Industry experts show how AI is helping to deliver better infrastructure projects at a webinar organised by Infrastructure Global in partnership with Autodesk.
AI is increasingly being used to deliver powerful insights in infrastructure projects and companies working in the sector need to get on board with new ways of working with technology. That was one of the key messages from an industry webinar on 11 March 2025 organised by Infrastructure Global in partnership with multinational software and services corporation Autodesk.
With the infrastructure sector leveraging AI across architecture, engineering, construction, and operations, this webinar offered a timely overview on how the use of AI technology is making a difference in the crucial infrastructure sector.
The speakers, all industry experts, gave attendees an excellent overview of the massive potential of generative AI to produce powerful insights in infrastructure projects. Guillaume Joubert, senior infrastructure strategy manager at Autodesk, Kevin O’Connor, vice president, xD Services at Parsons Corporation and Edmundo Herrera, senior territory solutions engineer at Autodesk, all spoke about how AI can improve design, operations, project management, environmental impact and decision-making processes in all areas of the infrastructure sector.
Guillaume Joubert explained how Autodesk AI was helping customers to stay ahead of industry demands and technological shifts by bolstering ambition, creativity and sustainability. Highlighting the company’s Automate, Analyse and Augment approach to the use of AI, Joubert demonstrated some amazing applications on screen during the webinar, showing how these were making a significant difference to the way that infrastructure projects were being delivered and run. He also outlined Autodesk’s vision and plans for AI and what this all means for their customers.
Kevin O’Connor from Parsons Corporation gave an illuminating and practical presentation which really got behind and ahead of the jargon and demystified AI, explaining how it can be put to real project use in a practical sense. Applying his many years of experience and involvement in the key design aspects of several major transportation design projects around the world, O’Connor gave webinar attendees some key insights in how AI could really make a difference to projects if applied in the right way.
Autodesk’s Edmundo Herrera demonstrated in real time how powerful AI was in analysing project documents and processes in a way that minimises the time taken on previously laborious tasks with pinpoint accuracy. Herrera was clearly an enthusiastic advocate of the use of AI on infrastructure projects and this shone through during his presentation at the event.
The webinar also highlighted how AI-powered analytics could seamlessly connect to cloud-based platforms, integrating workflows, teams and data across the entire project lifecycle through powerful APIs, transforming how infrastructure audits and compliance checks are managed in large projects.
It was clear from the speakers’ contributions and the questions raised during the Q&A part of the webinar that there is great interest in AI and how it is being used today on infrastructure engineering projects to help them run more efficiently, effectively and safely.
You can watch the webinar, How to use generative artificial intelligence today to generate powerful insights in infrastructure engineering projects, at https://youtu.be/TemnHrzFeSU
