9417 Results
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.
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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.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Blockchain-Driven iPaaS for Revolutionizing Construction Management with Forma
This session will explore the groundbreaking blockchain technology based on Autodesk Forma that unlocks today's unused construction data to the streamlined inspection process, boosting 20% of productivity aiming to alleviate labor shortages. This project has more than four dozen stakeholders and serves as a prime example of strong collaboration across the industry, contractors, technology startups, and academics. Features of our platform not only authenticate construction data but also ensure smooth integration of various data through device and applications, enabling the direct use of construction data as an integration platform as a service (iPaaS). A key element of our approach is the integration of design data because it is critical to ensure that the construction result meets the client's requirements. This key element is consistently achieved by using the API integration (Autodesk Platform Services) with Autodesk Forma.
90p
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2023
Autodesk Forma: Dashboards and Reporting
As project teams generate more and more data in Autodesk Forma, we need ways to analyze this data to help keep a pulse on what is happening on our projects. Business Intelligence tools like Power BI can help us dig deep into the data and create valuable dashboards that help monitor many different aspects of project health and utilization. Join us in this lab where we will go through the steps needed to extract, transform, and load our data into BI tools to create valuable dashboards that allow you to monitor the important metrics for you and your organization.
New Orleans 2022
A True Common Data Environment by Integrating Platforms with Autodesk Forma Connect
Come and learn about a real-client-focused common data ecosystem. Our vision is that we can give our clients seamless access to their project data at any given time. By adding a secure yet open integration layer that continuously integrates between our and the client’s common data environments, the data is centralized yet supported on the best applicable platform. Our clients can work in their own environments, which integrate into our platform. From this presentation, you’ll learn from our journey, integrating the internal BAM systems into one so our employees can quickly access, use, and reuse the information. Whether it's referenced information in data archives, open data sources outside, or otherwise, our employees should be able to easily find and reuse it. With Autodesk Forma Connect and Autodesk Forge, we created the ecosystem so clients can always have access to the right data at the right time in their own systems. It’s an ISO 19650-compliant solution that enhances quality for our clients.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Delivering Megaprojects Without Disruption: Moving from BIM 360 to Forma and Across Oceans for Data Regionalization
Managing data on megaprojects is one of the most complex challenges in construction today. With diverse stakeholders, global teams, and a multitude of tools in use, maintaining access to accurate, real-time data across regions becomes critical. But what happens when a live, ongoing project needs to be migrated—across platforms and geographies—without disrupting progress? In this session, we’ll explore a real-world case where a project team undertook a year-long effort to migrate project data from BIM 360 to Autodesk Forma, and subsequently transitioned the project from the United States to the EU data center to meet data residency and regulatory requirements. We’ll walk through the technical and logistical challenges faced, compare available migration strategies, and showcase how the team used Autodesk Forma Connect to automate much of the process—ensuring continuity, compliance, and collaboration across the board.
21p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Autodesk Forma for Structural Engineering: Let's All Work Better Together
Unleash the power of Autodesk Forma to revolutionize your structural engineering and design workflows. The architecture, engineering, and construction industry bears a $280 billion annual cost due to ineffective project data and communication. In this session, you will learn to master design changes and manage the intricacies of your designs through diverse design-review workflows in Forma Data Management software. Discover how to avoid expensive rework by finding model clashes using Autodesk BIM Collaborate software. Witness how Forma Takeoff software enhances the quality of your design through an effective model conditioning process. Explore Forma Build software to learn how to proficiently manage risk and quality during the construction phase, easily handling RFIs, submittals, photos, and site observations. Join us and step into a future of seamless design and construction management for structural engineering.
Meetup / Nashville 2025
The Big Room Community IRL Meetup

Autodesk's online space "The Big Room" is made up of 15,000+ AECO professionals in over 125 countries. This is your chance to meet each other IRL and shake hands with the peers you've been replying to and hearing from all these years! Not a part of The Big Room yet? No problem! Come by and meet fellow AECO industry colleagues that you can always continue conversations with online. Previous "Members of the Month" and Big Room Team members will be in attendance for you to share ideas for future activities and conversations you'd like to see happen. Come on by to help us make The Big Room bigger AND better! 

New Orleans 2022
How Autodesk Forge Makes Life Easier Using Your 4D Project Data
Microsoft Project is a strong scheduling and management tool that’s used all over the construction market world. We’ve implemented an innovative workflow that uploads Microsoft Project data directly into a custom web cloud environment shared between stakeholders with security permissions based on project, schedule option, and user role. This maximizes our current tools and easily brings their users into a cloud-based building information modeling (BIM) environment. The developed custom web site implements the Autodesk Forge platform, which connects uploaded data in the cloud with 3D modeling, boosting the information into a new visual format. This workflow has greatly shortened the time it takes to get updates to the 4D dimension of a BIM project and has increased the benefits of its implementation.
New Orleans 2022
Plan with Everyone: See into the Future of Digitized Work Planning
In this era of tight margins and high costs, no one can afford workers standing around doing nothing on site due to mismanaged schedules or incomplete prior work. Collaborative planning and other lean construction principles promise contractors the ability to improve productivity so they can deliver projects successfully within budget and on schedule. In this session, you’ll hear about lessons learned from leading construction companies that have adopted lean for more than a decade. DPR Construction will share how, over the years, it has digitized its schedules and implemented digital work-planning tools. As part of the early beta users of the new Work Plan tool in Forma Build software, DPR will share experiences and provide insights into what worked well, and we’ll cover future opportunities for even more enhanced productivity through collaborative work planning. The Autodesk Work Plan product team will be on hand to moderate the discussion, demonstrate product functionality, and share road-map initiatives.
New Orleans 2022
Executive Meetings in the Command Room! Beyond the Digital Twin.
Digital disruption is an inevitable trend in the construction industry, with many digital technologies creating the future construction sites to be completed in the near future. On the other hand, digital data as the output of digital tech use will gather into a data lake and link with ERP and other core systems to advance data use. Transferring from "creating" and "collecting" digital data—including building information modeling (BIM) data—to the next stage of "using" data will be the must. We’ll present our milestones with the ultimate goal being that executives be able to make data-centered business decisions based on data gathered in real time.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020
Automate and Connect Workflows Using Autodesk’s Integrations Ecosystem
At Autodesk, we build solutions that include everything from 3D design, to preconstruction, through build, and into project handover. Customers often use Forma in tandem with advanced construction software and hardware, as well as with everyday software tools such as Microsoft Office 365, Smartsheet, cloud-storage solutions, and data-analytics tools such as Microsoft Power BI. Automating the workflows and data passed through these disparate systems helps keep everyone working with the latest and greatest information, eliminating errors due to siloed data and making collaboration easier on a construction jobsite. This talk will focus on using Autodesk APIs and our integration platform-as-a-service—Forma Connect—to build custom workflows and to connect various technologies together to build a tech stack custom tailored to your needs.
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
Connected Coordination Level 2: Effective Clash Resolution Using the Power of the Forma Closed Loop Issue Management System
For effective clash resolution, it’s essential to notify the design partners about the clashes in a timely manner. It is also imperative to maintain an auditable and trackable record of notifications related to the clash resolution process. In this Connected Coordination Level 2 lab, we’ll build upon where we left off in the 2023 Connected Coordination lab, and learn to use the power of the closed-loop issue management system to assign, notify, resolve, and close clashes on a project. You’ll also learn about the Autodesk Forma Issues add-in for Revit software that allows design teams to download clash issues directly within Revit to highlight the clashing elements and take action to resolve them. You’ll learn how the closed loop issue management system keeps all the stakeholders notified every step of the way, allowing for an effective clash management system. Finally, you’ll learn how to export reports of all the active clash issues and link them to Power BI for the relevant stakeholders.
44p
43p
New Orleans 2022
The Future of Integrated Factory Model Collaboration

Building projects are already realized with the innovative Autodesk Forma, a data and collaboration platform enabling different planning disciplines and teams to work together in a common data environment. In a factory planning project, those planning disciplines are enhanced with teams needing to integrate complex production lines, conveyor systems, steel structure, and even logistics equipment. Hidden behind firewalls, software installed and running on-premise forces teams to handle time-consuming and inefficient data exchange, disconnected collaboration tracking processes, and inadequate viewing and reviewing of tasks. This class will demonstrate how Autodesk’s Cloud Services make it possible to efficiently exchange data between on-premise systems and cloud solutions (off premise). We’ll showcase and provide a best-practice approach, and cover how to set up a model coordination space in Forma Design Collaboration to manage a holistic factory model, its clashes and issues, and its review tasks.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
AI-Ready AEC: Building a Smart Digital Foundation with Autodesk and Egnyte

The promise of AI in architecture, engineering, and construction is immense—but without a solid foundation of structured, governed, and secure data, that promise quickly crumbles. In this session, we’ll explore how Autodesk Forma (Forma) tools, when paired with Egnyte’s AI-powered platform, provide a unified, intelligent, and secure digital environment that supports both project delivery and firm-wide data strategy. Learn how Egnyte natively integrates with Forma to provide seamless data governance, intelligent search, and sensitive data classification—all critical for unlocking reliable AI insights. We’ll demonstrate how to centralize project and business data, clean up ROTs (redundant, obsolete, and trivial files), and prepare your firm’s content for AI use cases. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for assessing AI readiness and adopting AI tools responsibly, using the “3Ps”: Practical, Purposeful, and Private.

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Panel / Las Vegas 2023
Sustainability in Preconstruction: Carbon and Costs in Forma Takeoff using EC3
Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals want to create cost-effective, sustainable projects and are looking for technologies, standards, and processes to help them make trade-offs between financial and environmental costs during design and preconstruction. Forward-looking firms—including Walsh Construction and SNHA (a Woolpert Company)—took part in a pilot to test new integration between Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) and Forma Takeoff, the 2D and 3D quantification solution. Using quantities from Forma Takeoff, EC3 users can review the embodied carbon emissions of proposed building materials. Further, it can connect the quantities and carbon emissions to the International Cost Management Standard (ICMS), a framework that provides mythology for reporting and for classifying project costs and carbon emissions in a structured format. Come see the integration and hear from industry leaders about their sustainability goals as they share feedback and lessons learned.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
BIMbeats: Real-Time Data Analysis for Revit, Dynamo, BIM 360, AutoCAD, and More
Many organizations are undergoing digital transformation to prepare for a data-driven future. A measurement of the success of your strategy can be captured through a data analysis of how your organization uses BIM (Building Information Modeling) tools. Using BIMbeats, you can achieve real-time data capture. BIMbeats uses the Elastic stack to transform data into insights, and ingests and stores data from multiple formats to provide real-time dashboards in multiple formats, including Microsoft Power Bi, Tableau, and Kibana. By capturing user activity and processing log/journal files in a digestible format, BIMbeats can identify the super users who can automate mundane tasks and those who may need a little help breaking old habits. It can also check whether your projects are meeting model- and information-based deliverables and support ISO19650 auditing. Triggers can also be set to take immediate action when company standards or best practices are not being followed.
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