Martin Riese is a licensed Architect with 25 years of international experience in professional practice.  He has worked with Santiago Calatrava and Foster and Partners and was a regional Managing Director of Gehry Technologies, where he oversaw numerous large-scale Building Information Modelling (BIM) projects in Asia and throughout the world.  He is a founding partner of FRONT, a renowned integrated building industry practice, which provides technology-enabled design and construction consultancy services worldwide.  Martin is also a Visiting Professor in the School of the Built Environment at Salford University and is a professional member of the Hong Kong Institute of Building Information Modelling (HKIBIM). Martin publishes and lectures regularly on the subject of “Construction Industry Transformation” and the role of information technology in sustainable development.