The Boao Forum for Asia (博鳌亚洲论坛), by 28 Asian countries and Australia, is a non-profit organisation that hosts high-level forums for leaders from government, business and academia in Asia and other continents to share their vision on the most pressing issues in this dynamic region and the world at large. BFA is modelled on the World Economic Forum held annually in Davos, Switzerland.

Dion Moult will be presenting on the second conference of the International Science, Technology and Innovation Forum (ISTIF) of the Boao Forum for Asia, in Zhuhai, China, on the topic of Impetus for Innovation, Digital Building, future City.

• The advent of the digital era has greatly changed every aspect of human life. The digital economy is a significant engine for the recovery of the post-epidemic economy, bringing opportunities for digital transformation in various industries, thus giving rise to the digital building.
• Open source has become the general trend of global digital sci-tech innovation. Seizing the new opportunity of open-source development, focusing on the new situation and building an independent and perfect open source ecology are the security guarantee for the solid development of digital building in the future.
• Developing Chinese style IFC open standards and building a BIM  platform with Chinese characteristics will help to solve the waste caused by data integrity and data exchange, so as to drive digital buildings and smart cities.