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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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2019

Construction IQ: A Smart Assistant for Diagnosing Risk on Construction Projects

Project management for construction can be very challenging. It involves intensive coordination among teams and stakeholders throughout all project phases, from design review to project delivery. Efficient management of construction documents, such as drawings, designs, issues, RFIs, change orders, etc., is the key for project success. Research has shown that more than 50% of RFIs have a root cause in design issues and documentation error that could be solved by improving design review. In this session, we look at how a data driven approach can help project teams including VDC managers, project engineers, superintendents and project managers stay on top of critical high risk items and take action. We explore how technologies such as Construction IQ can leverage knowledge and past experience gained through mining tons of data and apply that to prioritize issues and RFIs, and group them into actionable categories for faster and more focused processing, with the ultimate goal of mitigating project risks and bettering project performance. Hear from AECOM and Danis Construction how they are connecting design to construction and their use of Construction IQ, and how it turns plain text into insights about project risk and makes the constructability review process and project management easier.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017

The Making of an IoT Nervous System: Pier 9's Smart Bridge

This class dives into our cross-divisional project at Autodesk for the making of a SmartBridge inside our Pier9 facility.We'll walk through our case study where we used structural analysis, Eagle, Revit and Forge to design and plan the layout of sensors onto an interior pedestrian footbridge. Using sensors for strain, acceleration, temperature, pressure, humidity, sound and cameras, we created the "nervous system". We then integrated all this live sensor data into Autodesk's cloud environment, and used Forge to bring all the data into one context on top of the BIM.Using data at the centre, we'll show you how we learned from the data to create various machine learning analytics for interacting with people on the bridge. In our class, we'll go over how we applied big data analysis techniques, machine learning, computer vision and visualization in the cloud to make our bridge "smart".(Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Designing Environments for Machine Learning Agents

This class will examine designing environments for visually capable Machine Learning Agents to train in. Looking at both modular, procedurally generated environments and non-generative spaces, the class will cover constructing environments to promote generalization and learning. Additionally, the class will give an overview of the design constraints imposed when training AI, including vision sizing, computing power, and graphic fidelity. The class will dissect the Unity Obstacle Tower Challenge environments, including their construction in Autodesk Maya, the modular structure, and procedural generation. The class will also survey the possible issues in adapting an existing digital environment to use with AI.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Controlling MEP Fabrication Parts in Revit by Using the API and Dynamo

The goal of this class is to show users how they can model more accurately using Fabrication Parts in Revit software by using the power of Dynamo, the Revit API, and some good Fabrication CAD database management practices. For time’s sake, this demo will focus on the issues that Mechanical Inc. incurred when modeling out MEP Fabrication hangers. We’ll outline a series of problems, including producing hanger drawings, extracting point data out of Revit for field install, and producing accurate material BOMs using fabrication reports. We’ll discuss how each problem came about, the issues it was causing, what our solution was, and how we developed that solution natively in Revit and Fabrication CAD without the use of paid add-ins. While the workflows being demonstrated will focus mainly on MEP hangers, they can be applied to all categories of MEP Fabrication elements and used to overcome current limitations with Fabrication Parts that come out of the box.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018

Rail Digital Transformation: Innovation at the Heart of Systra Strategy

SYSTRA provides consulting services on all the lifecycle of a mass transit and rail infrastructure. Digital transformation of our industry is more and more mature and moving fast. International collaboration on IFCrail or UIC RailTopoModel is clear evidence that we are entering a very exciting period. As an engineering firm dedicated to this market, we address our client needs throughout the life of the rail assets, from transport planning to operations and maintenance. During this class, we will share with you SYSTRA’s vision of this digital transformation and how digital innovation drives our digital strategy, from digital solution for transport planning to digital asset management services. We will focus on Hyperasset, our program to develop in-house solutions to manage the rail assets during the operations and maintenance phase, from the territorial scale down to the catenary object, using all the available technology such as the Forge platform.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016

Virtual Sticks and Bricks—Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: Today and the Near and Long-Term Future Outlook

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) tools have found a niche in real estate sales and marketing, and they are having some impact on design decision making, but the real impact on construction lies just over the horizon when gaming technology, wearable computing, and machine learning will deliver a rapid proliferation of multiplayer collaboration environments for process planning to optimize design, sequencing, coordination, and safety planning. This class will take an industry look at where we are today, and what the near-future and long-term-future states of VR and AR are likely to be. This session features Autodesk Stingray and Maya. AIA Approved

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018

Beyond Preconstruction: VR and BIM 360 Empowering Collaboration in a Global Company

This class will demonstrate how Skanska is capitalizing on virtual reality (VR) to foster collaboration and communication between design, preconstruction, and operations in one of the world’s largest construction companies. The class will provide specific examples, including international coordination between Skanska USA and Skanska Sweden, external collaboration between the architect and the construction manager, and internal collaboration within preconstruction service groups, such as scheduling and estimating. We will also discuss benefits and best practices. These include the benefits of a templatized, data-centered approach that enables the user to create immersive experiences for any platform.

Keynote / London 2017

Opening Keynote

Join Chris Bradshaw Senior Vice President of Media & Entertainment, Education Experiences, and Impact at Autodesk to learn about the trends that will help create your future of making things. We’ll feature stories from companies around the world who are embracing new methods and technologies to catapult how they innovate. Foster + Partners’ Martha Tsigkari and Miles Walker will discuss the impact of computation and innovation on the design and delivery of projects such as Mexico City’s airport. Autodesk’s Mike Haley will give a peek into what’s on the technology horizon, including machine learning, AR/VR and robotics. You’ll leave inspired to embrace this future in your own work.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019

Automate Your Revit Add-In Testing with Unit Testing

Do you ever update a Revit add-in and find that the user sees bugs that shouldn’t have been there? Do you have a difficult time getting developers and users to test tools consistently? There are a few types of testing that can help, including end-to-end tests, integration tests, compatibility tests, and unit tests. Whether you’re a new or experienced programmer, you should know these testing concepts to create testable and maintainable code. Do you feel like testing takes too long? Creating automated unit tests is a fast way to test code, including new and old features. Unit testing will not only create higher-quality products, but it will also make adding new features faster. So, you don’t currently focus on testing? This session will go through testing concepts and teach you how to create a unit test project and a simple Revit unit test. In addition, it will share the tricks that KLH uses to push testing to its development team and employees to create better products.