2026 - AVEVA World - Milan - Innovation (CONNECT, AI, etc.)
Architecting Digital Twins on CONNECT: AI-Assisted Twin Building at Scale
Digital twins shouldn’t be custom projects for a few experts. CONNECT changes that by enabling AI-assisted digital twin building that is scalable, repeatable, and accessible across organizations. In this session, learn how CONNECT combines enhanced data services, an industrial knowledge graph, and intelligent twin-building workflows to simplify data onboarding, semantic alignment, and governance. Learn how AI accelerates profiling, mapping, and entity matching across engineering, operations, and maintenance systems. Built on CONNECT, the resulting digital twin becomes a shared platform foundation that powers analytics and AI, visualization, and partner applications, allowing teams to scale to enterprise-wide digital twin adoption.
Company
AVEVA
Speaker
Andy Davidson
Andy Davidson is a Senior Product Manager at AVEVA specialising in industrial digital twins, data harmonisation and information modelling. With over 20 years’ experience across engineering, industrial software and cloud platforms, he has led product strategy for ontology-driven integration, knowledge graphs and scalable data platforms, translating complex technical concepts into real business outcomes.
Company
AVEVA
Speaker
Steve Parvin
Steve is a Chemical Engineer with a Master’s in Enterprise Management. He is very familiar with data challenges having started his career as plant support on an old chemical plant. He has over 20 years’ experience in Engineering Information Management. He has worked with owner-operators and EPCs across Australia, Kazakhstan, the Middle East, the UK and US, spanning multiple sectors and lifecycle phases. At AVEVA, he has held leadership roles in Information Engineering, consulting, portfolio and strategy, and represents AVEVA in key industry bodies including IOGP, CFIHOS and TechUK DTC.