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Digital Built Forum (DBF)
by Digital Built Forum
The Digital Built Forum (DBF) Podcast explores digital and data innovation in the built environment. Join Adam and Gavin as they discuss everything from the planning and design of public places and spaces, to the operation and maintenance of infrastructure assets. Guest commentators join the hosts who represent policy making, professional practice and academia. The podcast is powered by the Digital Built Forum, an engagement platform to help drive a digital built environment. See: www.digitalbuiltforum.com
Episodes
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Episode 60: Built for Digital: Episode 3
Built for Digital: Episode 3 - The uneasy dance of digital built policy In Episode 3, we dig into the messy reality of digital policy in Australia: why political champions are rare, what Brisbane 2032 is getting wrong, and why LA 2028 might be the blueprint nobody's talking about. From…
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Episode 59: Built for Digital - Episode 2
Built for Digital – Episode 2: "AI for Real" In this episode, Adam sits down with Gavin to cut through the hype and talk about what's actually happening with AI in the built environment. Drawing on lessons from the smart cities and IoT eras, we explore the real opportunities, the pitfalls, and…
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Episode 58: Built for Digital Episode 1
In the first episode of the Built for Digital series, Adam and Gavin sit down to take an honest look back at the smart cities era — what was promised, what was funded, and what actually delivered.From Australia's $50M federal investment to smart bins, smart parking, and smart barbecues, they…
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Episode 57: 2025 DBF review, and what's next for 2026
2025 was a breakthrough year for Digital Built Forum—from rebranding to launching their first in-person event, the SEQ 2032 Digital Assembly, which drew 90+ industry leaders to Brisbane. Hosts Gavin and Adam reflect on their podcast series exploring asset management and agentic AI, international...
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Episode 56: Digital Games Dispatch #1
In this kick-off episode of the "Digital Games Dispatch" series, hosts Adam Beck and Gavin Cotterill dive into the evolving role of digital enablement in the context of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Drawing on their recent experiences and insights from past events—including the...
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Episode 55: AI in the workplace - Chapter 3
Welcome to another episode of Season 6 of the Digital Built Forum podcast! In this episode. Host Adam Beck sits down with Katherine Tobias, co-founder and CEO of InsightWise. They discuss Katherine's journey from leading Smart Cities initiatives at KPMG to creating the leading platform for...
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Episode 54: AI in the workplace - Chapter 2
In this episode of the Digital Built Forum podcast, co-host Adam Beck sits down with Jacy Macnee, a seasoned urban planner and the planning lead for the Land IQ platform at Property and Development New South Wales. Together, they discuss the influence of artificial intelligence on urban planning,...
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Episode 53: AI in the workplace - Chapter 1
Welcome to Season 6 of the DBF Podcast. Join us as we explore the future of the workplace and the role of artificial intelligence (AI). In this insightful episode, Gavin sits down with Mark Cameron, CEO and Director of Alyve, to discuss the future of the workplace with the integration of AI. Mark...
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Episode 52: Exploring future-ready asset management strategies
In this final episode of Season 5 of the Digital Built Australia Podcast, hosts Adam Beck and Gavin Cotterill chat with Tom Kurtz, Vice President for EAM Portfolio Strategy and Enablement at Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence. With over 30 years of experience in asset management, Tomprovides...
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Episode 51: The future of asset management, from a data perspective
Welcome to Season 5 of the DBA Podcast! In this episode, Gavin sits down with Patrick Bossert and Martin Blyth to unpack the intersections of digital and data within operations and maintenance. As AI continues to evolve, they explore how generative AI, machine learning, digital twins, and data...
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Episode 50: Celebrating 50 Episodes of the DBA Podcast: Reflections and future musings
In this special 50th episode of the Digital Built Australia(DBA) Podcast, co-hosts Adam Beck and Gavin Cotterill celebrate their milestone with a lively and thought-provoking reflection on their journey. The duo discusses the highs and lows of producing the podcast over the last three years. They...
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Episode 49: From reactive to predictive: Data-driven asset management
In this latest episode of the Digital Built Australia podcast, Adam sits down with Supratim Mukhopadhyay from Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence to explore the evolution of asset management. They delve into the transition from reactive to predictive decision-making in asset management…
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Episode 48: Leveraging AI in asset management
In this episode of the Digital Built Australia podcast, Gavin dives into how digital technologies and data insights can enhance productivity and sustainability in asset management. He is joined by Chris Bridge, Principal for Asset Strategy and Improvement at SEQ Water, and Dennis Janossich, a...
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Episode 47: What executives are saying about digital twin technology
Adam chats with Jeff Sharp from Hexagon about digital twin technology. They dive into Hexagon's recently published Digital Twin Industry Report, exploring its key findings and discussing the evolving role of AI. They also provide industry-specific insights and explore the untapped potential for...
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Episode 46: Digital asset management - A current state assessment
Welcome to Season 5 of the Digital Built Australia (DBA)Podcast - a deep dive into the world of digital asset management, presented by Hexagon. In this episode, hosts Gavin and Adam are joined by Jeff Sharp from Hexagon to discuss the evolving landscape of digital asset management and current...
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Episode 45: Digital Built Week 2025: Is Technology the Problem?
Welcome to the final Digital Build Week 2025 session, hosted by TEMPO Institute. This episode dives into a packed agenda covering innovation, AI, digital twins, and the importance of proof of concepts. The session features esteemed panellists (James Strutt, Meredith Hodgman and Kelly Henderson)...
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Episode 44: Digital Built Week 2025: Unpacking Digital Precinct Planning for Brisbane 2032
Join in for an insightful Digital Built Week 2025 session hosted by TEMPO that delves deep into digital precinct planning, focusing on the Brisbane 2032 Games. Featuring a diverse lineup of guests, including James Mulligan, Lucy Booth, Ed Jennings, Chris Isles, and Susan Skuodas, the panel...
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Episode 43: Digital Built Week 2025: Exploring the Future of AI and Agentic AI and Built Environments
Join the TEMPO team and a panel of experts at Digital Built Week 2025 as they dive into AI and Agentic AI applications in the built environment. The opening session to the week features insightful discussions on agentic AI, digital twins, and practical examples from industry professionals like...
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Episode 42: Exploring Agentic AI: Transforming the built environment
Join us for a captivating episode of the DBA Podcast as we delve into the concept of agentic AI and its implications for the built environment and our cities. Host Gavin discusses with Rob the emergence of agentic AI, how it integrates with existing tools and large language models, and its...
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Episode 41: Beyond the AI scepticism, built environment wins
In this episode of the DBA Podcast, Adam interviews Will Cavendish, the Global Digital Leader at Arup. Will shares his journey from DeepMind to Arup and discusses the revolutionary impact of AI on the built environment. He explores the rapid adoption of AI technologies, the role of large language...
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Episode 40: The reality of AI hype
In this episode, we delve into the world of artificial intelligence with Jeff, a seasoned expert with a unique perspective. Jeff debunks the exaggerated claims surrounding generative AI and discusses its real economic impact. He explains why AI won't revolutionise every industry overnight…
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Episode 39: Understanding AI in real estate - Predictive vs Generative AI
Join us as we continue our new season with AI expert Antony Slumbers, discussing the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the real estate sector. Antony delves into the distinctions between Predictive AI and Generative AI, and how these technologies are reshaping the built environment. From...
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Episode 38: An AI primer
Advisor, storyteller and podcast host Charles Reed Anderson joins us as we kick off Season 4 of the DBA podcast - a series of discussions that will go wide and deep on the agenda of artificial intelligence (AI). Mapping the hype, the facts and the fiction, Charles shares his views on where we are...
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Episode 37: An interview with Lisa Prime
In this final episode of season 3 of the DBA podcast we interview Lisa Prime, a champion of sustainability, planning and the built environment in Ontario, Canada. Lisa's love of geography and passion for learning saw her career evolve across multiple roles in the public and private sector,...
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Episode 36: Australia's national digital atlas
The Digital Atlas of Australia is the nations leading platform for trusted high-value data. It enbles government and industry to explore, visualise and analyse data on Australia's people, environment, geography and economy. In this episode we sit down with Lisa Bush, Head of the National Location...
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Episode 35: Canada: Building housing with digital foundations
As the TEMPO team travelled through North America in June 2024, there was one key stakeholder that stood out when discussing digital and data and housing. Bert Pereboom is an Advisor with the Canadian government's Housing and Mortgage Corporation (CHMC) and in this interview he sits down with…
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Episode 34: An interview with Dr Ian Opperman
As we continue our industry leader showcases there are only a small handful (possibly less) of those that have played truly transformational roles within government. It is a rare breed, and Ian Opperman is one of those. From deep telco afficionado to startup CEO, and research leader to Chief Data...
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Episode 33: An interview with Adrian Piani GAICD
Here is another interview with an industry leader as part of our ongoing series that traces the career journey of notable change makers in the built environment - this time Adrian Piani. Adrian has helped shape the engineering profession in Australia for more than 25 years, initially practicing…
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Episode 32: Digital Twin Live: Critical infrastructure musings
In this episode of the DBA podcast we share the fourth and final session from the inaugural Digital Twin Live leadership summit, hosted by TEMPO Institute on 14 May 2024. In this session key urban sectors come together to discuss capability, readiness and the rationale. Private sector...
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Episode 31: Digital Twin Live: Local councils on urban Digital Twins
In this episode of the DBA podcast we share the third session from the inaugural Digital Twin Live leadership summit, hosted by TEMPO Institute on 14 May 2024. In this session you will hear from local councils from Australia and New Zealand, as they discuss Digital Twins in urban life, through…
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Episode 30: Digital Twin Live: A Spotlight on the States of Australia
In this episode of the DBA podcast we share the second session from the inaugural Digital Twin Live leadership summit, hosted by TEMPO Institute on 14 May 2024. In this session you will hear from government Digital Twin leaders representing Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales. The goal of…
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Episode 29: Digital Twin Live: Building big; digital dreams
In this episode of the DBA podcast we share the first session from the inaugural Digital Twin Live leadership summit, hosted by TEMPO Institute on 14 May 2024. This first session was a one-on-one with Frankie Carroll, CEO of Suburban Rail Loop Authority in Victoria, Australia. The discussion was...
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Episode 28: An interview with Dr Mark Bew MBE
In our first of many interviews about 'the person', Gavin interviews Dr Mark Bew MBE - CEO and Chairman. Mark has been one of the driving forces over the past 20 years in the UK around digital built construction. The interview tracks Mark's life growing up and his passion for engineering, digital...
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Episode 27: A sit down with Infrastructure Australia
In this episode Gavin sit's down with Dr Ben van Deventer (Director - Industry Policy) from Infrastructure Australia, to discuss the recent work of the nation's key independent infrastructure advisor. Productivity, digital by default and building a data driven policy environment were all part of...
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Episode 26: Master data management for Digital Twins: Let's discuss
Well, if you've been looking for a technical exploration of the why, what and how of master data management for your Digital Twin - look no further! In this episode Gavin sit's down with Rennie Chadwick (Global Leader Transport & Mobility) from Cohesive based in London, to hear about his…
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Episode 25: A built environment bang: Igniting the data fuse on disclosure
Welcome to Season 3 of the DBA podcast. In this first episode we tackle one of the most wicked of crises currently relevant to all disciplines, industries, cities and nations - climate change. Joining us is Sarah Kinsela, Partner at Deloitte in Climate Change and Sustainability. But Sarah is not...
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Episode 24: The 2023 Wrap
As the year draws to a close Gavin and Adam sit down to review and discuss some key observations they made. They touch on the most recent season of the DBA podcast, where the Digital Twin marketplace is at and what's coming up in 2024. Thank you to all DBA listeners and subscribers for supporting...
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Episode 23: Digital Twin; it's only as good as your data
You know what they say - junk in, junk out. That's why we decided to go deep on data (with a Digital Twin lens) and bring together two of the best in the marketplace - Michelle Teis from GWI and Patrick Bossert from Future Edge Consulting. In this conversation we cover the basics on data-fuelling...
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Episode 22: Can we PlanTech our way to better development?
Two things were intriguing us at DBA, and we were keen to explore their convergence - PlanTech, and housing. So we brought together one of Australia's leading PlanTech advisors, Clare Huxley (Gov Partners), with the driving force behind one of the most recent PlanTech success stories in…
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Episode 21: The view from within, a digital built environment debrief for South East Queensland
The digital built environment industry has many advocates in Australia, and in Queensland more specifically, Andrew Curthoys is a notable candidate. In this special episode of the DBA podcast Adam and Gavin take the opportunity to get a debrief from Andrew on his many decades helping shape policy...
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Episode 20: Can we win on AI and the built environment?
As much as it feels like AI overload right now - the articles, the webinars, the events - we wanted to check-in to see what the built environment has to say. So we asked some friends who we consider to be close to the intersection of artificial intelligence and the built environment to join us…
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Episode 19: A Digital Twin discussion with BIM leaders
We kick off Season 2 of the DBA podcast in our new format, featuring multiple guests. And first up is Jenny Tseng from Mott MacDonald and Steven Coyle from Arcadis, joining us to discuss Digital Twin. But not before we go back and check in on BIM - its recent history and where the market is at…
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Episode 18: The TEMPO Institute story
With Season 1 of the DBA podcast done, Gavin and Adam take some time to share the ideas behind the creation of TEMPO Institute, the education platform for digital built knowledge. This episode includes some reflections on the mission and purpose of TEMPO, along with some inpromptu questions…
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Episode 17: One-on-one with Digital Twin Victoria
Carys Evans, Director of Digital Twin Victoria, has been stewarding one of the nation's leading state government-led Digital Twin initiatives. Having been underway for close to 2.5years we felt it was time to hear more about the journey. In this one-on-one interview Gavin sits down with Carys to...
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Episode 16: For the love of data - A professional journey of chasing more with digital
We love a good story, and in this episode of the DBA podcast Gavin sits down with Serryn Eagleson (Digital Advisory Lead) from Arup to track her key moves professionally in evolving her digital and data passion. From growing up and hanging out on building sites in regional Australia to early work...
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Episode 15: Awakening city data, a Digital Twin journey
With legacy city data and a passion for continually evolving it's service to the community, the City of Melbourne have turned to Digital Twin as an opportunity to build capability for enhancing their sustainability and resilience agenda. In this episode Gavin chats with Sam Shaheen (Chief Data...
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Episode 14: Future trends, Digital Twins and urban planners
For a number of years now the American Planning Association (APA) has been identifying the key trends relevant to the future of the planning profession, and the practice of planning. In this episode Adam sits down with Petra Hurtado, APA's Director of Research and Foresight, to talk about the...
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Episode 13: Digitally transforming High Speed Rail
High Speed (Rail) 2 (HS2) in the UK has been years in the making, with many more to come - so how is the digital transformation process going on one of the UK's largest infrastructure projects? In this episode Gavin sits down with Dr Sonia Zahiriddony who is Interim Chief Information Officer with...
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Episode 12: Building accountability around 'digital by default'
With momentum building on the 'digital by default' narrative across the infrastructure policy landscape in Australia, the question must be asked - "how do we measure, report and hold ourselves accountable to this idea?" In this episode Adam chats with Sara Stace, Director of Cities at WSP in...
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Episode 11: Digital Twin first steps, the options
Gavin heads back to New Zealand for this episode and sits down with Stacey Young (Chief Information Officer) and Brenda Pottinger (Data and Information Governance Manager) from Marlborough District Council. Marlborough is located on the top end of the southern island of New Zealand, and is a…
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The Digital Built Forum (DBF) Podcast explores digital and data innovation in the built environment. Join Adam and Gavin as they discuss everything from the planning and design of public places and spaces, to the operation and maintenance of infrastructure assets. Guest commentators join the hosts who represent policy making, professional practice and academia. The podcast is powered by the Digital Built Forum, an engagement platform to help drive a digital built environment. See: www.digitalbuiltforum.com
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