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UT AI Business Club: AI in Business Innovation Challenge #1
VDCO Data is proud to sponsor the AI in Business Club at the University of Tennessee. Students design and demonstrate an AI-enabled platform for the club, with $1,500 in prizes.
Project example · AI workforceMeet the Buildright family: the AI employees we built for VDCO Tech
Six AI virtual employees, each with a mailbox, a manager and an assignment, keeping project knowledge organized and briefing their teams every weekday morning.
Featured webinarFrom BIM to Brains: Bridging Digital Innovation with Real-World Implementation & Workforce Readiness
Explore how AI is transforming BIM into intelligent, adaptive systems that improve decision-making, asset intelligence, and outcomes throughout the project lifecycle.
LinkedIn · Field reportFrom BIM to Brains: Showing the Receipts.
Scott Yates previews a six-month retrospective on what happened when the team’s AI, digital-transformation, and workforce-readiness plans met real-world AEC projects.
LinkedIn · RetrospectiveFrom BIM to Brains, Part II: Six Months in the AI Trenches.
Scott Yates shares real lessons from reorganizing a team around AI—from chatbot prompting and automated openBIM workflows to a company second brain and its first virtual employee.
LinkedIn · BIM SMART SummitClosing the Loop on Digital Transformation.
An introduction to the BIM SMART Summit and its mission to turn honest industry discussion into an actionable report on where digital transformation is—and is not—working.
LinkedIn · Practical AIYour AI Is Only as Good as the Context You Give It.
Scott Yates explains why disappointing AI results often come from missing context—and how defining the audience, decision, inputs, constraints, and outcome can turn hours of work into minutes.
LinkedIn · AI-first mindsetAI-First Is a Mindset, Not a Strategy.
Scott Yates explores how consistently asking, “Can AI help me do this?” builds practical competence—and why curiosity and experimentation can matter more than technical expertise.
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