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AI Problem Solving in A/E/C: From Challenges to Solutions

Facilitators

Victoria Mechtly

Victoria Mechtly is a passionate business professional seeking ways to help others develop their professional skills and assist clients with finding new solutions to their challenges. As the Federal Client Services Manager and Assistant Vice President at TranSystems, she must stay current on the latest trends and technologies and how they impact the industry and business. As Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have made it into the mainstream, she has seen firsthand how it is changing how we work. This led to her taking on leading the new National SAME Industry Government Engagement on AI as the chair. This group meets to discuss ways AI is impacting their organizations and how we can be prepared as an industry.

Victoria has nearly 15 years of experience working in the A/E/C industry's Federal, Aerospace, Transportation, and Transmission Distribution markets. She is a proud citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, actively contributing to and bringing awareness to Indigenous communities. Through her work, she is able to integrate her cultural tradition of storytelling.

Pooja Jain, P.E., S.E.

Pooja Jain is Senior Vice President of Strategic Innovation at WSP. She has 23 years of global infrastructure development experience across all continents in climate sensitive environments. During this time, she has led 200+ developments through various stages with planning, design and construction. Pooja founded WSP’s first accelerator and partnership ecosystem for built environment focused early and growth stage technology companies and has onboarded 8 partnerships over 18 months (50% founded by women or BIPOC). As Chair for WSP’s internal investment fund, Pooja led 10 new investments in 2023. As an advisory board member, Pooja advises two technology startups (Series B and Series A) that are developing breakthrough technologies for the built environment. She is a visiting scholar at the Stanford University School of Engineering and mentor to the AI for A/E/C course for graduate students. Pooja earned her MS in structural engineering from University of California, Berkeley and MSx (Executive MBA) from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Ben Graf, P.E.

Ben Graf finds new ways to tackle old problems by applying data visualization, advanced statistical analysis, modeling, and machine learning. His current role is Chief Data Scientist at Matrix Design Group. Prior to that, he worked nearly 20 years in civil service at base level and staff level in construction management, energy management, asset management, and data science. His last 4 years were as a Senior Data Scientist at the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, where he spearheaded award-winning analysis, visualization, modeling, and machine learning projects. He holds Master’s degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Statistics & Data Science and is licensed as a Professional Engineer. When not analyzing data, you can find him striving for a deeper understanding of his wife and kids, strategy board games, sports, musical theater, improv comedy, and anything else that tickles his curiosity.