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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.

New Orleans 2022

Turn Out-Dated into Power-Automated: Revit Data Exchanges into Microsoft Power BI

The ability to share relevant data with multiple stakeholders across different applications remains one of the most significant business challenges of our industry. Data Exchanges transfer granular information about models hosted in Autodesk Forma in a neutral format that allows you to build automated workflows across apps and services. You’ll learn how to create Data Exchanges from Revit software in Forma Data Management software, and build data flows to Microsoft Power BI using the new bridge to Power Automate. These data flows—traditionally made with sophisticated API investments—are now more accessible to nonprogrammer users.

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 / San Diego 2024

Configure - Plan - Fabricate -Build | Sustainable Fabrication Workflows for Timber Buildings

Sustainability and cost efficiency for residential building is more important than ever. We will present with our customer Haas an integrated workflow from the configurator, an automated detailed design process in Revit to fabrication and the construction site. This digital process allows prospects to visually configure and calculate any residential or family timber house. These visualization of the customer's request via the house configurator leads to a faster and high-quality discussion with the customer. Seamless transition from configuration to design in Autodesk Revit ensures that no extra detail design work must be carried out manually. That model is transferred into the fabrication process and finally all data is leveraged via BIM360/ACC BUILD on construction sites for project and quality management and daily logs.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

UAE Construction Giant goes Green with Forma Build on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a nation known for its architectural marvels and ambitious projects, is facing a crucial turning point. Sustainability is becoming a top priority as the country strives to reduce its environmental impact and build a greener future. Learn how a construction giant leads the charge by embracing ACC as it's common data environment for document management, filed processes and quality control to achieve this goal. This session explores how to leverage ACC platform, to go green and build more sustainable structures, it will help attendees build new skills, implement new workflows, and learn how to use ACC Docs and ACC Build products both downstream with their subcontractors and upstream with clients and consultants.

37p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Civil Infrastructure - Unlock the Power of Automation in Project Management

For years, Topcon has been at the forefront of automating blade control and machine control systems. Today, we are integrating and automating traditional manual workflows to enhance project controls. These innovations are made accessible through intuitive dashboards, providing valuable project insights. Construction companies utilize multiple technology tools for project delivery efficiency. These tools focus on executing tasks and are not easily integrated into an overall project technology ecosystem, creating manual data management and project inefficiencies. Today, a new environment of open APIs has changed how data can be exchanged utilizing automation. Join industry experts that will share their experiences and perspectives on the common field-to-office exchanges, emphasizing heavy civil construction, connecting updated schedules and designs with machines through automated workflows.

50p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Breaking Through the Cloud – A 30,000 ft View of Forma and Design Software Workflows

AutoCAD (& verticals) Plant 3D, and Revit all have different workflows with ACC/BIM 360 projects and the Desktop Connector. After many challenging hours I believe I have finally found a way to explain the various ACC/BIM 360 workflows and would like to share this knowledge with everyone else who's also dealing with all these various workflows and collaboration options. Specifically, I'm going to cover working with Revit, Plant 3D, and Civil 3D (same workflows for AutoCAD) with ACC and/or BIM 360 projects. I'll also cover the Desktop Connector 15 and 16 and the differences we've encountered, good and bad.

28p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Change Won't Happen If We Wait For Someone Else, So Let's Make The Digital Twin Future A Reality, TOGETHER!

Hazen has a strong vision for digital twin technology in the Water industry and we have multiple projects and clients where we are pushing this narrative. From HRSD SWIFT Research Facility with Revit and GeoBIM integration, to Aurora Water BIM-based digital twin project using Autodesk Tandem, and several other large greenfield projects where Hazen is using ACC Design, Build, and Operate solutions. We focus heavily on asset management and operational user cases with high impact and credible visuals, client feedback, and clear values. This also includes our virtual digital twin in Tandem that uses Postman to stream SCADA-type data to Tandem Connect and Tandem Streams to show the future of Tandem, and Info360 Plant for process modeling and analysis for a new greenfield project integrated with Tandem and all things ACC. We will tell the story of why Hazen is putting our name out there for these Autodesk tools and demonstrate why we feel they are important to the future of protecting water.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Learn from the Past, Shape the Future: Data-Driven Project Insights with Assemble, Forma and Power BI

Data-driven decision-making is crucial for project success, enabling informed choices and continuous improvement. Platforms like Assemble and Autodesk Forma (ACC) store valuable data that, when used effectively, can significantly enhance project outcomes. The Power BI connector facilitates seamless data collection and organization from these platforms, allowing for smooth transfer and integration into Power BI for visualization and analysis. Project teams can leverage these insights to optimize project progress by identifying areas for improvement and potential risks, enabling proactive issue prevention and resolution. This minimizes costs, delays, and quality problems. Additionally, retrospective data analysis allows learning from past successes and failures, leading to more informed decisions for future projects. This data-driven approach fosters a culture of continuous learning and improvement, resulting in increased competitiveness and client satisfaction.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Automating Autodesk Forma Admin: Closing the Gap Between What We Have and What We Need

Daily administration of Autodesk Forma can be a time-consuming and complex task that requires constant attention. Managing projects and ensuring security is essential to the success of any organization, but it can also be a significant barrier to efficiency. With Autodesk Platform Services there are ways to mitigate these challenges. SSOE Group has developed streamlined automations and integrations between Autodesk Forma, ERP, and other software. In doing so, we've extended the capabilities of Autodesk Forma, enhanced our productivity, and improved our user experience. Learn how SSOE is automating routine tasks—such as project creation, user management, access control, and reporting—to free up valuable time and resources that can be devoted to other critical tasks. To date, SSOE has automated the creation of 3,000+ BIM 360 and Autodesk Forma projects, and our custom search engine has been used to find and access Autodesk Forma projects 200,000+ times.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

Assets: Behind the Scenes

During this presentation we'll explain how to set up assets based on design files. We'll explore how to determine which assets need to be defined and what data can be associated in order for successful commissioning during the construction phase. We'll start by looking at how we can extract data from Revit, Navisworks, and AutoCAD software, and how we can prepare for assets import using the model-based workflow. As assets get installed in rooms and spaces, it's also critical to find a way to tie them to an LBS (location breakdown structure). Once we've defined these assets within Autodesk Forma, we'll show a way of creating a bidirectional link between the object in the design file and the Autodesk Forma database. We'll finish up using asset color coding on the 3D model, and run some reports we can use to show the progress of commissioning these objects.

56p

60p

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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Autodesk Forma: BIM 360 Template Development to ISO 19650 Standards and More

See an innovative approach to designing an Autodesk Forma / BIM 360 template that aligns with ISO 19650 principles and is adaptable for U.S. non-ISO projects. Explore the key principles outlined in the standard and discuss the benefits of a managed data collaboration process. We will showcase the methodology for creating role-based permission groups, naming conventions, document control classification, data exchanges, workflow review processes, and more. Recognizing the need for adaptability, we will demonstrate how the ISO 19650-compliant template can easily be customized to suit unique requirements of U.S. architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms and meet industry regional state and local standards. Developed in BIM 360 and translated to Autodesk Forma, the template serves as the basis for project creation across a global firm and can accommodate large and small projects

New Orleans 2022

Adopt BIM360/Forma in 4 companies using innovative change management methods

Effective cultural and organizational change adoption has become a core competency for firms, in today’s rapidly changing AEC industry. Within VolkerWessels Infrastructure we drive digital transformation to our 4 divisions with a central digital program. In this class we will show how we used a proven changemanagement methodology in a specific adoption approach, in order to implement and adopt BIM360/Forma as a new cloud platform. The adoption approach is based on ADKAR, a changemanagement methodology by Prosci. This enables us to pay attention to communication, sponsors, resistance, instructions, coaching and the return on investment of the change. The effect is digital transformation, improved operational excellence and more 'bang for buck' from IT investments, in Cloud technology like BIM360/Forma. This make change and adoption one of our core competencies. We adopted BIM360/Forma efficiently and successfully in our organization by increasing the aspects of ADKAR to the target audience.

New Orleans 2022

"Connect the Dots in Cloud" to Understand AutoCAD Integration with Autodesk Forma

In this class, we’ll introduce you to connected workflows between AutoCAD software and Autodesk Forma. You’ll see a detailed walk-through on reference drawings and their relationships within Forma Data Management. Learn how users can maximize the full potential of Desktop Connector to validate reference files, maintain associativity, and establish versioning of drawing files in Forma Data Management. Then, we’ll introduce the integration of the file-locking feature into AutoCAD and see its benefits while sharing drawings through projects in Autodesk Forma. We’ll share some best practices in terms of handling drawing file operations within AutoCAD for cloud-based storage. Finally, we’ll wrap up with some key tools that will enable you to collaborate efficiently and increase productivity through Autodesk Cloud Services.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Ask Me Anything: AI in Construction

Join Tomer Rosenthal, AI Product Manager, for an interactive “Ask Me Anything” session exploring the latest AI innovations in Autodesk Forma (Forma). This open forum is your opportunity to dive into recent releases—including Autodesk Assistant, RFI AI Generation, Issue Creation from Images, and Admin Actions—and get direct answers to your questions. You’ll also gain an inside look at the future AI roadmap for Forma and how these advancements can transform your construction workflows.

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