Becoming a Strategic Facilities Manager: How to Lead with Value, Collaboration, and Innovation

28 Apr 2026
Technology & Smart Buildings Hub
Technology & Smart Buildings Hub
Facilities management used to be simple: if nothing broke, you were doing a good job. Not anymore.

AI is accelerating, sustainability is non-negotiable, and expectations keep rising. Staying reactive won’t cut it and invisibility is no longer a strategy.

In this session, Rui Santos Couto, CMO at Infraspeak and one of the leading global voices in FM, challenges the industry’s comfort zone and lays out a new mandate for facilities managers: move from operator to orchestrator.

Based on more than a decade working alongside FM leaders across Europe, Africa and Latin America, Rui explores how collaboration, artificial intelligence and sustainability are reshaping the role of FM at the centre of organisational performance. If you’re ready to stop firefighting and start shaping outcomes, this is where the shift begins.
Speakers
Rui Santos Couto
Rui Santos Couto, FM Evangelist and CMO - Infraspeak