UPDATE: AI Day just got even bigger! While the stream will still start at 4 PM BST, doors for the live event will now open at 2:30 PM BST to enable attendees to attend our pre-keynote sessions! Plus we'll be helping delegates stay cool with advanced aircon and an ice cream cart which will be serving from 2:30-4 PM! Read on for more...

AI Day is nPlan's twice-yearly showcase of the products and innovations we've been building – and it's been the launchpad for technologies that have changed the way big things get built, including Barry (our project controls and delivery agent) and Schedule Studio (our tool for generating detailed schedules from scope descriptions and project documentation).

This edition's theme: Construction Superintelligence

The bar for "AI in project controls" right now is on the floor. The industry is being sold tools that calculate total float and call it intelligence. Tools that read a schedule and announce that the critical path is critical. Tools that summarise a weekly report into a slightly shorter weekly report. None of that is intelligence. None of it changes how a project actually gets delivered.

Construction Superintelligence is something different. It's AI that reasons about your project end-to-end – supply chain, design, sequence, cost and risk, all at once, grounded in the specifics of your build – and intelligently guides project teams through the decisions that actually move the needle. The ones a great superintendent works out at 11pm on a Tuesday from twenty years of having seen this movie before.

Get it right, and the prize is enormous: better capital allocation, faster delivery, projects that learn and adapt as they run. That's what we're building towards, and that's what you'll see at AI Day.

The pre-keynote sessions

For the first time ever we'll have a little pre-keynote action at AI Day. Attendees will be able to meet and chat with the Controls and Skills Authority (CaSA) and the rest of the Project Connect Group sponsors and/or attend a more intimate demo of nPlan's tech with our very own Rhys Phillips - all from 3 PM. All while cooling down with an ice cream from our specially hired cart. It's all in Arch 1 - where you'll also find the registration desk.

The keynote: our biggest product moment of the year

Updates across Portfolio, Insights, Schedule Studio, Barry, and our underlying models – plus the formal launch of something we've been building for a while and haven't talked about publicly yet: the nPlan Decision Intelligence Platform.

Demo feature project: Vantage Data Centers' Lighthouse Campus

At every AI Day, we choose a real-world project to bring our demos to life. This time it's Vantage Data Centers' Lighthouse campus - a 672-acre AI data centre campus in Port Washington, Wisconsin, delivering 902 MW of capacity across four buildings for Oracle and OpenAI, with a 2028 completion target. A $15 billion investment and a cornerstone of the Stargate initiative, Lighthouse is one of the most consequential infrastructure projects underway anywhere in the world right now. We'll be building out a schedule for Lighthouse live in Schedule Studio, then running it through Insights Pro to forecast the project and identify the most consequential risks - before showing how Decision Intelligence helps surface and navigate the critical decisions that determine whether a programme of this scale stays on track.

Fireside chat: powering the AI revolution

We're delighted to confirm Peter Hancock, Project Director at National Grid, as our fireside chat guest. Peter is delivering the Didcot substation upgrade – set to be the largest substation in the UK when it completes in 2029, and a critical piece of national infrastructure for the AI era. Sitting on the site of the former Didcot A coal power station and just two miles from the UK's first AI Growth Zone at Culham, the project will connect new data centres and 650MW of battery storage to the transmission network – completing a "coal to clean" transition on a site that once powered the country very differently. With National Grid expecting to connect up to 19GW of new demand by 2031 – half of it from data centres – Peter is at the sharp end of the build-out that makes hyperscale AI in the UK physically possible. Expect a candid conversation on delivery, risk, and what it takes to build the backbone of the AI era.

And in a change to the scheduled programme, Peter will be joined on-stage by Sara Roque Loureiro, member of the Operations, Industrial Goods and Climate & Sustainability Practices and a Partner at Boston Consulting Group. Sara focuses on capital project management excellence across different industries and has extensive experience of supporting capital projects in the UK.

Afterparty

Project Connect Group will be hosting drinks, food and networking at Kachette once the main event wraps. And for the football faithful: Ecuador vs Germany (World Cup Group E) will be part of the evening's entertainment from 9 PM.

February's AI Day sold out with standing room only – 150 in the room, 300 joining online. In-person spots will go fast. Register now, whether you're joining at Kachette or tuning in from anywhere.

Reserve your spot – and mark your calendar – today to avoid disappointment.