Esri’s Technology Director for AEC spent roughly three decades on the industry side, most of it at Arcadis, before joining Esri to work the problem from the platform side. His case for digital twins starts with the mix of expertise required inside an AEC firm and ends with a flood-control system in South Florida he...

Esri’s CTO of Digital Twins spent years building the photogrammetry engine underneath ArcGIS Reality before Esri acquired his company outright. A conversation after this year’s User Conference covers what changed when Gaussian splatting arrived, why survey-grade accuracy still matters in an AI-driven capture environment, and what a working geospatial digital twin actually looks like in...