Bola Abisogun OBE, BIM Academy

Bola is the Digital Director at BIM Academy and with an over arching intention to deploy digital twins into regulated professional services citing cultural change, Bola was appointed to sit on the Gemini Council at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), and remains a co-author of the infamous Gemini Papers and the Digital Twin toolkit. He is a well documented industry disruptor, innovative systems developer, a longstanding member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and an eminent Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Bola is the Founder & Chairman of DiverseCity (DCS) – a highly successful peer-to-peer network offering excellence and thought leadership from across the global, non traditional talent pool, along with culturally competent support services, for surveyors who are members, or aspiring members of RICS and CIOB. In the 2019 New Years Honours list, Bola was awarded an OBE for services to Diversity and to Young People in the Construction Industry by the late HM Queen Elizabeth II.