Yewande is a chartered engineer, innovator and speaker. Her engineering experience includes the design and construction, innovation and manufacture of buildings and systems in the built environment. She's worked on projects in the UK, Africa, the Middle East and East Asia and has been named the UK Young Woman Engineer of the Year by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. She has also been awarded the Exceptional Achiever Award from the Association for BAME Engineers and the Association of Consultancy and Engineering, UK (ACE). She is passionate about STEM communication and has presented Engineering programmes for Television. In the 2020 New Year Honours list, Yewande was awarded an MBE for services to engineering innovation and diversity in STEM. She has recently been appointed the UK's Innovation agency (Innovate UK) Ambassador for Clean Growth and Infrastructure.

Jacqui is Chair in Construction Management, at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, in University College London and Vice Dean Research for the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. She has published over 150 papers, managed more than £10M of funding for R&D in construction, and supervised more than 20 doctoral students to completion. Her research spans materials and products as well as innovation and sustainability. Current collaborations focus on the UK’s Transforming Construction programme, including studies of business model innovations and autonomous robotics – Jacqui was PI of the Transforming Construction Network Plus from 2018-2021. Her most recent activities include leading the Bartlett’s submission to REF2021 and serving on international review panels at ETH Zurich, Georgia Tech and the University of Florida.

Salla is an industry pioneer and an innovation leader focusing on emerging technology and digital transformation. With the digital building lifecycle framework, she's continuing to support building up people's skills and organisational wisdom to respond to the requirements of the next generation built environment industry. To balance her work, she's actively volunteering in professional networks and leadership communities to learn and share experiences.

Maria is president-elect of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and has been GHD’s Infrastructure Market Leader for the United States since May 2020. Maria was the former Vice President for Critical Infrastructure for Parsons, COO and Acting Executive Director of the New York State Thruway Authority and Commissioner of Public Works for Erie County, New York. She has over 40 years of diverse, increasingly responsible, multi-disciplinary technical and leadership experience, both in the private and public sectors, and in traditional and alternative delivery. She has served as Principal-in-Charge, Project Executive, Programme and Project Manager, and Project Engineer on more than 700 projects, ranging in size from $10,000 to $3.9BN. She has won numerous national, state-wide and local awards including the ASCE President’s Medal.

Don Jacob is VP of Technology and Innovation for the Build Division at the Nemetschek Group and guest member of the Georg Nemetschek Institute of Artificial Intelligence for the Built World’s Scientific Advisory Board. He leverages decades of experience in technological innovation to achieve Nemetschek’s strategic goals. After more than a decade working for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Deep Space Network and in the Mechanical Engineering Division, and following the development of PETsSMART.com’s e-commerce capabilities, Don was a founding team member of Bluebeam Inc. At Bluebeam he served as CTO for 17 years before moving into the Chief Innovation Officer role.

Having worked with a leading UK contractor, Fred founded The B1M to focus on sharing "the best of construction" - improving the industry while helping to attract more people to come and work in it. Fred has since grown The B1M into the world’s largest and most subscribed-to video channel for construction with over 2 million YouTube subscribers and 20 million viewers each month. It now employs a 15-strong team across London, Sydney and New York. In September 2020, The B1M was named by The Times as one of the 20 best educational YouTube channels in the world. From interviewing Sir Richard Branson to filming inside London's Big Ben, Fred’s videos have amassed hundreds of millions of views making him a global figure in video publishing and a role model to millions of people interested or already working in construction. Fred’s mission is to change the perception of construction on planet Earth.