Infrastructure Policy Advancement, Bentley Systems’ thought leadership initiative, in collaboration with our partners, is proud to bring the Transforming Infrastructure Performance (TIP) Summit back to London—the city where this global movement began.

The UK infrastructure sector faces mounting pressure as it seeks to deliver a £725bn, 10-year investment pipeline aimed at driving growth and transforming lives and communities through public and private capital investment in the nations critical infrastructure backbone and a renewed focus on effective management of existing assets. 
 
Across transport, water, energy, housing, and environmental resilience, the sector must navigate a complex mix of challenges: a chronic skills shortage, tight public finances, rising construction costs, and accelerating population growth. At the same time, it must stay on course to meet ambitious net zero targets.  
 
The sector must adapt and reform to balance the desired delivery pace with the need for long-term sustainability and quality outcomes. That means embracing innovation, unlocking private investment, and rebuilding public trust to ensure infrastructure meets the demands of a rapidly changing future. 
 
The TIP London Summit 2025 will bring together top infrastructure leaders to address productivity, funding models, and climate risks. Sessions will focus on labour and skills, digital tools, systems thinking, climate resilience, and policy frameworks.  
As with all Bentley IPA TIP events, this summit will focus on the critical issues facing infrastructure professionals, learn from best practice, encourage cross-sector collaboration and shape the future of infrastructure performance. 

EVENT DETAILS

  • Date: 17 November 2025
  • Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  • Venue: One Great George Street Westminster,
    London SW1P 3AA

WHY TIP MATTERS

TIP is dedicated to rethinking the future of infrastructure delivery and performance. The summit serves as a venue where global best practice meets actionable insights, promoting collaboration among stakeholders from government agencies, private enterprises, and technology providers. In a world of increasing infrastructure needs with limited funding, TIP has become a global platform for systems thinking, breaking down siloes and advancing action between all actors across the infrastructure lifecycle.

The value of the summit lies in its size. Large enough to host a full-days program with senior decision makers across the infrastructure lifecycle. But small enough to ensure all participants from the Summit can interact and engage with each other in conversation over the course of the day.

AGENDA

Agenda details, including speaker lineup and session topics, are currently being finalized. We’re curating a program that reflects the most urgent challenges and innovative solutions in infrastructure performance. Full agenda information will be shared here soon—stay tuned for updates as planning progresses.

AGENDA

Session 1: Understanding the UK’s 10-year infrastructure strategy

 

 

Keynote 1:  

Sara Humber, Commercial Specialist and Projects Director, NISTA

Panel 1: Putting the strategy and pipeline on the spot – discussion

  

 

 

 

 

Mark Reynolds, Executive Chair, Mace, CLC chair and chair of the Construction Skills Mission Board  

Suzannah Nichol, Chief Executive, Build UK 

Sara Humber, Commercial Specialist and Projects Director, NISTA 

Discussion led by David Porter, President, Institution of Civil Engineers  

Session 2: Technology as a route to better performance? 

 

Keynote 2: 

AI – the future for construction – or simply hype and a distraction – a pre-coffee conversation stimulus 

 

James Garner – Head of AI & Data, Gleeds and Chair of the Project Data Analytics Task Force  

 

Post Coffee AI discussion 

Panel 2:  AI in practice – what must the industry do to make the transformation. Reality?  

 

 

 

Moderator: James Garner – Head of AI & Data, Gleeds and Chair of the Project Data Analytics Task Force  

Anne-Marie Friel – Partner Pinsent Masons  

Guy Beamont – Director and Digital Consulting Leader, Turner & Townsend 

YJ Kim – AI Technical Lead, Head of Data Science, Mott MacDonald  

Session 3: Financing innovation to drive infrastructure performance  

 

Keynote 3 

Ian Brown, Head of Banking & Investments, UK National Wealth Fund 

Panel 3: Exploring the UK public private funding reality 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moderator:  

Mark Hansford, Former Director of Engineering, Institution of Civil Engineers 

Ian Brown, Head of Banking & Investments, UK National Wealth Fund 

Charlotte Madden, Partner and Co-Head of the Infrastructure Sector, Clifford Chance.  

Darryl Murphy, Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Debt, Aviva 

Christopher Reeves, Director, Resource Investment 

Session 4 – Delivering the UK’s 10-year infrastructure strategy – client perspectives on transforming infrastructure performance 

 

Introduction 

Antony Oliver, host of The Infrastructure Podcast 

Case study 1 – Sizewell C – building out the UK’s new nuclear renaissance – navigating the planning challenge 

Nigel Cann, Joint Managing Director, Sizewell C 

Case study 2 – The Lower Thames Crossing – redefining the design and delivery of highway projects 

Katharina Ferguson, Supply Chain Director, Lower Thames Crossing 

 

Discussion

 

Discussion with Nigel Cann and Katharina Ferguson 

Led by Antony Oliver 

Session 5 – The planning challenge – overcoming the UK’s major delivery hurdle 

 

Introduction 

Antony Oliver, host The Infrastructure Podcast 

Case study 4 – delivering new reservoirs – the water company perspective 

Sian Thomas, Director of Strategic Asset Management, Anglian Water 

 

Case study 4 – Water – delivering new reservoirs – the regulator’s perspective 

Chris Taylor-Dawson, Senior Director. Major Projects & Markets, Ofwat 

Case study 5 – navigating the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

 

  

Robbie Owen, Partner and Head of Infrastructure Planning, Pinsent Masons; Founder and a Director of the National Infrastructure Planning Association

Discussion 

 

 

 

 

Discussion  

·       Robbie Owen, Partner and Head of Infrastructure Planning, Pinsent Masons; Founder and a Director of the National Infrastructure Planning Association

·       Sian Thomas, Director of Strategic Asset Management, Anglian Water 

·       Chris Taylor-Dawson, Senior Director. Major Projects & Markets, Ofwat 

Led by Antony Oliver 

Chair’s Introduction to final keynote 

David Porter, President, Institution of Civil Engineers  

Closing Keynote – charting a route to accelerate UK economic growth 

Chris Curtis MP, Chair of the Labour Growth Group 

Discussion

 

Discussion 

Led by David Porter, President, Institution of Civil Engineers 

 

 

 

SPEAKERS

Mark Coates

Vice President, Infrastructure Policy Advancement, Bentley Systems

David Porter

President, Institution of Civil Engineers

Antony Oliver

Moderator / Infrastructure Journalist 

Mark Reynolds

CLC chair and chair of the Construction Skills Mission Board

Suzannah Nichol

Chief Executive, Build UK

James Garner

Head of AI & Data, Gleeds; Chair, Project Data Analytics Task Force

Anne-Marie Friel

Partner, Pinsent Masons

Guy Beaumont

Director and Digital Consulting Leader, Turner & Townsend

YJ Kim

AI Technical Lead, Head of Data Science, Mott MacDonald

Charlotte Madden

Partner and Co-Head of the Infrastructure Sector, Clifford Chance

Darryl Murphy

Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Debt, Aviva 

Nigel Cann

Joint Managing Director, Sizewell C

Sian Thomas

Asset management director, Anglian Water

Chris Taylor-Dawson

Senior Director. Major Projects & Markets, Ofwat

Robbie Owen

Partner and head of planning and infrastructure, Pinsent Masons

Ian Brown

Head of Banking & Investments, UK National Wealth Fund

Christopher Reeves

Vice Chair of the OECD Blue Dot Network’s Executive Consultation Group

Katharina Ferguson

Supply Chain Development Director – Lower Thames Crossing

Sara Humber

Commercial Specialist and Projects Director, NISTA

Chris Curtis MP

Chair of the Labour Growth Group

Mark Hansford

Former Director of Engineering, Institution of Civil Engineers

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