we’re here today to talk about perpetual
movement especially in construction
industry because our industry is in
perpetual movements since you know the
dawn of humanity construction it’s a
synonym of mess especially in French and
we are here in this famous school when
we learn how to deal with construction
how to master complexity we learn to
master each project complexity and some
time almost as if each project was a
prototype and the problem with a
prototype is that is never girls in
production and we know we have a problem
with construction in India for example
by 2030 there will be two hundred
thousand two hundred million people
living in cities and now they only have
one-third of the asset the city’s
infrastructure energy infrastructure
they need for these people so if within
12 years they have to build houses they
receive up to third of the asset to be
built and today they still struggle with
low quality construction and sufficient
infrastructure and energy what can we do
about that
the first thing we have to look it it’s
not only a problem of developing
countries right it’s a problem humanity
is facing at a global level and actually
you can see these two curves it’s the
construction is in productivity of
construction is slowly growing it’s half
century for many reasons but it’s a case
and McKinsey is telling us and on the
same time you have the global population
the system that is growing really really
fast we are now 7.5 billion
we already struggle with construction
and will still be by 2015
ten billion dollars so how can we master
constriction to make sure we have a
decent home for everyone on earth so
this is our key challenge because as
humanity everywhere we go we build our
environment we need cities to live to
work to play infrastructure to connect
people and places and energy to build
and run our cities now we know
construction in Walton one of the latest
industries that have an succeed it is
digital transformation McKinsey told us
since a few years we are the latest in
digital industry just before hunting and
agriculture so what happened I mean we
construction industry invented project
management for being infrastructure
projects or what happened we think that
digital transformation technology will
be the answer right we love for
technology to help us reinvent
construction and have this magic leap
forward in productivity quality to help
us match those construction needs and
actually it’s it’s good it’s a good
point but it’s not the entire answer I’m
David vertical and I co-founded ten
years ago with the Jimmy Andrew
photoshot a company to help construction
industry reinvent itself and since
almost 10 years we are working with
thousands of project worldwide thousands
of people and they told us what is
needed to reinvent construction what
they told us and what I want to share
with you today is the change of the
construction industry’s will come from
people first and technology is second
maybe you’ve seen this video so this is
a robo from Stanley robotics and Atlas
and what you see it’s for me just
mind-blowing I mean a robot running in
the natural environment
it’s just crazy innovation and the thing
is is contraction
we can think of well what if I can
automate construction right what if I
can make difficult work done by robots
we were talking with a construction
worker in the field and well we were
asking him what kind of technology do
you require to change the way you work
every day and you know the answer as
simple as that I need an email I don’t
have one how many of you have an email
for studies or professional life raise
your hand yeah all of us and not in
construction you see in construction you
can have companies doing billions of
turnover having thousands of employees
and part of these employees doesn’t have
this patsak technology that enables
communication collaboration and even
belonging to a company so we’re here to
solve that and the second thing we learn
when we when we work in construction if
we were on earth in that you have 80% of
the construction workforce that works on
the field and the problem is all the
software ecosystems the technology is
built for offices right so how do we do
to bring technology to the field in
change of the construction industry will
come through the field we can’t just
ignore this population so there is good
news construction workers everywhere at
every level every kind of players in
these industries they love what they do
they’re keen to change and as we’ve been
lucky enough to work with thousands of
project worldwide people at every level
of company told us teach us what is
needed to successfully transform the
industry so you need three things
that’s simple a product great products
or few people to put people first and
not technology and third you need data
to
to enable collective intelligence so the
first thing is product as a product you
see paper this is one of the most modern
projects in a modern country in Asia so
a photo was shot one month ago
and what you see is basically tons of
paper what’s wrong how can we innovate
it’s time to move to digital so when you
need something digital the good news is
you have like yourself like you’ll be in
your internships and doing your jobs you
have digital native generation people
born with technology in their hands
people using technology every single day
and they teachers what is needed what
they need on a professional basis it’s a
mobile first solution not for a PC but
for a small device smartphones they have
in hand every day it has to be powerful
because they once they have a large
amount of data to into together with
them on the field they want it to be
flexible to follow their business
processes and environment and most of
all they want it to be super easy to use
why because on a daily basis they are
used to it
I mean we’re using Facebook Instagram
whatsapp which at this software is very
rich and super simple to use and this is
what’s needed for the industry so once I
have that you say okay it’s great we
have great technology we put people
first is good and we can win this
digital transformation and do this
magiclip in productivity I’ll tell you
you’re wrong we miss something we need
accompaniment because I am the first
resist to change the way I work every
day and we all resist to change it’s
like natural I have one personal
experience I want to share with you a
few years ago I was used to take photos
and videos with my smartphone and they
decided to innovate using technology so
I bought a camera super camera and
actually it was tuple
and some for me I have to enhance my
computer to be able to run the software
I have to build to buy an expensive
software a complicated one I have to
watch dozens of tutorials to learn how
to master it and I took it back to the
store and I kept to my smartphone and
the lesson I learned from that is it’s
easy to drop an opportunity of change if
you’re alone with technology right so if
you have technology you need to
accompany people to make them sure you
follow them until they fully embrace it
and they make it natural in the daily
work and once you have that you can
leverage the power of data because you
know today all that of construction is
available right it’s already existing
but where is it it stuck it’s the Excel
jungle you go on a project you collect
experience it’s in your thread sheets in
your printed papers the ton of people we
seen earlier and at the end it’s in
boxes in the Excel 5 until it’s lost in
the Excel jungle and no one can have a
clear vision of the expertise we build
project after project so this expertise
in somewhere but no one can seize it so
imagine the technology that can enables
this data collection this data gathering
so that we can master construction
knowledge and hello augmented
intelligence this would be a key also to
go way further in construction
this is what’s needed and this is the
key message I want to share with you put
people first and technologies second
Elon Musk himself said so few weeks ago
while trying to fix productivity issues
on Tesla factory he said I called
excessive automation was a mistake
humans are underrated so please don’t
underrate humans please their place name
first this is I mean the key
learning’s we have to take today is when
I want to innovate I want to start by
myself first and when I try to innovate
on my next project I don’t look for
technology first I look for how do I
make my team’s embrace technology my
teams and my partners to make sure
everyone is going to embrace it if you
don’t do it you’re going to select the
software and 5% of your team is going to
use it and your global productivity
won’t go very high may you may gain 20%
but you need 100% so how do we how do we
do that this is a kiefer of pauses now
it’s your turn it’s time to change the
way we build we start with ourselves
never settle this is a perpetual
movement we want to see in the world to
build for the entire humanity it’s your
time to be a change to come thank you [Applause]
movement especially in construction
industry because our industry is in
perpetual movements since you know the
dawn of humanity construction it’s a
synonym of mess especially in French and
we are here in this famous school when
we learn how to deal with construction
how to master complexity we learn to
master each project complexity and some
time almost as if each project was a
prototype and the problem with a
prototype is that is never girls in
production and we know we have a problem
with construction in India for example
by 2030 there will be two hundred
thousand two hundred million people
living in cities and now they only have
one-third of the asset the city’s
infrastructure energy infrastructure
they need for these people so if within
12 years they have to build houses they
receive up to third of the asset to be
built and today they still struggle with
low quality construction and sufficient
infrastructure and energy what can we do
about that
the first thing we have to look it it’s
not only a problem of developing
countries right it’s a problem humanity
is facing at a global level and actually
you can see these two curves it’s the
construction is in productivity of
construction is slowly growing it’s half
century for many reasons but it’s a case
and McKinsey is telling us and on the
same time you have the global population
the system that is growing really really
fast we are now 7.5 billion
we already struggle with construction
and will still be by 2015
ten billion dollars so how can we master
constriction to make sure we have a
decent home for everyone on earth so
this is our key challenge because as
humanity everywhere we go we build our
environment we need cities to live to
work to play infrastructure to connect
people and places and energy to build
and run our cities now we know
construction in Walton one of the latest
industries that have an succeed it is
digital transformation McKinsey told us
since a few years we are the latest in
digital industry just before hunting and
agriculture so what happened I mean we
construction industry invented project
management for being infrastructure
projects or what happened we think that
digital transformation technology will
be the answer right we love for
technology to help us reinvent
construction and have this magic leap
forward in productivity quality to help
us match those construction needs and
actually it’s it’s good it’s a good
point but it’s not the entire answer I’m
David vertical and I co-founded ten
years ago with the Jimmy Andrew
photoshot a company to help construction
industry reinvent itself and since
almost 10 years we are working with
thousands of project worldwide thousands
of people and they told us what is
needed to reinvent construction what
they told us and what I want to share
with you today is the change of the
construction industry’s will come from
people first and technology is second
maybe you’ve seen this video so this is
a robo from Stanley robotics and Atlas
and what you see it’s for me just
mind-blowing I mean a robot running in
the natural environment
it’s just crazy innovation and the thing
is is contraction
we can think of well what if I can
automate construction right what if I
can make difficult work done by robots
we were talking with a construction
worker in the field and well we were
asking him what kind of technology do
you require to change the way you work
every day and you know the answer as
simple as that I need an email I don’t
have one how many of you have an email
for studies or professional life raise
your hand yeah all of us and not in
construction you see in construction you
can have companies doing billions of
turnover having thousands of employees
and part of these employees doesn’t have
this patsak technology that enables
communication collaboration and even
belonging to a company so we’re here to
solve that and the second thing we learn
when we when we work in construction if
we were on earth in that you have 80% of
the construction workforce that works on
the field and the problem is all the
software ecosystems the technology is
built for offices right so how do we do
to bring technology to the field in
change of the construction industry will
come through the field we can’t just
ignore this population so there is good
news construction workers everywhere at
every level every kind of players in
these industries they love what they do
they’re keen to change and as we’ve been
lucky enough to work with thousands of
project worldwide people at every level
of company told us teach us what is
needed to successfully transform the
industry so you need three things
that’s simple a product great products
or few people to put people first and
not technology and third you need data
to
to enable collective intelligence so the
first thing is product as a product you
see paper this is one of the most modern
projects in a modern country in Asia so
a photo was shot one month ago
and what you see is basically tons of
paper what’s wrong how can we innovate
it’s time to move to digital so when you
need something digital the good news is
you have like yourself like you’ll be in
your internships and doing your jobs you
have digital native generation people
born with technology in their hands
people using technology every single day
and they teachers what is needed what
they need on a professional basis it’s a
mobile first solution not for a PC but
for a small device smartphones they have
in hand every day it has to be powerful
because they once they have a large
amount of data to into together with
them on the field they want it to be
flexible to follow their business
processes and environment and most of
all they want it to be super easy to use
why because on a daily basis they are
used to it
I mean we’re using Facebook Instagram
whatsapp which at this software is very
rich and super simple to use and this is
what’s needed for the industry so once I
have that you say okay it’s great we
have great technology we put people
first is good and we can win this
digital transformation and do this
magiclip in productivity I’ll tell you
you’re wrong we miss something we need
accompaniment because I am the first
resist to change the way I work every
day and we all resist to change it’s
like natural I have one personal
experience I want to share with you a
few years ago I was used to take photos
and videos with my smartphone and they
decided to innovate using technology so
I bought a camera super camera and
actually it was tuple
and some for me I have to enhance my
computer to be able to run the software
I have to build to buy an expensive
software a complicated one I have to
watch dozens of tutorials to learn how
to master it and I took it back to the
store and I kept to my smartphone and
the lesson I learned from that is it’s
easy to drop an opportunity of change if
you’re alone with technology right so if
you have technology you need to
accompany people to make them sure you
follow them until they fully embrace it
and they make it natural in the daily
work and once you have that you can
leverage the power of data because you
know today all that of construction is
available right it’s already existing
but where is it it stuck it’s the Excel
jungle you go on a project you collect
experience it’s in your thread sheets in
your printed papers the ton of people we
seen earlier and at the end it’s in
boxes in the Excel 5 until it’s lost in
the Excel jungle and no one can have a
clear vision of the expertise we build
project after project so this expertise
in somewhere but no one can seize it so
imagine the technology that can enables
this data collection this data gathering
so that we can master construction
knowledge and hello augmented
intelligence this would be a key also to
go way further in construction
this is what’s needed and this is the
key message I want to share with you put
people first and technologies second
Elon Musk himself said so few weeks ago
while trying to fix productivity issues
on Tesla factory he said I called
excessive automation was a mistake
humans are underrated so please don’t
underrate humans please their place name
first this is I mean the key
learning’s we have to take today is when
I want to innovate I want to start by
myself first and when I try to innovate
on my next project I don’t look for
technology first I look for how do I
make my team’s embrace technology my
teams and my partners to make sure
everyone is going to embrace it if you
don’t do it you’re going to select the
software and 5% of your team is going to
use it and your global productivity
won’t go very high may you may gain 20%
but you need 100% so how do we how do we
do that this is a kiefer of pauses now
it’s your turn it’s time to change the
way we build we start with ourselves
never settle this is a perpetual
movement we want to see in the world to
build for the entire humanity it’s your
time to be a change to come thank you [Applause]
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