies from tiny startup teams to multinational corporations to discover, understand and unlock the underlying business potential of sustainable digitalization in real estate and construction. Currently Lankiniemi leads the AI development, "The Smart City Lab", Sitowise’s platform and expert community for innovation.

Panu Pasanen

Panu Pasanen is the CEO and founder of One Click LCA, the world-leading life-cycle assessment software for the built environment, used in over 140 countries. He is advising governments and businesses on carbon reduction and scaling up decarbonisation programs for manufacturers, designers, builders, developers and investors. He's spearheading the One Click LCA's BIM strategy to automate Life-Cycle Assessment and carbon optimization. For more information visit www.oneclicklca.com

Per Sundin

Group CEO of Pophouse Entertainment since 2019. Before that, I was the President of Universal Music Nordic Region and the Managing Director of Universal Music Sweden for more than a decade. Pophouse is the first non-US/UK player to invest in top-chart music IP rights on a global scale. We are first and foremost a creative development company, nurturing the value of our investments by building artist brands in ground-breaking ways, unlocking new geographies and target audiences. As a former label executive, I first built Sony BMG and later Universal to become regional market leaders in the Nordics. I've been working closely with artists such as Avicii (who I signed when his artist name was Tim Berg), Swedish House Mafia and ABBA. I contributed to the music industry shift to a streaming revenue model, by becoming the first label executive to partner with Spotify in 2008.

Mike Malkin

After 17 years as an Engineer in the Process Industry, Mike joined Autodesk in 2004 and has worked across most of the industry sectors as an individual contributor, sales manager and sales leader in Named Accounts for both Manufacturing & AEC. More recently leading the Global Digital Manufacturing team for Additive, Subtractive and Simulation solutions. Mike now heads up the ACS Sales team in EMEA, looking to rapidly grow the Autodesk Construction Cloud to take customers to the New Possible in Construction, across the whole construction ecosystem. Mike lives in Macclesfield in Cheshire, England with his wife Julie and 3 grown children. In his spare time, he enjoys renovating his 460-year-old house and collecting guitars, even though he says he’s still not very good at playing them.

Mikko Viertola

Mikko joined Symetri in 2011 and after leading the Manufacturing Business Unit for several years he became CTO in 2020. He now leads a global team of professionals responsible for the Symetri Technology portfolio as well as focuses on discovering new technologies that reinforces Symetri’s competitive advantage and smart use of technology internally to enable streamlined processes for our operations. With 25+ years of experience of business development in industrial companies, Mikko is passionate about helping our customers and colleagues to reach their goals by smart use of leading edge digital solutions.

Stig Johansen

Stig Johansen is Development Manager for BIM & Digitization at Consto AS. He has worked with practical BIM since 2005 and has accumulated extensive experience with the use of BIM in the entire construction process from the early stages to handover.

Dan Engström

Dan Engström is head of the business area Innovation at Plan B in Göteborg. He holds an adjunct professorship in Construction logistics focussing on digitized construction at Linköping University. He has twenty-five years of experience with R&D and innovation in the building sector, particularly on industrial construction. His work experience includes major actors like Veidekke, NCC, Ramböll and WSP.

Pontus Bengtson

Pontus serves as Business Development Executive at Autodesk with a focus on the AEC-industry in the Nordics. Among other things, he works to ensure that there are prerequisites, such as requirements in the RFP’s, for companies to be able to take advantage of the latest technology. Pontus has a long history, almost 30 years, in the Nordic AEC industry working with a big variation of infrastructure projects as engineer, project manager and expert. He worked in project and leadership roles at companies as Tyréns, WSP and Plan B. He is also involved in Swedish AEC industry initiatives to drive the digitalisation in the industry. For example, he is a member of the steering group for the Smart Built Environment project “Tillämpsanvisningar för BIM”

Kristin Lysebo      

Kristin has worked at Bane NOR since the autumn of 2014, and before that she has 25 years' experience with interdisciplinary planning and course lecturer for planning software. In her current job, she is responsible for both BIM and geomatics throughout Bane NOR, and manages the business area with 23 full time employees. One of the most important development processes is an internal improvement program in Bane NOR to standardize information from development projects to operations, including seamless information flow between Bane NORs systems.

Angie Mendez

Angie is a qualified architect and throughout her career has specialized in BIM through work with the development and implementation of technology in the construction industry. She is pragmatic in her approach to the subject and concerned with how technology can contribute to property developers reaching their goals faster and with a better result. 

Aaron Perry

Since joining AHMM in 2015, Aaron’s been responsible for Digital Design across the entire practice, its multiple offices, stretching all live and future projects. More specifically, this involves mitigating risk, engaging client/contractor/design teams, managing infrastructure and software, driving change and inspiring new and existing staff to embrace digital design authoring, review and visualisation technology.

Meera Lad

As part of AHMM’s Digital Design Group for over 2 years, I support, guide, train, and resolve technical issues with architects during their digital delivery of projects. During this time, I have focused on finding ways to improve the productivity and efficiency of AHMM’s digital practises and developed a keen interest in the visualisation tools used to creatively capture building designs.

James Bell

James joined Ridge in 2012 as a part 2 architectural assistant. He has since progressed to associate architect and now has over 10 years’ experience in the industry delivering projects including complex technical facilities, campus design and education. He is driven to innovate and keen to disseminate lessons learnt. Coupled with an interest in software and hardware, he now works with a team to develop best practice principles within Ridge.

Daniel Christensen

Anna Neidenström

Anna Neidenström holds the position of Senior Specialist BIM within the business area of Investment at the Swedish Transport Administration (STA). She is also a member of buildingSmartInternational InfraRoom steering comittee. Anna posess more than 20 years of experience working with BIM-related issues, information management, design requirements, process development etc. The focus has always been on improving and finding new opportunities to increase productivity and to work smarter. At STA Anna is involved in the implementation of BIM across the organization. This include not only the strategic level but also to support various projects acting as BIM Manager and BIM strategist. A part from this Anna is also involved in projects for R&D and various internal projects focusing on BIM and intelligent data. Since 2021 Anna is part of the InfraRoom steering committee working with the Infraroom roadmap and different whitepapers. Prior to the Swedish Transport Administration Anna has worked among others at NCC Construction as head of VDC for Infrastructure, at Autodesk as a business consultant and at Sweco as a VDC specialist.

Amanda Wachendorf

Amanda Wachendorf joined Eagle Point Software in 2018 and currently serves as the Director of Product Management. With an educational background in social work and psychology and more than five years of experience working with some of the world’s largest architectural, engineering, and construction firms implementing learning strategies, Amanda has a firm understanding of the challenges organizations face when working to stay on the cutting edge of technology. Prior to her current role, Amanda also led the Customer Success, Customer Support, and Content and Services teams at Eagle Point, giving her a unique perspective on the changing needs of firms in the AEC and manufacturing spaces.

Jan Tore Bugge

Jan Tore Bugge is the Product Manager of Naviate for Revit. Jan Tore has many years’ experience from the computer tech industry within the AEC field. With a passion for helping people implement better workflows and methodology for a quality outcome.

Ash Weir

As the Head of BIM at Colt I manage a team of BIM Managers & Document Controllers on international projects covering 4 key regions. My role is to set global BIM standards for COLT and oversee the management of Digital Tools for Delivery Construction and Operations. I also play a part in governance, design, H&S, E&S, construction, commissioning and operational requirements at COLT. My team are also responsible for Business Analytics / Reporting and looking into the latest technologies available to us to improve our current processes.

Linn Areno

Linn Areno, Manager Construction – Development and operations Skanska Sweden. Linn has a background in Architecture and been working with BIM and digitalization for a long time now, mostly focus on developing new way of working and taking care of change among people. With a background as a consultant, a Digital Coach in construction Linn has a broad range of knowledge in order to support the entire construction process. Today Linn is focused on outcomes in digital solutions within both streams of Buildning and Civil för Skanska.

Jack Strongitharm

Jack is the Solutions Engineer for AEC at Unity in EMEA. He has industry experience as a civil and site engineer and previous technical expert at Autodesk and Faro. Advancing BIM models and projects to make BIM Interactive for Digital Twins using the power of Unity as part of his role at Unity.

Marius Mowe

Marius Mowe has experience with developing complex projects in urban context, and was a project architect for the Deichman library, leading the architect team from competition to completion. Atelier Oslo is an award-winning architecture studio designing environmentally friendly buildings and transformation projects. The office portfolio ranges from urban development projects to single-family houses, cabins, and installations. With attention to space, people, and the environment, we develop rich and multifaceted projects. Our working method is rooted in curiosity and interdisciplinary collaboration, contributing to innovative and sustainable solutions. Atelier Oslo was founded in 2006 by Nils Ole Bae Brandtzæg, Thomas Liu, Marius Mowe and Jonas Norsted, and today consists of 15 architects with varied and international backgrounds.

Einar Hagem

Einar Hagem has extensive specialist experience in leading projectgroups for environmentally and energy-efficient urban development and construction in dense cities with demanding adaptations in protected building environments. He has, among others, been the discipline leader for Deichman's library with Passive House standard within Future Built, and he was the discipline leader for Sophus Bugges Hus on Blindern - total rehabilitation of a protected building to meet modern technical requirements and BREEAM Excellent certification.

Fredrik Hiort

Fredrik Hiort graduated as a Fire Safety Engineer from University of Lund in 1990. Fredrik has throughout his career mainly been working in different fire consultancy companies. In 2001 Fredrik was on of the founding partners of Briab Brand & Riskingenjörerna AB. As the CEO of Briab from 2006-2019 Fredrik established the company to be one of the leading fire safety and risk consulting companies Sweden both in terms of excellence and size. Today Fredrik is a Senior Partner with a focus on transforming Briab as well as the fire engineering community into a digitalized workflow using BIM technologies.

Zrinka Radic

Zrinka is an Architectural Designer with particular interest in design technology. She has an expertise in Building Information Modelling and Computational design. At Zaha Hadid Architects, she has been working on projects thought all design stages, from competitions to construction documentation stages. She has profound experience in BIM workflows and methodologies, preparing documentation packages and BIM coordination with different stakeholders as well as automation. She is currently overseeing BIM on multiple projects in Scandinavia and the Baltic regions.

Thorbjörn Hoverberg

Jonas Sjövall

Jonas has for the past 10 years been working with BIM-related challenges and information management. At BOX Bygg Jonas has been involved in the implementation of BIM and developing the framework for the design processes. Always looking for new ways to work more efficiently in the business, Jonas has also as a strategist developed software used in the construction business. Now he is engaged as a senior design manager in all of BOX Bygg projects. The largest project is city planning for over 4500 residents and related infrastructure. The latest focus for Jonas has been on Net Zero Carbon projects, wood structural buildings, and the UK ISO 19650 standard.

INGAR MADSEN

Ingar Madsen, Property director at Oslo Science Park, has extensive experience in facility management. Throughout his career he has many years worked in large private and public companies with property development and Facility management.

Bridget White

Bridget is an architect and a leader of Nordics design technology team. She has a passion for digitalised cross discipline workflows for collaboration and for the integration of digital tools in all phases to improve circularity. Through industry innovation, Bridget has worked to develop new workflows for modular design and construction, rehabilitation and reuse, and improve projects in their early phases with the use of data and analysis in design decision making. She is a firm believer in using digital design tools to enable project teams, rather than altering design workflows in order to fit with technology.

Knut Ramstad

Knut Ramstad is Head of Technology and Sustainability at Nordic Office of Architecture in Oslo. He has more than 30 years of experience with advanced use of 3D and VR in design, decision making, quality control and communication in large construction and urban development projects in Norway and internationally. As an architect and director, Knut has gained valuable insights into how design technology can improve both project development processes and quality of the built environment. Knut is also a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he teaches architectural students in visual communication.

Kristine Slotina

Kristine has multidisciplinary background. She is educated in Master of Science in Techno - Anthropology and Bachelor in Architectural Technology and Construction Management and worked as a Constructing Architect, BIM Coordinator/Manager and BIM Director in Nordic Office of Architecture. She has experience with coordinating BIM deliveries for large projects – f. ex. Bergen Airport Flesland and NOIDA International Airport. In addition, she also enjoys joining smaller projects to get hands-on work with architectural deliveries and introducing new technologies to the office. She is passionate about working in an integrated project teams and the collaboration between AEC industry experts and how digitalization is affecting that. She explores that further through her academic work.

Andy Watts

Andy is the Director of Design Technology at Grimshaw and leads the practice’s global Design Technology team, overseeing digital discipline such as computational design, BIM, extended reality, urban computation, applications development and environmental performance.

Malin Sjölund Olsson

With a background of 20 years of working as an architect Malin decided to focus entirely on sustainability. And rather than change employer Malin decided to stay and change her position at Krook & tjäder. Since 2019 she works as a sustainability strategist at Krook & Tjäder in Sweden and Norway. The mission is to integrate sustainability as a framework for good architecture. In a creative environment it´s essential to meet and understand the ambitions and driving forces of her coworkers. The only way forward is to encourage and build on people’s strengths. Malin’s ambition is to meet the needs for others to be able to do good. To create a supporting system of structure, culture and knowledge for them to use as a framework in their daily work.

Otto Pohjola

Fire safety engineer who has gained his expertise from a wide range of building types and projects in Finland over the past ten years. Otto has been involved in once in a life time kind of projects and also on more common ones. Biggest building project being 200 000 m2 sized logistic building. Many conversion and historical building projects are also well presented in Otto´s work history. Being active member of desing team from the early draft until building taking into use have provided Otto very broad understanding on fire safety matters and about building projects in general.

Omar Zalloum

Omar Zalloum is an architect with a master's degree in sustainable architecture. Besides his role as an architect, he is an active member in both the sustainability team and the parametric design team at Arkitekterna Krook & Tjäder. He is working on tools development and the digitalization of the workflows to ensure a higher level of sustainability throughout the design process.  One of his interest areas is circular architecture and its connection to BIM. He also works with building performance simulations, mostly daylight analysis. 

Thomas Ludvik Næss

With a quarter of a century with experience in the Cyber Security landscape, Thomas brings great understanding of how security truly can drive business enablement. By understanding the risk in whatever you do and leaving nothing to chance, you have a better foundation for digitally transforming your business. His background consists of solid sales and leadership experience from companies such as Trend Micro, Cisco, NTT and now Infinigate where he serves as a Managing Director.

Jon Forssell

Jon Forssell is professional moderator, speaker and business advisor on innovation and behavioural change. As our moderator, Jon will bring both energy and focus, but also provide context and perspective by drawing on his extensive experience from moderating events within a wide range of industries and business sectors, including real estate.

Maddy Savage

After a decade as a BBC staff reporter and radio presenter in London, Maddy moved to Stockholm in 2014. She is now a freelance journalist focussed on Nordic business and lifestyle trends, and has written extensively for BBC Worklife, the BBC's digital platform for stories about getting ahead in our rapidly changing world. She has also reported for leading global media including US Public Radio network NPR, HuffPost, The Sunday Times and Monocle magazine. Maddy is a regular moderator at some of the region’s most prominent tech and media events.