Conference: Digital Practice & Technology for Landscape

Advances in digital technology are changing the way the landscape sector operates and raising expectations of what can be achieved. This 1-day conference has been developed to bring together professionals across the built and natural environment sectors to ensure the full value of these advances are being realised.

With a spirit of collaboration across professions and sectors, it seeks to drive the conversations around how current and future developments in technology can improve business operations, project delivery and management in landscape practice. Beyond that, it will provide innovative solutions for how these advances can enable the landscape sector to provide integrated solutions to social and environmental challenges we currently face.

• Network with peers, friends and industry leaders
• See the latest advances in products and services
• Get hands-on with practical demos
• Hear inspiring and educational thought-leaders
• Learn how to gain real value from tech innovations
• Join discussions on technology best-practice
• Gain crucial CPD

Over the course of the day the conference will cover a wide range of topics in a variety of formats, such as demonstrations, panel discussions, talks and exhibitor stands. Throughout all of it, the content will be drawn together through three key themes which are described below.

How innovative digital technologies are revolutionising collaboration and communication across the landscape sector, and with other industries.

• Increasing engagement through digital and visual communication
• Use of emerging technologies such as extended reality (XR), CAD/CAM, and AI
• Bridging the gap between consultants and clients

How information management and data efficiency shape business operations and project delivery, facilitating better decisions, enhanced design, and consistency.

• Future of BIM for project coordination, and new perspectives on the UK BIM Framework
• The impact of AI on landscape practice
• Climate maps, soil condition maps, and digital twins

How digital tools and methods can inform environmental decision making, leveraging the potential of landscape to provide integrated solutions for climate and biodiversity challenges.

• Calculating Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)
• Implementing nature-based solutions
• Putting carbon considerations at the heart of project design and delivery

Host or Publisher Landscape Institute