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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

AECO Roadmap: Digital Workplaces

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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

We Can Improve That! Forma Keeps Updating, So What Can It Do for You Now?

With more than 100 client implementations—from architects to general contractors and owners to civil—the speaker can answer anything about Forma, Docs, Build, or . Bring on your questions! You’ll get help with work-arounds, new tools, or getting your question in front of Autodesk’s dev teams and product managers.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Beyond the Blueprint: Exploring XR for AEC with the Autodesk Workshop XR Team

Unlock new levels of collaboration and coordination in your architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects with Autodesk Workshop XR software. In this session, you'll learn how data from Forma can be accessed in real time within a virtual workspace, significantly enhancing your project workflows. Our Workshop XR experts will be on hand to address your questions and demonstrate how virtual environments enable users to walk through Forma models, ensuring faster identification of spatial issues that often go unnoticed through traditional methods.

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

Digital Doppelgängers: The Truth Beneath the Model

Have you ever wondered what’s under the hood of a Digital Prototyping? Most are familiar with intelligent models as they pertain to the design and construction process, but where and at what point does metadata from an intelligent model merge with live data streams from Internet of Things (IoT) devices and other software integrations? In this session, we will dig beneath the 3D visuals commonly seen and look at the mechanics of a Digital Prototyping—how it’s designed, how it’s built, and how it all works in concert. Participants will walk away from our session with a better understanding of how the merging of these two environments is possible through the journey of a project lifecycle. We’ll give an in-depth overview of how Aptitude | Intelligent Integration has tied together the latest tools of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry with innovative technologies and integrations to use asset management and Sustainable Design goals that owners are looking for to get the smart building overlay they desire.

53p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Revolutionizing 3D Model Workflows with AI: APS Autodesk Assistant and Arcadis OTL Optimizer

Discover how advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology is streamlining 3D-model workflows through joint development between Autodesk and Arcadis. This session will introduce the integration of the beta Autodesk Assistant API (in Autodesk Platform Services) with Arcadis’s OTL Optimizer tooling to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of design and construction processes. Learn how AI automates the identification, extraction, and tagging of data within 3D models, reducing manual effort by up to 90%. Explore advanced capabilities, including data and model quality validation, intelligent adjustments, and the generation of cost and Sustainable Design insights directly from your models. Gain valuable insights into how AI-powered Automation, Integration, & Customization is driving productivity, improving decision making, and fostering more-sustainable project outcomes. Join us to see how these innovations are redefining the future of digital workflows in the built environment.

42p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Digital Prototyping Summit | Bridging Industry Tools for Advanced Factory Planning: A Digital Process Engineering Approach

This session will explore how Stellantis is continuously advancing factory planning through a holistic approach that integrates a diverse range of digital tools and methodologies. By merging industry tools—from architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC); product design and manufacturing (PDM); and the entertainment industry—Stellantis is broadening the ways factories are industrialized, from early concept through construction changeover. This session will highlight how democratizing data and promoting cross-functional collaboration—among core manufacturing teams, suppliers, and construction stakeholders—enables more-efficient planning, streamlined construction, and smoother ramp-up to production, all while reducing unforeseen issues. Learn how nontraditional tools for automotive—such as Autodesk Forma, Vehicle Tracking, and Navisworks plug-ins or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) integrations—are powering advanced visualization and enabling proactive factory planning.

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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

The Symphony of Factory Assets: Bridging and Connecting Data, Teams, Tools, and Ideas with Factory Assets

In this session, participants will explore the comprehensive capabilities and benefits of Factory Design Utilities software with data seamlessly integrated and shared across other Autodesk products (such as Inventor, AutoCAD, Revit, Autodesk Forma, and Navisworks software). The session is designed to provide a thorough understanding of how these tools can revolutionize the factory layout design process, enhance efficiency, and drive business success. Through Automation, Integration, & Customization, we’ve achieved 90% efficiency in project handover with a 50% time savings on coordination.

28p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

OpenAPI Unleashed: Powering AI Agents and Low-Code Automation, Integration, & Customizations with Autodesk Platform Services.

OpenAPI specifications are more than just a developer convenience—they’re a strategic asset. In this session, see how Autodesk Platform Services’ OpenAPI specs can be used to generate SDKs across languages with Microsoft Kiota, build connectors for Power Automate with minimal effort, and even serve as the foundation for AI agents that interact with Autodesk Forma data in real time. Whether you’re building internal tools, Automation, Integration, & Customizations, or intelligent assistants, learn how OpenAPI can become the backbone of your integration strategy.

42p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Work Processes Transformation Through Experimentation: The Autodesk Forma Assets

See the different options considered and the evaluation processes used to narrow down to the right solution. We’ll discuss the trial and error, the meeting and workshop strategies, and other topics considered before arriving at the decision to use the Assets module in Autodesk Forma for a work order tracking tool.

15p

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

From Reality to Resolution: Precision Clash Detection with ReCap Pro

As construction projects grow in complexity, achieving precise coordination is more important than ever to minimize rework and keep teams aligned. This course will focus on using ReCap Pro software’s ability to generate high-resolution mesh files and use classification tools to drive detailed clash detection. Participants will explore how integrating segmented meshes into Navisworks software and Autodesk Forma enhances the accuracy of project coordination by aligning models with real-world conditions. Through this session, you’ll learn how to use classified mesh data to identify and resolve clashes with greater clarity, facilitating more-informed decision making across project teams.

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

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Breaking Barriers: XR for AEC Training, Safety, and Well-Being—Powered by Autodesk Tools

How can immersive technology transform the way we train, build, and care for our teams? This session will explore how extended reality (XR)—paired with Revit, Navisworks, and Autodesk Forma—is evolving from a visualization tool into a catalyst for safety, efficiency, and wellbeing in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). Discover how XR can simulate high-risk tasks, streamline onboarding, and strengthen safety culture. We’ll share real-world applications, Autodesk Workshop XR, and practical steps to start, scale, and integrate immersive tech into your workflow.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

From Reality Capture to Modeling: Integrating ReCap Meshes for Enhanced Efficiency in Autodesk Forma

In today’s fast-paced construction industry, bridging the gap between real-world conditions and digital-project environments is key to achieving accuracy, minimizing errors, and streamlining project delivery. Reality capture technologies, such as laser scanning, allow teams to document site conditions with precision. However, turning that raw data into actionable models and coordinating them across disciplines can be a challenge without the right tools and workflow. This lab will help you to set up a practical workflow that integrates ReCap Pro 2026, Revit, and the Modeling module in Autodesk Forma to enable efficient scan-to-BIM and Modeling processes. It will demonstrate how point cloud data can be used not just for modeling, but also for coordination and clash detection, using mesh representations and cloud collaboration.

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