nPlan Summer AI Day 2026: Construction Superintelligence

AI Day is nPlan's twice-yearly showcase of the products and innovations we've been building – and it's been the launchpad for technologies that have changed the way big things get built, including Barry (our project controls and delivery agent) and Schedule Studio (our tool for generating detailed schedules from scope descriptions and project documentation).

This edition's theme: Construction Superintelligence

The bar for "AI in project controls" right now is on the floor. The industry is being sold tools that calculate total float and call it intelligence. Tools that read a schedule and announce that the critical path is critical. Tools that summarise a weekly report into a slightly shorter weekly report. None of that is intelligence. None of it changes how a project actually gets delivered.

Construction Superintelligence is something different. It's AI that reasons about your project end-to-end – supply chain, design, sequence, cost and risk, all at once, grounded in the specifics of your build – and intelligently guides project teams through the decisions that actually move the needle. The ones a great superintendent works out at 11pm on a Tuesday from twenty years of having seen this movie before.

Get it right, and the prize is enormous: better capital allocation, faster delivery, projects that learn and adapt as they run. That's what we're building towards, and that's what you'll see at AI Day.

The keynote: our biggest product moment of the year

Updates across Portfolio, Insights, Schedule Studio, Barry, and our underlying models – plus the formal launch of something we've been building for a while and haven't talked about publicly yet: the nPlan Decision Intelligence Platform.

Fireside chat: powering the AI revolution

We're delighted to confirm Peter Hancock, Project Director at National Grid, as our fireside chat guest. Peter is delivering the Didcot substation upgrade – set to be the largest substation in the UK when it completes in 2029, and a critical piece of national infrastructure for the AI era. Sitting on the site of the former Didcot A coal power station and just two miles from the UK's first AI Growth Zone at Culham, the project will connect new data centres and 650MW of battery storage to the transmission network – completing a "coal to clean" transition on a site that once powered the country very differently. With National Grid expecting to connect up to 19GW of new demand by 2031 – half of it from data centres – Peter is at the sharp end of the build-out that makes hyperscale AI in the UK physically possible. Expect a candid conversation on delivery, risk, and what it takes to build the backbone of the AI era.

Peter will be joined on-stage by Dima Pogorelsky, MD and Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Dima is a core member of BCG's Industrial Goods practice. Over more than a decade with the firm – across the UK, Russia, the Middle East and Europe – he's worked with owners and contractors on the full spectrum of large capex project delivery: cost, schedule, risk, contracting, procurement, and digitisation. Dima will be sharing case studies of AI implementations in infrastructure projects – and share his take on what's actually working, what isn't, and what's being said about AI in 'the room where it happens'.

Afterparty

Project Connect Group will be hosting drinks, food and networking at Kachette once the main event wraps. And for the football faithful: Ecuador vs Germany (World Cup Group E) will be part of the evening's entertainment.

February's AI Day sold out with standing room only – 150 in the room, 300 joining online. In-person spots will go fast. Register now, whether you're joining at Kachette or tuning in from anywhere.

Reserve your spot – and mark your calendar – today to avoid disappointment.