RECORD Reports Back from Revizto’s 2026 Made Right Conference
A panel on AI at the 2026 Made Right Conference, hosted by Revizto. Pictured left to right are: Hammad Chaudhry, Cupix; David Felker, Trilon Group; Chaitanya N K of Track3D; and RECORD deputy editor Joann Gonchar.
Late last month, as the Northeast was engulfed in a powerful blizzard, nearly 400 AEC professionals, including virtual design and construction (VDC) specialists, BIM managers, and software providers, gathered in sunny Southern California for the Made Right Conference. The event, the fourth annual gathering of users of the collaboration and project-management platform, Revizto, was held at the recently opened Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center, an HKS-designed hotel and conference facility just south of San Diego in Chula Vista. Fittingly, the contractors, Mortenson Construction and McCarthy Building Companies, used Revizto to help realize the 1.8 million square foot complex.
Revizto was used in the construction of 2026 Made Right Conference host venue, the Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center. Images courtesy Mortenson Construction and McCarthy Building Companies
Arman Gukasyan, CEO and founder of Revizto, kicked off the first morning of the multi-day conference with a talk that touched on company milestones, including reaching 13,000 monthly active projects and 23 percent growth in annual recurring revenue. He also previewed Revizto’s “AI manifesto,” a document that was subsequently officially released in early March, emphasizing information security. “We protect your data,” he said. “The data stays with the costumer.”
Revizto founder and CEO Arman Gukasyan addresses the crowd. Photo courtesy Revizto
Artificial Intelligence was also the theme of a panel discussion, hosted by me and convening David Felker, chief information officer for infrastructure engineering company Trilon Group; Hammad Chaudhry, principal of strategic ventures at Cupix, a digital twin and reality capture platform; and Chaitanya N K, CEO of Track3D, an AI-powered site documentation tool. The wide-ranging conversation touched not only on data security, and the potential for AI to improve efficiency and productivity, but also on the technology’s responsible implementation. In a reply to a question about reducing the prodigious energy and water demand of the data centers supporting AI, Felker commented that AEC professionals “are the ones best equipped to deal with this.” Elaborating, he said, “We do a lot of the planning around where you put these things. I would want to put a data center near renewable energy, on a grid that actually has capacity.”
Conference speaker Laura Medina Rodriguez. Photo courtesy Revizto
Photo courtesy Revizto
Another highlight of the main-stage presentations was a talk by Laura Medina Rodriguez about the UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital, in the Parnassus Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, designed by Herzog & de Meuron with HDR as executive architect. Rodriguez, the VDC lead with Herrero Boldt Webcor, the general contractor for the under-construction $2 billion expansion project, described the coordination and design documentation of the complex structure, where every floor plate of the 15-story tower is different. She overviewed the automation process of more than 200 clash-detection tests across 100 digital models.
Made Right breakout sessions focused on workflows and best practices for digital collaboration across diverse projects including hospitals, community recreation centers, and bridges.
Plans for the 2027 conference are still taking shape, but organizers say they are considering a spring timeline and an East Coast location.
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