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BUILDEX Vancouver
February 11 & 12, 2026
Vancouver Convention Centre West

Chris Diepdael
Director of Innovation at Axiom Builders
Speaker

Profile

Chris is the Director of Innovation for Axiom Builders, a leader in North American construction innovation, a specialty contractor of quality residential and mixed-used construction in Western Canada and the United States. This post follows a long career across Manufacture, Software Publishing, Management Consulting and Technology Entrepreneurship, which left Chris with a pragmatic blend of high-technology and go-to-market/growth strategy acumen. As the Director of Innovation at Axiom, Chris uses bottom-up discovery to identify and prioritize growth constraints and engages emerging ConTech solutions to drive operational performance. Under his innovation leadership, Axiom Builders took home Suffolk Technologies Operating Partner of the Year Award for their deep cohort engagement during the 2024 BOOST Accelerator.