Navigating Risk in Construction Contracts & Projects

In this complimentary pre-conference webinar, 2024 Conference Co-Chair Graham Brown interviews two professionals on the lesser known but expanding ways that AI and technology are improving the construction industry. In this engaging discussion, the benefits and opportunities are explored, from streamlining construction, cost savings, improving the labour shortage, and more!

This primer into the benefits of AI will later be contrasted in the main conference session on the risks of AI’s productivity promise. Construction professionals and their counsel cannot afford to miss either.

Speaker Biographies:

GRAHAM BROWN is a partner, and a member of the Construction and Infrastructure group, at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. Graham represents clients from across the construction industry, including public and private owners, developers, general contractors, construction managers, subtrades, suppliers, and consultants. He offers particular expertise in advising clients on contract disputes, procurement issues, lien claims, breach of trust claims, delay claims, and P3 disputes. In addition to his litigation practice, Graham provides advice to construction industry participants on project strategy, procurement and tendering processes, contract drafting, and Competition Act compliance. Graham is ranked in Chambers Canada, and has been named an Acritas Star Lawyer.

GUILLAUME HERVÉ is the CEO and co-founder of Zetane Systems, a deep-tech scale up in the field of artificial intelligence focused on delivering explainable, trusted and robust deployed AI solutions and tools deployed in complex industrial applications. Mr. Hervé is also Chairman of the Board of CTS Health, one of Canada’s most active accelerators for health technologies in Canada. He has been a mentor with tech start-ups at leading Canadian accelerators such as Founder Fuel, TechStars, District 3, CTS Santé, and the Business Families Foundation. He is also the author of the highly praised book on corporate innovation, “Winning at Intrapreneurship – 12 Labours to Overcome Corporate Culture and Achieve Startup Success.” Previously, Mr. Hervé was the founder and CEO of CAE Healthcare, which leveraged simulation, haptics and virtual reality technologies and best practices in aviation simulation to offer surgical simulators, integrated simulation-based training solutions, and patient simulators to organizations worldwide. He was also President & CEO of Presagis, specializing in delivering high fidelity, physics-based simulation and graphics software to defense and aeronautics organizations worldwide. Prior to this, he was Vice President in CAE Inc.’s core global Commercial Aviation Training business. He also launched G3point0 Consulting offering consulting services for the definition and implementation of high impact business growth strategies. Prior to CAE, Mr. Hervé was an officer in the Canadian Air Force. He completed an M.Sc. degree in business from the State University of New York, a Bachelor of Engineering in aerospace from the Royal Military College of Canada, and an advanced degree in Program Management from the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Studies. Guillaume Hervé has been keynote speaker at many innovation, AI, intrapreneurship, healthcare and aerospace conferences and a guest lecturer at several Canadian universities.

CHARLES RATHMANN serves as Senior Editor, Construction Technology, IRONPROS. He joined IRONMARKETS in December 2019 as Technology Editor of ForConstructionPros. He has spent a career in the construction, engineering, journalism and technology marketing trenches and uses hard news sense, primary research and classical marketing thinking to help contractors understand and build a business case for investments in business and production technologies.