Illuminate Sydney 2026
Explore the agenda for Illuminate Sydney 2026 and discover the sessions, speakers, and Experience Centre demonstrations happening throughout the day.
Main Plenary Agenda
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Speakers:
Vivek Kumar – Regional Director, ANZ, Bentley Systems
Elizabeth Stavrakis – Technical Account Manager, Bentley Systems
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Shaping the future of digital government
Speaker: Victor Dominello – CEO, Future Government Institute
Moderator: Debbie Smith – Services Director, Bentley Systems
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Empowering the future of Infrastructure
Speaker: Francois Valois – Senior VP, Open Applications, Bentley Systems
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Experience Centre and Networking Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Breaking down silos with open data and a connected data environment
Speaker: Oliver Conze – Senior VP, Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, Bentley Systems
11:30 AM – 12:10 PM
Delivering transportation projects at scale with connected workflows for Program Alliances
Speakers:
Brett Taig – Digital Engineering Manager, VIDA
Daniel Easter – Digital Engineering Manager, Acciona
Richard Scott – Technical Director, GHD
Moderator: Stewart Smith – Solution Architect, Bentley Systems
12:10 PM – 12:30 PM
Effective Reliability with Bentley AssetWise
Speaker: Jason Rogers – Director Planning and Assurance, TfNSW
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Experience Centre and Networking Break
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Digital Twins supporting a resilient and reliable grid
Speakers:
Turker Topal – Asset Intelligence and Insights Lead, TransGrid
Jonny Breen – Digital Engineering Manager, Transpower NZ
Moderator: Kevin Bates – Senior Director, Electric Utilities, Bentley Systems
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Driving infrastructure Intelligence from design through operations
Speaker: Amit Shrivastava – Senior Director, Solution Engineering, Bentley Systems
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Experience Centre Demonstrations and User Success Stories
Experience Centre agenda
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM
Leveraging Project Information During the Delivery Phase of an Asset’s Life Cycle.
Speaker:
Matt Freeburn – Technical Director Digital Delivery – Jacobs
4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
Demo sessions at booth
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM
Bringing the Model to Site: Practical Construction Workflows in Bentley Infrastructure Cloud.
Speaker:
Karen Liu – Digital Engineering Manager – ACCIONA
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Networking
Experience Centre - Booth Sessions
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
What’s New in OpenRoads and OpenRail
Speaker: Paul Cusack
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Intelligent Road Asset Extraction with Panoramic Image Analysis
Speaker: Ban Chee, DTP
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
WaterSight: A Digital Twin for Smarter Water Operations
Speaker: Dean Jagoe
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Connecting Water Data to Bentley Infrastructure Cloud
Speaker: Dean Jagoe
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
PLS-CADD and PLS-Grid: New Capabilities, Evolving Workflows
Speaker: Peter Dulhunty, Dulhunty Works
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Reality Modeling for Utilities
Speaker: Marc Rietman
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
Unified Asset Visibility in Context
Speaker: Marc Rietman
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Transforming Infrastructure Design Review
Speaker: Rhea Nielsen
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
Construction Planning: Visual Planning and Issues Tracking
Speaker: Luke Titmarsh
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Construction Execution: Field Data and Earned Value Management
Speaker: Luke Titmarsh
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
From Data Chaos to Clarity: Powering Smart Decisions
Speaker: Ron Seydler
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Digital Twin for Operations: Turning Asset Data into Insight
Speaker: Ron Seydler
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
The Bentley – Seequent connection
Speaker: Liam Smith & Sapath Rajbhandari
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Subsurface connections
Speaker: Liam Smith & Sapath Rajbhandari
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
Interoperability: One Structure, One Model
Speaker: Alex Li
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Automation: Letting Engineers Be Engineers
Speaker: Alex Li
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
Python Assistant – AI powered Automation
Speaker: Stuart Milne
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
Geospatial and Automation Workflows
Speaker: Stuart Milne
