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# Keynote: FM Global Regional Manager Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island:  The Future of Construction, Infrastructure and Energy

What’s the future of construction? Residential and commercial buildings? We are seeing the rapid dominance of solar and wind infrastructure with battery storage technology; 3d printing in concrete; the arrival of new AI, robotic assembly processes. This organization underwrites the insurance for major construction projects, and so I was invited in for a keynote that blended the themes of construction, smart buildings and future risk into one.

![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Hyperconnectivity-1024x682.jpg)Jim Caroll during Plenary 2 at IRU World Congress at OCEC in Muscat, Oman, on November 7, 2018.