Q&A HIGHLIGHT: Victor Dominello is a former senior NSW Government minister, best  known for serving as the inaugural Minister for Customer Service and  Digital, a role he pioneered globally in 2019. Recognised by The  Australian in July 2022 as one of Australia’s top 100 innovators,  Victor spent 12 years in cabinet leading portfolios including Digital  Government, Innovation, Finance, and Aboriginal Affairs. His  leadership earned international acclaim for revolutionising NSW  public service delivery through initiatives like the Department of  Customer Service, Service NSW, and the Digital Restart Fund. 

Prior to his political career, Victor practiced law for over a decade,  becoming a partner in a commercial firm. In September 2023, he cofounded ServiceGen, a consultancy advising governments and  organisations on innovative service delivery strategies. Through  ServiceGen, he was selected by The World Bank to spearhead a  transformative digital identity initiative in Mongolia. In February 2025,  he launched the Future Government Institute, a global hub for  forward-thinking public sector leaders, innovators, and practitioners  dedicated to shaping the next era of governance. 

In March 2025, Victor was named one of The Identity 25 by Okta  Ventures, recognising global pioneers shaping the future of digital  identity. As part of the announcement, Victor’s image was featured  on the Nasdaq Tower in New York’s Times Square—a celebration of  his contribution to secure, citizen-focused identity innovation. 

Victor currently holds several prominent roles: Chair of the Services  Australia Independent Advisory Board, Senior Advisor for the Tony  Blair Institute for Global Change, and Professor at the University of  New South Wales. He also serves as a Director of the UNSW-UTS  Trustworthy Digital Society Hub and a Board Director of the Tech  Council of Australia

Gavin has 20 years of experience in civil and structural infrastructure delivery. Gavin has been developing openBIM systems and documentation for road and rail infrastructure since his involvement in TMR’s first BIM pilot in 2014. Gavin is extremely passionate about leveraging openBIM workflows into TMR’s business procedures to meet their client specific Project Information Requirements. Gavin is a lead contributor to openBIM standards for transport infrastructure as part of buildingSMART Australasia’s IFC working groups.

Andrew is Chair of the Australasian BIM Advisory Board (ABAB) an industry and government representative board across Australia and New Zealand. He has extensive policy development experience in BIM and asset management. He recognises the value that digitalisation can contribute in all elements of the design, construction and operations and maintenance phases of infrastructure. He believes it is clear that digitalisation can help significantly in the decarbonisation challenge that government and industry face. 

Atsushi is a strategy and policy executive with Infrastructure NSW, currently leading the implementation of the NSW Infrastructure Digitalisation Program. Prior to this, he led the development of the NSW State Infrastructure Strategy 2022-2042 as Project Director. Atsushi has a passion for working with cross-functional teams to drive sustained and genuine transformation. 

Karl Fitzpatrick is the Spatial Information Manager for Auckland Airport in New Zealand and is tasked with reimagining how built environment data can be utilized in a business that isn’t your typical AEC firm. Having previously studied Architecture in New Zealand and working as an Architect on healthcare projects in Finland, Karl has experience working on both sides of large-scale and complex projects. Karl is passionate about the need for OpenBIM and fostering innovation by not dictating what tools the supply chain must use, but rather, setting clear requirements for data delivery.

Troy has over 25 years of experience in the architectural sector, delivering projects throughout Australia and Southeast Asia, including public and large-scale developments in landmark New South Wales locations.

His design methodology emphasises translating conceptual frameworks into coherent, project-specific narratives. He applies a similar philosophy to technology adoption, advocating for solutions that are accessible and practical for widespread industry use.

At Vectorworks, Troy focuses on developing and promoting intuitive, workflow-oriented software solutions that bridge the gap between advanced digital tools and established design practice, enhancing efficiency and collaboration across project teams.

A Senior Structural Drafter at BG&E. 

Developer of BG&E's current workflow for bridge design, drafting, and the data requirements.

Advocate for the utilisation of a software agnostic approach to engineering and design.

After completing a Bachelor or Architecture at the University of Sydney Scott has over 35 years of experience practicing in Architecture and 28 years in CAD-BIM teaching at university and technical colleges. For the past 6 years, as well as his university commitments Scott has worked as a digital technology manager for a leading quantity surveyor helping with validation of models for quantification to derive costs.

An active member of buildingSMART Australasia for many years and a partner of the working group that drove the development of the current National BIM Initiative, Jim has had a career-long interest in BIM. Starting with a Research Masters during the late 1970s that demonstrated the concept of 3D building modeling technology, Jim’s research in the area saw him offered an academic post at UNSW from 1981-2012. Whilst retired from university teaching, Jim remains an active member of the industry as a current member of the Australian Standards Mirror Committee appointed to a number of ISO Working Groups delivering continual improvement on BIM standards, and the buildingSMART International Infrastructure Committee currently focused on coordinating new work to extend the IFC data schema into the infrastructure space. Jim’s BIM vision is to engage the industry in greater and more effective use of BIM across both public and private procurement in Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Lee Gregory is the CEO at 12D Solutions. He has been involved with IFCs since working on a joint project in 2005 between Queensland Transport and Main Roads and Queensland Project Services, tasked with looking at applying IFC’s to infrastructure work. Since then, he's been committed to extending IFCs to cover Civil Infrastructure (Civil/ Horizontal BIM). He's attended the buildingSMART International biannual IFC Summits since Singapore in October 2015 (except Barcelona), and in particular, has been active in the Infrastructure Room where the IFCs for Civil BIM are being defined. In this capacity, he was one of the authors of the buildingSMART International paper Model Setup Information Delivery Manual “How to Setup Geo-referencing in a Building or Linear Infrastructure Model”, and has given talks in Australia on this subject.

Lee has been an active member of the IFC Software Implementers Group starting in 2017 with IFC Alignment and IFC Triangulated Irregular Network in IFC 4.1 (in a project with TMR), and continues to this day with IFC 4.3 (currently at RC stage), which will be the first IFC Civil BIM. During this time, he's a founding and active member of Open BIM Alliance, a non-profit Australian organisation dedicated to showing that BIM can work, particularly for transferring data between different software packages. Although BIM and IFCs are well established in the Vertical Building space, there has been a lack of entities, and hence, very little take up for linear infrastructure. Lee is passionate about ensuring that IFC 4.3 is approved and released, and working to ensure that it is taken up by the Civil Industry in Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Julie Jupp is Associate Professor of Digital Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in the Faculty of Engineering and IT. Julie’s research, teaching and professional interests lie in the creation of a smart, resilient and sustainable built environment.

As an interdisciplinary academic, Julie works in the cross-cutting fields of digital engineering that link model-based design and construction with intelligent operations and maintenance, resulting in smart built environments. Research impacts originate from innovative contributions to the theory and praxis of sustainability, with the goal being to advance data-driven processes, and inform the policy and practice of smart property development, construction and operations. As the co-founder and Director of Research for the not-for-profit International Intelligent Building Organisation (IIBO), Julie aims to make a difference and help industry push the frontiers of digital building capabilities. In this role Julie is leading the development of the Intelligent Building (IB) Index, a multi-criteria performance assessment method for measuring the intelligence of smart buildings and precincts. Julie is also an active member of a number of academic and industry committees, including the Technical Education Committee in the Australasian BIM Advisory Board (ABAB), a core member of the BIM Excellence (BIMe) Initiative, SYDBIM Consortium, and Intl. Federation for Information Processing’s PLM Working Group (WG 5.1). In the Faculty of Engineering and IT, Julie is teaching studio-based and industry-engaged courses on Digital Engineering and BIM, including under- and postgraduate subjects in 3D modelling, model-based co-ordination, 4D construction scheduling and simulation, and BIM management. Julie has published in the fields of design science, engineering design, BIM, through-life knowledge and information management, multidisciplinary design optimisation, and artificial intelligence.

Eric has been at the forefront in the application of technology to improve efficiency. His early engineering career was in the development of leading edge automation of manufacturing processes, applying technology to improve quality and speed of manufacturing processes. He was also an early adopter of 3D design and BIM (Building Information Modelling). Following this, Eric worked with a start-up company to transition out of R&D into large scale manufacturing. In the last ten years Eric has transitioned his skills from Manufacturing and applied this knowledge to transport infrastructure engineering and construction. Eric has a passion for technology and driving industry change. Working on the implementation and standardisation of Digital Engineering in Infrastructure, he is currently EIC’s Principal for Digital Integration and Capability supporting the CIMIC Operating companies which include: CPB Contractors, UGL, Leighton Asia, Thiess, Sedgman and Broad.

We are excited to confirm that Jaan Saar the former CEO of buildingSMART International and former Chair of the EU BIM Task Group will be a keynote speaker at XChange.

This is a great opportunity to hear from Jaan about his perspectives on the future of openBIM.

Jaan has been instrumental in working with governments to introduce digital processes such as BIM and Digital twin technologies. Jaan introduced the 'e-construction' platform in Estonia including the introduction of BIM-Based building permits. This will be a great opportunity to hear about how openBIM is being used around the world.

Dion has more than 15 years of experience working in open source software and software development. In the past he has been involved with the following open source software projects: Blender, KDE, Gentoo Linux, Radiance, OpenStreetMaps, OpenStreetCam, and FreeCAD. 

He has a M. Arch and has worked in large architectural and construction firms.  Since August 2019, Dion has had the opportunity to develop the BlenderBIM Add-on. The objective of the BlenderBIM Add-on project is to provide a complete, Native IFC, free software pipeline to replace proprietary software in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management industries.  Dion is also one of the founders of the Open Source Architecture (OSArch) community. This active community, with more than 1000 members, has a forum, chat group, wiki knowledge base, news site, monthly presentations and training resources, to support an ecosystem of 100+ open source software developed for the AECO industries.

Bonnie is an accomplished and passionate supply chain and eBusiness professional with over 25 years’ experience working with many top 200 companies in different industry sectors including retail, manufacturing, and transport.

Her knowledge and expertise regarding supply chain digitalization underpins her current responsibilities for leading GS1 Australia’s engagement across a broad sector portfolio to enhance the digital capability of industry through the adoption of global data standards.

Bonnie works with key public and private stakeholders to facilitate whole of industry initiatives where common benefits can be derived through effective collaboration.  She is an active participant on several domestic and global committees and working groups striving to innovate, through relevant technology approaches to bring positive business and economic outcomes. 

Bonnie holds a Master of Business Management from Monash University.

Through her combined Project Management, Client Side and Construction experience, Kimberley possesses a keen appreciation of the processes and behind-the-scenes issues affecting major capital works projects. Her construction, planning and leadership of teams, have allowed Kimberley to excel in her management of complex projects. Working primarily on social infrastructure projects over her 25 year career, Kimberley has increased her knowledge of these complex projects, mainly in live operational environments.  

Joining Mott MacDonald as Technical Director in 2022, Kimberley is the Project Management and Major Projects Lead for the Melbourne office managing a Project Management team to deliver successful outcomes for our clients.  

Kimberley joined the VTDE team as the Collaboration Lead in 2023 to assist DTP and VIDA realise their vision of transforming the way large Victorian Infrastructure and Transport Projects managed their project data through the use of Digital Engineering tools, standards, processes and requirements.

After 2 decades in the construction industry in Germany where she was at the forefront of early 3D project initiatives, she transitioned to the transport sector leading on client-side the BIM and Asset Information delivery of the Doha Metro project. She has also been involved in major global transport projects like the UK's High-Speed Rail and the Sydney Metro West and Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport projects in Australia. As a female with a leading position in a traditionally male-dominated field, Sandra brings diversity and fresh insights to the Board.

With over 30 years of experience in digital transformation, Sandra’s professional journey has been deeply rooted in the international construction and transport industries. She holds a master's degree in Global BIM Management with a specialized focus on openBIM implementation. Currently leading the Digital Engineering team for SYSTRA ANZ, she is also an integral part of SYSTRA's corporate Digital Engineering team, leading their Digital Twin innovation stream.

Jenny is a distinguished Enterprise Digital Advisor leading Data Management for the Landgate Spatial WA Digital Twin Program. With over two decades of experience in design and construction within both public and private sectors, she has demonstrated exceptional expertise in transport infrastructure, health, building, and aviation projects. Jenny has held pivotal roles at Sydney Metro and the Victorian Suburban Rail Loop Authority, where she has guided government agencies in digital engineering frameworks, digital twin implementation, project delivery, asset management, and data governance.

As a Subject Matter Expert for Transport for NSW and the Victorian Digital Asset Strategy (VDAS), Jenny has significantly contributed to the digital transformation strategies. Her involvement with Standards Australia has been instrumental in the development of the ISO 19650 document suite. Additionally, Jenny serves as a Board Director for Women in BIM (WIB) Asia-Pacific and is an Honorary Industry Fellow at UTS, where she leads the development and lecturing of the Digital Engineering micro-credential curriculum.

Jon brings technical and practical openBIM experience to the buildingSMART Australasia Board, that helps facilitate a stronger awareness and successful adoption of openBIM for clients and projects in Australia. In 2018 Jon supported the buildingSMART Australasia board with organisation and execution of the “openBIM: Getting It Right” technical workshops.

Jon has a proven track record in achieving practical outcomes using openBIM standards and technologies. He has opensourced his C# IFC toolkit for reading and writing IFC files (view on GitHub) and taken a leading role on prototyping technologies such as ifcjson and applying version control such as git to an ifc repository. He is a member of the Building Smart International Model Support Group, providing sample files for the technical documentation and testing proposals for IFC improvements.

John Mitchell trained as an Architect, specialised in hospital design, and focussed over his career on the adoption of digital modelling. John has over 35 years experience in openBIM: he was the founding chairman of buildingSMART Australasia, and has been engaged in a wide group of Australasian and international industry, government and academic organisations practising, advocating and teaching openBIM. 

John was the leader of the BSi Model Setup IDM work - an extension of the IFC openBIM standard enabling BIM and GIS models to be geo-referenced, with cadastre playing a key role as the foundation for precinct models comprising building and infrastructure built assets. Recent work has been working with a small team to develop an IDS for BASIX and improved methods of BASIX submission.

Holger de Groot is the CEO and Founding Director of Modmation, having more than 20 years of experience within the AEC industry. As a certified BIM Manager, he has accrued invaluable experience in (building) information management and digital project delivery in Australasia and Europe.

Holger is also the Vice Chairperson at buildingSMART Australasia, registered with the German Chamber of Architects of Lower Saxony (#020262), associate member of the Australian Institute of Architects (#69913) and a sought-after author and regular speaker at high level industry conferences.

Before Holger founded Modmation in 2020, he has led the BIM implementation while employed at HDR as their National Director of BIM for the Australian region, and at Grimshaw Architects as their Office BIM Manager for the Sydney studio, advising on BIM matters at all levels.

Today, Holger’s professional experience in digital project delivery and his technical competence and comprehensive knowledge of BIM allow him to provide advice, support, guidance and resources to clients who need strong information management capabilities.

Aaron is a highly experienced Enterprise Solutions Consultant with over 18 years of global experience across diverse sectors. He specialises in the strategy, design, and implementation of enterprise technology solutions, supporting organisations in planning future infrastructure and delivering operational digital ecosystems. A key area of his expertise is assisting projects, clients, and organisations in planning and achieving their Digital Twin applications, enabling real-time, data-driven insights to enhance decision-making and operational performance.

Aaron’s work focuses on aligning digital strategies with organisational objectives, bridging the gap between innovation and practical delivery. He has successfully guided numerous organisations through the adoption of transformative technologies, ensuring seamless integration of solutions that drive scalability, efficiency, and long-term value. With a strong track record of delivering tailored and future-ready digital frameworks, Aaron remains a trusted leader in helping organisations harness technology to unlock their full potential in an increasingly digital world.

Brendon has over 30 years of experience as an Architectural Technologist, BIM Manager, and Digital Delivery & Technology Consultant across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. He is passionate about driving innovation and process improvement, having led numerous digital strategies that significantly enhanced project outcomes. Constantly challenging the value of digital transformation, he embraces the philosophy of “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”

Proficient in various BIM authoring tools, data-checking software, and CDE platforms, Brendon is always exploring new ways to optimise and innovate within the industry. He is a strong advocate for openBIM, education and community building, regularly sharing his knowledge through teaching and fostering collaboration.