Explores how power systems must adapt to rapid electrification, AI-driven demand and industrial growth while remaining affordable, reliable and decarbonised.
Discussion focus: grid expansion and interconnection bottlenecks • storage and flexibility • clean firm power • utilities, regulation and market reform • industrial and digital demand

Positions water infrastructure as a strategic platform for economic development and resilience, while bringing universal access, public health and emerging-economy needs more explicitly into the conversation.
Discussion focus: water scarcity and climate variability • universal access and sanitation • industrial and urban water demand • reuse and efficiency • governance and investment

Adds the Resources pillar that WG1 identified as underrepresented: the materials and supply chains required to build future infrastructure and the circular systems needed to reduce resource pressure.
Discussion focus: critical minerals • construction materials • circularity and urban mining • strategic supply chains • materials for energy and water infrastructure

Focuses on the practical barriers that prevent resilient infrastructure from scaling and the mechanisms that can turn resilience needs into bankable, implementable projects.
Discussion focus: financing and blended finance • risk allocation and insurance • procurement and regulation • climate data and analytics • institutional capacity

Looks beyond today's compliance and risk-management approaches to the technologies, materials, digital solutions and business models that could make resilience a mature innovation ecosystem by 2035.
Discussion focus: advanced materials • digital and climate solutions • new delivery models • innovation ecosystems • who captures value in a mature resilience market

DescriptionExplores how project proponents, investors and markets can better recognize and reward infrastructure quality - embedding life-cycle value, resilience, sustainability and performance into project and investment decisions, and developing frameworks to identify, value and finance quality assets.
Discussion focus: bankability • quality and sustainability • innovation risk • capital structures • investor incentives

Shifts the measure of infrastructure success from what is built to the economic activity it unlocks. The session examines jobs, local supply chains, tourism, regeneration and housing as channels through which infrastructure can create lasting local value rather than a temporary construction-spending effect.
Discussion focus: local economic development • job creation • tourism • local content and SMEs • housing and labour mobility • procurement choices • measuring long-term local value

Focuses on how to enhance the infrastructure value by creating better connections across the full infrastructure lifecycle value, from engineering and construction to decades of operation. Rather than treating each phase in isolation, the panel will examine fragmented data, misaligned incentives, skills gaps and the changes needed in collaboration, contracting and information-sharing to enable integrated AI-driven infrastructure systems.
Discussion focus: AI in design and performance modelling • project delivery and quality control • operations and maintenance • asset optimisation • data continuity • collaboration and contracting • workforce and skills

Examines the opportunities and risks created as AI takes a greater role in operating critical infrastructure. The session moves beyond technical cybersecurity to address transparency and explainability, technological dependence and sovereignty, cyber-physical threats, liability and the evolving distribution of responsibility between operators, owners, technology providers, regulators and machines.
Discussion focus: AI safety and reliability • cybersecurity and systemic risk • explainability and transparency • accountability and liability • technological sovereignty • ethics • human oversight

Treats passenger mobility and urban logistics as one connected transition. Electrification, platform coordination and new vehicle categories are changing both people and goods movement; the session asks how cities should absorb, regulate, finance and connect these shifts rather than examining each technology or company in isolation.
Discussion focus: last-mile logistics • fleet electrification • ride-hailing and delivery platforms • advanced air mobility • public transport • regional connectivity • public/private risk sharing

Addresses the persistent gap between infrastructure needs and investable projects, focusing on how to mobilise capital at scale and remove financial, legal and institutional barriers.
Discussion focus: capital mobilisation • project preparation • regulatory and legal constraints • public-private collaboration • risk-adjusted returns

Tests two competing visions of the future city: an increasingly instrumented, optimised and automated “sensor city”, and a human-centric city in which design, lived experience and public value determine what should be measured and automated. The objective is not to choose one extreme, but to ask what blend should guide urban infrastructure investment.
Discussion focus: AI, sensors and real-time data • digital twins • data governance • formal and informal cities • human versus algorithmic decision-making • efficiency, equity and wellbeing

Looks at the delivery structures that can make major infrastructure programmes more investable and executable, including progressive delivery, PPPs and improved risk allocation.
Discussion focus: PPP structures • progressive delivery • procurement • enterprise development and origination • risk allocation

Focuses on what is required to make infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies genuinely bankable and attractive to long-term capital.
Discussion focus: DFIs, MDBs and ECAs • project preparation • risk perception versus actual risk • local institutional investors • blended finance

Explores how generative AI, robotics, digital twins, advanced sensing and data-driven engineering are already changing infrastructure design, construction and operations, and what may become possible next. The discussion will Focus on supporting the new collaborative delivery models required by advance technologies resulting in improvements in productivity, safety, circularity and decarbonisation, while also considering workforce impacts, skills, trust, regulation, data ownership and accountability.
Discussion focus: generative AI • robotics and automation • digital twins • advanced sensing • computational design • productivity and safety • circularity and resource efficiency • future skills and professional roles