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.

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.

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.

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.

In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into how cameras can instantaneously make an impact at the project level or at the organizational level. We’ll explore how we can begin to use photos not just as a reference tool, but as a collaboration, scheduling, and risk management tool.

Design is rarely a perfectly linear and straightforward process. Often a single tool cannot accommodate all the workflows—and even when it does, it’s rarely the right fit. By maximizing the different tools within the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection (Inventor software, Autodesk Fusion 360, Desktop Connector), designers and engineers can now design, make, and collaborate on products to reduce the lead time faced in today's manufacturing. This course will cover the complete workflow involved in designing parts for formative manufacturing—injection molding. From making a mold in Inventor to validating your part for injection molding in Autodesk Fusion 360, the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection helps you connect these workflows right on your desktop using Autodesk Fusion 360 Desktop Connector.

Decathlon—the European sporting goods retailer and the most preferred brand in France—looks to the future of design through the lens of generative design and sustainability. Charles Cambianica, advanced design co-leader at Decathlon, presented two years ago on how generative design was helping Decathlon reimagine the bike of the future. Today, his team continues to promote the use of generative design to create new ways of making new products. To help optimize the process, Charles’s project teams decided to use computational design as an exploratory tool. Decathlon wanted to explore how it could use generative design starting in the design phase to shrink the carbon footprint of the thousands of products it manufactures each year.

This session will take a look at the future of digital industrial-design tools. We’ll explore how our tools are evolving from the perspective of function and user experience to capture the users and creative workflows of tomorrow.

With each release of AutoCAD software, new features are added and enhancements are made to existing features. In this session, we'll take a look at the compelling new and enhanced features included in AutoCAD 2023. Discover how you can add markups from printed drawings and take advantage of curated insights. We'll also review the improvements made to 2D and 3D graphics performance, and the changes introduced based on your feedback.

It is estimated that 80% of the environmental impact is determined at the design phase. However, many designers lack the tools to assess the impact of their design choices. In addition, an increasing number of companies are setting up ambitious sustainability goals, but the data required to drive the actions are often in disparate systems throughout the organization, or kept in PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) systems, which means that designs are already locked up. Autodesk and Makersite collaborated to bring sustainability insights into early product-design phases by connecting relevant lifecycle assessment data to the Autodesk Fusion 360 Design workspace. We’ve created a more holistic workflow to provide even more insights into sustainable design, directly within the design environment. The analysis can also recommend material alternatives and provide costing information to help designers make more-sustainable decisions, faster, with greater impact.

The Autodesk Fusion 360 team often hears comments from beginning users such as, “Autodesk Fusion 360 is so hard to learn. I don’t know where to start. There are so many commands and workspaces, it’s too intimidating.” We’re here to bust that myth. In this class, we’ll demonstrate—live—the creation of a real-world design (not a trivial demo design) using just 12 commands in the Design workspace. Join your expert Autodesk Fusion 360 instructors—Phil and Jeff—for this interactive demo/training class aimed to help newer Autodesk Fusion 360 users who just want to learn the basics. Once you’ve grasped these 12 commands, you’ll have the skills to create moderately complex designs. With that confidence, you can expand your knowledge by learning the rest at your own pace. You’ll leave the class with the best basics and a road map to further explorations in areas that are relevant to you.

In this session, the Autodesk Fusion 360 drawings team will run through all the features we’ve added this year, plus share the features we’ve planned for the next few builds. Expect sneak peeks at some working code that’s not yet available to the public, and get a preview of an exciting new project that’s being announced at Autodesk University. There’ll be plenty of time to ask questions and connect with the drawings team.

Generative Modeling is a brand-new feature in Autodesk Fusion 360 software that offers up creative design solutions in canvas in a matter of minutes. Users simply let the software know where the shape they want to create should be, and Generative Modeling will automatically come up with a variety of different suggestions for shapes. Unlike the generative design technology that has come before, Generative Modeling requires no detailed setup information from the user. Just click the faces to connect and obstacles to avoid, press go, and see multiple creative possibilities start to take shape in real time. In this case study, you’ll get a firsthand view of how two designers have used Generative Modeling to expand their creativity and explore possibilities in two very different applications. From initial concept all the way through to manufacturing. Their stories help show the advantages that an automated design tool like Generative Modeling can provide.

Come to this class to learn how you can use an engineering-based generative design tool for concept development. Autodesk Fusion 360 is consistently growing in popularity as a hard modeler for production/concept design. The combination of generative design and exploration of the form tool (T-spline modeling) can yield diverse results. In addition, generative design can produce a wide range of models with different manufacturing and material properties. Each result can be adjusted for density and then modified with the form tool and/or solid/surface modification. As a bonus, there are mesh tolls for added modification and combination with additional data sources.

Have you attended our Autodesk University Factory Live Experience? Want to learn how we created some of the parts using Autodesk Fusion 360 software’s newest extension? In this session, the team that helped design the casing for the Autodesk University name badges will walk through how the NEW Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension can automate your design for plastic injection molding by defining your manufacturing up front, automating repetitive modeling tasks, creating manufacturing-specific features, and checking for manufacturing defects through simulation. These tools can increase your speed of development, improve your relationship with suppliers, and reduce your time to market. Come see how Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension can help you with your next plastic injection molding design!

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.

Designing parts for the injection molding process often relies on experience and generic guidelines. Determining the needed geometry for design features can be very time consuming. In this session, we’ll look at how we can streamline this process using Autodesk Fusion 360 software and its extensions. Autodesk Fusion 360 Product Design Extension includes tools for the quick addition of common features, such as snaps and bosses, to Autodesk Fusion 360 parts. Will these features work? Will the snap fail during initial assembly? Will there be sink marks if a boss is molded as designed? Autodesk Fusion 360 Simulation Extension tools for stress analysis and mold-filling simulation help answer these key questions. Now we can catch and correct potential issues early in the design cycle, when there’s still time to react and costs of changes are relatively low.

When designing new products, it’s easy to focus on new technologies and futuristic forms, overlooking cultural heritage. This talk will explore how to take advantage of new innovative tools for designing, making, using, and connecting products, while maintaining a strong connection with the user’s cultural identity. An example of this process is Checho, a voice-controlled smart home hub that plays music, answers questions, and performs multiple tasks in and around the home, similar to Amazon Echo and Google Home. What makes Checho unique is its relation to Latinx culture. It’s made out of solid wood and accentuated with traditional Guatemalan fabric, which conceals its high-tech internal components. Checho was designed with Autodesk Fusion 360 software and fabricated via computer numerical control (CNC) milling, reinforcing the concept of using advanced tools without compromising traditional cultural identity. For more details on Checho, visit: https://www.rit.edu/artdesign/spotlights/checho-traditional-smart-hub

Learn from the product managers how the Autodesk and Esri partnership is advancing design and geographic information system (GIS) collaboration that benefits the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner/operators industry. The intersection of building information modeling (BIM), CAD, and GIS provides incredible insights to enhance project delivery at every level. The functionality between Autodesk and Esri desktops, and collaborative web applications like ArcGIS GeoBIM, are improving workflows and transparency for project teams. The improvements in direct support for RVT, DWG™, and IFC in ArcGIS Pro, and support for hosted GIS feature service in Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, AutoCAD Map 3D software, and AutoCAD software help bring together design and GIS data. The direct cloud connection between Autodesk Construction Cloud and ArcGIS Online/Enterprise offers exponential benefits to help manage the project content for stakeholders. The ability to publish Autodesk data directly to ArcGIS Online/Enterprise for use in shared web and field applications expands the value of the data far beyond the design professionals.