Revolutionizing AEC: Unleashing the Power of AI in AEC Marketing

As a speaker and facilitator, Troy shares his down-to-earth approach with clients throughout the United States and internationally. In his 20 years in the film industry, he has produced television series for Discovery Health and History Channel and also served as Director of Production for the Minnesota Film Commission, promoting Minnesota cities and venues to companies like Disney, HBO, and Netflix. During his tenure with SagePresence, Troy has coached and trained companies to over $5 Billion in project wins, helping individuals and teams increase their confidence and communication skills for live, virtual, and hybrid presentations. He has also attended numerous local, regional, and national SMPS, AIA, ACEC, DBIA, and AGC industry conferences and events.

Thiago da Costa is an entrepreneur best known for founding Lagoa, a cloud-based 3D visualization software acquired by Autodesk in 2014, and presently Toric, a cloud-based, no-code data platform that enables construction companies to interact with their data and perform extensive analysis.

 His significant expertise in designing, building and launching products led to his success in raising venture capital and negotiating competitive M&As. With a propensity for identifying opportunities, the insight to identify a compelling vision, and an uncanny ability to empower teams that enable and inspire individuals, he has quickly become a leading authority in the AECO data analytics space, cultivating an impressive following of industry peers and partners.

Specialties include SaaS Products and technology, startups, and building core teams that deliver. He thrives on data analytics and real-time collaborative software architectures. His experience encompasses a broad range of 3D industries (Visual Effects, Games, Mechanical CAD, Cloud Platforms). Fluent in English, Portuguese and French, he has conducted business in the US, Canada, and Europe. His roles include managing global teams spanning North America, Europe, and Asia.

Greg is the founder and CEO of Sourcetoad, a customer application development that builds mobile and web applications for companies who want to make a dent in the world. 

Founded in 2008, Sourcetoad has grown to 65 employees and has support centers on three continents. They have built systems for clients like Viking Cruises, Jackson Hewitt, Procter and Gamble, Luxottica, the US Special Forces, and dozens of startups. 

Greg is also the author of Herding Cats and Coders, a guide to software development for non-techies.

He has a passion for Startups, squash, and scotch, and would be happy to talk at length about any one of them. 

Kristin Lynn Kautz, FSMPS, CPSM is an experienced AI consultant, trainer, and builder with over 25 years of expertise in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. With a passion for innovation and technology, Kristin has become a leading expert in AI for the built environment, helping companies implement and integrate AI into their operations, from small firms to large corporations.

AI is revolutionizing our industry. With a deep understanding of the latest AI trends and technologies, Kristin provides strategic guidance and develops customized organizational structures, guidelines, policies, procedures, communications/roll-out, and training to ensure that companies can fully leverage AI to drive growth, improve efficiency and productivity, and enhance both client and employee satisfaction. Her unique blend of marketing expertise, industry knowledge, and technical know-how has made her a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the field of AI for the built environment.

Kristin has been the featured AI speaker for SMPS locally, regionally, and nationally in addition to the Society for Design Administration (SDA), Project Mark, Chief Executive Network, Zweig Group, AIA, ACEC, Urban Land Institute, and multiple CEO cohorts. Kristin is committed to advancing the use of AI in the AEC industry and helping companies stay at the forefront of innovation.

Brent Britton is the Founding Partner of Core X Legal. Since the early 1990’s Brent C.J. Britton has been assisting entrepreneurs and technology companies of all sizes in corporate and intellectual property transactions. A dot-com era Silicon Valley veteran, Britton’s legal career has included tours of duty in several major firms in San Francisco, New York City, and Tampa. In his third year out of law school, Britton founded the noted San Francisco technology law firm, Britton, Silberman & Cervantez, LLP, which was later acquired by Thelen Reid & Priest, LLP. Britton has been a prominent voice for the cultivation of Tampa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem while maintaining strong roots in the San Francisco Bay Area’s emerging companies community.

Britton’s clients range from startups to international conglomerates in the fields of digital media and software development, video games, AI, virtual reality, data analytics, education, mechanical devices, entertainment, telecommunications, healthcare, cybersecurity, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. Britton’s legal work covers a full range of services of value to technology companies, such as corporate formation, venture funding, technology licensing and transactions, intellectual property strategy and prosecution (patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets), due diligence and auditing, innovation lifecycle management, mergers & acquisitions, website policies and terms of service, sweepstakes and gambling rules and procedures, privacy, data security, GDPR, employment agreements, responding to employee claims of hostile workplace or wrongful termination, digital token sales, and a broad spectrum of regulatory advice.

While in law school in the early 90’s, Britton was the founding Editor in Chief of the B.U. School of Law Journal of Science and Technology Law, and he also clerked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A former computer scientist and software engineer, Britton is the only lawyer who holds a graduate degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. Alongside his Master of Science from MIT, Britton also holds a Bachelor of Arts in computer science from the University of Maine and a Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of law. Britton is admitted to practice law in California, New York, and Florida. He has been an adjunct professor of Creativity and Innovation at the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa. He is the co-founder of several startups, and he writes and speaks frequently on entrepreneurship, creativity, ethics, and the philosophy of happiness and success. Britton’s book, “Ownability,” an introduction to intellectual property law, is available on amazon.com.