Bentley Systems, FAST-Infra, and PSP Hub are pleased to bring the global event series Twin Talks and Infrastructure in a Changing World to São Paulo, Brazil in the lead-up to COP30. Twin Talks & Infrastructure in a Changing World São Paulo will convene the financial sector, policymakers, infrastructure developers, and leaders. The goal is to assess how technology and standards align with the ambitions of the Baku to Belém Roadmap and support the scaling of sustainable, resilient infrastructure project development and investment worldwide, while also establishing new commitments for the future. 

• Venue: The New Zealand Consulate (Avenida Paulista, 2421 – Edifício Bela Paulista – 12th floor – São Paulo/SP) 
• Host Organizations: Bentley Systems, FAST-Infra and PSP Hub 
• Moderator: Rory Linehan, Director, Infrastructure Policy Advancement, Bentley Systems 
• Event agenda: TWINTALKS | SAO PAULO 2025 | REGISTER – Transforming Infrastructure Performance 
• Register here: Resilient Infrastructure and the FAST-Infra Label – November 7, 2025 (Brazil)

This event will focus on standardizing the definition and measurement of sustainable infrastructure to bridge the significant global climate finance gap. A key challenge is the current fragmentation across various sustainability frameworks. The session will explore how adopting common standards and verifiable schemes, like the FAST-Infra Label, can effectively de-risk infrastructure pipelines, making them more attractive to private investors and enabling the scaling of blended finance solutions. Ultimately, the goal is to enhance collaboration, create transparent, standardized data sets, and accelerate the flow of private capital into resilient, high-impact projects globally.

• Blue Zone Pavilion: IDFC
• Host Organizations: FAST-Infra Group (FIG), Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB)
• Speaker: Amelia Burnett, Digital Financial Strategies Director, Bentley Systems
• Event Agenda: https://www.idfc.org/cop30idfc/#agenda
• Watch live: https://www.idfc.org/cop30idfc/

This event will examine how digital technologies can be operationalized to strengthen Asia–Pacific’s supply chains, which are highly exposed to physical climate hazards. Given the region’s central role in global trade and its acute climate vulnerability, the session will showcase practical use cases of AI, earth observation, and fintech platforms for identifying risks, issuing early warnings, and embedding climate intelligence into key business and government decisions. Ultimately, the goal is to define how Singapore’s financial and technological ecosystems can help protect vulnerable global regions and economies ahead of Brazil’s COP30.

• Blue Zone Pavilion: Singapore
• Host Organizations: KPMG, AIGCC, Atlantic Council Climate Resilience Center
• Speaker: Rodrigo Fernandes, Global Director of Sustainability, Bentley Systems
• Event Details and Registration: KPMG at COP30

Water resilience is at the core of climate adaptation, yet cities, utilities, and industries continue to face mounting risks from droughts, floods, groundwater depletion, and extreme weather. Building resilience requires an integrated view of the entire urban water cycle—both above and below ground.

This session will explore how digital twins, predictive analytics, and subsurface intelligence can enable governments, utilities, and businesses to make smarter, climate-resilient decisions about water and infrastructure. Thought leaders and practitioners will discuss how geospatial insights, combined with hydrogeological and subsurface modeling, can support adaptation strategies that protect communities, secure water supplies, and reduce climate risks.

• Blue Zone Pavilion: Water for Climate
• Host Organizations: Bentley Systems
• Moderator: Julio Issao, Senior Application Engineer, Bentley Systems
• Event agenda: One Water: Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure through Water, Sanitation and Subsurface Intelligence – Water for Climate Pavilion
• Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/live/m0A4c71XsMQ?si=yt1wIC3TqR15hbJA

Bentley Systems and Lucetia Group are hosting a Twin Talks session at Australia’s COP 30 Pavilion. Twin Talks are invite-only fireside conversations between leaders in the infrastructure sector exploring global best practice. Following successful events in London, Melbourne, and New York, the Belém edition will convene Australian investors, policymakers and industry leaders with SE Asian counterparts to discuss how Australian institutional capital, technology and expertise are supporting the clean energy transition in SE Asia. The event will feature a keynote from an Australian superannuation fund and a fireside chat with leaders from the Australian Government, a multilateral development bank, Lucetia and Bentley. Participants will share experiences on mobilising capital, leveraging digital twin technology and building partnerships to accelerate clean energy infrastructure.

• Blue Zone Pavilion: Australia
• Host Organizations: Bentley Systems, Lucetia Group
• Moderator: Rory Linehan, Director, Infrastructure Policy Advancement, Bentley Systems
• Speaker: Amelia Burnett, Digital Financial Strategies Director, Bentley Systems
• Event agenda: TWINTALKS | Belém 2025 | REGISTER – Transforming Infrastructure Performance

As climate impacts intensify, the private sector has a pivotal role in driving adaptation and resilience: safeguarding communities, economies, and the planet. This session marks the official launch of Mobilizing Business for Resilience (MBR), a cross-sector and cross-regional initiative for private sector action driven by business priorities, grounded in science, and aligned with global policy frameworks.

• Blue Zone Pavilion: The Peru – Resilience Hub
• Host Organizations: Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
• Speaker: Rodrigo Fernandes, Global Director of Sustainability, Bentley Systems
• Event agenda: https://cop-resilience-hub.org/cop30/agenda/

With infrastructure responsible for ~79% of global GHGs and ~88% of adaptation costs—and an adaptation finance gap of US$194–366B per year—aligning public and private capital is urgent. This COP30 session convenes policymakers, investors, and project developers to examine practical ways to standardize quality, allocate risk, and build partnerships that accelerate resilient, nature-positive infrastructure. Expect concise case reflections and realistic collaboration pathways—grounded in evidence, mindful of context, and designed to help participants identify where they can most credibly contribute after COP.

• Location: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (DRI)
• Host Organizations: FAST-Infra
• Speaker: Rory Linehan, Director, Infrastructure Policy Advancement, Bentley Systems
• Event Agenda: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Pavilion

Earth observation and remote sensing technologies are transforming disaster risk resilience by offering actionable insights for planning, response, and recovery. This session brings together global and regional partners to discuss how advances in EO can strengthen climate adaptation and disaster management strategies in South Asia. By examining emerging trends, applications, and best practices, the session will highlight how data-driven approaches can inform investments, enhance preparedness, and accelerate recovery. Participants will explore opportunities for collaboration, capacity building, and knowledge sharing to ensure that scientific innovations translate into resilient communities and sustainable infrastructure.

• Location: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (DRI)
• Host Organizations: Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
• Speaker: Rodrigo Fernandes, Global Director of Sustainability, Bentley Systems
• Event Agenda: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Pavilion

This session will explore how governments, scientific organizations, and the private sector can embed resilience into infrastructure planning and operation. Panelists will discuss the integration of climate and weather forecasting, digital technologies, and community needs to deliver infrastructure that safeguards lives, protects ecosystems, and empowers future generations. The discussion will also showcase practical applications in Brazil, with perspectives from the Ministry of Cities, global institutions, and industry leaders.

• Location: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (DRI)
• Host Organizations: Bentley Systems
• Moderator: Louis-Martin Losier, Senior Product Manager, Bentley Systems
• Event Agenda: Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Pavilion

This event aims to discuss the advancement of the mitigation efforts like government policies and science based corporate action as key components of the solution, as pledging for GHG reductions for the next 25 years presents its challenges. We aim for climate security to reduce risk on food and water systems and livelihoods, which can lead to displacements and migration and loss of cultural heritage.

• Location: Portugal
• Host Organizations: UN Global Compact Portugal
• Speaker: Julio Issao, Senior Application Engineer, Bentley Systems
• Event Agenda: COP30 2025|Brasil Amazônia

The climate crisis demands science-based solutions and robust public policies, but it faces a growing obstacle: disinformation. False or distorted narratives about climate change, biodiversity, and the energy transition undermine social trust, delay policy decisions, and divert essential investments from climate action. At the same time, the preservation of ecosystems, especially forests, oceans, and areas of high biodiversity—depend on collective mobilization and clear communication.

This conference aims to discuss how information integrity should be seen as an integral part of environmental protection strategies. Experts in climate, biodiversity, academia, technology, and public policy will explore ways to combat disinformation and strengthen public trust, ensuring that investment and governance decisions are supported by transparent and verifiable data.

By uniting ecosystem protection and disinformation protection, the debate will pave the way for an innovative approach that recognizes the interdependence of knowledge, trust, and action. This theme responds to axis VI of the COP30 Action Agenda, which highlights the integrity of information as an essential condition for unlocking mitigation, adaptation, and climate finance solutions, accelerating a just and sustainable transition.

• Location: Portugal
• Host Organizations: UN Global Compact Portugal
• Moderator: Joyce Cruz Di Giovanni, Regional Manager for Civil, Environment, and Energy at Seequent
• Event Agenda: COP30 2025|Brasil Amazônia

This high-level session will explore how cross-sector collaboration and digital technologies—such as geospatial intelligence, AI, and digital twins—can accelerate climate-resilient infrastructure. Panelists will highlight practical examples of ecosystem partnerships that enable cities and communities to design, operate, and maintain infrastructure capable of withstanding climate extremes. The discussion will emphasize how private and public actors can co-innovate to scale systemic solutions.

The event also includes announcement of sustainability cohort of companies on Bentley Ecosystem Catalog.

• Blue Zone Pavilion: UN Global Compact Portugal
• Host Organizations: Bentley Systems
• Moderator: Rodrigo Fernandes, Global Director of Sustainability, Bentley Systems
• Pavilion schedule: UN Global Compact at COP30

The event will provide a platform for sharing best practices, innovative solutions, and strategies for integrating sustainability into the supply chain, fostering a collective movement towards a low-carbon economy. This event will also explore recent EU legislation changes and how they impact businesses tracking Scope 3 emissions.

• Blue Zone Pavilion: UN Global Compact Portugal
• Host Organizations: UN Global Compact Spain and France
• Moderator: Rodrigo Fernandes, Global Director of Sustainability, Bentley Systems
• Pavilion schedule: UN Global Compact at COP30

This session aims to convene global sustainability experts from multinational corporations to discuss how businesses are turning net-zero pledges into measurable actions, with a focus on topics like supply chain decarbonization, regenerative agriculture, renewable energy transition, or AI-driven climate solutions.

• Blue Zone Pavilion: Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC)
• Host Organizations: GAUC
• Speaker: Louis-Martin Losier, Senior Product Manager, Bentley Systems

This session brings together engineers, planners, technology specialists and community leaders to explore how a co-designed, nature-positive infrastructure can align climate, biodiversity, and equity goals. Participants will share lived experiences, testing approaches, and reflecting on how to embed standards, digital tools, and community knowledge into decision making, ultimately enhancing the resilience of infrastructure and reducing vulnerability for both people and nature.

• Location: The Peru – Resilience Hub
• Host Organizations: ICSI, Bentley Systems
• Moderator: Rodrigo Fernandes, Global Director of Sustainability, Bentley Systems
• Event agenda: https://cop-resilience-hub.org/cop30/agenda/