Building Tomorrow: AI Is Revolutionizing Construction Across the Globe

Joy Durling is Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Procore Technologies, where she’s pioneering their data strategy, overseeing information technology, data intelligence, and product and enterprise security. She formerly served as Chief Information and Digital Experience Officer at Vivint Smart Home, a home automation company and held various leadership roles at Adobe, the global leader in digital media and marketing solutions. She is a renowned expert in data, analytics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning strategy and execution.

As Director of Data and Analytics for Skanska USA Building, Amy Jones Snider is responsible for the Data Solutions Team, which focuses on ensuring the quality, accessibility and connectivity of data to improve overall operational efficiency and drive performance certainty for partners and clients.

She also chairs Skanska’s Analytics Community, a national network of like-minded data enthusiasts who explore the best ways to leverage data insights in their everyday work. She has extensive experience building and implementing Business Intelligence tools, including Skanska Metriks®, a proprietary benchmarking tool. She collaborates with stakeholders to discover and apply data-driven technology and insights to the company's work, enhancing efficiency, ensuring project certainty, and creating value for clients and communities. From project estimates to RFIs to financial forecasts, she helps the teams draw actionable insights and drive better business outcomes.

Amy holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification, and extensive experience planning, optimizing, and executing data-driven strategies for Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Construction firms.

Dr. Tessa Lau is an award-winning roboticist who is the founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics. Dusty is revolutionizing the construction industry as the best solution to ensure design integrity in the field through automated layout and a streamlined BIM-to-field process. Prior to Dusty Robotics, Dr. Lau was co-founder, CTO, and Chief Robot Whisperer at Savioke (Relay) Robotics, where she automated hotel delivery and orchestrated the global distribution and management of consumer-facing robots.

Dr. Lau was also a member of Willow Garage, the legendary research lab and technology incubator known as one of the most influential forces in modern robotics. Willow Garage is responsible for the creation of an open-source robot operating system that's still being used by academics, engineers, and hobbyists around the world today.

Dr. Lau is a frequent speaker at business, technology, and construction conferences and has received numerous awards, including 2023 Construction Dive's Up and Coming Women in Construction, Silicon Valley Business Journal's Women of Influence, SVR's Innovation Award, and the Award for Excellence from the Association of Computer Machinery. Currently living in Silicon Valley, Dr. Lau holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.