Southwest Florida operators report what they put into production this year — the licence cost, the implementation, the staff time nobody budgets, and the pilots they killed.
Thursday, November 12, 2026 · 2:00–5:00 PM
Hilton Naples · Naples, Florida
No gurus. No predictions. Just experiences.
What Southwest Florida firms put into production this year — licence, implementation, and the staff time nobody budgets.
What was bought, turned on, and turned off again, and what the operator would do differently.
What the City of Naples has turned on in plan review, from the Director of Building Services.
What happened when staff used AI on client work before the rules existed, from the operator who had to clean it up — what to open, what to keep shut, and where the permission requests go wrong.
Builders, developers, architects and property managers from this market, in one room, for the afternoon.
The tool, the workflow it replaced, and who inside the company actually uses it now.
Licence, implementation, and the months of staff time nobody puts in the budget.
The pilots that went nowhere, and what the operator would do differently.
No keynote. Nobody sells to this room. Every speaker has their name on the profit and loss of the company they are describing, and is asked for cost, timeline and headcount effect rather than an opinion.
Director of Building Services for the City of Naples, responsible for the department that reviews and approves permits in the city.
President of BCB Homes, the Naples custom builder.
Chief Administrative Officer and principal at DeAngelis Diamond, which he joined in 2014, and president of FutureBylt. The contractor runs more than 350 people across Naples, Sarasota, Tampa, Orlando, Nashville and Detroit.
Building residential property in Southwest Florida since 2000, and a licensed Certified Building Contractor in the state. Builds construction software at Punchify. Co-founded Register.com and took it public. Convenes AI+RE.
At MHK since 2014, with twenty years in architectural visualization. Writes the firm’s policy for generative AI in visualization, conceptual design and graphics, and moved its CAD, BIM and design pipelines onto AI-assisted workflows.
Founded Gamma Tech in Naples in 2004, at sixteen. Thirty-five people today across managed IT, cybersecurity, low-voltage and audio-video work for Southwest Florida homes and businesses, and cybersecurity for 115 managed-IT clients. Builds the company’s own field software for its crews.
National Director at MHK Architecture & Planning, the Naples-headquartered practice.
President and chief executive of Christopher Alan Homes, a Southwest Florida production homebuilder.
Building Inspector and Building Plans Examiner with the City of Naples. Worked in construction before becoming an inspector, with programming and software development as longtime personal interests.
What each of them is speaking about
Also in the room: the venture and strategy lead at one of the largest homebuilders in the United States.
I have been building residential property in Southwest Florida since 2000, and I build software for construction. Every week somebody asks me what artificial intelligence actually does for a builder in this market, and the honest answer is that nobody has published it. The vendors have case studies. The conferences have predictions. What I could not find anywhere in Southwest Florida was a room of operators saying what they paid, what it replaced, and what they turned off.
So I am convening it. Sixty seats, by application, nobody selling from the stage. I will be in the room for all three hours.
Opening remarks, two operator panels, a session on AI in architecture, and a live demo on a real Naples problem.
Hard stop at 5:30.
A room this size is the format, not a constraint. Everyone can be asked a question, nobody presents to the back of a ballroom, and an operator can say what a project actually cost without it being a press release. Seats are applied for, not bought.
richard@punchify.ai