The KEYS Metaverse is a first-of-its-kind universe built for the evolution of BIM in real estate, business, socialization, interaction, commerce, and entertainment. The community will be directly involved in creating the KEYS Metaverse, leveraging easy-to-use tools and technical pipelines for custom import of 3D assets to ideate & establish their own designs, businesses, event venues, in-game assets, and mini-games. Our main differentiator will be the KEYS proprietary metaverse engine which allows for the decentralized streaming of AAA game-quality content to any device, from mobile to desktop to VR. By utilizing the technology of 3D software, BIM, generative design, NFTs, & Web 3, the future of metaverse development has never looked so bright. This project wouldn't be possible without leveraging Autodesk partners and software such as Unreal Engine, Revit, Solidworks, Maya, 3DS Max, etc...

In this session, we'll explore how Moxion, the powerful, all-in-one secure advanced dailies, and content review solution enabled major film & TV studios and production companies to streamline their production workflows.

If the metaverse is ever to realize its potential, it must be open. Content creation must be accessible, and the content itself must be portable across different devices and contexts from eCommerce to multi-user gaming to real-time collaboration. In short, the metaverse needs open standards. No one company will own the metaverse – and no one SDO will define its underlying standards. In this session, Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group, will explore the constellation of open standards, open source software projects, and organizations who are currently working to evolve formats and standards for 3D content creation to support metaverse applications. He’ll discuss how these organizations are working to identify and address barriers and gaps in standards, tooling, and resources; how collaboration across organizations is evolving; and how companies and individuals can get involved.

Epic Games and Theia Interactive have partnered to build a sustainable, scalable innovation lab environment streamed on the cloud using Revit, Maya, and Unreal Engine. The Detroit Experimental Lab is designed as both a collaborative space for meetings, training sessions, product demos, and as a testing environment for future technologies. Epic Games’ Heiko Wenzcel and Nimrod Friedmann of Theia Interactive will lead attendees through the workflows and tools utilized in creating the virtual lab, and will highlight some of Maya’s and UE5’s most innovative features. The speakers will also detail how the Detroit Lab’s highly interactive design process can serve as a roadmap for Enterprise companies looking to secure their position in the evolving digital landscape. Highly informative for creators as well as innovation and digital practice managers preparing to enter the Metaverse.

Enjoy a lively discussion about digital transformation, cloud-based platforms, and sustainability—sponsored by Redshift, a publication from Autodesk dedicated to inspiring design, engineering, construction, and manufacturing leaders. Executives from Autodesk partners and suppliers across the AEC, manufacturing, and media & entertainment industries will debate what digital transformation means for today’s workforce; how platform environments can deliver greater value from people, processes, and technology; and why a sustainable approach is key to business success and creating a better world.

Traditionally, teams rely on desktop tools for coordination (e.g., model visualization, clash detection and issue resolution), often leading to a convoluted process with limited access to information. Today, cloud-based tools like Autodesk Construction Cloud or BIM360 can be used to streamline coordination during both design and construction—ultimately offering greater transparency and improving collaboration among owners, designers, stakeholders and construction managers. Using real project examples, we’ll explore how to replicate this workflow in the cloud, so teams can run coordination and review clashes directly in Revit—without exporting files to Navisworks. We’ll also preview the best Revit settings for publishing, sharing coordinates and building stories; demonstrate how to combine and align Revit and CAD files per level; illustrate how to view assigned issues and make changes in Revit; and review similar processes in Navisworks for those unable to transition fully to the cloud.

If you are a BIM manager supporting project teams, you have likely spent time setting up Revit models before the team can begin their work. Even with mature templates and standards, the process of configuring a model for a project team’s needs can be time consuming and inconsistent - especially in multi-disciplinary practices operating across multiple markets. This session will showcase a custom ‘Project Create’ platform implemented by HED in partnership with Proving Ground. Teams use this platform to submit project criteria - including project size, scope, disciplines, and market sectors. Using these inputs, an automated Revit process will use standard resources to create a pre-configured starter project with required levels, views, sheets, and content. The resultant models are then automatically published for the project team on BIM360. The Project Create platform has greatly reduced BIM startup time while increasing standards compliance across a wide-ranging portfolio of projects.

Blending data types improved visibility to all aspects of the project outside of the model attributes. Grounding the model into the coordinates enables access for stakeholders, which particularly benefited the client. In the design phase, the interface of BIM / GIS data allowed all disciplines to review the most current design proposals, outside of the more traditional method. Civil, planning, environmental, site investigation, ecology could visualize the impacts from multiple disciplines which improved the decisions of the final design. Publishing BIM data into GIS dynamically integrated BIM content and removed any manually handling and exchanging of data. The process reduced the requirement of an additional resource for the project and saved up to 70% efficiency across project collaboration.

Facilities of all kinds and sizes get old and after years of operations and maintenance, old records that show the as-built conditions get destroyed or lost. In addition, several renovations and additions to the facility adds another layer of complexity if not documented properly. Any facility that was completed prior to the new millennium most likely involved paper-based as-built documentation. These documents are often stored away and seldom updated when changes to the facility occurred. This was the case with the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL Stadium where the team is looking at a bright future that include new plans for expansions and major renovation. Such major projects require extensive design efforts that can take years, with the lack of proper and accurate as-built documentation. This massive 2,200-modeling-hours effort lead to an accurate and intricate as-built BIM model of the stadium that was created from over 575 scan-hours in just under 5 months.

Did you know there are thousands of apps in the Autodesk App Store? For decades developers have been augmenting Autodesk software to streamline and automate workflows. Now powered with Forge APIs they can do so much more. Come listen to a panel of developers that are in the App Developer Partner Program as they share their experience in building with Autodesk APIs. You’ll learn all about the amazing outcomes they’ve had with customers that use their apps and see why software customization is a game changer.

Learn from the Product Managers how the Autodesk and Esri partnership is advancing design and GIS collaboration that benefits the AEC and Owner Operators. The intersection of BIM, CAD, and GIS provides incredible insights to enhance project delivery at every level. The functionality between Autodesk and Esri desktops, and collaborative web applications like ArcGIS GeoBIM are improving workflows and transparency for project teams. The improvements in direct support for RVT, DWG, and IFC in ArcGIS Pro, and support for hosted GIS feature service in Civil3D, Infraworks, Map3D, and AutoCAD help bring together design and GIS data. The direct cloud connection between the Autodesk Construction Cloud and ArcGIS Online/Enterprise offers exponential benefits to help manage the project content for stakeholders. The ability to publish Autodesk data directly to ArcGIS Online/Enterprise for use in shared web and field applications expands the value of the data far beyond the design professionals.

Open source projects play a critical role in the creation of Film and TV content. In this session, we'll dive into the work behind OpenColorIO v2, MaterialX, and other key open source initiatives, including collaboration with tech partners and creative studios.