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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 / 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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

Get a Performance Boost: tune your hardware technology

Don't get left behind. This class covers the latest hardware technology advancements and everything you need to know to configure and tune your systems for optimal performance with Autodesk software. Learn how to select and optimize a workstation specifically for your workflows, and discover the latest in CPU (processor), GPU (graphics), memory (RAM), and storage (hard drive) technologies, including updates from Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, and Samsung. You will leave this class armed with the knowledge and tools you need to start optimizing your hardware performance immediately.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

Five Mistakes from a Rookie CAD Manager

A couple of years ago I packed my family home into a U-Haul and left the bright lights of the United Kingdom's capital city for a little village on England's south coast. Why? I had finally found the position I had been working so hard for: CAD manager. And you know what? It didn't work out quite how I expected. Maybe I'm not yet experienced enough to tell you how to succeed as a CAD manager, but I can certainly help you to avoid the mistakes I made. Come and join us for a lively session as we discuss how to put aside the CADing and Codeing, and we talk about what to do next.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2020

Combining Live Action into Your Grand CG World

Through Maya software, we can solve the limits of digitally shooting both on-set and recreated environments so that the initial ideas can come to life. Whether it's recreating a museum for Missy Elliott or the Staples Center for rapper Cal Scruby, Maya has played an essential role in making these ideas happen. This class will show you how the speaker placed the live-action talent into new environments, and how those environments were built from the ground up. You will see what went into creating the interior of the Staples Center from scratch—including modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering—and how the artist was placed inside with the camera sweeping all around. You will also see how we overcame some obstacles on Missy Elliott's latest music video, "Cool Off," by digitally recreating a museum.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2013

Performance-Based Sustainable Design Thinking Through Autodesk BPA Education

Reducing energy use and carbon emissions from buildings is essential for solving the global climate crisis. Although the earth's atmosphere just exceeded the critical threshold of 400 ppm of carbon in the atmosphere, many of today's architects and engineers are not equipped to tackle this problem with sound building science and useful energy analysis. This is true for both graduating students and practicing professionals. In response to this need, the Autodesk education team, sustainability team, and product teams are working together to deliver a suite of educational programs. Hear from the people creating these programs and the people using them, and learn how they can help you, your classroom, and your firm.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

CAD and BIM Manager's Handbook 2013

CAD/BIM management requires a diverse set of management skills. This class provides tips, tricks, technologies, tools, and strategies to better manage your company's CAD/BIM environment. We discuss problem identification, problem solving, user motivation, senior management support, budgeting, training program justification, objection handling and more. As the class progresses, you complete a self-evaluation to help you prioritize your management action items and quantify the savings you can generate via better management practices. This class is product agnostic, so don't worry about what discipline you support as a CAD manager. If you are frustrated by the management aspect of your job, this class gives you the tools to succeed.

Panel / Virtual 2020

AU Leadership Panel - EMEA

As AU 2020 is digital, you will not run into a keynote speaker this year while waiting in line for coffee, however there is still an opportunity to talk to Autodesk leadership, LIVE and safely from the comfort of your home, to ask questions about the AU 2020 keynote presentations. Join Roland Zelles - Autodesk VP, Global Territory Sales, Walter Dopplmair – VP, EMEA Territory Sales, and Nikolay Dubovitskiy - Country Manager Russia & CIS, for a LIVE moderated discussion. We will answer your questions and hope to further discuss the role that data, automation and insight play in empowering innovators like you to not just adapt to the new normal, but to achieve the new possible.

Panel / Virtual 2020

AU Leadership Panel - India

As AU 2020 is digital, you will not run into a keynote speaker this year while waiting in line for coffee, however there is still an opportunity to talk to Autodesk leadership, LIVE and safely from the comfort of your home, to ask questions about the AU 2020 keynote presentations. Join Rajeev Mittal - Managing Director - India & SAARC, Autodesk , along with Autodesk India Industry Leadership teams for a LIVE moderated discussion. We will answer your questions and hope to further discuss the role that data, automation and insight play in empowering innovators like you to not just adapt to the new normal, but to achieve the new possible.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

Workstation Virtualization - Business and Technical considerations

In this session we will explore the reasons of why workstation virtualization is now becoming more mainstream and why customers are looking at it far more than ever before. Globalization of businesses, technical readiness and security considerations have all been major drivers in the adoption and now, with new emerging technologies, it is the right time to see if and how it would fit in your organization and what it can bring to the table. The different technologies will be contrasted and compared and some hints, tips and gotchas called out to make your organization more effective wen considering implementation.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

The Top 10 Free AutoCAD® Apps from the AutoCAD Exchange

In this class, you will get a look at the ten most popular products available from the new AutoCAD Exchange—AutoCAD software plug-ins and content that you can immediately download and start using yourself. The most popular free products available from AutoCAD Exchange are all AutoCAD productivity enhancers that can help you and your team get the job done faster, eliminate boring repetitive tasks, wow the boss, and get you home earlier on a Friday afternoon.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Inventor: Frame Generator—Multiframe Design Setup Made Easy

In this class, you’ll discover multiple routes for generating Frame Generator Reference Files. And you’ll see how they can be integrated into top-level assemblies efficiently—where information from reference files can also be used to drive downstream design tasks where associativity between components and assemblies are important and change may occur throughout the design lifecycle. The class will also touch on new and updated workflows where model states and simplification tools can be used to manage assemblies and generate associative BIM-ready models, required by different or cross-industry design teams. This hands-on session is aimed toward the intermediate Inventor user. But it was developed for users who want to explore the Inventor Professional Frame Generator accelerator and its capabilities with high levels of associativity and parametric potential.

94p

52p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Streamlining Design-to-Configuration: Your Rules in Autodesk Forma and Revit Via Dynamo

This class will teach you how to automate decision making by applying predefined business logic and rules to data inside Dynamo software. We’ll demonstrate how to push and pull this data into Autodesk Forma and Revit software to achieve predictable design outcomes that meet your BIM and virtual design and construction (VDC) requirements. Understand how to structure your logic to drive step-by-step configuration processes, delivering building models that precisely match your company’s desired outputs. This class will provide tangible solutions, whether the goal is to rapidly iterate through design options in Forma based on product constraints or to automatically generate precise geometry for construction drawings and fabrication models in Revit based on predefined company standards. By the end of this class, you’ll be equipped with the foundational knowledge and practical insights to begin implementing logic-driven design Automation, Integration, & Customization within your own organizations and see how building configuration is possible.

13p

26p

Meetup / Nashville 2025

Industrialized construction, Pre-fabrication, and Modular Construction Community Meetup

The principle of Industrialized construction is to apply techniques learned from industries such as Automotive design to the design and construction of buildings. Moving to this new world has inherent challenges, from the complexity of mass customization to the supply chain pipeline.
You are not alone. Many great minds are focused on this complex problem and the challenges of getting there from where we are today.
If you are involved in the manufacture of building products or equipment, the pre-fabrication of building components and modular systems, or the challenges of implementing design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) in your Architectural practice, come and join your peers at Autodesk University for this informal networking session.
Take this opportunity to meet others at AU who are focused on the same problems as you and build your network of peers to help you meet this challenge long after AU is over.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

PLM Summit | Staying Connected with PLM: Elevating Greenpoint's Product Development Efficiency

Greenpoint Technologies is a leading business-jet completion center that specializes in crafting custom aircraft interiors for private clients, governments, and heads of state. Using Vault Professional software and Autodesk Fusion Manage Extension, Greenpoint has optimized its product development processes through the integration of connected data and workflows. This integration provides comprehensive visibility across the organization, from concept to manufacturing. The firm’s innovative use of Product Lifecycle Management ensures engineers from various departments benefit from standardized, predictable workflows, automated task processes, and insights into inefficiencies via Power BI analytics. This presentation will showcase Greenpoint’s journey toward achieving cost savings, quality improvements, and timely deliveries through advanced PLM and data management strategies.

18p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Driving Progress: Real-World Applications of Large-Scale Simulation and AI

Discover how simulation and AI are transforming engineering in the built environment. This session explores how simulation-generated data powers AI, how digital engineering practices enable scale, and how strategic partnerships are accelerating adoption. Learn how to move from reactive workflows to intelligent, AI-driven design—while addressing real-world challenges like cost, safety, Sustainable Design, and performance uncertainty. Ideal for AEC professionals, engineers, and innovation leaders looking to apply AI in practical, scalable ways.

30p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Laying the Groundwork for the Future: HP SitePrint and the New Era of AEC Productivity

In today's fast-paced construction landscape, precision and productivity are more crucial than ever. In this session, HP will share its vision for the in AEC, highlighting how HP Construction Services is bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds—from design to layout to on-site execution. Learn how HP SitePrint, has evolved, delivering unmatched speed, accuracy, and consistency on construction sites. Today, SitePrint goes even further, now offering floor deviation marking capabilities. This advancement allows teams to mark both layout and deviation points in a single, real-time process, helping crews identify out-of-tolerance areas early and streamline coordination across trades. Discover how HP is helping Construction Professionals build with confidence by rethinking layout and enabling smarter, connected construction workflows that improve productivity and reduce rework.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

When Augmenta’s AI Joins the Project Team: Lessons Learned from Real-World AEC to Construction with AI Workflows

In this session, we’ll showcase how electrical firms are using the Augmenta Construction Platform (ACP) to create a significant impact on their projects. Through a real-world case study, we’ll explore the remarkable results achieved by a first-time ACP user and discuss how their workflows will continue to evolve as the platform develops. Discover how ACP is enabling firms to streamline workflows by comparing multiple conduit routes simultaneously, making better, faster decisions, and ultimately reducing human error. We’ll also dive into how ACP enriches BIM data, leading to more-accurate and efficient fabrication. This session will highlight the tangible benefits of ACP, demonstrating that the right artificial intelligence (AI) platform can deliver big results—whether through time savings, enhanced accuracy, or improved decision making. Don’t miss this opportunity to see how the future of fabrication and BIM is unfolding with ACP!

11p

31p

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