Transforming Buildings with AI: Intelligence That Delivers Results
Rising energy costs, intensifying demand, capital constraints, workforce pressure, and sustainability requirements are changing how real estate leaders must manage buildings. Maud Demurge, General Manager of Akila Americas, presents a 1ArtificialIntelligence keynote on how AI-driven digital twins can help owners, operators, and hospitality leaders unlock smarter, more sustainable, and more efficient buildings. The session examines why buildings are energy giants with data gaps, how rising electricity prices and electrification pressures are making efficiency a strategic operating requirement, and why fragmented building systems limit the ability to manage performance in real time. Demurge presents Akila as a unified real estate data platform that centralizes building systems and drives operational efficiencies and energy savings across energy, maintenance, security, HVAC optimization, and more. The keynote also highlights a practical operating model: monitor, track, and act; execute, replicate, and scale; optimize and reduce. A concrete New York City hotel use case shows how a digital twin, energy data reporting, smart BMS and HVAC optimization, and digitalized maintenance can support real-time control, proactive management, smart alerts, lower costs, carbon savings, and measurable building performance improvement.
