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Overview

The panel discussion is about the Project of the Future session and Intelligent Production. Intelligent Production is a system that is able to self-organize and self-optimize. It builds on the capabilities of IoT sensors and wireless networks to collect data and quickly optimize the production system, controlling it without the need for manual decision-making. The panelists discuss the blend between mechanical engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, and construction and how it’s going to change the traditional trade contractors’ job. The project of the future looks like having a better understanding and transparency of the process of construction from start to end, making decisions based on data and facts, and not on feel.

Speakers

Roberto J. Arbulu
Strategic Project Solutions, Inc.

Roberto Arbulu is Senior Vice President of Technical Services for Strategic Project Solutions. He has more than twenty years of experience in the delivery and optimization of energy, industrial, technology, and infrastructure capital projects and has worked with numerous owner operators and service providers across North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. He is the author of technical publications in journals and conference proceedings that focus on project production system optimization, control, and project supply chains including the application of methods such as Project Production Management and Virtual Design & Construction (VDC).

For many years, Roberto has participated as a VDC instructor and technical advisor at Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facility Engineering. He is a member of the Gulf Downstream Association (GDA)’s Project Management Technical Committee and also supports Project Production Institute (PPI) as an Instructor for professional certification programs.

Roberto earned a Civil Engineering Degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has a Master of Engineering Degree in Construction Engineering & Management and a Certificate in Management of Technology from the University of California, Berkeley.

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