BIMcon SUMMIT 2026 — International openBIM Conference
BIMcon is the annual conference organised by buildingSMART Romania, dedicated to AEC professionals who adopt and promote BIM and openBIM standards.
Marking ten years since the founding of the BIMTECH association, we are putting together a masterclass dedicated to IFC, IDS and open standards, bringing together some of the most prominent experts worldwide — both the legacy developers of IFC and the voices behind the most recent technological and standardisation advances.
All of it in a deliberately intimate format, addressed first of all to the members, partners and supporters who have been with us throughout this decade.
We would be delighted to welcome you to a BIMTECH event, to celebrate together with an international community the achievements and the optimism gathered over our first decade!
Let's build the digital future – together!
BIMcon SUMMIT 2026 is happening now
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Two days, six components
The detailed hour-by-hour programme is below, in the live agenda.
IFC & IDS masterclass
Sessions led by global experts — the legacy developers of IFC and the voices behind the most recent standardisation advances.
CATUC & digital permitting
Romania’s new Territorial Planning, Urbanism and Construction Code, and what the national one-stop-shop means in practice for designers and authorities.
Technical workshops
Hands-on sessions on the open standards, working directly on real project models and workflows.
Solutions exhibition
BIM software and hardware in the Les Colonnades foyer — demos and direct conversations with vendors.
Networking & anniversary
The ten-year BIMTECH moment, together with the international community and the association’s members.
Thematic tracks
The masterclass is built around the buildingSMART open standards and around Romania’s new legal framework for digital permitting. Individual workshop titles and formats will be announced with the detailed programme.
Digital permitting becomes law
Romania’s Territorial Planning, Urbanism and Construction Code entered into force on 25 August 2026, replacing Law 350/2001, Law 50/1991 and a substantial part of Law 10/1995. Among its stated objectives: simplifying and digitalising the approval, endorsement and permitting procedures.
Digitalisation runs through the national platform for urban and territorial planning and construction permitting, made up of the national urbanism geoportal and the national one-stop-shop for construction permits. The Code also provides for urban plans to be transposed into geographic information systems (GIS).
This is where the open standards come in: a platform receiving digital submissions needs structured, checkable data — not scanned drawings. It is precisely the ground we work on — IFC for the model, IDS for information requirements that can be verified automatically.
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Schema and model structure
How the IFC schema is built, what changed in IFC 4 and 4.3, and how that shows up in exports from modelling applications.
Checkable information requirements
Turning information requirements into rules that can be verified automatically against the model, instead of by hand in coordination meetings.
Coordination and issue management
Federating discipline models and moving issues between teams, independently of the application in use.
Checking the deliverables
Tools for validating models and IFC exports — what a standard-compliant deliverable actually looks like.
openBIM experts at BIMcon 2026
The names confirmed so far for the masterclass on IFC, IDS and the open standards — IFC schema developers, IDS contributors and authors of openBIM training material. The list grows as further confirmations come in.
Frederico Ramos
Lex Ransijn
Christoph Carl Eichler
Gabriela Covatariu
Vukas Pajic
Claudiu-Daniel Salanță
Zhang Han-Lu Simona
Valeria Enache
Răzvan Grigorescu
Petru Conduraru
Răzvan Stancu
Ingrid Băltărețu
Leoš Svoboda
Mihai Vlad
Radu Felecan
Theodor Teacă
Răzvan Gorcea
Ana Maria Dolgae
Ioana Constantin
Eugen Ursu
Cătălin Andrei
Irina Dumitru
Viorel Cun
Dan Vlăsceanu
Ruxandra Chirca
Ștefan Constantinescu
Bogdan Matei
Constantin Vînău
Anca Bulin
Costel Cojanu
Dimitrios Theodorou
Louis Trümpler
Cătălin Frăcea
Raluca Șoaita
Olivia Traistaru
InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest
A landmark heritage hotel in the heart of Bucharest, looking out towards the Romanian Athenaeum and the former Royal Palace. Built in 1912 to the designs of French architect Téophile Bradeau and opened in 1914, the Athénée Palace combines Belle Époque elegance with modern conference facilities — the right setting for a ten-year anniversary.
- The Le Diplomate ballroom — the hotel’s jewel: gold leaf, a stained-glass ceiling, crystal mirrors and chandeliers; a listed national heritage monument
- The Les Colonnades foyer — a Belle Époque symbol, with marble columns over 110 years old, ideal for networking and the BIM solutions exhibition
- Meeting rooms for workshops and parallel sessions
- Central location — 1–3 Episcopiei Street, next to Revolution Square and Calea Victoriei
- A building with over a century of history, recently renovated
The openBIM Romania Awards
The openBIM Awards are how buildingSMART Romania recognises the projects and teams applying the open standards in day-to-day design and construction practice.
The 2026 edition is presented during the anniversary BIMcon, at the InterContinental Athénée Palace, in front of the international community attending the masterclass.
Conference with national and international speakers
Technical, hands-on workshops
Exhibition of BIM software and hardware solutions
Networking sessions
A decade of BIMcon
A look back at every edition — from the first National BIM Conference in 2019 to the 2025 SUMMIT.
Who makes the anniversary edition possible
The first companies confirmed for BIMcon 2026. The list grows as further partnerships are finalised.
Would you like to support the ten-year edition? See the partnership packages in the brochure below.
Join BIMcon 2026
Explore the partnership and sponsorship opportunities and join us in 2026, at the InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest, on 22 and 23 October.