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2020 Vision The Future of the Built Environment

21 - 22 June 2018 , Business Design Centre London
Now in its fourth year , vision has become an essential resource for thousands of architects , technologists , designers , developers , specifiers and their clients .
Celebrating design , specification and product innovation in creating smarter buildings and better places , Vision ’ s aim is to always push forward to future-proof design in construction . The show provides an international focus for innovative products and building solutions , bringing together some of the best designs and leading figures from across Western Europe for two days of business , learning and networking .
Some of the 2018 highlights will include ; over 100 major brands and innovative start-ups , hundreds of cutting-edge products and building solutions , including research and development into the latest software and over 100 hours of free seminars providing a unique industry insight across four theatres .
Vision is also focusing on international conversations , an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with continental counterparts , presented through a collection of pavilions from Belgium , France , Italy , the Netherlands , Luxembourg and Latvia .
Ambitious plans are in place to grow the exhibition and extend Vision ’ s Educational Programme , whose supporters include the RIBA , CIAT , BRE , New London Architecture & the London Festival of Architecture . Vision will play host to over 100 international industry experts to deliver another highly acclaimed seminar programme .
With four content-packed seminar theatres over two days , we ’ ll be asking big questions of big names in architecture , engineering , and urban development , across three big themes :
1 . Added Value With urbanism , infrastructure and Architecture being fundamental to the economic success of cities , neighbourhoods , institutions , companies and brands , how can we quantify and maximize the impact of high-quality design on society , economic sustainability and
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3 . Common Good What steps can we take to ensure that our buildings and public spaces are inclusive , safe and welcoming and make a positive contribution to civic life ?
With keynote presentations from Patrick Schumacher , Principal , Zaha Hadid Architects and Chris Wilkinson , Director at Wilkinson Eyre , speakers confirmed so far include :
1 . Indy Johar , Dark Matter 2 . Finn Williams , Co-Founder & CEO , Public
Practice 3 . Chris Wilkinson , Wilkinson Eyre 4 . Rab Bennetts , Director , Bennetts
Associates 5 . Ben rogers , Director , Centre for London 6 . Alex de Rijke / Jasmin Sohi , dRMM 7 . Jeanette Veldekamp , Associate Director ,
Chapman Taylor 8 . David West , Founding Director , Studio
Egret West 9 . David Partridge , Managing Partner ,
Argent Services LLP 10 . Max Farrell , Partner , Farrells 11 . Mairead Carroll , Programme Director
Housing , London First 12 . Mike Emmerich , Founding Director ,
Metro Dynamics 13 . Sarah Wigglesworth , Director , Sarah
Wigglesworth Architects 14 . Martin Lydon , Associate , Haworth
Thompkins 15 . Paul Monaghan , AHMM 16 . Rachel Bagenal , Naked House 17 . Jonathan Kendall , FletcherPriest 18 . Harbinder Singh Birdi , Partner , Hawkins
Brown 19 . Paul Foulkes , Building Automation
Manager , WAGO 20 . Linda Thiel , Partner , White Arkitekter 21 . Christina Seilern , Studio Seilern
Architects 22 . Phil Coffey , Founder , Coffey Architects 23 . Earle Arney , Founder & CEO , Arney
Fender Katsalidis 24 . Mike Stiff , Co-Founder , Stiff + Trevillion 25 . David Perkins , Principal , Perkins + Will 26 . Ron Bakker , Founding Partner , PLP
To find out more and to register for your FREE place visit visionlondon . com or call 0203 409 0623 .