Tech Talks
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In these four focused Tech Talks, you’ll explore real-world applications of GIS across GeoBIM, artificial intelligence, reality capture, and mobile workflows. Each session provides a clear, practical perspective on how these capabilities come together to enhance decision-making, boost efficiency, and unlock new value across the infrastructure lifecycle.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Harnessing AI for smarter infrastructure management
Artificial intelligence (AI) has huge huge potential to help organisations in their design, build and infrastructure maintenance. If you're curious to understand how, this presentation is for you. In this Tech Talk session, the team from Esri Ireland will outline how AI-based capabilities in Esri’s ArcGIS technology are already simplifying and speeding up workflows for groups of employees in the sector, from field crews to project managers. The session will include a demonstration of how to leverage AI in ArcGIS to plan and set up a field survey programme and analyse this data using natural language processing. During this session, you’ll find out about AI Assistants, GeoAI and Agentic AI and learn how to use these tools and others to increase productivity and unlock new data insights.
AI across ArcGIS today
Mobile Workflows
Optimising infrastructure field operations
Today’s challenging infrastructure projects demand real-time awareness of site conditions and asset locations, so getting access to data from the field has never been more important. This Tech Talk session will explain how organisations use Esri’s mobile solutions to collect information efficiently in the field and then make this data instantly visible to multi-disciplinary teams. Discover ways to reduce delays, eliminate rework and minimise site revisits, improving project certainty and operational efficiency. A demonstration will show just how simple it is to create highly effective mobile workflows, using solutions such as ArcGIS Field Maps and ArcGIS Survey123. Leave with the know-how to create consistent, reliable, mobile workflows for your own organisation that will scale easily across teams and contractors to improve your decision making and project outcomes.
Location-enabled field activities
GeoBIM
Integrating GIS and BIM for project insights
Building Information Modelling (BIM) data is now mandated for large-scale infrastructure projects in Ireland and will soon be compulsory for public sector works of all sizes. In this topical session, you will discover why you should be integrating your GIS and BIM data to make better information available to stakeholders, save time and reduce costs. Esri Ireland’s BIM specialists will introduce Esri’s ArcGIS GeoBIM product and show how it connects the use of BIM and GIS in one place to enable a common operational view amongst stakeholders during infrastructure build. You'll see real-world use cases of ArcGIS GeoBIM and demonstrate 3D analysis of BIM models. Learn how integrating GIS and BIM data adds value by improving collaboration, preventing duplication of data and providing the all-important environmental context for infrastructure projects.
Improving project coordination and delivery
ArcGIS Reality
Transitioning to Digital Twins via Reality Mapping
Digital twins allow infrastructure organisations to better understand their assets in a real-world context but are often perceived to be too complex to build. This session will reassure you that implementing a Digital Twin is a journey, not a transaction and this journey often starts with Reality Mapping. Esri Inc’s global Reality Mapping expert will explain how you can begin your journey towards a living digital environment that will support better infrastructure planning, maintenance and investment decisions. Featuring real examples and practical workflows, the session will illustrate how organisations can use ArcGIS Reality to integrate high-resolution imagery, 3D reality layers and operational data. Discover practical tips for optimising Reality Mapping and take your next step from a descriptive, digital model to a digital shadow and then a true digital twin.
Enable your reality capture from input to output
Digital Twin
Map 2 Model
Prepare to be amazed in a ‘Map to Model’ Digital Twin demo, showcasing our incredible physical diorama and matching digital twin. Discover how we integrate our digital twin with real-time sensor data to help predicate and mitigate against disruption to critical infrastructure. You’ll then hear from another guest speaker, who is playing a pivotal role in delivering government targets for housing in Ireland. Finally, gain a glimpse too at the road ahead for Esri’s GIS technology and discover the brand-new capabilities that can help achieve critical infrastructure goals.
