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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.

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.

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

Automating the Future with Build: Real-World Forma Applications on Dubai’s $2 billion mega exhibition facility & Palm Jumeriah

Discover how cutting-edge construction technology is transforming project delivery in the Middle East. This session will highlight the role of Autodesk Forma (ACC) in streamlining data collection, enhancing transparency, and improving collaboration and analysis on site. Gain insights into how Khansaheb Civil Engineering a leading UAE construction company is leveraging Automation, Integration, & Customization between CDEs on a $2 billion mega exhibition facility in Dubai and explore how data from its Palm Jumeirah projects is powering customized, automated dashboards, reports, and registers; tailored for both internal teams and external stakeholders. Join us to learn practical strategies for using Power BI to align ACC-extracted data to overcome coordination bottlenecks, address operational challenges, and maintain clear, current, and concise reporting without the need for manual input.

54p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Break Rules with Autodesk Tandem: Conceptualizing a Schoolhouse with 80 Different Space Types

In this session, we’ll showcase how to conceptualize 80 different schoolhouse space types to meet end-user demands. We’ll explore a case study of the Kanjoni Schoolhouse project, where we transitioned from traditional PDF/Excel space “cards” to a living, 3D relational model using Autodesk Tandem and Revit software. In just four months, we moved from scattered reference material to a structured data set ready for contractor bidding. You’ll learn why we selected Tandem as the platform, how artificial intelligence (AI) helped us manage feedback and quality, and how a Digital Prototyping can evolve from an operational tool into a continuous development platform. We’ll share lessons learned from our real-world innovative use case of Tandem—highlighting its role in driving transparency, collaboration, and future scalability. This talk is for those ready to challenge traditional workflows and see what happens when you intentionally break the "rules" to build something better.

29p

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 Forma 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.

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?

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 / Nashville 2025

Streamlining Material Tracking with AI and Data-Driven Decision Making

In today’s fast-paced environment, visibility within the material supply chain is a necessity to maintain operational excellence and drive growth. Success in project delivery depends on materials arriving on time, surety of cost, and the meeting of schedule dates. Traditional methods are time-consuming and aren’t agile enough to capture real-world scenarios, such as field measurements, factory testing, or mock-up approvals. To address these challenges, we’ve paired project delivery best practices—developed through firsthand experience on real projects—with innovative software such as Forma Build and ConstructivIQ to streamline material tracking and visualize the material supply chain. We’re using emerging artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to automate tasks, simplify processes that require human intervention, and support an equitable exchange of ideas through predictive analytics.

46p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan with Workplan

In a constantly shifting world, better control and collaboration are critical to progressing projects forward while navigating change. Proficient schedule management is key to meeting the demands of tight project timelines. With digital work plans, you can provide a clear path toward set milestones and checkpoints during the course of your project. Join this session to discover how Clayco, in partnership with Autodesk, assessed and adopted the new work planning features in Forma Build software. Hear how Clayco uses Autodesk’s schedule management tools to manage the maze of phone calls, emails, and complex spreadsheets, and learn how you can too. See how you can find answers with just a few clicks, with integrated schedule management connected to your other tools. In addition, the Autodesk schedule product team will highlight key features on the road map to showcase the future of digitized, collaborative, and connected work plans within Forma Build.

13p

49p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Forecast Like a Pro: Advanced Tools and Strategies to Improve Accuracy

If you're ready to elevate your team's forecasting capabilities, this class is for you! Heather Soderquist, VP of Construction Innovation, and Danylle Utley, Project Accounting Manager at Jacobsen Construction, team up with Ian Turner, Group Product Manager at Autodesk, to deliver an advanced session designed to take your project teams to the next level with smarter forecasting tools and strategies. Join them to learn how to build and maintain accurate cash flow projections while managing projected revenue in one step. Discover how the powerful date range forecast tool in Forma Build can improve forecasting accuracy—for both revenue and cost—helping PMs identify and maintain revenue opportunities throughout the entire lifecycle with minimal setup. The session will also explore how the new 3-point fee feature identifies final contract value, fee opportunities and enhancements based on specific project fee structures.

60p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Forma Build: Crushing Deployment to Maximize Adoption

Effective adoption of applications like Forma Build software is based on a well-executed deployment strategy. This is the differentiator when business investment, outcomes, and ROI are at stake. We’ll explore the implementation journey of Forma Build at ISEC, a specialty finish contractor. We’ll focus on strategy that included a transition plan from a legacy solution, leadership buy-in, trials, functionality review with stakeholders, development of new workflows, configuration, communication strategy, training, and post-deployment support. Alongside Autodesk delivery services, ISEC established a scope of work, budget, and timeline for deployment. We established a team of subject matter experts (37) from across office locations (20) representing more than 700 employees. Come and learn about ISEC’s connected workflows that integrated additional departments in a common data environment optimizing the project lifecycle.

48p

50p

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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Streamlining Asset Management in Forma Build: Tracking Managing, and Optimizing Project Assets

Unlock the full potential of the Assets tool in Forma Build to streamline how your team tracks, manages, and optimizes construction project assets across the entire lifecycle. This session dives into practical strategies for organizing asset types, customizing fields, and improving visibility and accountability through status tracking, barcoding, and mobile workflows. Whether you're managing equipment, rooms, or closeout deliverables, you'll learn how to configure Forma Build to fit your asset management needs. To bring it all together, we’ll wrap up with a hands-on treasure hunt challenge using the Forma Build mobile app. Attendees will explore a live project to locate hidden assets placed around the conference—demonstrating just how powerful and fun effective asset management can be.

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26p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Decoding the Chaos: Autodesk Forma Dashboards with Power BI Plus Insight Builder

This session will explore how to transform Autodesk Forma data into actionable project insights using Power BI and Insight Builder. You’ll learn how to use the Data Connector to extract admin, RFI, submittal, issue, and daily log data—and visualize it through interactive dashboards. The class will cover DAX-driven techniques to analyze and track project health indicators, such as: 1) cost and schedule impact for RFIs, 2) percent complete by division for submittals, 3) root cause categories for issues, and 4) work-hours over time for daily logs. It also includes a side-by-side comparison of dashboards built in Power BI and Insight Builder to highlight their complementary strengths. Real-world examples from implemented projects will illustrate how these tools can surface leading indicators and support proactive, data-informed decisions in construction management.

58p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Consuming a Connected Construction Lifecycle – One Byte at a Time

From Airports, Mission Critical Infrastructure, Healthcare, Hospitality, and Higher Education, we as builders are faced with a multitude of data inputs and variables. Come explore a story about enabling seamless collaboration, building trust and connections, and how to remain adaptable and agile in the world of construction technology and implementing best practices through the use of near real time data integration for decision making. This session outlines examples of those best practices deployed by Hensel Phelps through People, Processes, Technology, and Partnerships while focusing on the implementation of the Autodesk ecosystem along with their industry partners from software and hardware too.

19p

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Cash Is King: Advanced Cost Management Hands-On Lab to Drive Greater Profits

Are you already using Cost Management in Forma Build software and are comfortable with budgets, contracts, pay applications, and change orders? Ready to take the next step in maximizing project profitability? In this advanced hands-on lab, you’ll learn how to unlock deeper financial insight and strengthen cash-flow forecasting by taking advantage of the forecasting tools in Cost Management. You’ll get hands-on experience learning how to use the existing data from budgets, contracts, pay applications, and change orders to create accurate forecast projections and develop a project cash flow. Plus, we’ll dive into creating forecast adjustments, time-based resource forecasting, cash flow, and budget snapshots, and cover how to use these features to more accurately enhance project forecast projections and ensure you're maximizing project profitability.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Field to Dashboard: Capturing Safety Observations in Autodesk Forma and Power BI

In this session, learn how we streamlined field-level safety reporting by customizing the Issues tool in Forma Build software. Field teams log observations in a consistent, easy-to-use format, creating reliable data that feeds directly into an executive Power BI dashboard. This centralized system not only improves documentation but also drives practical, data-informed safety decisions and subcontractor management at both the jobsite and the leadership level.

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