Smart Cities and The Metaverse with Paul Doherty

Paul Doherty, IFMA Fellow, DFC Senior Fellow , has been published by Forbes as “Changing the World.” Seen on Bloomberg TV and reported by CNBC as one of America’s Business Titans, Paul is a Registered Architect and one of the global Industry’s most sought after thought leaders, strategists and integrators of process, technology & business. Paul is the Founder & CEO of the digit group, inc. (TDG), a leading Smart Cities design, build, operate and solutions company, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

He is an author, educator, analyst and consultant to Fortune 500 organizations, government agencies, prominent institutions and the most prestigious #AEC firms in the world. Paul has spent the past 30+ years in the industry after graduating cum laude from the New York Institute of Technology and graduating from the Career Discovery program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

His past successful ventures include #Revit (Sold to Autodesk 2002), #Buzzsaw (Sold to Autodesk 2001) and #TRIRIGA (Sold to IBM 2011). He is a prominent and top rated speaker at industry events each year and has been appointed as a guest lecturer at leading Universities around the world. Paul has been on the Board of Directors/Advisors of numerous organizations, including the INTERNATIONAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC (IFMA) where he is an IFMA Fellow and he is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council .

Paul holds both European Union and US Citizenship, and is the co-founder of the #AECHackathon, Widely quoted in the mass media, Paul is also a contributing author to multiple sections of the AIA Handbook of Professional Practice, the Interior Design Handbook of Practice, the McGraw Hill Graphic Standards of Residential Construction, 3 whitepaper contributions to the McGraw-Hill Financial Global Institute and author/co-author of 7 books and over 250 published articles.

SHOW HIGHLIGHT

• Transition to a Web-based Organization for better communication and efficiency in your work.
• The importance of networking and leveraging connections to expand working on an international scale.
• Transit, buildings, and housing are so irreparably tied together.
• Create environments that celebrate culture and empower people to take control of their own environment.
• Blend new ways of working in the built environment industry.
• The most important factors in the building industry and why we need to attract others.
• Explore new technologies and the evolution of the web with these three tools.
• Tips to take a holistic, or a systems approach to projects.

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SHOW RESOURCE AND INFORMATION

• LinkedIn
• Unlocking the Metaverse:
• Smart Cities: Reimagining the Urban Experience

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