6月30日在旧金山的Futuretech第一天，将几位发言人从风险投资，咨询，设计和建筑行业汇集在一起​​，所有这些人都传达了一个类似的信息：设计和建筑行业必须变得更加有效，以提供更智能的，更智能的，连接，更可持续的建筑。

"Construction is the last major sector of the economy not to be transformed by technology. It is very disconnected. We’ve crossed the threshold where half the people in the world live in cities," according to Keynote Speaker Jesse DeVitte, managing partner of venture capital firm Borealis Ventures. "Increasing demand will require that design, construction and operation of the built environment becomes dramatically more efficient. Technology is the catalyst to drive this quest for efficiency through the entire design-build-operate continuum."

副总裁杰克Macholtz soluti技术ons at Kiewit Construction, and Johnny Clemmons, Global Industry Director at Kiewit's database platform provider SAP, told the sold-out audience how they moved Kiewit's data from legacy systems to a modern, visual interactive reporting system based on Kiewit project data saved in SAP's repository. It was a shift from a cost to be managed to an asset to be managed.

所有演讲者的一个普遍障碍是建立项目数据是非结构化的，在不同的系统中，并且在许多情况下都受到项目利益相关者的ho积。

McKinsey & Company Partner Jose Luis Blanco Alvarez stressed in his closing keynote speech that digital technology is an enabler for faster impact on construction productivity. Construction can catch up with the overall economy by using digital technology, he intimated, perhaps even growing an order of magnitude faster than the rest of the non-farm economy. He pointed to the Internet of Things and drone data being rapidly adopted to allow designers, planners, construction professionals and building operations to make better, faster decisions.