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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

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

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

Fabrication at the Design Phase: Is Using Fabrication Tools a Better Way to Model for Designers?

Why continue to struggle with outdated design tools when a more efficient approach is within reach? Embracing fabrication tools—like Fabrication Parts in Revit software—P&ID Modeler for Revit allows engineers to focus on engineering rather than spending excessive time on modeling. By starting with fabrication, designers can model faster and seamlessly transfer design intent Mechanical systems that actually work! This “backward” process significantly enhances efficiency, enabling engineers to dedicate more time to engineering rather than laborious modeling. The approach also accelerates the design-to-construction workflow and proactively resolves MEP coordination challenges—even before trade partners are onboarded. As its adoption grows, this strategy is proving to be a game-changer for speeding up the engineering design process and optimizing project delivery.

34p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Innovative Owners: Princeton University's Digital Transformation in Pursuit of Nobel Prize-Worthy Discoveries

Join us for an enlightening session in the dynamic realm of higher-education construction management, where innovative technologies such as AI and digitization are transforming the landscape. Discover how Princeton University has used the power of AI and digitization through Forma Build software in Autodesk Forma to revolutionize its approach to capital projects. Gain invaluable insights into how Forma Build enhances project coordination among owners, owners' reps, facilities, designers, and construction managers. Through our discussion, you'll gain practical strategies, actionable techniques, and the confidence to elevate your institution's construction management practices with Forma Build. Join us as we chart a course toward excellence in higher-education construction, using Forma Build software's transformative capabilities to drive innovation, efficiency, and sustainable success.

New Orleans 2022

BIM and the Friendly Skies

How does the world's fifth-largest airport manage its capital improvement program using building information modeling (BIM)? Through various project delivery methods and contracts, the owner mandates the use of Revit software and Autodesk Forma. This panel session will discuss the digital transformation happening within the capital improvement program at an international airport. We’ll cover how owners, contractors, architects, engineers, and trade partners all work together to collaborate with their intelligent models in the cloud. We’ll have an open dialogue about lessons learned and what improvements can be made in the future. We’ll will focus on the use of design models, trade models, coordination models, owner-mandated metadata, and the BIM execution plans.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

Life After Design: Purchases, Supplies, and Cost Control in Execution

Intelligent models have reached a level of maturity in the design, cost estimation, and planning stage. Now what? It’s in the execution that we will recover the previous effort—taking advantage of all the model’s information to calculate the purchases of materials and the needs of our own resources, generate the contracts, and manage the orders, deliveries, and invoices. We'll see this process as it’s being applied in a real building, starting from a Revit model already made by the design team. La clase también será en español (the class will also be in Spanish).

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Putting Precon First in Autodesk Forma Projects: A Hands-On Lab

What comes before any successful construction project? An accurate estimate is a good place to start. You have a lot to gain from a standardized pre-con environment in Autodesk Forma, from the first schematic drawings brought into Forma Data Management software then quantified in Forma Takeoff software. In this hands-on lab, you’ll gain firsthand experience in quantifying a new project’s design the right way. What we'll give you: Step 1: A standard project template will offer your team a playbook to follow for Management. Step 2: Typical items you need are present for you to quantify on the new project. What you’ll do: Step 3: (This is the hands-on part.) In accessible interactive activities, you’ll apply advanced 2D and 3D quantification tools. You’ll translate project scope into material, labor, and equipment costs to generate an accurate project estimate. Come work with us to experience the value Autodesk Forma can bring to your pre-con workflows.

19p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

The Great Data Migration: Conquering the Transition to Autodesk Forma

Join us as we share our journey of migrating our 16-mile transit project from ProjectWise to Autodesk Forma. Executing this switch in a pretty short window was a feat that offered enormous challenges. We'll walk you through our initial assessment of the current workflow and the unexpected insights that shaped our decision. Experience our planning process and the efforts we took to preserve our project’s integrity during and after migration. Meet the team we assembled and learn how their unique perspectives created our success formula. Finally, step into the switchover command center with us as we navigate the communications that turned potential chaos into a seamless transition. This isn't just our story—it’s a road map for your own successful migration adventure.

36p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Unlocking the Future of Architectural Design with Autodesk Forma: Democratizing Environmental Simulations and Urban Design in Japan

This case study will explore the transformative impact that Autodesk Forma software has on environmental simulations and urban design, empowering designers to reclaim tasks that have traditionally relied on specific experts or skilled individuals. Using Forma, we’ve achieved remarkable milestones, including a 400% increase in implementation projects, a tenfold expansion in the diversity of simulations, and an 80% cost reduction. These advancements are “democratizing simulations,” making them accessible to a wider range of designers. Additionally, we’ve customized libraries and workflows to align with Japan-specific regulations, resulting in a 300% increase in implementation projects and a reduction in the lead time for initial outputs by a third. Through innovative application of Forma, designers have experienced significant improvements in both the scope and speed of their work. In this session, we’ll share detailed insights into our workflow, the challenges we’ve faced, and the solutions we’ve developed.

103p

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.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

Distributed Workforce: How to Remotely Support a Revit Team

With COVID-19, many project teams and their BIM (Building Information Modeling) managers found themselves working remotely and separated from each other for the first time. Working remotely is one thing—supporting a remote team while managing a BIM project is another challenge. To start, companies need to reopen the debate about moving projects to people rather than moving people to projects. As companies become more agile and upgrade their technology, it is also important to assemble teams that are capable of working in remote environments. When supporting teams remotely, BIM managers need to understand the factors that can make remote work incredibly demanding. Otherwise, their newly remote teams may experience declines in performance and engagement, especially in the absence of training and support. These changes require a change of mindset and operating model. Join this class to find out how you can manage and support a diverse workforce in a more fluid and integrated way.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Empowering Tomorrow's Factories with Seamless Autodesk Integration

By 2027, the Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization market will surpass $400 billion. This isn’t a trend, it’s a transformation. Rising shipping and raw material costs, plus geopolitical instability, are driving manufacturers to reevaluate global strategies. Labor-cost-driven models are giving way to nearshoring and supply chain optimization, enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and 5G. Digital factories offer real-time data, autonomous decision making, and unmatched efficiency. Autodesk is uniquely positioned to lead this shift with end-to-end cloud solutions—from factory design to construction, simulation, Digital Prototypings, and asset management. With tools like Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Forma, Autodesk ensures seamless data flow and collaboration across every phase. This talk will explore how Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization is reshaping global manufacturing—and how Autodesk empowers businesses to build smarter, faster, and more resilient factories.

15p

New Orleans 2022

Getting the Most from Collaboration for Civil 3d: Tips and Tricks

Collaboration for Civil 3D software has been around for some time now, and as the civil and infrastructure community has started embracing the technology, we’ll share some useful techniques and best practices for implementing and streamlining project collaboration and connected workflows. This class is for you if you’re a new or an existing user of this technology. We’ll start with a quick overview of the product and its components, and share tips and tricks on the project configuration, migration, and review process.

New Orleans 2022

Convergence Solutions Harnessing Data, Sustainability and Talent Trends

Join Autodesk's Alex Pena Workflow Analyst, Amy Marks VP of Industrialized Construction, Tiffany Bachmeier Director of Global M&E and Advanced Manufacturing, along with a panel of industry-leading customers in a discussion about convergence. As companies evolve their future states to include outcomes and solutions like Industrialized Construction, IFM, and Digital Twins – we will consider and discuss the future of data, sustainability, and talent for ecosystem transformation. Autodesk is helping you differentiate from the competition by providing thought leadership, consulting, success plans, technical and product adoption support for you as your industries flex in capabilities beyond your primary businesses and harness emerging outcomes, project strategies, and business models.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

Reinventing Autodesk® Revit®: Concept to Fabrication

Learn to take your conceptual designs beyond the marketing image through to fabrication. This class describes the solution that we implemented for one of our clients recently where we took an Autodesk Revit conceptual mass to fabrication using Autodesk® Inventor® software. The class will demonstrate the workflow developed to take us from the design brief (a marketing image and five sections), into the conceptual massing environment in Revit software. Here we defined, panelized, and optimized the façade design before coordinating with the proposed steelwork design. This coordinated design was then taken into Inventor to create the fabrication detail necessary for automated fabrication and delivery to site. The final stage of this workflow saw the panels transferred back into Revit to coordinate and design the final supporting bracketry. This class showcases the workflow from Revit to Inventor and back again and highlights the benefits of adaptive components and massing tools to realize your designs.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Twinfinity and Beyond: Automating Digital Prototypings at Scale at the University of Florida

As the land-grant university in Florida and an R1 research institution, the University of Florida (UF) has an extensive facilities inventory, with buildings ranging from the early 1900s to modern research facilities. With 500+ permanent or significant buildings totaling 30+ million gross square feet, it’s critical to have scalable solutions that combine existing systems and advanced technologies as we embrace Digital Prototypings, artificial intelligence (AI), and streamlined workflows. Using the power of Autodesk Platform Services and the Autodesk Forma common data environment (CDE), UF has automated the creation of Autodesk Tandem Digital Prototypings, which are fully connected to critical systems—including BAS streaming and back population of time series data, space management, and work management for assets, work history, and costing. Links are embedded in UF systems to facilitate easy access to Tandem from multiple entry points. Automating the manual effort involved in standing up twins has allowed us to focus on what matters: accurate models and timely data.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Hands-On with Forma Build: Mastering the Field Mobile App

Get ready to roll up your sleeves and explore Forma Build software like never before in this interactive, lab-style session. Whether you're just getting started or looking to sharpen your skills, this in-depth walk-through will guide you through real-world workflows, tips, and tools—all in a collaborative, hands-on environment. You’ll also get hands-on experience with the Forma Build mobile app, learning how to stay connected, manage tasks, and access project information from anywhere. Perfect for those who learn by doing and want to leave with practical knowledge they can apply right away—both in the office and out in the field.

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