5th Built4People Stakeholders Forum: Full Programme Available

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The 5th Built4People Partnership Stakeholders Forum, “Building Europe’s Resilient Future”, organised by the European Commission, CINEA, ECTP and ENCORD, is just around the corner.

7 October 2026 | 9:00–16:30 CEST (doors open 8h30)

Buildwise Zaventem, Brussels (Kleine Kloosterstraat 23, 1932 Zaventem)

Bringing together policymakers, industry representatives, researchers and key stakeholders, the Forum will explore how research, innovation and collaboration can contribute to building a more resilient European built environment.

This year’s programme focuses on “From securing Europe’s built environment, to transforming how we use resources, scaling how we build, harnessing intelligence, and ultimately delivering resilient places for people.”

📋 The full programme is now available:

8h30-9h30          Registration and good morning coffee

9h30-9h40          Welcome by the Built4People Partnership Management Team (DG ENER, CINEA, ECTP, ENCORD)

9h40-10h05        Keynote “Resilience by Design: Building a Europe Ready for an Uncertain Future”, Captain João Galocha, Military Counsellor in the Portuguese Delegation to NATO

10h05-11h05      Panel 1: From Vulnerability to Resilience: Securing Europe’s Built Environment, moderated by Sami Kazi, VTT

  • Rita Moura, Director of Innovation, Teixeira Duarte
  • Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis, Professor of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure; Director, UCL Centre for Global Infrastructure Resilience; ​the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London 
  • Niall Buckley, Senior Project Manager, IES, Resilience of the Built Environment Cluster, Coordinator of the Minority Report project
  • Emmanuelle Frénéat, Group Chief Technical Officer, EGIS

11h05-12h05      Panel 2: Circular by Design: Building Europe’s Resource-Efficient Future, moderated by Cornelia Partsch, ECTP

  • Marianne Haavardsholm Aandahl, National Experto to the EC – Energy; NCP, Horizon Europe – Energy, Research Council of Norway (RCN)
  • Ilari Aho, Head of Glabal Business Sustainability, Georg Fischer
  • Isabel Rodríguez Maribona, Technology Director, Energy, Climate & Global Transition, TECNALIA
  • Valia Tsiala, Senior Technical Offcier, EBC
  • Roy Pennings, Senior EU Projects Manager, CERN

12h05-13h05      Panel 3: From Innovation to Impact: Industrialising and Scaling Up Construction, moderated by Magnus Österbring, ENCORD

  • Natalia Zebrowska, Head of Unit – Construction, EC DG GROW, H1
  • Javier Bonilla Diaz, Senior Manager, Innovation Strategy & Digital, ACCIONA
  • Celina Solari, Senior Innovation R&D Project Manager, RINA, Coordinator of the MULTICLIMACT project
  • Tim van Ee, Consultant & Knowledge Manager – Conceptual and Industrialised Construction Department of Digital Built Environment, TNO
  • Maira Madala, EU Public Affair Manager, Knauf Insulation

13h05-14h05   Lunch break

14h05-15h05      Panel 4: Boosting Competitiveness: AI, Robotics and the Future of the Built Environment, moderated by Vedran Angebrandt, CINEA

  • Stavros Stamatoukos, Policy officer, Digitalisation and AI, EC DG ENER.B4 – Digitalisation, Competitiveness, Research & Innovation
  • José Solís Hernández, Research & Innovation Director, CEMOSA
  • Miguel Segarra, Senior Vice President of Innovation, DRAGADOS
  • Rosie Shapiro, VP of Partnerships, CivicLabs

15h05-16h05      Panel 5: People at the Heart of Resilience: Scaling People-Centred Innovation, moderated by Clémentine Coujard, Dowel Innovation

  • Stefan Moser, Head of the Housing Task Force at European Commission
  • Edward Woods, Head of R&D | Innovation | Venture Capital, Bouygues Construction, ECTP President
  • Masi Mohammadi, Professor and Chair of Smart Architectural Technologies, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Floridea Di Ciommo, Director of cambiaMO, Coordinator of the InclusiveSpaces project
  • Vera Winthagen, Deputy Head of NEB Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

16h05-16h20      Special Session on B4PIC network, moderated by Nerea Gómez, ECTP

16h20-16h30      Round up and closing

Join us on 7 October 2026 and discover the latest perspectives, initiatives and solutions shaping Europe’s resilient built environment.

Registration closed on 30 September at 17:30 CEST. For last minute registration, please contact info@built4people.eu