We are pleased to share that our founder Chun Qing Li, will be speaking at the Siemens PLM Components Innovation Conference 2026, taking place on 28th April 2026 at Downing College, Cambridge, UK.

For KREODx, this is more than a conference appearance. It is part of a much bigger conversation about where design, engineering and delivery are heading, and why the built environment can no longer afford to remain structurally disconnected from the systems thinking that has already transformed other industries.

What makes this event particularly relevant is the calibre and range of the discussion. It brings together leaders from software development, industrial technology, geometry, AI, digital engineering and advanced product ecosystems. The significance of that is not simply the speaker list itself, but what it represents: the future is no longer being shaped within neat industry boundaries. It is being shaped where disciplines, technologies and delivery systems converge.

That is precisely where KREODx sits.

Why this matters

For too long, the built environment has operated through fragmented information and broken chains of responsibility. Architects produce drawings. Engineers add separate layers of technical input. Contractors reinterpret intent on site. Suppliers sit downstream, often too late to influence design intelligence in a meaningful way. Cost certainty arrives late, if at all. Manufacturing logic is rarely embedded early enough. Too much still depends on manual coordination, assumptions, workarounds and reactive decision-making.

That is not a modern delivery model. It is an inherited inefficiency.

At KREODx, we have been focused on changing that by developing a more connected, rigorous and executable approach to design and delivery. Our work sits at the intersection of architecture, engineering, construction, software logic and manufacturing.

We do not believe design should end at representation.

We believe design should become Executable.

That means moving beyond drawings as static outputs and towards structured design intelligence that can support coordination, rule-based automation, DfMA workflows, specification logic, Bill of Materials (BoM), Bill of Quantities (BoQ), costing, manufacturing and assembly.

In simple terms, we are working to close the gap between what is designed and what can actually be delivered.

Why Siemens is a meaningful platform for this discussion

The Siemens PLM Components Innovation Conference is an important setting for this conversation because PLM thinking has already reshaped industries such as aerospace, automotive and advanced manufacturing. These sectors have demonstrated what becomes possible when data, geometry, logic and lifecycle thinking are properly connected across the full chain of development and delivery.

Construction, by contrast, still operates with levels of fragmentation that other industries would no longer tolerate.

That is one of the reasons this discussion matters so much. The AEC sector has much to learn from mature PLM environments, but it also has something significant to contribute in return. Buildings are among the most complex, fragmented and risk-exposed products in existence. If component intelligence, traceability and automation can be meaningfully embedded into the built environment, the implications will be profound.

Not only for design quality, but for Certainty.

Financial Certainty. Technical Certainty. Delivery Certainty.

What KREODx will be speaking about

My contribution will reflect both the underlying philosophy of KREODx and the practical work we are already advancing through live design and delivery workflows.

We will be sharing how a components-based, DfMA-led and automation-driven approach can help reshape the way the built environment is designed, coordinated and delivered. This includes embedding intelligence into design information from the outset, structuring geometry and components so that they remain useful beyond visualisation, linking design intent to specification, costing and manufacture, reducing interpretation risk across the supply chain and creating a more reliable path from concept to procurement to construction.

AI is, rightly, receiving enormous attention across every industry. But AI without structure is noise and automation without logic is fragile. In construction especially, intelligence is only as reliable as the information model beneath it.

That is why KREODx is not focused on superficial digitisation. We are focused on building the logic layer that makes automation genuinely useful.

A broader industry shift

The themes reflected in the conference agenda, including AI, geometry representation, component ecosystems and cross-industry innovation, are not abstract technical interests. They are directly tied to how future products, systems and buildings will be conceived, validated, procured and delivered.

The old separation between software, manufacturing and construction is becoming increasingly difficult to defend. The next phase will belong to those who can connect them.

That is the space KREODx is determined to help shape.

Looking ahead

I’m grateful to be part of this year’s speaker line-up and to contribute to a discussion that feels both timely and necessary.

For KREODx, this is another step in a larger mission: helping move the built environment away from fragmented workflows and towards a future of connected, executable and manufacturable design intelligence.

If you will be attending the Siemens PLM Components Innovation Conference in Cambridge, I would be very glad to connect.

The future of AEC will not be built through better drawings alone.

It will be built through better systems.

KREODxDesigned for certainty. Developed using Siemens industrial technology.