Paul Doherty, AIA, IFMA Fellow, DFC Senior Fellow

Paul is Chairman and CEO of TDG (the digit group www.thedigitgroupinc.com). As seen on Bloomberg TV, acknowledged by CNBC as one of America's Business Titans and reported by Forbes as “Changing the World”, Paul is an award-winning architect and is one of the world’s most sought after thought leaders, strategists and integrators of process, technology and business. Paul is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and a Fellow of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA). Paul's current work is as Chairman of TDG Global Ventures, a Smart City real estate development company that provides financing, design-build and innovative technology solutions around the world. Concurrently, Paul is the co-founder and producer of the critically acclaimed AEC Hackathon (www.aechackathon.com) that launched at Facebook Headquarters. His past successful ventures include Revit Technologies (Sold to Autodesk 2002), Buzzsaw (Autodesk 2001) and TRIRIGA (IBM 2011).

The Pop in Your Job:

My position is in a privileged role in that I plan, design, build and operate Smart Cities around the world. It is a great responsibility to design an urban environment and deliver ecosystem solutions that meet the demands of today yet leave an inspiring legacy for hope for the future in regards to human-centric, data-driven design that will take care of our environment while sustaining our human condition.

From the tallest of buildings to the smallest of villages, the digit group provides Smart Cities solutions that provide greater security, increased safety, lower energy use and a better urban experience. the digit group uses a matrix of innovations that can include Master Architectural Design Services, Engineering Services, BIM Development/Management, Digital Fabrication and Manufacturing and the real world implementation of the Internet of Things. We design, build and manufacture holistic Smart Cities while using Smart City technology solutions as the basis of our designs. Our Smart Cities technology solutions use our own technology platform called Orbi®, a real time 3D gaming engine that is used to develop numerous Smart City Apps. Connecting these digital Smart City Apps to the physical environment provides urban inhabitants and city mangers with innovative and useful experiences. Our Smart Cities solutions have been implemented in China, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, Europe and throughout the USA. We invite you to experience the Smart Cities phenomena by contacting the world’s Smart Cities experts at the digit group, the leading Smart Cities solutions provider in the world today.