Julien Moutte is chief technology officer of Bentley Systems and is the principal architect of the company’s technology directions. He has over 20 years of technology leadership experience in startups, scaleups, and large organizations. Prior to joining Bentley as vice president of technology in 2021, Julien served as head of technology for SAP Marketing Cloud and a member of the office of the chief technology officer with SAP Customer Experience. He also served as chief technology officer of Scytl, a platform for online voting, and the Fluendo, the Free Software multimedia experts, which he co-founded in 2004 in Barcelona, Spain. Julien holds a degree in computer science from Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France.
From established software vendors to rising startups, the infrastructure sector is rethinking how emerging technology will address short-term challenges and transform long-term business strategies. Everyone needs data to perform critical tasks, discover new insights, leverage AI, and develop new solutions. However, infrastructure data must be usable, accessible, and current for decades. In the battle for BIM 2.0, selecting the right technologies, harnessing composable tools, and building innovative solutions has become a critical business decision that will have data management ramifications for decades to come.
In this session, Bentley Systems CTO Julien Moutte will discuss how open standards and truly open platforms will help software users and developers avoid vendor lock-in, ensure data interoperability, build a diverse vendor ecosystem, and prepare for the future. He will also share how design applications, geospatial context, composable tools, and cloud capabilities can work together to power innovation and better outcomes across the infrastructure lifecycle.
Surveying and real-world capture have gone through huge changes in the last five years. Laser scanning has got faster and more mobile and we have SPOT the robot dog. Photogrammetry has increased in accuracy to rival laser scans. Now we have Gaussian Splats to bring new capabilities to reality capture. With AI being used to deliver unassisted scan to BIM, where is this industry going next?