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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
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 2023
How to Bridge the Gap
As a manufacturer and installer of structural glazing products, custom designed and assembled in an automated factory, Starline Windows is uniquely positioned to work with developers and architects directly within the Revit environment. This creates many advantages and challenges in working across organizations and various internal departments. I have worked extensively with Autodesk and their Partners to implement a design process at Starline Windows that represents our product to the highest level of excellence within our shop drawings, while simultaneously creating machine data files and material managment information. I will share my experience in identifying oportunities for digital transformation and process improvement, and I will speak to implementing change across organizational boundaries. I will discuss how to bridge from a modeling environment to a data centric solution while still maintaining a "data entry once" approach for efficient, agile project delivery.
10p
Panel / Nashville 2025
Driving Project Success: How Bristol-Myers Squibb, Windover Construction, and Thornton Tomasetti Innovate to Deliver Certainty
Delivering today’s high-performance projects requires more than a great design—it requires data-driven decision making and integrated collaboration from day one. In this panel, leaders from Bristol-Myers Squibb (owner), Windover Construction (construction manager), and Thornton Tomasetti (design engineer) will share how aligning goals and innovative solutions early unlocks certainty of outcomes across design, construction, and operations. This session will provide a complete 360-degree view into how owner, contract manager, and design teams collaborate to solve challenges, foster innovation, and deliver successful projects in highly technical and regulated environments. Through real-life case studies—including life sciences, manufacturing, residential, and institutional projects—you’ll learn how BIM workflows, BIM-MEP coordination, artificial intelligence (AI), Digital Prototypings, and constructability strategies drive efficiency, improve compliance, and create lasting value from planning through project delivery.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Mastering Forma Build: Best Practices from Industry Experts
Join us for an insightful panel presentation featuring industry veterans David Campbell, Joseph Whitney, and Jordan Bullock as they share their collective expertise and best practices for using Forma Build software. Drawing from extensive experience, including recent on-site implementation at a data center, our panel will delve into practical strategies and tips for optimizing various features of Forma Build, such as Sheets, Files, Issues, Forms, Photos, RFIs, Submittals, Assets, Schedules, Reports, and Insights. Gain valuable insights and learn how to use Forma Build to streamline your projects and enhance productivity.
56p
54p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Model Your Assets Off: Using Forma Build to Monitor Construction Progress Digitally and Automate Quantity Tracking
BIM has transformed construction by creating a project database that allows teams to make real-time, data-driven decisions. By integrating our intelligent model with the Forma Build Assets feature, our team was able to develop an efficient digital workflow that has tracked progress from design to installation for civil and structural construction, including various scopes such as underground utility installation and structural foundations. This session will explore how to use the Forma Build Assets feature to develop a digital progress model from either a 3D model or a 2D plan sheet, and how to automatically extract quantities from it that can be used for financial forecasting, project scheduling, and progress billing. We’ll also discuss how we’ve integrated the Asset model into a Power BI dashboard that gives visibility to all levels—from the on-site field team up to senior management. Are you ready to model your Assets off?
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Constructing Tomorrow: Scaling Up with Industrialized Construction—More Bang for Your Build!
“Industrialized construction” refers to the transformation of traditional construction methods through Manufacturing Processes techniques, prefabrication, and digital technologies. This approach aims to enhance efficiency, scalability, and Sustainable Design in the construction industry. By using digital technologies—including BIM, MID (manufacturing informed design), production design, Automation, Integration, & Customization, and modular construction—industrialized construction streamlines the design-to-construction process, reducing waste, costs, and project timelines. In this session, we’ll explore workflows that seamlessly integrate design, engineering, manufacturing, and construction, fostering collaboration and innovation. All of these workflows for industrialized construction empower stakeholders to build smarter, greener, and more resilient structures, meeting the demands of modern urbanization and environmental challenges.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Megatunnels You've Never Heard Of: Data-Driven Strategies for Infrastructure Owners
Constructing $7 billion megatunnels over a decade, with a century-long maintenance commitment, presents unprecedented challenges for reliability, longevity, and societal impact. Traditional approaches like DBFM procurement and sequential design and construction prove inadequate for such monumental projects. However, the infrastructure owner, Lantis, has been at the forefront of pioneering project delivery and asset management standards. This case study will unveil the results from a pilot partnership with Autodesk and Esri, showcasing the Infrastructure Asset Management 5.0 journey. It will emphasize the transformative role that data accessibility and availability play for all stakeholders. Learn about the benefits of cloud-based collaboration and building information modeling (BIM)—not for only design, but extended into operations. Discover how, amid an ever-changing urban environment and a supply chain of national proportions, owners can use the power of dashboards to strive for zero unplanned infrastructure downtime.
61p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Innovative Owners: Princeton University's Digital Transformation in Pursuit of Nobel Prize-Worthy Discoveries
Join us for an enlightening session in the dynamic realm of higher-education construction management, where innovative technologies such as AI and digitization are transforming the landscape. Discover how Princeton University has used the power of AI and digitization through Forma Build software in Autodesk Forma to revolutionize its approach to capital projects. Gain invaluable insights into how Forma Build enhances project coordination among owners, owners' reps, facilities, designers, and construction managers. Through our discussion, you'll gain practical strategies, actionable techniques, and the confidence to elevate your institution's construction management practices with Forma Build. Join us as we chart a course toward excellence in higher-education construction, using Forma Build software's transformative capabilities to drive innovation, efficiency, and sustainable success.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Future of Jobsite Visibility and Management: vSite and Forma Build
Emerging technologies open up opportunities for utilizing new infrastructure construction approaches. vGIS is redefining construction projects with engineering-grade augmented reality and AI-powered digital twin technology.
New Orleans 2022
Project Management 101: Basics of Autodesk Forma
In this session, the LATAM TSE team will cover the basics of project management and lean construction principles for on-field tracking and data gathering in order to change the project management (PM) mindset from a reactive approach to proactive approach thanks to Autodesk Forma on-site implementation. We’ll cover how to digitize current construction workflows and activities without disruptive change within owner-contractor-subcontractor workflows. You’ll see how to apply PM and lean construction with an easy-to-implement approach, simplifying digital transformation for a width approach within any building information modeling (BIM) maturity level construction company.
New Orleans 2022
Speedup Railway Site Management: The Power of Automation and the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection
In this class, FSTechnology will showcase how to achieve up to 40% in overall time reduction for some site supervision activities by automating the estimation of the site’s physical progress and of cut-and-fill volumes. This class will illustrate two workflows that you can apply to both building information modeling (BIM) projects and traditional project drawings. The first fully automated workflow calculates the progress of the construction works, starting from the exchange on Autodesk Forma of all point cloud data coming from drone surveys. The main steps are the production of simplified railways track path models in Revit software, the performance of a bespoke clash detection in Navisworks software to assess the works’ progress, and the interpretation of the XML output with .NET scripts to feed a Microsoft Power BI dashboard. The second workflow generates DEM (digital elevation model) surfaces from point clouds via a Python script to then calculate cut-and-fill volumes with Dynamo in Civil 3D. The results are also exported as a structured data source for a Microsoft Power BI dashboard.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Field Data to Smart Decisions: Real-Time Insights with Forma Build and Insight Builder in Civil Infrastructure Projects
In complex civil infrastructure projects—such as highways, bridges, and utilities—the ability to turn field data into actionable insights is essential for performance, safety, and cost control. This session will show how MRS Logística used Forma Build software and Insight Builder to convert raw field inputs into real-time analytics, enabling smarter and faster decisions across project lifecycles. By structuring data from Issues, RFIs, Checklists, and Forms, MRS created dynamic dashboards that track physical progress, monitor compliance, and surface predictive alerts before risks escalate. These insights connected field operations with executive decision making, providing transparency over construction quality, schedule health, and contract performance. You’ll learn how to structure data flows from the field, configure Insight Builder rules, and deploy scalable dashboards that support real-time monitoring, predictive insights, and strategic oversight in civil infrastructure delivery.
14p
New Orleans 2022
India's major Real Estate Developer optimizes processes with Autodesk Cloud
You are at the right place if you wish to learn how a Real Estate Developer can leverage Digital Technology to improve end-to-end‘ design to build’ processes. We will explore in detail how ‘Oberoi Realty’- a leading Real Estate Developer in Mumbai - effectively deployed ACC to speed up design and construction, improve quality and safety, and minimize overall project cost. We will study ‘Commerz III’ a premium Commercial Building being constructed in the western suburbs of Mumbai & understand how to connect data, workflows & teams from design to operations split across multiple geographical locations. We will delve into how clash-free designs, digitized transmittals, issue management, RFIs, quality & safety checklists have substantially boosted the organization's productivity & improved key process turnaround time by over 10 % due to a simplified cloud user interface & mobile-first approach. In addition, we will also cover schedule integration & optimization of cost with BIM.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Asset-Driven Delivery: Connecting Field, Schedule, and BIM in Autodesk Forma
This session will explore how 2D and 3D assets can drive success in linear civil infrastructure projects using Autodesk Forma. Based on a real tunnel project, we’ll show how static asset records were transformed into a dynamic digital ecosystem linked to schedule, cost, quality, BIM geometry, and carbon tracking. By reframing assets as a digital thread supporting every project phase, we’ll reveal how structured data, Automation, Integration, & Customization, and connected workflows improve delivery and handover. The session will cover key steps: identifying asset data, auditing existing info, and configuring Autodesk Forma to ensure consistency, traceability, and stakeholder alignment. The case study highlights real-time tracking, risk flagging, and Sustainable Design metrics, integrated into Power BI dashboards for data-driven decisions. Learn how asset-centered strategies in Autodesk Forma reduce risk, enhance collaboration, and generate long-term value.
25p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Transform Construction Projects with Revit and Autodesk Forma: The Great Future of MEP DX!
Shinryo Corporation, one of Japan’s leading MEP subcontractors, is driving innovation in MEP workflows and Management using Autodesk Forma and Revit software. We’ll showcase Shinryo’s approach to overcoming challenges in various projects, with a focus on the NH1 PJ, a new office building PJ (18,000m²). To enhance on-site productivity, we've decentralized functions across the field, back office, and off-site bases, creating a collaborative system on a unified platform. Design work is transitioned to BIM and conducted in the back office. BIM data is shared via Autodesk Forma, streamlining approval with Issues/Review. We've developed an in-house system for the automatic design of standard prefabrication units using Revit. By consolidating construction plans and progress data in Autodesk Forma and visualizing it with Power BI and artificial intelligence (AI), we aim to ensure smooth project management by tracking progress and analyzing issues. This session will provide knowledge of the technologies’ capabilities through case studies using Revit and Autodesk Forma.
29p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Construction with Integrated Digital Project Delivery: An EPC Contractor’s Approach
Tata Projects is one of the first EPC contractors in India, implementing a fully digital strategy, for delivering large-scale infrastructure projects on digital-first concepts. One of the largest airport maintenance facilities that Tata Projects is delivering on EPC mode demonstrates the power of BIM integrated with Autodesk Forma—Forma Build, Autodesk BIM Collaborate, Autodesk Assemble, and Autodesk Insights—within a common data environment (CDE). This enhances collaboration among stakeholders, including the client, PMC, contractors, vendors, and design consultants. This talk will demonstrate how we merge engineering with construction execution, project controls, procurement, cost planning, and quantity control with real-time progress monitoring using dynamic BI dashboards—thus improving operational efficiency while reducing errors and risks. By pioneering this, we’re reimagining the construction lifecycle of a project through digitized process from inception to completion.
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40p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
What's New, What's Next in Autodesk Forma for Model Management
This session will take a deep dive into our product road map, covering model-based workflows in Navisworks software, Forma Design Collaboration software, Forma Build software, and Assemble.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
No Box Required: Creatively Adapting to Client Needs Through BIM Families
This session will cover advanced techniques our BIM team uses to create customized Revit families, addressing the challenge of needing highly specific, data-rich components. You’ll learn how we use adaptive model families to ensure 2D visualization can be manipulated without affecting the 3D model, which is crucial for accurate documentation and coordination. We'll also demonstrate how these families store critical data (like location) for streamlined scheduling and legend creation. Additionally, the session will detail how we use planting templates to develop scalable families for ERP (emergency response plan) maps. This allows for easy adjustment of component size and visibility, a key factor in delivering clear and understandable security information to clients.
14p
23p
Meetup / Nashville 2025
AECO Community Meetup - Workflow Wednesdays Live

Curious how your peers are accelerating project delivery and solving real-world BIM and CAD challenges? Join us for Workflow Wednesdays Live — an open, high-energy meetup where Autodesk users come together to swap tips, share wins, and get inspired. Originally launched as a weekly office hours session for AEC professionals, this meetup invites everyone to experience the community-driven format that’s helped dozens of firms build better designs, faster.
Whether you’re a BIM manager, CAD lead, or just passionate about workflow improvement, come connect with like-minded professionals facing the same goals and roadblocks. Expect organic conversations, cross-discipline ideas, and war stories from the front lines of digital project delivery — with zero slides and 100% peer value.

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