Nine confirmed. Announced as each one commits, so this page is the lineup of record.
The view from the permit counter: what actually reaches the city, and what it does to review times.
Director of Building Services for the City of Naples, responsible for the department that reviews and approves permits in the city.
Improving the customer experience through bespoke website communication: a private site for every client that builds out as the house does, made in-house with AI.
President of BCB Homes, the Naples custom builder.
Consolidating a sprawling software stack, and the internal tooling a contractor builds when the market does not sell it.
Chief Administrative Officer and principal at DeAngelis Diamond, which he joined in 2014, and president of FutureBylt. The contractor runs more than 350 people across Naples, Sarasota, Tampa, Orlando, Nashville and Detroit.
Opening remarks, and the live demo.
Building residential property in Southwest Florida since 2000, and a licensed Certified Building Contractor in the state. Builds construction software at Punchify. Co-founded Register.com and took it public, growing it past $120 million in annualized revenue. Penn Management & Technology; master’s in real estate from NYU. Convenes AI+RE — and under the rules of the room, anyone whose company sells a tool is in the demo block and not on a panel.
Presenting with Mark McLean: where generative AI sits in the MHK pipeline now — the current platform landscape, Exfigura prompts run live, and a flythrough rendered off the model.
At MHK since 2014, with twenty years in architectural visualization. Writes the firm’s policy for generative AI in visualization, conceptual design and graphics, and moved its CAD, BIM and design pipelines onto AI-assisted workflows. Ringling College of Art and Design.
Bid levelling for a Naples builder: an estimate-leveling tool wired into Procore, built in-house, and what it changed in the estimating department.
Founded Gamma Tech in Naples in 2004, at sixteen. Thirty-five people today across managed IT, cybersecurity, low-voltage and audio-video work for Southwest Florida homes and businesses, and cybersecurity for 115 managed-IT clients. Builds the company’s own field software for its crews, including Plan A, the low-voltage markup tool they use on site. Software engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Presenting with Enrique Gomez: what MHK runs today in design and visualization, demonstrated live rather than described.
National Director at MHK Architecture & Planning, the Naples-headquartered practice.
Session topic to be announced.
President and chief executive of Christopher Alan Homes, a Southwest Florida production homebuilder.
With Stephen Beckman, from the inspection and plans-examination side of the counter.
Building Inspector and Building Plans Examiner with the City of Naples. Worked in construction before becoming an inspector, with programming, game development and software development as longtime personal interests — a combination that gives him a practical view of how new tools can support building-department operations while preserving the judgment and experience of professional staff.
Further speakers to be announced.
Shared with two other operators and a moderator. You are asked what you put in, what it cost, and what you stopped doing. No deck required.
One tool, one real problem from a Naples project, worked live in front of the room. For people who build the software rather than buy it.
The useful names in this market are usually not the ones posting about artificial intelligence. If you know an operator in Southwest Florida who has actually put something into production, send the name.
richard@punchify.ai