Intelligent Futures: AI-Driven Innovation in Design to Create Future-Ready Architecture

05 Feb 2026
Main Stage

As the built environment faces mounting pressure to do more with less – less carbon, less time, fewer resources – this panel will reframe AI less as a threat and more as a powerful collaborator and tool. The high-energy session will bring together leading voices in architecture and interior design to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping architectural thinking, accelerating adaptive reuse and helping the industry reach better outcomes faster. The discussion will challenge outdated narratives around demolition, authorship and risk, proposing a future where AI augments human creativity to unlock hidden value in existing buildings.

Moderator
Hamish Kilburn
Hamish Kilburn, Owner & Director - Kilburn Communications
Panelist
Guy Ailion
Guy Ailion, Co-Founder & CEO and Partner - Mattoboard and KSR Architects & Interior Designers
James Dilley
James Dilley, Director - Jestico + Whiles
Philippa Carveth
Philippa Carveth, Senior Interior Designer - Martin Brudnizki Design Studio