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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings

Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

AECO Roadmap: Digital Workplaces

Digital Workplaces are evolving—from structured asset handover to real-time operational insight and, insightful operations. In this session, the Tandem team will walk through the next phase of their roadmap, highlighting how Tandem is transforming Digital Workplaces into actionable tools for building owners, operators, and project teams. Learn how recent enhancements are enabling Insightful Operations through curated dashboards, KPI tracking, and system integrations—and what’s coming next to support portfolio-wide optimization. Whether you're delivering a Descriptive Twin or planning for predictive analytics, this session will help you stay ahead of where Digital Workplaces are headed.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

23p

Panel / Nashville 2025

Breaking Down Silos in

One of the biggest challenges in is getting disciplines to work together, sharing data and information in real time. Whether technical, organizational, or cultural, silos slow progress, create inefficiencies, and keep teams from reaching their full potential. This panel brings together industry leaders who are actively climbing that mountain. Through candid conversation, they’ll share real-world struggles, setbacks, and the steps they’re taking to reach higher ground. Expect honest insights, bold ideas, and practical strategies to break down barriers, improve communication, and build stronger, more connected teams. If you’re navigating the uphill journey of , this session is your chance to pause, gain perspective, and gather the tools needed to keep moving forward together.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

How Do You Get Architects to Care About Data?

Architects aren’t exactly known for loving data. But what happens when bad data costs you money—and reputation? In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of A-lab’s shift to becoming a data-forward studio that clients see as partners, not just consultants. Through a strategic collaboration with start-up AnkerDB and established industry systems like Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Platform Services, Revit software, and Microsoft Power BI, A-lab transformed its Project Delivery workflows, building a connected data ecosystem beyond BIM, to support real-time collaboration, transparency, and carbon-conscious design. We’ll share our “proof of concept” of BIM for lifecycle analysis—linking design and environmental data with benchmarks like BREEAM and the EU taxonomy. With live dashboards and automated workflows, this method boosts client trust, cuts CO2 budgets, and reshapes internal attitudes toward data. Perfect for anyone building the case for data-driven workflows in a skeptical environment.

55p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Legacy to Digital Prototyping: Scan. Model. Transform.

Elevating the digital maturity of our clients' factories, we aim to transform traditional manufacturing practices by transitioning from outdated paper-based drawings to the powerful concept of the Digital Prototyping. We start by scanning the facility to generate a 3D point cloud, which forms the base for architectural and MEP models in Revit software. These are imported into Inventor software, where we design and optimize the production line with machinery, conveyors, and robots. Factory Design Utilities software allows us to quickly build detailed layouts. With Navisworks software, we perform clash detection and offer virtual reality (VR) walk-throughs. FlexSim simulates the workflow to ensure efficiency. For data management, we use Vault Pro software and Autodesk Forma, while Autodesk Tandem software improves operations. This journey helps clients move beyond outdated systems and embrace the Digital Prototyping and Digital Prototyping.

48p

Panel / Nashville 2025

Beyond the Numbers: Big Data's Role in Shaping Inclusive Collaboration and Decision Making in Aviation Projects

As the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry embraces Management, big data is becoming essential for delivering smarter, faster, and more resilient aviation projects—and shaping the smart cities they connect. But the real power of data lies beyond collection. It’s about how we govern it, share it, and ensure equitable access across disciplines. This inclusive session will bring together aviation design professionals, BIM leaders, and data strategists to explore how big data is driving meaningful change. Grounded in real-world applications, the panel will examine how big data is being integrated into aviation design and construction workflows, why strong data governance builds trust and enables better decisions, and how collaboration makes data usable across diverse teams. The discussion will also highlight the risks of poor data practices and offer strategies to avoid them. Finally, the session will share forward-looking insights into how inclusive and transparent data ecosystems can reshape the industry.

27p

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

Efficient Digital Operating Model—Technology Is Not an Absolute Value

A small business from Finland recognized wasteful practices in real estate lifecycle's workflows and decided to tackle that waste by developing an efficient, digital operating model around Forma software and its integrations. It was essential to discard many old practices as obsolete and unsuitable for digital workflow. Technology wasn’t considered to hold any value itself; it was simply an enabler and facilitator. Our approach differs from the giants of our industry. We optimize with smaller projects, then move on to bigger ones. The strength of the model is its scalability. As a company that does construction project management, we affect the industry as a whole—owners, designers, contractors. Explore the traditional methods we wanted to discard and the key factors we wanted to master. Discover how we expanded scope, from efficiency factors to utilizing lean principles and dialectic models. This class will bring you everything we’ve learned so far and examine what comes next.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Eliminating Construction Waste As a Pathway to Project Success

Material waste in construction commonly adds up to as much as 30% of procured material and 10% or more of project budget, offering a clear opportunity for optimization. Wasted materials also represent a sizable "forgotten" portion of a building's embodied carbon, infrequently measured or accounted for. This session will start from the premise that material utilization cannot be truly improved in isolation, exploring how the pursuit of more sustainable construction is fundamentally interlinked with other measurable outcomes like quality, schedule, cost, and safety—each worthy of optimization in its own right. Drawing on case studies and backed by Forma workflows, the presenters will show how the pursuit of more sustainable construction correlates with project success. They will argue that lean construction, which aims to root out waste in all its forms, offers a pathway to triple bottom-line success, combining positive outcomes for people, the planet, and profit.

Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020

Connected Coordination in the Forma

With next generation technology, much of the model coordination process has been transformed through automation and digital collaboration, democratizing the model coordination experience for VDC managers and trade teams. But a truly coordinated experience isn’t possible without connecting all parts of BIM data from design to plan to build. This session will show you how Autodesk is delivering on this new level of connected model coordination and how integrated workflows will deliver best-in-class coordination capabilities.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

Forge Road Map

Are you building apps on the Forge, Forma, or BIM 360 platforms? Are you using Forge as part of your digital transformation strategy—or helping your customers transform their businesses? Do you want to learn more about what the Forge Team has been working on throughout the past year? Come join us to learn about the improved API, the new Forma and BIM 360 APIs, the next generation of API to work with data, and more. See what's new with Forge APIs and what's coming in the next generation of the Forge platform. Get the insights you need to confidently create your application development plans.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Connecting the Dots with Point Clouds, the AEC Collection, BIM 360, and Forma

Point clouds are more than just dots in space. They represent existing walls, doors, pipes, ground surfaces and so much more. They represent millions and millions of individual pieces of information. And because of this, their file size can be enormous and often difficult to work with. But it doesn't have to be that way. This class will demonstrate ways that you can take advantage of the new scan-to-mesh and publish features in ReCap Pro to share, view, comment, and collaborate on your point clouds. We'll also look at ways you can utilize point clouds in an efficient and effective manner by extracting only the relevant information for your design.

Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020

The Future of Quantification with Forma

Estimating teams play a vital role in winning new business. Yet many of today’s solutions lack collaboration, require a highly manual process, and too often result in siloed data across teams. Join this session to learn how estimators can benefit from next-generation 2D and 3D technology to deliver best practices in quantification and estimating. You’ll also learn how Autodesk will be driving the industry forward with connected, cloud-based, preconstruction planning tools with the power of automated tooling and machine learning.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

The Future of Construction Insights

Are you interested in building a data-driven organization but you have poor visibility into key project information to help you plan and strategize? Are you struggling with data silos that prevent you from getting meaningful and actionable insights? Learn how to maximize data and analytics across the construction lifecycle to empower teams across various functions and workflows. Whether you’re looking to better understand the health of a specific project, assess team performance, review the status of your overall project portfolio, or explore ways to optimize new projects for improved outcomes, this session will show you how Forma can deliver unified data, analytics, and reporting capabilities on top of a robust, secure, and scalable data platform built for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Beyond the Blueprint: Exploring XR for AEC with the Autodesk Workshop XR Team

Unlock new levels of collaboration and coordination in your architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects with Autodesk Workshop XR software. In this session, you'll learn how data from Forma can be accessed in real time within a virtual workspace, significantly enhancing your project workflows. Our Workshop XR experts will be on hand to address your questions and demonstrate how virtual environments enable users to walk through Forma models, ensuring faster identification of spatial issues that often go unnoticed through traditional methods.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

OpenBIM Workflows at Autodesk: 2025 Edition

openBIM workflows enable interoperability and collaboration among different software applications and stakeholders in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry using neutral, industry-standard formats. These workflows center around Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), an open and neutral data format for BIM. But they also include other formats and technologies such as BCF (BIM collaboration format), bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary), and IDS (Information Delivery Specification). As a follow-up to last year’s session, you'll learn about the Autodesk strategy around IFC and openBIM, the newest and future capabilities of Revit software, and other Autodesk AEC products supporting openBIM workflows. We'll also offer some insights for Revit users to optimize their IFC data exchange and quality. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user of Revit and IFC, this session will provide you with valuable insights and guidance to enhance your openBIM workflows and collaboration.

29p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Digital Doppelgängers: The Truth Beneath the Model

Have you ever wondered what’s under the hood of a Digital Prototyping? Most are familiar with intelligent models as they pertain to the design and construction process, but where and at what point does metadata from an intelligent model merge with live data streams from Internet of Things (IoT) devices and other software integrations? In this session, we will dig beneath the 3D visuals commonly seen and look at the mechanics of a Digital Prototyping—how it’s designed, how it’s built, and how it all works in concert. Participants will walk away from our session with a better understanding of how the merging of these two environments is possible through the journey of a project lifecycle. We’ll give an in-depth overview of how Aptitude | Intelligent Integration has tied together the latest tools of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry with innovative technologies and integrations to use asset management and Sustainable Design goals that owners are looking for to get the smart building overlay they desire.

53p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Revolutionizing 3D Model Workflows with AI: APS Autodesk Assistant and Arcadis OTL Optimizer

Discover how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology is streamlining 3D-model workflows through joint development between Autodesk and Arcadis. This session will introduce the integration of the beta Autodesk Assistant API (in Autodesk Platform Services) with Arcadis’s OTL Optimizer tooling to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of design and construction processes. Learn how AI automates the identification, extraction, and tagging of data within 3D models, reducing manual effort by up to 90%. Explore advanced capabilities, including data and model quality validation, intelligent adjustments, and the generation of cost and Sustainable Design insights directly from your models. Gain valuable insights into how AI-powered Automation, Integration, & Customization is driving productivity, improving decision making, and fostering more-sustainable project outcomes. Join us to see how these innovations are redefining the future of digital workflows in the built environment.

42p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Twins

Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Forma, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Forma ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

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