Bentley Tech Summit 2025: Connecting Digital Tools to Real-World Infrastructure at Scale

More than 500 infrastructure professionals are gathering in Berlin this December for the Bentley Tech Summit 2025 (BTS25), a three-day, hands-on event positioned as a “turning point” for Bentley Systems and the global infrastructure industry.

The summit is designed to foster deep technical learning and cross-team collaboration, focusing less on individual Bentley products and more on how the company’s software tools connect to support entire real-world projects, from design through operation and management.

“The pressures on global infrastructure are increasing. BTS25 is a place to create an ecosystem of knowledge that we can build on to improve global infrastructure,” said the event host Andy Rahden, Bentley’s Vice President of Solution Engineering and Services.

The curriculum, designed by Kierstin Arthur, Senior Technical Enablement Manager, features intensive, two-day learning tracks built around real-world workflows in transportation, water, energy, and geotechnical engineering.

“Showing our products working together end to end, and linking that to real industry solutions, is something we’ve never attempted before at this scale,” said Arthur.

Besides, a select group of industry power users has been invited to join the teaching team. These experts are providing crucial real-world feedback on workflows, highlighting bottlenecks, and demonstrating how they apply Bentley’s tools to solve complex infrastructure challenges.

For instance, an OpenRoads Premier Scholar, Ross Brown, is showcasing an integrated digital design review. Brown is candid about areas for improvement, calling the manual data transfer between some Bentley products “software gymnastics” and urging the company to accelerate automation based on user insights.

 Rahden views the inclusion of users as the start of a wider movement, expecting the event to grow sharply as it evolves into a global learning ecosystem shared by the company and its customers.

“The real power in the infrastructure space comes when the physical and digital meet,” he said.

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