Nicholas Cumins

Chief Executive Officer, Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Search every verified Nicholas Cumins interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. On Bentley Systems' Q4 2025 earnings call on February 26, 2026, Nicholas Cumins discussed the company's approach to artificial intelligence. He stated that Bentley is embedding its own AI capabilities into its products and instrumenting its platforms so users and partners can build their own AI-driven workflows. Cumins emphasized that users retain control over their data, noting that Bentley provides a data agreement registry where accounts can formally grant or revoke consent for their data to be used in AI training sets. During the Q2 2025 earnings call on August 6, 2025, Cumins commented on the potential impact of AI on the infrastructure ecosystem, saying that productivity gains could lead to value redistribution and changes in business models, including Bentley's own. He also reported that the company's accounts expressed a positive outlook, with demand constrained not by a lack of interest but by a shortage of engineers, positioning Bentley to help clients increase productivity with their existing capacity.