With a robust career spanning over a decade and a half in the construction industry, Matt Fern currently leads as the Digital Engineering Manager at Stowe Australia. Since 2007, Matt has been at the forefront of numerous transformative projects, with a keen focus on leveraging digital tools to enhance construction processes and outcomes. At Stowe Australia, Matt is renowned for pioneering the integration of digital initiatives across the company. This role involves the strategic oversight of Stowe’s digital transformation, aiming to unify and amplify the firm's efforts across various branches. Under Matt’s leadership, the company has embarked on implementing Autodesk Construction Cloud, a major digital leap aimed at enhancing collaboration and efficiency. Matt is passionate about the potential of digital engineering to revolutionize the construction industry. His approach is structured around four key objectives: enhancing stakeholder engagement, facilitating seamless collaboration, ensuring effective resolution of project issues, and fostering a learning environment that leverages past project data for future success. These pillars have not only increased value and efficiency for Stowe Australia but also fostered a deeper sense of project ownership among clients, partners, and internal teams. An advocate for meaningful interaction within the industry, Matt ensures that digital tools are accessible to all—from project managers to apprentices—thereby democratizing the insights gained from BIM models and other digital resources. This inclusive approach helps capture valuable constructability feedback early in the design process, significantly impacting project outcomes. Matt’s dedication to the field is driven by a love for the challenges and accomplishments inherent in building impactful, sustainable environments. His expertise and visionary leadership continue to pave the way for innovative practices in construction.

I have over 15 years’ experience in the Vocational Education & Training Sector (VET), ranging for teaching, managing educational delivery sections, leading delivery teams and being actively involved in numerous industry advisory committees. During my journey in the VET sector, I have also led and completed many comprehensive projects including setting up instructional design platforms, quality assurance of training materials, developing a sustainable approach towards educational delivery, engagement with industries and product development. I consider myself a lifelong learner and I am passionate about using my unique abilities and connections to support the VET sector in Australia and Oceania.

Associate Professor of Digital Engineering and Coordinator of the Digital Engineering Sub-Major at UTS, Julie Jupp is an international leader in Product Lifecycle Management, Building Information Modelling, and Model-based Engineering. Julie specialises in through-life information management, business process alignment, and digital design and construction workflow management applied to a range of infrastructure/ engineering systems. Julie's funded research projects focus on the digitalisation of infrastructure delivery processes, carbon management in complex project environments, enablement of decarbonised structural forms, and optimisation of requirements management processes. Julie leads an interdisciplinary teaching team to deliver a program of subjects that combines industry best practice in digital engineering project strategy and set up, information management, execution planning, and project coordination.

Brendan is an expert 3D building design modeler with over 20 years experience on a variety of projects in both the Architectural and MEP disciplines. Brendan has expert experience in multi-disciplined BIM collaboration involving the co-ordination between Architecture, MEP and Structures to communicate and deliver design solutions. He also has extensive experience in upskilling teams and individuals with digital transformation and implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM). This involves implementing BIM standards, procedures and training and promoting the appropriate use of BIM software for staff across different disciplines and multiple projects. His current role involves the delivery of Accredited (RTO) & custom training, consulting & project support services for BIM-MEPAUS utilising Autodesk Revit MEP, Fabrication & ACC throughout Australia & New Zealand.