From 8-15 October 2020, London’s QEII Centre hosted X3DMedia’s NXT BLD (Next Build) online conference. The conference, which explored emerging technologies and how they will impact the future of architecture and construction, had intended to run as a live event in June 2020 but, was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision was then made to run it as an online event in October. QEII’s sales team worked in partnership with X3DMedia and its organiser, AEC Magazine, to adapt and deliver the event, which covered the innovations in digital fabrication, robots, 3D printing, IoT, generative design, virtual and augmented reality, real time design visualisation and more.