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Wednesday 27 November | Hilton Metropole London

TechFest Conference and Awards 2024

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Construction News and New Civil Engineer are once again joining forces to deliver a unique forum to discover innovative ideas from across the industry. This one day festival will celebrate the projects, teams and companies embracing innovation and harnessing technology to propel the industry forward.

Join us for a full day of learning, networking and celebration to learn from those at the forefront of the industry and understand the key challenges, drivers, and benefits of adopting technology. With an exciting festival programme with tech labs, insightful content and interactive activities, this event truly keeps you up to date and enables you to choose your own event experience. As both construction and the civil sector modernise and embrace technology, the evening awards ceremony will celebrate the industry’s achievements. This year's TechFest is certainly one not to be missed!

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Awards

The TechFest Awards showcase and celebrate the innovations and technologies driving the civil engineering and construction industries forward. The TechFest Awards represent a unique opportunity to celebrate your successes within the civil engineering and construction sector and gain national recognition for your achievements, with publicity across both New Civil Engineer and Construction News. This year's awards are bigger than ever with 20 categories designed to celebrate the projects, teams and companies doing the most to harness technologies that drive the construction and civil engineering industries forward.

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Festival programme

Join us for a one-of-a-kind event - the festival programme moves beyond a traditional conference with a variety of interactive activities, tech labs, talks and innovation sessions. The festival will provide a compelling day of content, highlighting the forward-thinking application of technology as well as innovation in the design, build and materials used in the infrastructure and buildings sectors.

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Become a sponsor

The TechFest Awards represents firms that are driving the industry forward: through exceptional business leadership; cultural change; and delivering for society in the UK and worldwide through key civil/ground engineering and construction sectors. Align yourself with truly outstanding engineering practices, construction clients, and industry leaders.

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300+
Festival Delegates
3
Hours of networking
1
Award gala dinner
45
Expert Speakers

We had great conversations, which we have been able to take further. TechFest is the type of show that brings forward the solutions as well as the challenges and allows us to meet the challenges with solutions.

COLAS (Sponsor)

TechFest enables us to take that leap forward and really lean into innovation.

Sensat (Delegate)

Great opportunity to talk to prospects that we wouldn’t normally have face to face interaction with.

Hitachi Solutions Europe (Sponsor)

We have a core place where we can come together socialise, network and see new technology 

Mott Macdonald (Delegate)

A meeting of minds - great opportunity to make connections and have good conversations.

Octopus Energy (Sponsor)

TechFest is important to the industry because it’s a great way for people to get together from different companies, in-person, get hands on with technology and hear from speakers to hear what’s going on in the sector.

Bentley Systems (Sponsor)

TechFest is an opportunity to really highlight our products and it gives a taste into the innovation that all industries are carrying out. Bringing this to the attention to our industries is a great way of advancing our engineering sector.

AtkinsRéalis (Sponsor)

TechFest has a reputation for bringing together a lot of industry leaders in technology in the construction field, so it's great to see what everyone else is doing.

Eurovia UK (Delegate)

Meet the team

Entry / Table Enquiries

Ben Davidson
+44 (0)20 3953 2653

Event / Venue Enquiries

Harry Bower
+44 (0)20 3953 2030

Speaker Enquiries

Lydia Katsipi
+44 (0) 20 3953 2657

Exhibitor Enquiries

Sarah Ince
+44 (0)20 3953 2899

Exhibitor Enquiries

Maria Power
+44 (0)20 3953 2898