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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

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

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

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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22p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Inside the Virtual White House: Designing an Immersive Historical Experience

How do you turn one of the most recognized buildings in the United States into an immersive digital experience? This case study will present the development behind an innovative immersive installation created in partnership with Cortina Productions and the White House Historical Association. Using real-time rendering and radar touch technology, a rectangular exhibition space was transformed into multiple rooms of the White House in The People’s House. We’ll walk through the project’s inception, from the 3D scanning of artifacts to the resolution of visual discrepancies between digital architecture and the physical limitations. A central challenge of the project was translating the rooms—each with unique dimensions and architectural features—into a single rectangular physical space, without sacrificing immersion. The talk will cover strategies for preserving historical accuracy while working efficiently, including the challenges of scale, optimization, material research, and accessibility.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Generative Design Made Easy: Practical Generative Design Workflows for Civil 3D Users

Generative design isn’t just a buzzword - it’s a powerful tool that can reshape how we approach projects in Civil 3D. Yet many users are unsure where to begin to implement generative design into their daily workflows. This class will explore how you can implement generative design into various Civil 3D workflows to create smarter, clash-free models, streamline tasks, and unlock better project outcomes. This session will demonstrate various real-world examples of where generative design can be applied, including route optimization & asset placement. You’ll learn how to prepare Dynamo graphs for use in generative design before creating generative design studies, evaluating outcomes and generating geometry in Civil 3D – all with practical real-world examples. Whether you’re looking to reduce risk, lower costs, improve Sustainable Design or simply work smarter, this class will give you the confidence and tools to put generative design to work on your Civil 3D projects.

43p

56p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Quirky People, Healing Spaces: Designing for Sensory Accessibility

Making spaces accessible for people with sensory sensitivities—high sensitivity, neurodivergence, and histories of trauma—improves productivity, health, and learning outcomes. Understanding the sensory impact of architectural decisions makes a significant impact on long-term building usability. This discussion will explore the many different types of sensory sensitivity, debunk some myths about neurodivergence, and illustrate the benefits of sensory accessibility for all people.

11p

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

Vault Now and in the Future

Vault 2026 software has arrived, bringing new features and enhancements to improve design creation, streamline user and admin workflows, and enhance software interoperability. This session will showcase these new additions and explore their practical applications. After presenting the latest features, we'll delve into the Vault road map and discuss how you can help shape its future.

40p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

North Star Vision: Digitizing Breakthrough Engineering for a Better World

In support of the IMI North Star, we’re delivering a connected data environment between IMI engineering, production, and all key business functions—which provides the control, data, and analytics required to continue to drive revenue growth and margin improvement. Learn about IMI’s success with Autodesk Fusion Manage PLM software as it is adopted by more than 2,500 users across 28 sites globally—scaling to 46 sites and 4,000 users by 2027. IMI’s mission continues to be breakthrough engineering for a better world. We’ll explore how integration of these various systems produces increasing amounts of more-accurate data to be collected and shared across the organization in a digital environment. With added workflow efficiency, we see accelerated product development, improved collaboration, and lower operating costs to optimize our organization.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Bulletproof Your Inventor Workflow: Settings, Projects, and Beyond

Say goodbye to missing files, style clashes, and design rework. In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a bulletproof Inventor workflow—drawn from 20 years of technical support expertise—optimizing settings, project files, templates, styles libraries, and Content Center. We’ll craft a live design environment that’s fast, error-free, and scalable for solo or team projects. Test it against real-world chaos and see the difference: efficiency up, headaches down. You’ll leave with a proven cheat sheet distilled from decades of troubleshooting that will help make Inventor work for you. Whether it’s parts or assemblies, unlock a smarter way to design. Bring your workflow into the future—starting here.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Titans of Precast: Model-Based Asset Tracking at Stadium Scale

Go behind the scenes of the new A Stadium Model to discover how model-based asset tracking transformed the way precast concrete was delivered and installed. In this session, you'll learn how our team used Autodesk Build software to create intelligent, connected assets directly from the model. Then you’ll see how we used Power BI to visualize installation progress at scale. We’ll walk through the challenges of coordinating thousands of precast components, the strategies we used to keep the field and office aligned, and the ways data-driven workflows helped us stay on track. Whether you're managing stadium-sized projects or just looking to improve asset visibility, this session will show you how to turn your BIM into real-time insights.

Meetup / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Construction Cloud Administrators Meetup

Are you an Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) administrator, manager or user? Join Autodesk Construction Cloud Administrators Meetup! You’ll dive into candid conversations, share real-world experiences, and explore forward-thinking ideas that are shaping the future of construction technology whether that is Docs, Build, Design Collaboration, Cost Management, etc. This meetup is designed to share insights, as well as discuss best practices and exchange strategies for all things ACC. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, grow, and connect with your peers of ACC.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

What Would You Do? Simulating Critical Field Choices with Autodesk Build.

When things go sideways in the field, what would *you* do? In this interactive, hands-on lab, you'll be dropped into 10 high-pressure, real-world field scenarios. Each one will challenge you to make critical decisions using Autodesk Build software’s interconnected tools. Do you open an Issue or log a Form? Do you link Assets or refer to the latest Sheet set? The choice is yours—and every choice has consequences. Participants will simulate the workflows of real field teams: creating Issues, completing Forms, referencing Sheets, tracking Assets, and seeing how these tools work together to bring clarity and control to field operations. You’ll get to compare your team’s decision path against others and discuss what worked and what didn’t. This won’t be a lecture—it’ll be an immersive simulation that will test your instincts and teach best practices by doing.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Intent to Distribute: How to Control Distribution and Updating of Your Fabrication Database and Profiles

Join us for a session focused on managing the distribution and updating of your Fabrication database and profiles. We'll cover essential techniques to ensure smooth and efficient operations.

25p

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Field-Tested: The Top Five Autodesk Construction Cloud Features That Actually Save Time

Let’s be honest—your team doesn’t care how powerful a tool is if it’s not saving them time. In this fast-paced session, we’ll cut through the noise and spotlight five Autodesk Construction Cloud features that are actually being used in the field—and making a real impact. From smarter issue tracking to simplified Management and mobile field reports, these workflows are saving hours, reducing rework, and helping teams focus on building, not chasing down information. Expect real examples, zero fluff, and ideas that you can immediately put to work on your next project.

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