What to Expect at ABC Central Florida's 2026 EdTech Summit
Quick answer: ABC Central Florida's 2026 EdTech Summit runs September 24 at Dr Phillips Academic Commons in Orlando, and ServiceIQ is leading a session called "Your AI Workforce" making the case for using AI to absorb busywork, like data entry and submittal tracking, while keeping judgment calls and safety decisions with people. The full-day agenda also covers construction technology, leadership, compliance, and safety sessions, with registration open now.
Key Takeaways
- ●ABC Central Florida's 2026 EdTech Summit runs September 24 at Dr Phillips Academic Commons in Orlando, a full day built around construction technology, leadership, and safety.
- ●ServiceIQ is leading a session called "Your AI Workforce," making the case for AI as support for absorbed busywork, not a replacement for judgment calls or safety decisions.
- ●The agenda also covers data foundations, intelligent jobsites, drones, workforce leadership panels, CMMC compliance, and a hands-on Active Shooter Workshop.
- ●The event sits alongside ABC Central Florida's other training programs, like the NEXGEN Leadership Program, part of a broader push to keep the industry's workforce current.
- ●Registration is open now.
The 2026 EdTech Summit runs September 24 at Dr Phillips Academic Commons in Orlando, a full day of sessions built around this year's theme: big ideas, real solutions, what's next. It's hosted by ABC Central Florida, and it's grown into one of the region's go-to events for contractors trying to keep up with where construction technology is actually headed, not just the version of it that shows up in headlines.
ABC Central Florida is the local chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, a national association built around the merit shop philosophy, representing GCs, subcontractors, and the broader construction industry across the region. EdTech Summit sits alongside the chapter's other training and development programs, things like the NEXGEN Leadership Program and Project Management Institute offerings, as part of a broader push to keep the industry's workforce current, not just its equipment.
ServiceIQ Is Speaking
ServiceIQ has been invited to lead a session this year called "Your AI Workforce."
Here's what to expect: a case for thinking about AI less as a replacement for people and more as support for the work that's currently being absorbed by people whose actual job is something else. A superintendent doing data entry between site walks. An estimator manually tracking submittal deadlines instead of estimating, you get the idea.
The session digs into where AI genuinely earns a place in that gap, and just as importantly, where it explicitly shouldn't, judgment calls, safety decisions, and the conversations that need a person on the other end of them stay firmly off the table.
Expect real construction scenarios, not abstract AI theory, and a practical framework for deciding how much independence a given task should actually get, rather than treating every AI feature as equally hands-off or equally risky.
What Else You'll Find on the Agenda
"Your AI Workforce" is one session in a full day covering a lot of ground.
On construction technology: "Building the Data Foundation That Makes AI Work" with Armando Huerta (CEO, i-Tech), "The Intelligent Jobsite" with Thai Nguyen (Director of Innovation, Diverge, a Hensel Phelps company), and "The Internet of Drones: Redefining Construction in the Age of Intelligence" with Paul Doherty (President & CEO, The Digit Group).
On leadership and workforce: "Human in the Room" with Betsy Gardner (Founder & CEO, Evermore Advisory), plus panels on Maximizing the Workforce Funnel and Connecting the Future of Construction, featuring leaders from across the region's contracting and safety community.
On security and compliance: "CMMC Decoded" with Satyam Verma (Construction Practice Leader, Egnyte), covering the compliance requirements increasingly showing up in federal contracts.
On safety: "Smarter Safety Starts Here" with Russell Young (Chief Business Development Officer, Tenna), and a hands-on Active Shooter Workshop led by Terry Curran, a retired NYPD Sergeant and Field Training Officer with over 40 years in public safety.
It's a genuinely full day, technology sessions in the morning, leadership and safety content woven through the rest, and a case study closing things out.
See You There
Registration is open now. If any of the above sounds like a day worth clearing your calendar for, we'd genuinely like to see you in the room.
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