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Keynote Presenters
Tuesday, October 19, 9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Bentley Keynote
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Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems
Greg Bentley has been CEO of Bentley Systems since 2000, president since 1995, and chairman of the board since 1994. When he joined his four founding brothers at Bentley in 1991, the company had 35 colleagues. The company now has more than 2,700 colleagues and in 2008 achieved the milestone of $500 million in revenues. Prior to 1991, Bentley founded and served as CEO of Devon Systems International, a provider of financial trading software. In 1987, that company was acquired by SunGard Data Systems. He served as a director of SunGard, one of the world’s largest IT vendors, from 1991 until its $11-billion+ going-private transaction in 2005. Bentley earned a bachelor's degree in decision sciences in 1976 and an M.B.A. in finance in 1977 from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. |
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Bhupinder Singh, Senior Vice President of Bentley Software
Bhupinder Singh joined Bentley in 1994 and is the senior vice president of Bentley Software. Bentley Software is responsible for the strategic direction and management of all Bentley’s software products and development activities. Previously, Singh served in the sales organization as managing director for Bentley South Asia and prior to that role, he served as Bentley’s senior vice president of the Platform Products Group. Before joining Bentley, Singh held various software engineering positions at Montgomery Watson Hazra and Intergraph Corporation. He is a graduate in civil engineering with a B.Tech from I.I.T Delhi and holds master’s degrees in structural engineering from Vanderbilt University and in computer science from Rutgers University. |
| Wednesday, October 20, 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. |
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Guest Keynote: Malcolm Taylor, P.E., head of Technical Support Services, Crossrail
Malcolm Taylor is head of Technical Support Services at Crossrail and his current responsibilities include data management and document control. Prior to Crossrail he was the rail director for AECOM UK working on many U.K. and international rail projects. Taylor has over 30 years experience in the design, construction, and maintenance of large-scale transportation projects around the world, with particular emphasis on railways and metro design. |
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| Wednesday, October 20, 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
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Guest Panel: “Simulation, Fabrication, and Generative Design”
Moderator: Lars Hesselgren, AA Dip, RIBA, MSc (UCL), Director Research, PLP Architecture, London
Panel Members:
Martha Tsigkari, Associate, Specialist Modelling Group, Foster + Partners, London
Bruce Bell, Managing Director, Facit Homes, London
Jes Tonsgaard Andersen, Architect, Henning Larsen Architects, Copenhagen
Lars Hesselgren has been the director of PLP Research and a senior associate partner at PLP since October 2007. Previous to that he occupied the same position at KPF; prior to 2005 he was the IT director at KPF London. He is an architect with 35 years of experience, for the last 25 of which he has worked with and managed CAD systems. His most recent work concentrates on parametric modeling in CAD. Hesselgren writes regularly for many publications and lectures extensively both in United States and in Europe. He was educated at the Architectural Association and has a post-graduate degree in architectural theory from Bartlett School. |
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