The nima Virtual Conference 2025 attracted some 340 unique visitors to its new, immersive and avatar-driven event platform.
Keynotes, expert panels and networking sessions all implicitly marked the first anniversary of the launch of the nima-led Information Management Initiative (IMI).
nima chair Anne Kemp says nima’s fourth virtual conference addressed both the need to change (why) and how the built and natural environment sector should change: “We heard from David Hancock, Construction Director and Infrastructure Practice Lead at NISTA, the recently-formed National Infrastructure and Services Transformation Authority.
“He described how NISTA was continuing the work of the former National Infrastructure Commission and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, and how information management is a key pillar in helping deliver the UK’s national infrastructure strategy, addressing perennial challenges such as cost and schedule overruns and low construction productivity.
“Concluding the day, former Crossrail digital chief Malcolm Taylor urged everyone to back the IMI and nima as it sought to bring about a much-needed transformation of the sector. While built and managed environment professionals face ever greater complexity, he said they also had unprecedented opportunities to collaborate through better information management practices to fulfill the ambitions of the IMI.”
In between these two keynotes, consistent IMI-related themes running across the conference sessions included:
- recognising the whole-life purposes of information and data
- educating and upskilling people in information management
- the importance of consistent, standards-based IM approaches, and
- the need for strong information governance including data interoperability.”
Conference sessions were recorded and will be shared with the approximately 600 -pre-registered users shortly.
