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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
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
OpenBIM Workflows at Autodesk: 2025 Edition
openBIM workflows enable interoperability and collaboration among different software applications and stakeholders in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry using neutral, industry-standard formats. These workflows center around Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), an open and neutral data format for BIM. But they also include other formats and technologies such as BCF (BIM collaboration format), bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary), and IDS (Information Delivery Specification). As a follow-up to last year’s session, you'll learn about the Autodesk strategy around IFC and openBIM, the newest and future capabilities of Revit software, and other Autodesk AEC products supporting openBIM workflows. We'll also offer some insights for Revit users to optimize their IFC data exchange and quality. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user of Revit and IFC, this session will provide you with valuable insights and guidance to enhance your openBIM workflows and collaboration.
29p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Stop Taking Photos on Site! Integrate Mobile 3D Capture and 3D Gaussian Splatting in Civil Infrastructure Management Instead
Have you ever taken a photo of something critical during a site visit only to forget where it was or find it lacking context when reviewing it later? The increasing accessibility of advanced reality capture devices—such as photogrammetry and SLAM LiDAR technology—offers an unprecedented opportunity for AECO professionals to accurately capture detailed and extensive site details. Integrating these technologies into your workflows can dramatically enhance documentation at various construction stages, improve coordination among stakeholders, and provide timely and transparent as-built information. This case study will demonstrate how to effectively use these advanced technologies (SLAM point clouds and 3D gaussian splatting) to enrich civil Infrastructure Management with Autodesk tools like Civil 3D, ReCap, InfraWorks, Revit, and Autodesk Forma.
27p
64p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
The Great Data Migration: Conquering the Transition to Autodesk Forma
Join us as we share our journey of migrating our 16-mile transit project from ProjectWise to Autodesk Forma. Executing this switch in a pretty short window was a feat that offered enormous challenges. We'll walk you through our initial assessment of the current workflow and the unexpected insights that shaped our decision. Experience our planning process and the efforts we took to preserve our project’s integrity during and after migration. Meet the team we assembled and learn how their unique perspectives created our success formula. Finally, step into the switchover command center with us as we navigate the communications that turned potential chaos into a seamless transition. This isn't just our story—it’s a road map for your own successful migration adventure.
36p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
BIM on Track: Interdisciplinary Design for Large-Scale Railway Projects
Railway projects include many disciplines: rail superstructure, civil works, tunnels, viaducts, road bridges, culverts, systems, and so on. In large-scale international projects, many parties are involved in the design and construction process. And the integration of all information in Autodesk Forma coming from different tools—such as InfraWorks, Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks Manage, and Twinmotion—enables the full BIM methodology implementation on a railway project. Autodesk tools also allow stakeholders to manage the project in the real geographical context, and to facilitate the production of photorealistic videos and virtual reality (VR) experiences for stakeholder engagement.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
The Digital Track Switch: Driving Connected Cloud Adoption Without Breaking Complex Rail Infrastructure Project Delivery
Management in infrastructure is no longer optional, but implementing cloud-based workflows mid-project—especially in complex rail infrastructure delivery—comes with unique challenges. In this session, we’ll explore SYSTRA’s behind-the-scenes journey of adopting Autodesk Forma during an active rail infrastructure project. From stakeholder pushback and data silos to integration hurdles, we faced the real-world challenges of shifting to a connected, cloud-first delivery model without stopping the train. This session will focus on strategic decisions, lessons learned, and best practices for rolling out Autodesk Forma and connected digital workflows mid-project, and integrating SYSTRA’s in-house tools—without compromising productivity or trust. Whether you’re leading a digital strategy for civil infrastructure or are mid-rollout on a large-scale rail project, you’ll leave with a clearer view of how to lead change and deliver value through cloud-connected collaboration.
27p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
From Silos to Synergy: Aligning Project Delivery Across Three Firms
Aligning Project Delivery across three engineering firms—spanning 5,000+ staff and major sectors like transportation, water, and buildings—is no small feat. This session will share how we’ve built a unified approach to Project Delivery, balancing consistency with flexibility. We’ll explore how governance, culture, and shared frameworks are helping us deliver at scale—while adapting to project and sector-specific needs. A key enabler has been our partnership with Autodesk, who supported us in adopting tools like Autodesk Forma into our standard workflows. From implementation to integration, Autodesk Forma is helping us streamline collaboration, enhance data continuity, and improve design coordination. If you’re leading digital strategy across a complex organization—or trying to get teams on the same page—this session will offer practical insights, tested methods, and honest lessons learned.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Sustainable Change Through Partnership: Delivering Data-Driven Transformation
Join us to discover how Ramboll, a prominent multidisciplinary engineering firm, formed a partnership with Autodesk to drive sustainable change and Management through innovative solutions, agile methodologies, and a strategy centered around data and an artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The "Together for Better Outcomes" initiative demonstrates the integration of Autodesk solutions—such as Autodesk Forma, Civil 3D, Revit, Autodesk Forma, and Datum360—across thousands of projects, ensuring user engagement and optimizing workflows. By employing digital change management principles and agile development methodologies, this strategy has successfully eradicated silos, standardized procedures, and created new revenue streams. Through this framework, Ramboll has developed custom solutions tailored to solve specific pain points in its workflows, enhancing the firm’s overall effectiveness and adaptability. These efforts are enabling Ramboll to deliver its vision of being the “Partner for Sustainable Change.”
44p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Transforming Engineering with Autodesk Platform Services: A Comprehensive Enterprise-Level Deployment Strategy
Learn about our holistic approach of deploying Autodesk Platform Services throughout a global engineering business, ensuring we have the right tools for the right tasks! We are transforming our organization, significantly increasing Autodesk Platform Services adoption through a multifaceted and targeted approach of solution development. We’ll explore our comprehensive Autodesk Platform Services strategy, which includes building user-friendly tools native to engineers, training programs, detailed documentation, and cohesive guidance. Learn about a diversified strategy of deploying Autodesk Platform Services solutions through Revit and Civil 3D add-ins, stand-alone web tools, a custom Dynamo library, and integrated workflows—all of which are empowering our engineers in various user groups. Understand each environment’s challenges and learn about tailoring tools to streamline workflows for efficiency and quality gains. We’ll also explore how we’re using artificial intelligence (AI) on top of our web-based Autodesk Platform Services applications, enabling innovative use of data for outcome-based design.
45p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Reimagine Infrastructure Planning: Unlock Efficiency with Outcome-Based Generative Design
Early-stage infrastructure planning involves tight timelines and complex trade-offs—yet making the right decisions early is critical to a project’s success. In this session, Infraspace Founder & CEO Andreas Kjølseth shows how outcome-based generative design can accelerate decision-making and improve results by enhancing familiar Autodesk workflows. Kristoffer Bugge from Norconsult will share how one of the Nordics’ largest consultancies is applying Infraspace in real projects to boost productivity and deliver greater value to clients—using automated 3D model generation, instant analytics, and AI-powered optimization. Join us to learn how generative design can help planners and engineers explore better options, faster—while integrating smoothly with Autodesk tools like Civil 3D, Navisworks, and Forma.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Zero Paper, Full Control: Digitalizing Metro Design with Forma Data Management
The entire rail system design process is now managed digitally using Forma Data Management software. Instead of relying on traditional email-based file sharing and approvals, all stakeholders—including the client, consultant, and designer—collaborate in real time on a single digital platform. As a result, delays in approval phases have been significantly reduced, achieving up to 70% savings in paper usage and up to 30% time efficiency in past projects. For upcoming projects, the goal is to implement a fully digital, paperless workflow that boosts Sustainable Design and operational efficiency across the entire design phase.
39p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Code-Free Magic: Crafting Web Apps with Ease
This class will explore the transformative potential of no-code and low-code platforms, demonstrating various no-code/low-code technologies related to Autodesk products. We’ll showcase practical examples using Data Exchange from Autodesk products like Revit and Civil 3D, as well as Tekla. Additionally, we’ll demonstrate how to use the Power BI Connector to visualize and analyze data, providing deeper insights and more-informed decision making. We’ll also demonstrate how to connect everything with a web app built in a low-code environment. By the end of the session, you will have a clear understanding of how these tools can be integrated into your workflows to drive innovation and productivity. Furthermore, we will also take a brief look at how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your applications. This will include a quick overview of how AI can automate tasks and provide predictive insights, giving you a glimpse into the future of AI-driven workflows.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
How the Florida Department of Transportation Uses Civil 3D for Quantifying Design Projects

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) workflows require everything placed or drawn to have magical Xdata attached which contains pay item number(s) and compute methods (formulas). This session will demonstrate the applications within our FDOT Civil 3D 2026 State Kit that facilitate how to seamlessly design and run automated summary reports to obtain an accurate accounting of our State infrastructure projects. The applications we will demonstrate will include Entity Manager, FDOT Signs, Pavement Marking tool, Place Block Group, and FDOT Takeoff Manager.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Flow with the Pros to Understand Civil 3D and InfoDrainage Integration
This session will focus on the Civil 3D catchments tool and its integration with the InfoDrainage workflow. You’ll learn the fundamental steps for setting up catchments and importing data into InfoDrainage, as well as strategies to improve workflow efficiency. The presentation will cover the use of the time of concentration calculator within the catchment object for further analysis. Additionally, the session will demonstrate the process of importing catchments into InfoDrainage to start stormwater design seamlessly, highlighting tools and techniques that ensure accurate data transfer. By the end of the session, participants will have the skills to effectively apply these techniques to their own drainage modeling projects, empowering them to optimize design outcomes, streamline project timelines, and enhance overall project quality.
4p
28p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
BIM As-Is: SCAN-2-BIM As It Should Be
In São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, modeling underground infrastructure involves complex technical and data challenges. This case study will present the first Brazilian project to apply SCAN-2-BIM with IFC 4.3 interoperability in an active metro tunnel—part of the Line 2-Green extension, more than 40 meters deep. Reality capture was done entirely with terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). The point cloud was semantically classified and feature-extracted in ReCap software. Modeling was automated using Civil 3D software with Dynamo and Subassembly Composer, while coordination and export were handled via Navisworks and IFC 4.3 from Civil 3D. The team overcame issues of data volume, accuracy, and integration. This pioneering project also defined asset-agnostic workflows for SCAN-2-BIM in linear infrastructure—scalable and reusable across future projects.
21p
63p
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
Using Subassembly Composer and Corridor Transitions to Create a More Efficient Model
In more complicated designs users can see efficiency gains in using customized subassemblies that do the work of multiple assembly regions. In this lab users will experience using Subassembly Composer to create a subassembly that uses a Decision function to facilitate multiple end conditions along a design with a single assembly or region. Then, using that custom subassembly in Civil 3D, we will use the Corridor Transition tools to adjust the design with a high level of control.
57p
57p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
The Future of CAD Management: How AI Is Transforming AutoCAD and Civil 3D
CAD managers are facing a major shift. As artificial intelligence (AI) and Automation, Integration, & Customization tools become more accessible, the traditional role of CAD oversight is evolving into a leadership position focused on efficiency, strategy, and Management. In this session, we’ll explore how AI technologies—including ChatGPT for conversational assistance and script guidance, Autodesk Platform Services for seamless integration, and Dynamo for low-code Automation, Integration, & Customization—are reshaping CAD workflows in AutoCAD and Civil 3D software. You’ll learn how to automate tedious tasks, improve quality control, and better support project teams—all without needing to become a programmer. If you're ready to stop reacting and start leading, this session will show you the tools and mindset needed for the future of CAD management.
43p
Panel / Nashville 2025
Designing for Health Empowerment Using Autodesk Forma to Reimagine Urban Land Use Through Community Land Trusts
This panel session explores how Autodesk Forma is being used in the feasibility phase of the Big Bold Bordeaux Vision—a community-driven initiative to transform a large parcel of land located in North Nashville through a Community Land Trust. Panelists, including local leaders and AECO professionals, will share how Forma supports early-stage analysis of zoning, urban density, and Sustainable Design to inform equitable land use decisions. The session highlights how Forma enables transparent, data-driven planning that. Lastly, this session will focus on this process that facilitates the foundational communication between municipalities and community voices that supports long-term health equity goals.
11p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Design to Delivery—Faster with the Right AI

In an era where speed, quality, and innovation define success, using AI in design and construction workflows is no longer optional—it's essential. This session, Design to Delivery—Faster with the Right AI, shows how tools like Chaos’ Enscape, Veras and Glyph work in concert with Autodesk Revit and Forma to accelerate ideation, visualization, and construction documentation. Drawing from industry wide findings about where early adopters see the biggest benefits from AI, attendees will learn the best AI applications from the first interview, through design, and into construction documentation. The speakers know not all AI is equal, and will show the audience how to evaluate AI tools through the lens of quality, security, and intellectual property protection. By the end of this class you'll be able to use the right AI capability, at the right time, to boost creativity, improve quality, and shorten project timelines.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Get Dirty with Data: Building Autodesk Forma Cloud Data with Dynamo
Exchanging data between applications is a favorite problem in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). We risk undersharing and oversharing, we worry about working on different versions of a project, and we find our data formats have become compatible! While desktop software systems are the powerhouses driving design and engineering workflows, we need to communicate beyond our desks, often through rapidly changing distributed cloud interfaces. We've been talking about reading and writing data to a shared cloud in Autodesk Forma software for a while—and now it’s time to get our hands dirty! Follow along on your laptop or just enjoy the show. We'll walk through how Forma data is structured and why it’s structured this way, and then we’ll use Dynamo to read and write data from the desktop to the cloud. No skills in Dynamo are needed, but if you can, feel free to follow along. Dynamo will be used to show programmers and nonprogrammers the way that Forma data can be created, edited, and searched from really any application or environment.
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