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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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Learn How to Unlock Insights from 3D Ground Data in Civil 3D with GeoDin Ground for Informed Infrastructure Design Choices

Ground data is key to constructing safe, cost-effective, sustainable infrastructure. As an Autodesk strategic partner, Fugro developed GeoDin Ground app for Civil 3D software to transform infrastructure design by providing designers and civil engineers with contextual and comprehensive ground data through an integration with GeoDin, a leading geotechnical data management, analysis, and reporting software. The GeoDin Ground app allows designers to see into the ground. How does this work exactly? We’ll show and teach you all the major insights in this session. We’ll import geotechnical data directly into Civil 3D, visualize boreholes, and create surfaces and volumes with GeoDin Ground. Finally, we’ll analyze geotechnical data between surfaces and create volume reports. And we’ll demonstrate the benefits of visualizing and analyzing infrastructure in combination with ground layers. You’ll leave the session with a bigger picture of the impact of GeoDin Ground and a practical understanding of the app.

25p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Avoid Death by a Thousand Cuts: Quantifying and Reducing Background Leakage Using InfoWater Pro

Huge volumes of drinking water are lost to background leakage during distribution. This entails large financial and environmental footprints from extraction, transport, treatment, storage, and pumping. While water models usually simplify leakage to behave as fixed demands, InfoWater Pro software’s new modeling capabilities explicitly incorporate the sensitivity of losses to pressure changes. In this session, we will demonstrate how to easily convert a regular distribution model into one with realistic leakage using a new allocation tool. Both hydraulic and asset pipe information (such as age, number of connections, and material) is used to determine realistic allocations of known leakage amounts per zone to individual elements. Moreover, we will explore how a leakage-aware model can lead to detailed spatiotemporal estimates of water loss under different operating scenarios, and lead to precise quantifications of the economic and hydraulic effects of asset replacement and pressure-control programs.

Panel / Nashville 2025

Move Over Large Language Models; Make Way for Industry

This session includes discussions and Autodesk machine learning experts for both AECO and Manufacturing industries. The huge advances we have seen in large language models are due to extremely large deep-neural networks’ ability to infer statistical patterns in large amounts of digital data. The industries where we design and make the world that surrounds us also have well-defined and consistent digital data. What would the implications be for how we design and create the world if we enhance them with appropriate and trusted AI solutions?

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Lessons Learned from Developing AI Chatbot for Multibillion-Dollar Semiconductor Fabrication Plants

Imagine a mega project that generates nearly 2,000 Revit files in total, and some getting updated in daily basis. The speed and volume of data produced in multi-billion semiconductor fabrication plant project are staggering. Extracting valuable insights from this vast data pool must be effortless and straightforward, enabling owners to communicate effectively with designers and contractors to ensure project success. Samsung Electronics envisioned an AI Chatbot capable of understanding and interpreting project information as the ultimate solution. In this session, we will introduce our journey of developing an AI Chatbot using Autodesk Platform Services (APS) and Amazon Bedrock. Discover the challenges we encountered in implementing multi-agent collaboration for Text-to-SQL and effectively ingesting large amounts of data to feed the Large Language Model (LLM). Additionally, learn how we adapted our approach to make the chatbot truly beneficial for the project.

43p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Innovators Stage | AI for Design: What's Now and What's Next

Dr. Tonya Custis, senior director of artificial intelligence (AI) at Autodesk, draws on 20 years of experience in AI research to explore both the limitations and the transformative potential of AI in design workflows. While powerful, AI is often misunderstood—it’s frequently perceived as a catch-all magical solution rather than a tool with specific strengths and weaknesses. As AI becomes more commonly used in daily life, expectations rise for its role in professional tools. The best way to move beyond the hype, fear, and uncertainty surrounding AI is to develop an understanding of its history, limitations, and the types of tasks it’s best suited to help with. In this session, Dr. Custis will demystify how AI actually works, examine current trends, and outline the unique challenges of applying AI to design workflows—particularly those involving complex 3D design data. She’ll also share some recent work from the Autodesk AI Lab, offering a glimpse into the current state of AI in design and what the future may hold.

54p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Shipshape 2.0: Smarter Standards and Leaner Layers with AI in AutoCAD

Following the success of "Housekeeping in AutoCAD—Keeping Those Drawings Shipshape!" at AU 2023, this advanced session will dive deeper into best practices for keeping your AutoCAD environments clean, lean, and agile—with a new twist: using tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Join Shaun "CADjedi" Bryant (Autodesk Expert Elite and Autodesk Certified Instructor) to learn how to automate standards compliance, eliminate drawing clutter faster, and create dynamic layers and annotations using smart commands and features. Explore how AI features in AutoCAD are revolutionizing housekeeping tasks, from cleaning up files to maintaining company CAD standards. Whether you're a CAD manager or a daily user, you'll walk away with practical techniques and time-saving workflows that go beyond the basics—keeping your drawings shipshape and Bristol fashion!

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Work Smarter, Draft Faster: Turbocharge Construction Documentation with AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP Schedules

AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP Schedules provide an exceptional opportunity to elevate your drawings, enabling effortless creation of tables that highlight essential information about selected objects within your building model. Boost productivity and transform construction documentation workflows with ease, requiring only a minimal time investment. Unlock long-term success as the return on investment steadily grows over time. This proposal advocates for replacing outdated manual methods, such as relying on spreadsheets, with AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP scheduling capabilities. This transition enables the Automation, Integration, & Customization of tags and tables, ensuring they remain consistently synchronized with the building model. By removing the need for separate updates to drawings and spreadsheets, this streamlined approach unifies a fragmented, error-prone workflow into a seamless and automated system. Alongside exploring the schedules feature, take a moment to discover the latest updates in AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP 2026.

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Panel / Nashville 2025

Innovators Stage | Revolutionizing Design Workflows with AI Agents: Autodesk and Microsoft’s Frontier Partnership

Discover how Autodesk and Microsoft are revolutionizing everyday design and review workflows in Fusion by leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to transform their customers' workflows. Autodesk has become a frontier firm by adopting this innovative, best-in-class AI technology, setting new standards in the industry. Stephen Hooper, VP of Design & Manufacturing Product Development at Autodesk, and Kathleen Mitford, Corporate Vice President, Global Industry Product Marketing at Microsoft, will share how their teams are: - Automating time-consuming design tasks to reduce manual effort, allowing teams to focus on higher-value work. - Simplifying product reviews to speed up collaboration and approvals. - Enabling teams to tell stronger stories through clearer, more compelling outputs. This interactive session also provides attendees the opportunity to ask Stephen and Kathleen questions about their pioneering partnership and the AI-enabled solutions they’re bringing to market.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

AECO Roadmap: Vision and Strategy

The AECO industry is evolving—fast—and Autodesk is evolving with it. In this session, we’ll take a step back from individual products and zoom out to show how our full portfolio is coming together to support more connected, sustainable, and resilient design and construction practices. From early-stage planning in Forma to Digital Prototypings in Tandem, from vertical to horizontal infrastructure, this session will connect the dots across disciplines, workflows, and platforms. Whether you’re an architect, engineer, contractor, or owner, this is your opportunity to understand the full picture of Autodesk’s AECO strategy and how it all fits together.

Keynote / Nashville 2025

General Session

Every industry is navigating capacity challenges amidst rising uncertainty. There is soaring demand, but not enough resources to meet it. Autodesk is transforming this landscape to help you enter a new era of making, where capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration and creativity are unlocked across entire ecosystems.

During the AU General Session, Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost, together with renowned industry leaders, will dive deeper into how Autodesk's end-to-end solutions, powered by AI, will empower you to thrive in this new era.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Plant Me Everything: Ask the Expert for AutoCAD Plant 3D

Have you ever wished you could get straight answers to your toughest AutoCAD Plant 3D questions—from someone who’s been there, done that? Now’s your chance to do just that. In this interactive digital session, we’ll open the floor to your real-world challenges: workflows, spec edits, ortho creation, collaboration issues, project setup, and more. No scripts, no slides—just straight talk, expert advice, and the collective brainpower of the AutoCAD Plant 3D community. Whether you're troubleshooting daily issues or looking for best practices to optimize your project delivery, this is the place to ask, listen, and learn. Gain practical insights, discover smart solutions, and leave with fresh ideas you can apply immediately. Join us for a fast-paced and focused session that will put your questions—and real value—first.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Digital Builder Podcast Featuring Eric Thomas

Join Eric Thomas, the host of Autodesk’s Digital Builder Podcast, as he reflects on what he’s learned from over 120 interviews with leaders all across the AECO industry. He’ll also share some of his thoughts on the most exciting news coming from this year’s conference and a whole lot more!

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Revit Family Editor Fundamentals

This session is going to walk through the intricacies of creating a parametric family. Gain an understanding of the proper uses of reference planes and reference lines to create the skeleton of the family. We’ll then get into the creation of different types of solids, along with the tools to make a functioning parametric family.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

AECO Roadmap: Structures

Structural engineering teams are under increasing pressure to deliver safe, sustainable, and coordinated designs on tighter timelines. In this session, Autodesk product will share what’s new—and what’s next—for structural engineers, detailers, and fabricators using Revit and the AEC Collection. Get a closer look at how we’re advancing modeling precision, analysis capabilities, and multidisciplinary collaboration across the structural workflow. You’ll also see early demos of features in development and have a chance to share your feedback directly with the team shaping the roadmap.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

First Look at the All-New Revit Residential Content Pack

The latest Revit release includes a new collection of residential-focused content. In this first-look session, we will explore this new content pack and learn how best to use it in your projects. New content items include both loadable and system families and cover diverse items such as fireplaces, shower doors, and EV vehicle chargers. Leveraging existing window families, a new collection of shutters is now included. If your next project includes a yard or patio, you’ll find items like backyard sheds, firepits and even an Adirondack chair. This session will focus on exploring these new items and showing best practice ways to incorporate them into your next design. Join us to see new stretchable schematic casework items, closet system items and even a selection of exercise equipment.

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