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Inside Bentley’s Tech Summit: Breaking Barriers to Build Value

On the second morning of the Bentley Tech Summit in Berlin, Marina Savenkova looked around a crowded conference room and paused. “I totally can say one Bentley,” said Savenkova, an Ireland-based senior application engineer at Bentley Systems. “Yeah, one Bentley with colleagues and with users.” It wasn’t a slogan. It was an observation. All around her were engineers, product managers, solution specialists, and Bentley software users from across the world, clustered together in small groups. Laptops open, diagrams sketched, notes scribbled. Workflows adjusted on the fly. Problems that normally move slowly through organizational channels were quickly being discussed—and often resolved—in real time. The scene captured the essence of the summit, also known as BTS25. The three-day event wasn’t designed as a product showcase or series of presentations, but rather as a working environment—one where learning, teaching, and alignment happened together across roles and disciplines. “It’s almost like lightning in a bottle,” said Volaree Rendon, Bentley’s director of solutions engineering. “You have this hive mind.” That collaborative atmosphere was intentional. More than 500 Bentley colleagues and users came to Berlin in December to do the hard work of understanding how infrastructure is designed, built, and operated today—and where friction still exists.

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Bentley Systems Brings AI and Digital Twins to The World’s Largest Transportation Research and Policy Forum

Each January, Washington becomes the global hub for the future of transportation. Thousands of policymakers, researchers, engineers, and industry leaders gather in the U.S. capital for the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The gathering is widely regarded as the world’s largest transportation research and policy forum. The reason: influence. As part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, TRB works year-round with more than 5,500 transportation professionals through its research programs and technical committees. That work informs transportation policy, funding, and regulation, including across the U.S. at the federal and state levels.This year, the annual meeting attracts 12,000 attendees and features nearly 250 sessions that bridge artificial intelligence (AI) data with information technology, geotechnical engineering, maintenance, energy, mobility, and other areas. For Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, the TRB Annual Meeting is where technology, research, policy, and real-world impact intersect. “There is a magic to TRB, the only global conference that brings together all key stakeholders to define the future of a multi-modal, complex transportation system,” says Ben Levine, Bentley’s director of market development who previously served as the deputy assistant secretary for research & technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation. “This

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How Hawai‘i Is Modernizing Road Maintenance With AI: Inside The AI Effort Helping Hawai‘i Stay on the Move

Hawai‘i is so rich in natural beauty that in parts of the world its name is shorthand for paradise. But exploring that paradise depends on something far more prosaic: roads. Maintaining them is anything but easy. Sun, salty air, torrential rain, lush vegetation, and even volcanic activity take a relentless toll on roads and highways that encircle and cross the U.S. state’s islands. That challenge is why the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation (HDOT), working with the University of Hawai‘i, launched Eyes on the Road. The program uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to analyze imagery from 1,000 high-definition dashcams. The free cameras were handed out to residents for installation in their cars to help spot road problems early—before they become safety hazards. “The Eyes on the Road program will give us the information we need to get to damaged facilities quickly,” HDOT Director Ed Sniffen says. HDOT and Bentley recently announced their collaboration. The dashcams automatically record video as residents go about their day, capturing road safety issues such as guardrail damage, vegetation encroachment, and road debris. The system uploads the video to the cloud via a cellular connection and anonymizes the data. Using machine learning algorithms and advanced

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What Our Latest Acquisitions Mean for Infrastructure Analytics

Often called the world’s largest machine, the power grid is an engineering marvel that helped supercharge modernity and bring electricity to homes and businesses. Cellular networks come close to the grid in size and importance. They revolutionized communications, banking, transportation, and other critical industries. Both systems now serve as the foundation for the era of artificial intelligence (AI), with one feeding electricity to hyperscale data centers and the other ferrying information and insights. Though largely out of mind, these critical networks and their transmission and cell towers are never entirely out of sight. They dot urban and rural landscapes, including river crossings and steep mountain sides, and keeping them in good shape can be an arduous manual task. Bentley Systems is the leader in infrastructure engineering software, and over the last decade, our Asset Analytics business has been simplifying asset maintenance and operation. We’ve been collecting high-resolution images from drones and other sources that can see features as small as 1 millimeter and using the data to build digital twins, or virtual replicas, of cell and transmission towers. We then use AI and machine learning (ML) to analyze the data and automate cell tower inspections, improve maintenance, catalogue the equipment

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Best of 2025: 6 Stories that Showcase How Digital Twins and AI are Transforming Infrastructure

Protecting sub-sea level New Orleans from flooding. Building atop the shifting, salt-rich soil in Saudi Arabia. Reviving gold mines mothballed decades ago. These are just some of the challenges that engineers are successfully taking on around the world with help from Bentley Systems software. Learn more in the stories below about how engineers are integrating digital twins, artificial intelligence (AI), and other technology to solve major infrastructure challenges and build for the future. A Digital Gold Rush Record gold prices have flipped the script on the economics of mining, which means mines that were closed decades ago are suddenly gleaming again with promise. But reviving a mine isn’t as simple as turning the lights back on. Companies need to know how much gold is left, where to find it, and how much it will cost to get it out. They also need to determine the mine’s impact on the environment—which is where Seequent, Bentley’s subsurface company, and its industry-leading software come in. Mining teams are turning to Seequent’s Evo, a cloud platform that connects data, teams, and tools in a single collaborative environment. Evo’s accurate modeling isn’t just good for the bottom line—it’s essential for sustainability. “If you can move

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World Tour: 5 Great 3D Visualizations from Cesium in 2025

On Christmas Eve, excited children—and the merely curious—can track Santa Claus’ sleigh across the skies thanks to NORAD’s famous Santa tracker. It’s one of the best-known public-facing applications of Cesium, Bentley Systems’ geospatial technology, which can stream massive datasets, render them in 3D, and deliver them to anyone, anywhere, on any device. In 2025, Santa’s journey caps a year of great Cesium 3D visualizations from around the world, including immersive tours of Berlin, Barcelona, the Netherlands, and Belém, Brazil, this year’s host city for the UN Climate Change Conference. Cesium is also helping a professor in Japan to create interactive records of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Keep reading to learn more about the projects—and to experience for yourself how Cesium lets you experience history, explore landmarks, and marvel at ingenious infrastructure old and new. Using 3D Tech to Redefine How We Experience History University of Tokyo professor Hidenori Watanave has spent two decades creating interactive, explorable records of global conflicts, including the World War II atomic bombings of Japan. With a few clicks, you can walk through Hiroshima and see images of the city as it was. You can also watch video accounts of the bombing directly from

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What is the Bentley Tech Summit—and why does it matter?

In this episode of Bentley Talks, Andy Rahden, Vice President of Solutions Engineering & Services, explains how the Bentley Tech Summit brings together solution engineering, services, support teams, and customers to better serve infrastructure users worldwide. Recorded in Berlin, the conversation explores why the city is a fitting backdrop amid major infrastructure investment, how the summit has evolved from product training to industry-focused workflows, and why face-to-face collaboration is essential to solving complex infrastructure challenges. Rahden also shares his long-term vision: building a global community of technologists—inside and outside Bentley—who learn from one another, share best practices, and help shape how infrastructure is designed, built, and experienced. Below is the transcript of the conversation. Tomas Kellner: What is the Bentley Tech Summit? Andy Rahden: We’re so excited. This is our second Bentley Tech Summit that we’ve held. We initiated the first Bentley Tech Summit in 2024, in December. Exactly a year later, we’re here in Berlin, and we’re so excited to bring all of our internal colleagues together, our solution engineering, our services teams, and our support teams to really increase their ability to provide the needs of our accounts and our users every single day. TK: Why are you

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The Events that Defined Bentley in 2025

At Bentley Systems, we’re all about infrastructure. But we’re also about people—from the individual following a groundbreaking hunch to teams strengthening how they work together. Throughout 2025, Bentley held events that gathered infrastructure professionals to collaborate, accelerate innovation, and inspire the next generation of engineers. Here are stories about three of those events. 1. Inside the First Cesium Developer Conference The inaugural Cesium Developer Conference landed in Philadelphia this summer, bringing together a global crowd of developers, climate scientists, engineers, game designers, and space technologists. Over three days, these professionals explored how open 3D geospatial technology is transforming the way we understand and interact with the world—from city streets to outer space, and even inside the infamous Alcatraz prison. Hosted by Cesium, which became part of Bentley in 2024, the conference featured nearly 90 sessions, with speakers from NASA, Google, NVIDIA, Epic Games, and the Open Geospatial Consortium.  Watch the highlights, see Cesium in action, and read about the innovations. https://youtu.be/8bYbYr5B3JY?si=DBM1onPVKzsvcUUD 2. Berlin Hosts Bentley Systems’ Biggest Tech Summit Yet Bentley’s Andy Rahden called it “one of the most collaborative moments of our year.” The Bentley Tech Summit 2025 gathered over 500 infrastructure professionals in the German capital of Berlin

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LSU Launches a First-of-Its-Kind Digital Twin Certificate With Industry at the Table

Digital twins have quietly become one of the most consequential technologies shaping modern infrastructure and industry. Yet formal training in how they are designed, deployed, and evaluated has lagged behind their adoption. Louisiana State University is aiming to close that gap. This month, LSU launched the nation’s first Digital Twin Design and Production Certificate co-developed by academic and industry experts. The online program will train engineers, project managers, and business leaders in a technology now central to how infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, and other critical systems are designed, built, and operated. Digital twins — virtual, real-time replicas of physical assets and systems — allow organizations to plan construction, simulate performance, monitor conditions as they change, and identify problems before they become failures. They can also accommodate AI and simplify engineering workflows. The new certificate was developed jointly by LSU’s College of Engineering, LSU Online, Baton Rouge–based consultancy DigiTwin Global, and Bentley. Registration is now open. “The engineers and business leaders of tomorrow need digital twin skills today,” said Vicki Colvin, dean of LSU’s College of Engineering. “Understanding how these systems are built, how they’re used, and when they’re worth the investment is no longer optional.” The program consists of seven online

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Breaking Walls, Building Value: How Bentley Teams and Users Work Side by Side in Berlin to Solve Real Infrastructure Challenges

More than 500 engineers, service technicians, product managers, and industry experts came together for a hands-on, fast-moving, problem-solving event built around one idea: One Bentley. This video captures the energy inside the summit’s workshops, where Bentley teams and users wrote down ideas, reshaped workflows, and solved real infrastructure problems side by side. Hear from participants like Marina Savenkova, Aritra Lodh, Volaree Rendon, and Ross Brown as they describe a hive-mind environment where collaboration becomes second nature. The curriculum focused on delivering clear value to users—understanding their pain points and creating the workflows and tools that solve them.  This is how One Bentley takes shape: in the rooms where silos fall and solutions rise. Want to read more from our coverage in Berlin? Check out our Q+A with CTO Julien Moutte. Or try our latest visualization of Berlin, using Cesium’s story technology.

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