An elevated expressway viaduct on piers, its deck marked with a Data Stream Blue line

The execution gap

Infrastructure does not behave like a building

Name: Data Stack Global India: Construction & Infrastructure
Start: 2027-02-16
End: 2027-02-16
Location: Nagpur

Survey data, ground conditions and progress reporting all work differently when the site is a line rather than a plot: a corridor, a metro alignment, a freight route, a tunnel. Maharashtra has just finished building the largest set of linear assets in the country. The data practice is catching up.

16 February 2027Nagpur, Maharashtra · 9:30 am to 8:30 pm

A technical drawing of a single linear asset in plan, with chainage ticks above a section of deck and piers, and one instrumented location marked

About

About the summit

Linear assets · Maharashtra

The summit. Focused on data and digital delivery for linear assets: how large-scale infrastructure is built, digitised, and sustained over decades.

The agenda. Exclusively focused on linear assets: corridors, expressways, metro alignments, freight routes, and tunnels.

The industry focus. Built for decision-makers across the asset lifecycle who own operational challenges:

Asset owners and government authorities
EPC contractors and subcontractors
Project management consultants (PMCs)
Long-term stakeholders (funds, lenders, regulators)

The conversation. Centered on a core insight: the true value of infrastructure lies in the operational data that runs it for decades.

Key practitioner questions:

Schema ownership: Who unifies data across multiple proprietary contractor formats?

The linear question: How do you manage data on a site that is a line, not a plot?

Instrumentation: Who funds and maintains hardware into year seven?

Platform longevity: Will your current digital platform survive a 30-year lifecycle?

The city. Home to Maharashtra’s longest expressway, the world’s longest double-decker metro viaduct, and a key node of India’s completed freight corridor network, it gives regional EPCs direct access to a global digital delivery conversation.

Speakers

Confirmed so far

Listed alphabetically, by first name

Practitioners who run the work, speaking to peers who run it too.

Debasish SmrutiranjanVice President, Drone Operations & Geospatial EngineeringMonarch Surveyors & Engineering Consultants LtdPanel two · Running a line, not a plot

Koustuv ChoudhuriTechnical DirectorAECOMPanel one · Structure before software

Sabyasachi NayakVice President & Head, Design & Engineering Centre, RBF SBGLarsen & Toubro Limited, Transport Infrastructure ICPanel two · Running a line, not a plot

Saminathan ChidambaramTechnical DirectorAtkinsRéalisModerating panel three · Open or captive

Satyanarayan PurohitVice President & HODDilip Buildcon LimitedOpening session · From break-fix to predicted

Vinod Kumar AgrawalDirector (Systems & Operations)Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation LtdPanel one · Structure before software

Nominate a speakerSomeone who has solved one of these problems on a live programme, yourself included.Put a name forward

Who is in the room

Target sectors and departments

Five sectors · one day

The room is built by category. Technology and services is the only one with a ceiling.

Asset owners and authorities

Project DeliverySite OperationsLand AcquisitionEnvironmentProgramme Policy

EPC contractors and subcontractors

Digital ConstructionBIMVirtual Design and ConstructionEngineeringSurveySafety

Project management consultants

TenderingContract RiskRegulatory ComplianceUrban Planning

Funds, lenders and regulators

InvestmentFinancePublic-Private PartnershipsESG AuditLegal

Technology and services

RoboticsGIS and MappingDigital TwinAutomationConstruction AIMaterials Technology

Start here

Which of these is yours

Nine problems · six sessions

The room is defined by the problems on the desk, not by job title.

01You own the schema nobody agreed onSix contractors, six data dictionaries, one asset register that reconciles none of them.Panel one 02You own the survey that was already out of dateThe drone flew in March. The alignment moved in April. The model still says March.Panel two 03You own the model that says one thing and the site says anotherDesign intent and as-built diverge quietly for months, then loudly at commissioning.Fireside 04You own the mandate the site ignoresA BIM execution plan signed at head office and unread at chainage 340.Fireside 05You own the sensors in year sevenInstrumentation outlives the contractor who installed it and the warranty that covered it.Opening discussion 06You own the number the CFO does not believePhysical progress, financial progress and the board pack are three different numbers.Panel two 07You own the data room the fund is about to openDiligence reads your asset data before it reads your balance sheet.Opening discussion 08You own the platform decision you cannot reverseA common data environment chosen in year one governs every handover for twenty.Panel three 09You own the handover nobody can openTen terabytes delivered in a format the operator has no licence for.Panel three

Three or more on your desk, this is your day.

Before you come

The data stack readiness check. Eight questions, no email. It tells you which sessions are actually yours.

Take the readiness check Register interest

The conversation

Owner · contractor · fund

The people in this room are running the same problem from different sides of it. An owner wants one number they can take to a board. A contractor wants a schema that survives six subcontractors. A fund wants evidence it can read without a two-week manual exercise.

Put those three in a room and the conversation goes somewhere a vendor briefing never does. Nobody has to explain what chainage is, or why the model and the site disagree, or what happens to instrumentation in year seven. That shared floor is the whole point of the day.

So the sessions are built as discussions rather than presentations, and each one closes on three things you can actually do on Monday. If that is the conversation you have been trying to have inside your own organisation, you should be in it.

A plan-view seating layout, one seat marked in Data Stream Blue.

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Who this is for

An infrastructure room

This is an infrastructure room.

Asset owners, EPCs, the project management consultants between them, the subcontractors who execute, and the funds and regulators who hold the asset afterwards.

If you are a technology vendor, you are welcome: in the room as a participant rather than a presenter, and on the record like everyone else.

Agenda

The day, in full

Nothing gated. Nothing behind a login.

Select a session to expand its sub-points, or read the full programme.

9:30 am – 10:20 amRegistration, coffee and networking

10:20 am – 10:50 amOpening address

What you take home

The Monday Morning Checklist

Every session ends with a short checklist, drawn from the discussion in the room.

Three practical steps you can take back to your team and start on straight away.

Six sessions, six checklists. You take all of them home.

Three checklist rows on document rules, the first ticked.

One day, six sessions, six checklists. Tell us where to send the programme.