As buildings become increasingly complex and expectations around resilience, sustainability, and safety rise, building operations must shift from reactive responses to proactive, intelligence-led management. This panel explores how AI is transforming building operations across digital infrastructure, property operations, and life-safety systems. Industry leaders will share insights on how robust digital foundations enable real-time data visibility, predictive analytics, and scalable AI applications. Perspectives from large-scale commercial property operations will highlight how AI improves operational efficiency, tenant experience, and sustainability performance in Grade A assets. The session will also examine how AI-driven fire service maintenance enhances system reliability, regulatory compliance, and risk prevention. Together, the discussion illustrates how integrated AI solutions are enabling smarter, safer, and future-ready building operations.
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Ho Yin (Deacon) Wong
Director
IFMA Hong Kong Chapter
IFMA Hong Kong Chapter
Director
Wong Ho Yin (Deacon) is a Director of IFMA Hong Kong Chapter and a PhD researcher in Fire Safety, with a strong focus on smart building technologies, AIoT applications and future-ready facility management. His work bridges academic research, building operations and technology adoption, particularly in how data, sensors, artificial intelligence and connected systems can help property and facility management teams move from reactive maintenance to more predictive, proactive and resilient operations.
My Sustainability Goals for 2026:
1. Smarter buildings: Use AI, IoT and data-driven facility management to improve efficiency, safety and resilience. SDG 9, 11
2. Resource efficiency: Reduce energy waste and unnecessary consumption through predictive maintenance and smarter operations. SDG 12, 13
3. Collaboration: Connect facility managers, property owners, technology providers and researchers to scale practical sustainability solutions. SDG 17
Speaking at 2026 sessions:
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From Reactive to Proactive: How AI is Powering Smarter, Future-Ready Building Operations
Barry Lau
President
ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter
ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter
President
Barry is the President (2026-2027) at ASHRAE Hong Kong Chapter. He is the Head of Building Services at Swire Properties Limited. His works involve formulating the corporate decarbonization and energy saving strategies within Swire Properties to pave way for the company in advancing towards a net zero future, implementation of digitalization, artificial intelligence & innovative solution for building applications.
My Sustainability Goals for 2026:
1) Adopt Artificial Intelligence to achieve system optimization to drive decarbonization for Building Sector instead still under piecemeal consideration
2) With more open-minded collaborations between different stakeholders within Building Sector to work towards carbon neutrality
Speaking at 2026 sessions:
Day 1
From Reactive to Proactive: How AI is Powering Smarter, Future-Ready Building Operations
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