committee

Wesley Benn

DBEI
Executive Chairman

A post-Sydney, post-New York, post-post Digital Nomad, Wesley is the founder and Global Chairman of the Digital Built Environment Institute. As a long-term user and advocate of BIM (starting with ArchiCAD in 1996), Wesley has been speaking and teaching in the field since starting to play with a pre-release version of Revit.

Wesley has worked directly with Autodesk on Revit development and implementation, built content for manufacturers and end-users, and has implemented multiple BIM tools into well over 300 practices throughout South-East Asia and beyond.

He has spoken around the world on technology, facilities management and process change; he founded (and chaired for 5 years) the Revit User Group, Sydney; and is now focused on broad issues of sustainability and innovation for the AECO industry globally.

Zachary Kron

Autodesk

Zach Kron is a Product Line Manager at Autodesk in the Generative Design Group. Since 2007 he has researched and delivered computational design tools and workflows primarily for the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction industries. His team is dedicated to open source tools and community based development for creating better designs with data and performance metrics. Their applications are used for a wide variety of design automation and exploration tasks by hundreds of thousands of people every year.

Anthony Hauck

Hypar
BILT Committee & Global Chairperson, DBEI Hackathons

With more than 20 years working in architecture, engineering, construction, and IT, followed by 10 years of innovative software development leading the Autodesk Revit + AEC Generative Design groups, Anthony has always sought to improve building practices through the strategic application of advanced technologies. Now a Founder and President of Hypar, Anthony is focused on developing technologies to distribute and apply AEC expertise through generative design and scalable computation to help project stakeholders make better decisions faster.