--- title: Announcing Confluence Lexington 2026 Theme description: AVAIL’s signature professional development event will explore how AEC firms can turn people, process, data, and project knowledge into lasting advantage. image: https://blog.getavail.com/hubfs/blog-cover_Confluence%20LEX26%20theme.png --- [![AVAIL](https://blog.getavail.com/hubfs/AVAIL%20March%202020/Images/avail-wordmark-color.png)](https://getavail.com/) - Solutions - [Revit](https://getavail.com/revit/) - [AutoCAD & Civil 3D](https://getavail.com/autocad/) - [Manage Content](https://getavail.com/manage-bim-content/) - [Capturing Knowledge](https://getavail.com/capital-resources/) - Features - [Overview](https://getavail.com/feature-overview/) - [Channel & Key Cards](https://getavail.com/channel-keycards/) - [Channel Tools](https://getavail.com/tagio/) - [Dynamic Paths](https://getavail.com/dynamic-paths/) - [Harvest](https://getavail.com/avail-harvest/) - [Host in Cloud](https://getavail.com/avail-host-in-cloud/) - [Project Navigator](https://getavail.com/revit-project-navigator/) - [Select (Manufacturer Content)](https://getavail.com/select/) - [Stream](https://getavail.com/avail-stream/) - [Palettes](https://getavail.com/palettes/) - [Related Content](https://getavail.com/related-content/) - [Pricing](https://getavail.com/pricing/) - Resources - [Webinars](https://webinars.getavail.com/webinars) - [Blog & News](https://blog.getavail.com/) - [Customer Stories](https://blog.getavail.com/tag/customer-stories) - [Events](https://blog.getavail.com/tag/events) - [Help Center](https://helpcenter.getavail.com/en/) - [Professional Services](https://getavail.com/professional-services/) - [Download AVAIL](https://login.getavail.com/signin/register) ### News, ### Events # Announcing Confluence Lexington 2026 Theme June 4, 2026 AVAIL Tagged in: News, Events --- ![](https://blog.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-cover_Confluence%20LEX26%20theme.png?width=700&name=blog-cover_Confluence%20LEX26%20theme.png) *Hosted by software company [AVAIL](http://getavail.com), [Confluence Lexington 2026](https://confluence.getavail.com/2026-lexington) is an invite-only professional development event for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) technology leaders that will take place October 8-10, 2026. The program theme this year is The Future-Ready AEC Firm. Over three days, leaders will explore how firms can adapt to evolving technology, workforce expectations, and business demands by building stronger foundations in people, process, data, and project knowledge. Learn more about the theme below.* Jump to - [2026 Theme: The Future-Ready AEC Firm](https://blog.getavail.com/confluence-lex-theme#announce) - [Key Subjects Confluence Lexington Guests will Explore](https://blog.getavail.com/confluence-lex-theme#key) - [Register Interest in Attending Confluence Lexington](https://blog.getavail.com/confluence-lex-theme#register) ### Turning people, process, data, and project knowledge into lasting advantage Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms are entering a period of rapid change. New technologies, shifting workforce expectations, evolving project delivery models, and increasing pressure to do more with less are forcing firms to rethink not just the tools they use, but how they work. The Future-Ready AEC Firm explores how architecture, engineering, and construction organizations can build lasting advantage from the knowledge they already create every day. Across every project, firms generate valuable expertise: standards, workflows, lessons learned, design intelligence, delivery methods, client insights, and operational data. Too often, that knowledge remains scattered across teams, trapped in individual projects, or lost when the next deadline takes priority. [Confluence Lexington 2026](https://confluence.getavail.com/2026-lexington) will focus on how firms can better capture, organize, govern, share, and apply that knowledge across the practice. The future-ready firm is not defined by a single tool or trend. It is defined by its ability to learn, adapt, and turn experience into repeatable capability. ##### How can AEC firms turn what they already know into a durable strategic advantage? This theme invites practical conversations about the systems, skills, standards, and cultural changes needed to make firm knowledge more accessible, reusable, and scalable. It looks at how firms can move beyond one-off project execution toward a more connected operating model - one where people, process, data, and technology work together to improve quality, efficiency, innovation, onboarding, and client outcomes. - ![confLEX-yirBlog3](https://blog.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/confLEX-yirBlog3.png?width=360&height=241&name=confLEX-yirBlog3.png) - ![Confluence-LEX26 theme_blog 02](https://blog.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Confluence-LEX26%20theme_blog%2002.png?width=1440&height=1080&name=Confluence-LEX26%20theme_blog%2002.png) - ![Confluence-LEX26 theme_blog 03](https://blog.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Confluence-LEX26%20theme_blog%2003.png?width=1440&height=1080&name=Confluence-LEX26%20theme_blog%2003.png) *The hand-selected audience at Confluence Lexington consists of 70 of AEC’s most influential technology leaders from both AEC firms and technology companies.* ### Key Subjects Confluence Lexington Guests will Explore Our 70 guests at Confluence Lexington will be hand-selected by the Confluence team for their leadership and influence in the AEC industry. Programming during our three days together will explore a selection of these key topics. - Capturing and reusing project knowledge - Building firmwide and industry standards and shared workflows - Improving data governance, taxonomy, and information quality - Connecting design technology with business operations - Rethinking project delivery for a more adaptive practice - Supporting training, onboarding, and generational knowledge transfer - Moving innovation from isolated experiments to repeatable and scalable capability - Distinguishing technology challenges from people and process challenges - Preparing firms to adapt as automation, data, and emerging technologies reshape practice ![decorative](https://blog.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-cover_confluence-lexington-2025-practitioners-1.png?width=260&height=152&name=blog-cover_confluence-lexington-2025-practitioners-1.png) #### Get a Taste of the Programming Last year, [Confluence Lexington 2025](https://confluence.getavail.com/2025-lexington) speakers discussed scaling technology at global AEC firms Populous and IMEG [Read blog](https://blog.getavail.com/confluence-lexington-2025-practitioners)     ### [![Confluence Lexington 2026](https://blog.getavail.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Confluence-LEX26_logo-transparent.png?width=700&height=197&name=Confluence-LEX26_logo-transparent.png)](https://confluence.getavail.com/2026-lexington) ### Register Interest in Attending Confluence Lexington Our signature Confluence Lexington event is invite only. 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