About Megan

Hilti is where innovation is improving productivity, safety and sustainability in the global construction industry, and beyond. Megan Berry began her career at Hilti in 2019 as a Building Construction Account Manager for Middlesex and Worcester County. Focused on building high level, long term relationships with General Contractors across her territory, to improve their workflow and implement sustainable and profitable solutions. She is currently the Digital Construction Consultant for New England, where she has full responsibility for sales development of Hilti’s relevant BIM to Field Portfolio of solutions which include advanced layout, high end detection, robotics and relevant software & services. She enjoys supporting her sales force by conducting product demonstrations, trainings and meeting customers’ needs and expectations to encourage workflow change.

About Lindsey

Lindsey Peterson Black is an Associate with the Construction & Public Contracts Group of Hinckley Allen. Black’s practice focuses on all aspects of the construction industry. She has represented general contractors, construction managers, subcontractors, project owners, and suppliers in a wide range of construction-related matters. Black routinely advises clients on contract drafting and negotiation, payment issues, liens, construction and design defect claims, delay claims, litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution. She counsels clients on best practices for avoiding litigation and minimizing risk and represents clients in federal and state court, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.

About Lynne

Lynne Cooper is Founder of el sea llc (a Project Lifecycle Consulting Group), Co-Founder of Weldchain LLC (a digital quality and verifiable credentialling application for hygienic welding in the field), is on the team at Hanbury Architects (a leader in science and technology architecture) and is an advisor to DigiBuild Software (a supply chain procurement solution founded before COVID). After beginning her career in Richmond, Virginia she was asked to join a team working for a general contracting company in Maryland and now has worked as an Owner’s Representative since then serving nationwide from Washington State to Massachusetts to Florida. Cooper is an advocate for workforce development, construction technology and change management strategy. She focuses on supporting owners in the life sciences space only for the past 15+ years and enjoys connecting people who might be able to synergize to create even more innovation and collaboration.

About Nirva

Nirva Fereshetian is Chief Information officer at CBT Architects, a Boston based design firm providing services nationally and internationally in architecture, interior design, and urban design. She is responsible for aligning business technology strategy to meet primary business objectives. Fereshetian specializes in leading and managing technology solutions in creative design environments, technology adoption and change management, plus Results driven Information Systems Executive delivering Practice Services (BIM, AR, VR, Automation), Knowledge Services (BIM, Collaboration, Corporate Knowledge) and IT Services (Infrastructure Management, Vendor Relations and Application Deployment). She is a board member of WITI (Women in Technology International) Boston Chapter and a member of SIM (Society for Information Management).

About Kayleigh

Kayleigh Houde is the global Computational Community Leader for Buro Happold, where she leads their open source code development project, BHoM. With a background in engineering, she works at the intersection of transdisciplinary design, sustainability and computation. Houde is a founding member and co-chair of Carbon Leadership Forum’s MEP 2040 Challenge, an ASHRAE Building Decarbonization Task Force member, and teaches Parametric Life Cycle Assessment at the University of Pennsylvania.