Agenda 2026

Day 1: Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Conference Hall B

08.00

Registration and networking

The Keynotes | Hall B

10:00

Panel: The Super App Imperative

Digital fragmentation is holding back both customer experience and operational efficiency. This session brings together PropTech leaders and developers to unpack what a real Super App for real estate looks like from Sales – Handover – Community Management – FM – Renewables & Upsell and how leading organisations are building unified digital ecosystems today.

Led by:

Ana Jerinkic

President Elect

Community Association Institute Middle East Chapter

In conversation with:

Afzal Lakdawala

Senior Director of Digital Transformation

A.R.M. Holding

Alexander Karabet

Founder and Managing Director

Mansions Owners Association Management

Dana Awad

Chief Commercial Officer

ICTReD

Mayank Bhargava

Group Chief Information Officer

Arada

10:40

Talk: End-To-End Resident & Tenant Lifecycle Platforms & Community Apps

When the entire resident journey lives in one app, adoption follows. Discover how leading developers and managers are replacing fragmented tools with unified lifecycle platforms that connect sales, onboarding, handover, community services, FM, payments, and renewals. Expect honest insights on what drove engagement, what stalled adoption and the real lessons learned from building community apps that actually get used.

Tony Pagliocco

Associate Director Product Management

Aldar Properties

10.55

Panel: Turning Regulation into Reality — How Developers & Managers Are Building Around Mollak

RERA’s vision positions Mollak as the single source of truth for real estate operations, defining how the platform is evolving, what developers and owners’ association managers must comply with, and how data protection and ownership are being addressed. This direction is shaping PropTech adoption and establishing the foundation for digital governance across Dubai’s built environment.

Led by:

Waqar Hasan

Chief Executive Officer

Itihad Community Management

In conversation with:

Ihab Al-Bairam

Assistant Vice President, Community Management

Luxury Owners Association Management Services

Joydeep Roy

Chief Information Officer

Dubai Investments PJSC

Kunal Jagasia

Managing Director

Symbiosis Owner Association Management

11.25

Fireside chat: From Regulation to Innovation — How Dubai Is Enabling the Next PropTech Wave

Jan Neutze

Director

Sandbox Dubai

Case Studies: We Don’t Want Talk — Show Us What Worked: AI Driven Property Intelligence, Community Management & Automated Asset Management

What are the actual use cases where AI has paid for itself and given measurable ROI in Property Intelligence, Community Management & Automated Asset Management. Developers and vendors jointly present implementations where AI improves revenue, cost, experience, or retention.

11.35

The AI Blind Spot: From Smart Buildings to 8–25% Energy Savings with Zero Client CAPEX

Tekha Selim

Chief Executive Officer

P3Global

11.45

Interview: AI-Driven ECM: 10% Less Energy, 30% Lower Maintenance Costs

Fadi Alshakhshir

Executive Director, Facility Management

Dubai Holding

11.55

Autonomous FM & the Public Grid: 22% Lower Utility Costs, 99.9% Uptime

Dr. Mohamed Musallam Al Rawahi

AI Successor

Confidential, Oman Government

12.05

Networking Break

12.25

Panel: Fixing The Broken Handover — Tools & Workflows That Speed Up Handover & Release Cash

Handover is where deals stall, data breaks, and cash gets trapped. This panel tackles why the transition from sales and construction completion through handover, DLP, FM, and third-party management remains the most fragile point in the real estate lifecycle. Speakers will unpack the gaps between developer, management, and regulatory systems such as Mollak/RERA, and share the tools and workflows that are finally fixing handover delays, restoring data continuity, and accelerating cash release.

Led by:

Khalid Qundos

Director of Building Consultancy

Land Sterling

In conversation with:

Amr Saad

Executive Director of Projects Digitisation

Osool Integrated Real Estate

Mark Docherty

Director

OPTIMA

Saeed Osman

Associate Director, Delivery

Aldar Estates

Tushar Khiste

Chief of Projects Development

BNW Developments

12.55

Case Study: Fast-Tracking Handover at Scale

Handover speed directly impacts cash flow and customer trust. These case studies showcase how developers are cutting time-to-handover using mobile-first platforms and digitised snagging, de-snagging, and fit-out workflows. Featuring regional and global examples, the discussion highlights what delivered real results, what failed, and the practical lessons learned from scaling handover at volume.

Anas Gahshan

Director of FM & Sustainability

KAIZEN Asset Management Services

Short Talks: What’s Next in Smart Building Tech?

Smart buildings are moving beyond dashboards and alerts toward autonomous, context-aware environments. This session explores the next wave of innovation shaping the built environment—from contextual AI and smart ecosystem orchestration to next-generation sensors, autonomous FM, and compute at the edge—highlighting how these technologies are redefining building intelligence, responsiveness, and operational efficiency.

13.15

Interview: Beyond the BMS: Connecting MEP Systems to Drive Intelligent Asset Performance

Covering how BMS, IoT, energy monitoring and connected MEP systems can give engineering and FM teams real-time visibility, enable predictive maintenance, reduce energy consumption and improve whole-life asset performance.

Dr. Abdullah Sultan

Group Vice President – MEP & Smart Services

DP World

13.35

Talk 1: What’s Next in Smart Building Tech?

Sunder Jagannathan

Co-founder & CEO

PropVR

13.45

Talk 2: From Connected Buildings to Autonomous Operation

Anand Mecheri

Chief Executive Officer

Twinit

13.55

Talk 3: From Smart FM to Autonomous FM — The Next Evolution of Building Operations

Javeria Aijaz

Senior Director of Technology & Innovations

Farnek Services

14.05

Networking Lunch

15.00

Panel: Smart Community Success Stories & Autopsies - Use Cases, Not Theory

Not every smart community project survives real-world conditions. This panel cuts through the hype to examine what actually worked, what failed, and why across smart community deployments in the GCC. From indoor air quality sensors and energy dashboards to pool monitoring, vibration analytics, leak detection, and smart irrigation, speakers share hard-earned lessons on technical limitations, vendor gaps, resident adoption challenges, and the regulatory constraints that stopped solutions from scaling.

Led by:

Jean N. Hanna

President

CAI Middle East Chapter

In conversation with:

Mazen Yehia

Vice President Communities and Facilities Management

Al Mouj Muscat

Mohamed Saadeh

General Manager

Darwish Interserve Facility Management

Tekha Selim

Executive Vice President & Head of MENA Region

International WELL Building Institute

15.30

Panel: Digital Property Transactions, Marketplaces & Real Estate FinTech

Property transactions in the GCC are moving from paper-heavy processes to digital-first journeys. This panel explores how marketplaces, digital sales platforms, payments, escrow, tokenisation, and compliance-driven workflows are reshaping how deals are executed. Speakers will unpack how developers, brokers, and asset owners are accelerating transactions, improving transparency, and building trust—while navigating regulation and adoption challenges in an increasingly digital real estate market.

Led by:

Lynnette Sacchetto

Founder & CEO

RealTrust UAE | Dubai Real Estate

In conversation with:

Joseph El Am

Senior Executive and General Manager

PRYPCO Blocks and Mint

Kabir Joshi

Founder & CEO

Vantage Properties

16.00

Panel: Scaling Smart Cities in the GCC

Smart cities don’t fail at the pilot stage—they fail at scale. This panel examines how leading global digital cities moved beyond proof-of-concepts to city-wide platforms, focusing on the governance, data strategies, and integration models that made scale possible. Panellists will discuss which lessons the GCC can realistically adopt as regional cities transition from isolated initiatives to fully connected urban ecosystems.

Led by:

Dr. Mohamed Misbah

Senior Director of Digital Services, Middle East & Africa

Khatib & Alami

In conversation with:

Adel Miran

Director General of Administration and Facilities Management

Dubai Holding

John Cole

Director Asset, Property and Support Management

Expo City Dubai

Mohammed Shah

Smart City Director

Knowledge Economic City

Mohammed Shehata

Chief Executive Officer

PropTech Works

16.30

Closing Debate: What Will Define Digital Real Estate in the GCC — Ecosystems, AI or Adoption?

This high-energy closing debate brings together industry leaders to examine the forces that will shape the next era of digital real estate in the GCC. Will the future be driven by Super Apps and platform consolidation, by AI’s ability to create and monetise new value, or by the industry’s capacity to fully digitise the end-to-end property journey?

Led by:

Rob Jones

Partner

b2b Connect

Editorial Director

Digital Construction Hub

In conversation:

Ali Almajthoob

Partner

Middle East Venture Partners

Fadi Nwilati

CEO, KAIZEN Asset Management Services, Chairman

Dubai PropTech Business Group

Ghassan Talhouk

Chief Executive Officer

Socienta

Haithem Ibraheem

Vice President of Operations

BRGE

Jhanzaib Shah

Executive Director Project Controls

Osool Integrated Real Estate Company

17.05

Close of day 1

Day 1: Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Live Demo Lab

A hands-on, walk-through demo environment designed to show what actually works in ConTech & PropTech, using live platforms, real data flows, and practical workflows. The Lab is curated around end-to-end journeys, not isolated products.

11.00

Construction ERP in Action: Real Workflows, Real Control

See how a construction-specific ERP performs across real project workflows, not dashboards. This live session walks through commitments, approvals, cost control and financial visibility to demonstrate how contractor-driven systems reduce manual work, improve discipline and deliver faster time to value. Designed for firms seeking practical, site-ready digital solutions.

Adam Scugila

Senior Technical Lead

Premier Construction Software

11.40

Networking break

11.45

Digital Workplace Platform: How Organizations Measure Their Digital Workplace Maturity?

The session will feature a live demo with commentary, showcasing a digital workplace assessment platform and demonstrating how organisations can measure their digital workplace maturity, identify key gaps, and develop targeted improvements across key workplace dimensions.

Haytham Hamed

Product & Business Growth Manager

Digital Workplace

12.00

Networking break

12.05

From Bid to Build: Lessons from Digitising Earned Value Management Across the Project Lifecycle

Explore how digital cost management was implemented across the project lifecycle to improve estimating, budgeting, cost control, and project delivery. Through a real project case study, this session will demonstrate the practical application of digital tools, the challenges encountered during implementation, and the measurable outcomes achieved, offering valuable lessons for organisations looking to enhance project performance.

Jayakishan Gopinathanpillai

Senior Technical Consultant

RIB Software

12.20

Networking break

12.25

From Cost Tracking to Intelligent Lifecycle Management

Explore how Dolphin Horizon connects construction, costing, procurement, asset management, and facilities management across the entire property lifecycle. From BOQ and procurement to project performance, profitability, and asset operations, Dolphin Horizon moves beyond recording what happened to highlighting what needs attention, delivering end-to-end visibility across the property and asset lifecycle and supporting smarter, faster decision-making.

Maha Khoury

Accounts Executive

Dolphin Solutions

12.40

Networking break

12.45

From Capital Project to Operational Asset: Making Better Lifecycle Investment Decisions with OmTrak

What happens to capital-project information once a building enters operation? In this live demonstration, WebFM follows asset through the OmTrak platform - from digital handover and asset information to planned maintenance, condition assessment, lifecycle forecasting and future capital planning. See how structured project information can support day-one operations, ongoing OPEX decisions and long-term CAPEX planning without losing continuity between construction and asset management.

Brett John Hulyer

General Manager, Global Business

Webfm ME

13.00

Networking break

13.05

The Power of a Unified Digital Twin Platform

Explore the flexibility and scale of a unified digital twin platform. Walking through a live, multi-layered environment, we show how a single platform seamlessly aggregates diverse design, reality capture, and operational datasets.

Kasia Wlosowicz

Manager, Solution Engineering

Bentley Systems

13.20

Networking break

13.25

Digital Intelligence: Driving Operational Excellence and Cost Reduction

Through our proprietary Smart O&M platform, ENGIE Solutions has built one of the region’s most comprehensive AI-enabled FM ecosystems, combining IOT, CMMS, energy profiling, data-driven maintenance and analytics. This implementation has set a benchmark standard for the industry, redefining what sustainable, and intelligent facility management looks like in the GCC.

Lina Zaghloul

Digital Solutions Manager

ENGIE Solutions

Mohammed Suhail

Digital Transformation & AI Manager

ENGIE Solutions

13.40

Networking break

13.45

Turn a Project into a Walkable Digital Twin with Spatial Twin & Craft

A live look at how PropVR turns a project into a walkable 3D twin and a sketch into a sellable render, both in real time. Spatial Twin: explore a real estate project as a real-time, browser-based digital twin, no app or headset needed. Craft: turn floor plans, sketches, and photos into photorealistic renders and 360° visuals in about a minute, at a fraction of traditional agency cost.

Sunder Jagannathan

Co-founder & CEO

PropVR

14.00

Networking Lunch

15.00

Bye Bye BIM: Never Again Draw a Road & Rail Design Manually

See how road and rail design happens when the system draws instead of you. LivDES turns engineering rules and inputs into an optimised design in minutes — clash-free by design, not by detection. This live session walks through the full process, end to end. Built for road and rail teams ready to hand over the pen for good.

Karthik Thumu

Founder

LivSYT

15.15

Networking break

15.20

Beyond Attendance: Using VR to Build and Measure HSE Competence

How immersive scenarios can strengthen competency management and performance assurance.

Matthew Sheedy

Consultant

Urban Surveys

15.35

Networking break

15.40

One Platform to Run Your Real Estate Business

An AI-powered, construction and real estate grade ERP, in production at Dubai Holding, Aldar and Modon. It runs the full real estate lifecycle, from sales and construction to handover, leasing, community and finance, on one ledger. Run it as one software across your entire group, or as the main source of truth for your real estate business, integrated into your existing enterprise architecture over APIs.

Alok Agrawal

Founder & CEO

Farvision Information Technology

15.55

Close of Live Demos

Day 2: Thursday, 10 September 2026

Live Demo Lab

09.30

Virtual Twins Boosting Data Center Efficiency

Discover how Dassault Systèmes' core capabilities, including virtual twins, virtual companions, and generative experiences, are helping organizations transform the way they design, build, and operate complex assets thanks for 3D UNIVERSES for AEC

Daniel Nesic

Lead Consultant for Smart Cities & Digital Transformation

Dassault Systemes

Khaled Althubaiti

Technical Consultant

Dassault Systemes

09.45

Networking break

09.50

Break for Main Conference

14.30

Liquid Cooling Innovation Hotspots

Demonstrations of new fluids, cold plate designs, manifolds, and leak-detection systems, with side-by-side comparisons of performance and operability.

14.45

Networking break

14.50

Heat Re-Use Innovation: District Cooling, Agriculture & Water Tech Integration

Turning waste heat into usable energy for district cooling, controlled agriculture, and water systems - showing what is technically and economically viable today.

15.05

Networking break

15.10

AI-Driven Cooling Automation

Live dashboards and control loops showcasing self-optimising thermal systems, predictive failure detection, and real-time cooling optimisation under variable loads.

15.25

Close

Day 2: Thursday, 10 September 2026

Meeting Room 1

08.00

Registration and networking

Tech Discovery Clinics

The Tech Discovery Clinics are interactive, deep-dive sessions designed to cut through the hype and explore how emerging technologies actually work in real-world property and city environments. Combining practical use cases, technology walkthroughs and open discussion, each clinic helps developers, asset owners and operators understand what works today, what it takes to deploy, and where the technology is heading next.

11.30

Session 1: Modernising Old Assets to Match Smart City Standards

As GCC cities push toward smart, connected environments, the real challenge lies in upgrading legacy buildings. This session presents a practical roadmap for modernising older assets through tech overlays, integration layers, and “minimum viable retrofit” strategies that deliver quick performance gains. It also addresses funding gaps, stakeholder approvals, and retrofit complexity—clarifying what is realistically achievable compared to smart new developments.

Dr. Samiullah Khan

Chief Sustainability Officer

National Development Consortium

12.30

Networking break

13.00

Session 2: Designing AI-Ready Real Estate Operations Systems

AI cannot compensate for poor data and fragmented systems. This session focuses on how to design real estate operations platforms that are genuinely AI-ready—covering data foundations, system architecture, integration strategy, and governance. Attendees will learn what must be in place before deploying AI, and where AI delivers real operational value versus hype.

Anand Mecheri

Chief Executive Officer

Twinit

14.00

Close of Tech Discovery Tracks

Day 2: Thursday, 10 September 2026

The ConTech Fast Pitch Competition

The ConTech Fast Pitch Competition, hosted by the DXB ConTech Business Group in partnership with Construction Technology ConFex 2026, will showcase promising ConTech startups to leading investors and industry decision-makers. Selected startups will pitch innovative solutions with the potential to transform construction and the wider built environment.

11.00

Opening

Anas Bataw

Chairman

DXB ConTech

11.05

Welcome remarks

Dr. Mahmoud Alburai

Advisor to the Director General

Dubai Municipality

11.10

ConTech Fast Pitch Competition Kick off

Aya Sadder

Founder & CEO

Bolt Consultancy

11.20

Agentic AI Employees For Complex Construction

Alexander Pavlovskiy

Founder & CEO

AI PROPX

11.30

AI Powered Construction Execution Platform

Rowan Alawi

Co-Founder & CEO

Trase

11.40

AI Agents for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Execution

Ian Arden

Founder & Chief AI Architect

VitruAI

11.50

Construction Delay Recovery

Ahmed Hegazy

Co-Founder

Opteam

12.00

Procurement Software For Main Contractors

Alastair Blenkin

Founder & CEO

ProcurePro

12.10

Networking break

12.30

Infrastructure Design - Generated In Minutes Instead Of Months

Karthik Thumu

Founder

LivSYT

12.40

The First Mycelium Bio-Manufacturing Venture In The Middle East

Dima Al Srouri

Founder & CEO

MycoSphere

12.50

From Agentic CDE To The Autonomous Robotic Ecosystem

Pavel Goretskiy

Director MENA

SIGNAX

13.00

Innovative Forensic Software (Not AI)

SagayaRaja Kuttappan

Founder & CEO

Good Faith (LLC)

13.10

I Industrial Automation For Construction Materials, Waste and Carbon

Hussain Hilli

CEO & Founder

Carboniko

13.20

Winner Announcement

13.50

End of The ConTech Fast Pitch Competition

Dr. Mahmoud Alburai

Advisor to the Director General

Dubai Municipality

Day 2: Thursday, 01 May, 2025
Track 2
Track 2 \| Hall B
10.00	Opening
10.05	Panel: Closing the Capex \| Opex data gap – the next vital frontier for mega projects Globally there is still a clear disconnect between data created during construction and data required for operation, with asset owners often starting from scratch or undergoing huge data reorganisation between phases and projects. The ability to harness data created from concept to delivery and ensure consistent operations, from sales lead management to property management is the vital next frontier for major projects and needs to be defined early. Hear how these organisations are attempting to close the gap through BIM, AI models and integrated platform plays and who will be responsible for maintaining the data throughout the asset lifecycle. Led by: Cristina Savian, CEO and Founder, BE-WISE In conversation with: Amr El Etreby, Managing Director of Project Management and Cost Consultancy, Land Sterling Anastasios Dimas, Regional Technology Director ME, AtkinsRéalis Claire Huhes Munro, Chair, UAE Regional Advisory Board, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Dana Al Mahmoud Nahas, Corporate Technical Director, Trojan Construction Group Garry Murray, Community Management Expert
	Success stories: Operational digital twins only! Tangible examples & results Tired of theoretical digital twin frameworks? We searched the globe to shed light on tangible digital twins in practice from representing design data for better stakeholder engagement & marketing, to feeding in site data for progress monitoring and reducing carbon/cost in project handover and building operations.
10.50	Success story: Construction monitoring, cycle time and carbon reduction Roger Wahl, Chief Technology Officer, Innovo
11.05	Success story: From static models to living twins: keeping your digital twin alive and aligned Wissam Hijazi, VP Innovation - MENA, EllisDon
11.20	Success story: Seamless integration in sales to asset management Sunder Jagannathan, Co-founder & CEO, PropVR
11.35	Success story: Driving efficiency from BIM to boardroom: Scaling intelligence across urban infrastructure Zubran Solaiman, Director, Industry Strategy Cities, Bentley Systems
11.50	Morning networking break
12.15	Panel: Digital twin strategies 2025 As the digital twin concept gains maturity, many tier 1 projects in the region are executing a digital twin strategy. This session reviews the latest digital twin strategy developments and use-case scenarios in mega projects from construction to operations and customer experience. Led by: Wissam Hijazi, VP Innovation - MENA, EllisDon In conversation with: Andrew Bevan, Technical Director - Head of Digital Solutions EMEA, Parsons Corporation Aqeel Bafadel, VP - Smart City & Innovation, KAFD Asim Rehmani, Manager- Business Transformation, DHRE, Dubai Holding Real Estate Jatin Lad, Lead - Smart Cities & Digital Twin, Ardara - PIF Kendall Wilson, Senior Manager, Digital Twin, Modon Real Estate
13.00	Panel: Revolutionising urban living through true smart cities As the built environment undergoes rapid digitalisation, we are edging closer to realising true smart communities and cities. The region's giga- and mega-cities will be reliant on the information that smart systems through monitoring will provide, creating safe, secure, and sustainable urban environments. This session explores the pivotal role of technology in enhancing urban living through connected services that integrate building management, city operations, transport and mobility, energy, water and waste management, public safety, cybersecurity, and digital citizen services. Led by: Mohamed Misbah, Director, Digital Services, Middle East & Africa, Khatib & Alami In conversation with: Marwan Abu Ebeid, Digital Construction Lead, Turner Construction – International Mohammed Shah, Smart City Director, Knowledge Economic City Sebastien Miller, Manager of Public Realm, Masdar City
13.30	Close of day 2 \| Track 2
14.00	Awards networking reception \| Construction Technology Awards
15.00	Awards ceremony \| Construction Technology Awards