AI and the Future of Architecture & Engineering

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping how architecture and engineering firms design and deliver the built environment. While the journey began with automated analysis and generative design, the field is rapidly expanding into AI agents, industry-scale platforms, and robotics. These tools do more than automate tasks. They accelerate iteration and bridge the long-standing gaps between design, engineering, and construction.

This session takes a wide-angle view of how AI is transforming the industry. We will look at it not as a single tool or trend, but as a fundamental shift in how work gets done. We will explore how emerging technologies are changing workflows, roles, and expectations across the profession, and what these changes mean for the future of firms, projects, and the people who shape the built environment.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the major categories of AI reshaping the built environment, from generative design and analysis to agents, platforms, and robotics.
• Understand the different ways AI is being applied across design, engineering, and delivery.
• Describe how AI is becoming a connective systems layer across architecture, engineering, and construction.
• Understand how connected AI workflows can be applied to improve team well-being, optimize workloads, and drive firm-wide profitability.

John Meyer

CEO

Mosaic

John Meyer

John Meyer is the founder of Mosaic, AI-powered project planning and resource management software. Mosaic is the fastest and easiest way to manage who’s working on what, understand backlog and manage headcount. Mosaic was originally built to automate the work he was doing while managing the firm he founded, EDG. At EDG he oversaw architecture & engineering for hundreds of new buildings, renovations, and restoration projects. EDG has made the Inc. 5000 now seven times, during the time using Mosaic. The impact of Mosaic on EDG inspired him to bring Mosaic to the industry.

Jacob Nikolau

Director of Marketing

Mosaic

Jacob Nikolau

Jacob Nikolau is the Director of Marketing at Mosaic, where he leads market research and analysis for the only AI-native resource management platform. He’s led strategic marketing at various technology companies, previously serving as Head of Product Marketing at NovoEd. Jacob is a frequent speaker on workforce transformation and AI driven organizational performance, and his work has been published and cited by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and other leading business outlets. You can find his latest writing on the Mosaic blog.