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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

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.

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.

New Orleans 2022

Beyond a Pretty Scan - Collaborate & Document with Matterport

Beyond simply digitizing buildings, Matterport’s digital twins are visually immersive, interactive 3D scans that connect teammates and stakeholders between offices and job sites directly to the computer in front of you. In this class, we’ll discuss how teams utilize Matterport solutions to jumpstart and streamline workflows starting from concept design, throughout construction, all the way to handover, warranty, and beyond. We’ll demonstrate the depth of Matterport’s documentation and collaboration tools as well as showcase our direct to Revit Scan-to BIM process! Take this opportunity to get a sneak peek at Matterport’s future offerings and integrations with Autodesk.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Legacy to Digital Prototyping: Scan. Model. Transform.

Elevating the digital maturity of our clients' factories, we aim to transform traditional manufacturing practices by transitioning from outdated paper-based drawings to the powerful concept of the Digital Prototyping. We start by scanning the facility to generate a 3D point cloud, which forms the base for architectural and MEP models in Revit software. These are imported into Inventor software, where we design and optimize the production line with machinery, conveyors, and robots. Factory Design Utilities software allows us to quickly build detailed layouts. With Navisworks software, we perform clash detection and offer virtual reality (VR) walk-throughs. FlexSim simulates the workflow to ensure efficiency. For data management, we use Vault Pro software and Autodesk Forma, while Autodesk Tandem software improves operations. This journey helps clients move beyond outdated systems and embrace the Digital Prototyping and Digital Prototyping.

48p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Eaton’s Digital Prototyping Journey: From Descriptive to Predictive (Preventative Maintenance and Energy Management)

Facility Management operational requirements for data are higher than ever with energy efficiency targets and new maintenance focused industry standards. To solve these fundamental challenges, Eaton is deploying Digital Energy Twins for simplified, contextualized building system integrations. In this case study, learn how Eaton started by implementing a Digital Prototyping of its own facility (Houston Power Experience Center) to improve insights and operational outcomes. What’s next: Eaton will share how Tandem and Bright layer are partnering to deliver additional value in Preventative Maintenance & Energy Management.

25p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Twins

Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Forma, 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 Forma 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 / Nashville 2025

Empowering Tomorrow's Factories with Seamless Autodesk Integration

By 2027, the Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization market will surpass $400 billion. This isn’t a trend, it’s a transformation. Rising shipping and raw material costs, plus geopolitical instability, are driving manufacturers to reevaluate global strategies. Labor-cost-driven models are giving way to nearshoring and supply chain optimization, enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and 5G. Digital factories offer real-time data, autonomous decision making, and unmatched efficiency. Autodesk is uniquely positioned to lead this shift with end-to-end cloud solutions—from factory design to construction, simulation, Digital Prototypings, and asset management. With tools like Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Forma, Autodesk ensures seamless data flow and collaboration across every phase. This talk will explore how Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization is reshaping global manufacturing—and how Autodesk empowers businesses to build smarter, faster, and more resilient factories.

15p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Twinfinity and Beyond: Automating Digital Prototypings at Scale at the University of Florida

As the land-grant university in Florida and an R1 research institution, the University of Florida (UF) has an extensive facilities inventory, with buildings ranging from the early 1900s to modern research facilities. With 500+ permanent or significant buildings totaling 30+ million gross square feet, it’s critical to have scalable solutions that combine existing systems and advanced technologies as we embrace Digital Prototypings, artificial intelligence (AI), and streamlined workflows. Using the power of Autodesk Platform Services and the Autodesk Forma common data environment (CDE), UF has automated the creation of Autodesk Tandem Digital Prototypings, which are fully connected to critical systems—including BAS streaming and back population of time series data, space management, and work management for assets, work history, and costing. Links are embedded in UF systems to facilitate easy access to Tandem from multiple entry points. Automating the manual effort involved in standing up twins has allowed us to focus on what matters: accurate models and timely data.

New Orleans 2022

What If... Convergence of Desktop, Collaboration, Data, and Digitization

We are starting to see a convergence of different industries and disciplines like we have never seen before. Construction and manufacturing for modular construction and building product manufacturing coming further into design. Plant and power owners using these same methodologies to help meet deadlines and set quality standards. Owners using digital twin and integrated factory modeling for digitalization of factory building and production lines. Digitization in infrastructure for everything below or above ground. Along with GIS, the ability to explore locations, events, and trends so stakeholders can be better informed or create awareness of the environment. See how today’s current desktop and cloud technologies like Revit, Inventor, Forma, and Fusion are helping to bring a common data environment to multiple industries. Understand how Collaboration, Connected Data, and Digitization are bringing the “art of the possible” to a level that we have never seen before.

New Orleans 2022

Autodesk Forge Data APIs: Standardized Granular Data Extraction to Reduce Code Base

For several years, Stantec has maintained a software stack used to extract data from Revit software for various purposes. Most recently, this was in support of a benchmarking effort to collect standardized, normalized data from our models for reporting and analysis by project type and sector. In this scenario, users must “submit” their data after they have a QA check. Autodesk Data Exchange and APIs present a method to standardize the data extraction process and give control to the end user in regards to what data is exported for downstream use. This process removes the compute from the local desktop and reduces the complexity of the internal code base. Using Microsoft Azure as a data pipeline, we move the data traffic off the corporate network (LAN, WAN, VPN, and ISP). This class will discuss our development of a solution that maximizes the Autodesk Forge Data APIs. In addition to benchmarking, we’ll touch on some of the other areas where we have experimented with the tooling, including as part of our digital twin project.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

Demonstrating the Value of Digital Twins in Operations for Pharma 4

More and more complex assets are delivered with a digital model that has undeniable importance in the CapEx (capital expenditure) phase. However, a basic question arises for a pharmaceutical leader like GSK: What are the business and manufacturing benefits that can be derived from this smart digital representation of assets, and how? Through "design thinking" tools and an agile approach, we answer this question by focusing on making daily life easier for the shop floor teams. The basic principle focuses on the "spatial contextualization" of information through a 3D or 2D model to support team decision making and team collaboration. The bottom line: The information contextualization enables a prioritization of daily activities and eliminates time previously spent searching for the right information or any asset component. We will share the four phases of this pharma 4.0 digital innovation project: exploration, prototyping, showcasing, and implementation in an interactive storytelling format.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Digital Prototyping Summit | Mirror Worlds: Digital Prototypings and the Era of Predictive Intelligence

Unlock the full potential of your asset data with Autodesk Digital Prototyping solutions. This session will explore how Digital Prototypings—spanning both physical assets and operational processes—support the entire lifecycle: design, build, operate, and maintain. Autodesk Tandem software creates rich production twins using live sensor data and structured taxonomy. FlexSim delivers dynamic process flow simulations that model people and operations. Together, they form a connected digital thread, from concept to reuse, enabling smarter decisions, reducing waste, and supporting circular economy goals. Discover how combining asset and process twins drives sustainable, resilient outcomes across buildings and infrastructure.

58p

54p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Innovating Rail Maintenance: Deutsche Bahn’s Use of Digital Prototypings with BIM and Asset Data for Smarter, Sustainable Decisions

Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) offers passenger and freight transport solutions, with a focus on Germany. DB Systel GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of DB and the driver of digitalization for all of the Group companies. Digital representation of assets is vital for instant status checks and effective decision making. Currently, BIM offers asset details during projects, yet maintenance data often resides in isolated silos, managed manually. DB’s current focus is breaking down data silos between BIM and maintenance systems using Autodesk Tandem software to enable artificial intelligence (AI)-driven insights in the future. This session will highlight how DB is piloting Autodesk Tandem software to bring together BIM and maintenance data—which are often disconnected. By connecting intelligent models with live maintenance data, DB accelerates knowledge transfer, improves efficiency, and paves the way for AI-driven predictive maintenance. Learn how Deutsche Bahn is using data and Digital Prototypings, and setting the stage for smarter and sustainable railways.

33p

New Orleans 2022

Sharing ReCap Projects on Autodesk's Cloud Platforms

Whether you’re scanning an existing site or capturing as-built data near the end of a project, you've put in the work to create a digital twin of your site in ReCap software. Now stakeholders need to review it or perhaps teammates need it to further their design. We'll discuss how to use secure Autodesk platforms like BIM 360, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Drive to connect colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to your data. We’ll start with understanding various workflows to get your project up in the cloud. Once there, we'll use collaborative tools in the Autodesk Forge Viewer API to create markups and annotations that can be synced down to the project locally. We'll cover how teammates and partners can consume your data in other products like Revit software, Civil 3D software, and InfraWorks software. Lastly, we'll discuss where the product may be heading, and how that could affect current workflows. Whether you’re a surveyor or a BIM manager tasked with managing point cloud data, you’ll find value in this course.

New Orleans 2022

Reality Capture Process from Cloud Platform Using Autodesk Forge to Merge Intelligent Model

Point cloud is now a technology well known in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, including scanning and photogrammetry. With point clouds, you can save a lot of time in various use cases like digital twins, as-build comparing, or retro-engineering. Collecting data from the reality to virtual environment is always time consuming and painful. Discover in a smooth workflow how to merge point clouds on the Autodesk Forge platform with intelligent models to improve collaboration and save time.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

How to Create Digital Twins with Autodesk’s BIM Solutions and Unity

During the BIM (Building Information Modeling) evolution, we’ve seen many different solutions for many different contexts. Easy access to information means that our customers are coming to us much better informed and more curious. During the COVID-19 crisis, there was an abundance of information available via webinars, online workshops, and other channels that helped people understand BIM better. But how do we keep moving forward? Much has been heard about digital twins, the new proposal for project analysis in construction and postconstruction processes. Innovation raises questions such as: “How am I supposed to offer this solution to my customers?” In this class, we’ll explore the differences between a digital twin and an intelligent model, help you understand Unity solutions for digital twins, and highlight the advantages of this innovation by showing you how we can do it with the support of Autodesk partner Unity.

New Orleans 2022

Future of Work: How Do You Implement That?

Autodesk is providing insights, technology, and training to help you and your business prepare for the future of work. However, how do you practically implement this transformation—whether its greater automation, AI (artificial intelligence), or digital twins—effectively in your projects? Are you accidentally exposing yourself to (potentially uninsured) risk and liability? Are you taking on more than you expected or costed for? In this practical and pragmatic class, receive guidance and tips on how to minimize risk and maximize profitability and effectiveness through clear documents, scope, and processes.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

It's Not About One Tool, It's Combining Technology, Industries, and Processes

Autodesk plays a major role in the digital transformation throughout several industries. With the combination of our Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, multidisciplinary project contributors can better collaborate to plan, design, validate, build, and operate buildings and factories. Integrated factory modeling combines building information modeling (BIM) and digital factory layout planning to generate a digital representation of production facilities and equipment. You can also use the final data in the operational phase as a digital twin, with insights and simulations of sensors for cost reduction and enhanced sustainability of all facilities. Experience the exchange of an intelligent model with mechanical engineering content and the digital factory. Do you understand the possibilities and advantages when exchanging data throughout the different solutions? Use Autodesk's different platforms Autodesk Forma and Autodesk Manufacturing Informed Design, and learn about the advantages of our possibilities for digital twins.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

How to Avoid Wasting Water and Energy with the Help of BIM and GIS

In 2018, Italian Railways launched a project to help its 630 stations meet sustainable management standards, leading to savings in water and energy use. FSTechnology, a division of Italian Railways, integrated Esri and Autodesk software to improve workflows for survey, design, and maintenance of its railway stations. Interoperability between Autodesk Forma, Civil 3D, and Esri ArcGIS enables a digital twin of the entire network. A GIS web app of the whole Italian network, including every site and station, was developed to monitor the status of the entire system. An interactive dashboard allows the management team to keep an eye on the KPI and take action whenever needed. FSTechnology is currently working to include Autodesk Tandem in the workflow to collect data from IoT devices, such as meters or sensors.

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