This past year has been one of rapid learning and adaptation. Demand for content is booming, but production studios of all kinds are struggling to deliver under conditions that none of us have seen before. Today, the media & entertainment industry understands the need to continuously evolve, decrease inefficiencies, reduce digital waste, and create better content with the right allocation of resources. Join Autodesk leaders and customers to learn how our platform can connect processes, automate workflows, and unlock insights, enabling flexible, scalable connections between teams, studios, and ecosystems.

Business transformation is a journey that involves embracing new skillsets, toolsets, and mindsets in the face of disruption. During the Day 2 General Session, you will hear from business leaders about their transformation journeys. Learn what steps they took to get started, what their biggest challenges have been, and what outcomes they’ve achieved so far. Come celebrate the amazing work being done around the world by your peers in the AEC, D&M and M&E Industries.

For decades, business leaders have shied away from sharing data, not just in regards to competitors, but even with internal stakeholders in other business units. This mindset is starting to shift, however, as studies back up the benefits of sharing data. Data sharing is a business-facing key performance indicator of achieving effective stakeholder engagement and providing enterprise value. Chief Data Officers who have successfully executed data-sharing initiatives in their organizations are proven to be more effective at showing business value and return on investment from their data analytics strategy. This class will highlight how the Saipem data sharing solution, based on Autodesk Forge and BIM360, brings more value to stakeholders from analytics initiatives, facilitates new way of thinking and points out how CDOs that embraces the new mindset around data-sharing will play a more strategic business role.

Research in the areas of cognition and learning underscore the fact that the still dominant 20th-century model of schooling is failing to prepare students for the realities of life and work in the 21st-century global economy. This class focuses on how the new U.S. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) can serve as a catalyst for innovating new technology-enhanced approaches to learning that can mitigate this problem. These standards are built upon a foundation of reasoning practices that if implemented appropriately will significantly alter curriculum, pedagogy, and the roles of teachers and students inside and outside of the classroom. Through a series of case studies, attendees can learn how Autodesk® design and creativity apps, when aligned with CCSS and NGSS, can create new paradigms for student learning in core academic areas that include English language arts, social studies, science, math, and art.

Fusion Lifecycle implementations can be performed in a number of different ways with varying degrees of success. Due to Fusion Lifecycle software's advantage of being highly configurable, companies can implement Fusion Lifecycle by going one process at a time ("land and expand"), or by taking the whole business process at once ("world domination"). During this class, learn how Advanced Solutions and BOA Technology utilized the "land and expand" method to make Fusion Lifecycle an integral part of the BOA business process. We'll walk through how BOA started with using Fusion Lifecycle to manage the firm's change management process ("land"), and how that quickly evolved into using Fusion Lifecycle to manage assets, problem reports, color samples, and issue tracking ("expand").

Today workplaces have a mix of workers who come from several generations that often represent 50-year differences in experience and background. Millennials mix with Boomers. Digital Natives rub elbows with Gen X. Combine this with a wave of technology advances that make CAD talents obsolete and you have a difficult time managing staff and tech tools. In this class, you learn how to interact with each career stage and the technology advancements that trouble them all.

The world is changing at an ever-increasing rate. This coming decade is set to see some of the most significant and fundamental economic, demographic, and technological change ever witnessed. As these events unfold, what will their impact be on the global construction industry? Covering everything from the future of the commodities supercycle, through the impending entry of the Millennial generation to the workforce, to the rising hegemony of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) economies, this session will identify the major external trends which will significantly shape the construction sector over this decade—drawing and coloring a "risk/opportunity view" of these macro-challenges, identifying how construction business models and practices are likely to change, and posing the question, "How might technology be a component of that response?"

If you want to see what innovation looks like, just look at the computer games industry. With the advancement of real-time interactive 3D graphics engines, low-cost, high-powered computer graphics hardware, and new types of input devices, the video game industry is transforming the way others are using these technologies. As a result, new trends and solutions are now being adopted by businesses and organizations outside of the gaming industry to streamline the understanding of complex projects and information and better the overall ability to make faster, more informed decisions. This class will give you a bird’s eye view of how others in government, military, and corporate businesses sectors are adopting trends and making use of technologies from the video game industry to create solutions that would otherwise not be possible with traditional industry tools.

The digital transformation of industry requires not just a shift in tools and processes, but also a shift in mindset. Join Autodesk CTO Raji Arasu as she explains Autodesk’s vision for the future and explores how designers, engineers, and makers from every industry can achieve greater productivity, more agility, and better outcomes for their companies, their customers, and the global community.

This followup session to the class An In-Depth Look at the AutoCAD® App Autoloader Module provides the opportunity for the kind of detailed information that can be acquired from a more direct roundtable discussion.

Join Raji Arasu, Chief Technology Officer at Autodesk, and Charlene Li, author and founder of research firm Altimeter, as they discuss new research which reveals how convergence will characterize the next wave of digital transformation. Raji and Charlene will share insights on how the blending of previously separate technologies, processes, and data to create new products, services, and experiences will reshape industry structures and enable companies to reimagine the customer experience.

This session will involve business leaders overviewing the SMART Modular Technologies digital transformation journey.

Making software users as productive as possible is mission critical to a company's success. In this session we will discuss how performance affects productivity and learn how to select the proper workstation hardware and software to maximize performance. A specific discussion on the AutoCAD 2015 productivity study will be presented as well as other performance gains for Autodesk products. We will also show you how to measure performance and optimize your systems based on results using the Dell Performance Optimizer. Specific recommendations will be provided for major Autodesk products.

How can you act like an entrepreneur within the bureaucracy of a large firm? How can you develop new product or service lines—just as a startup would—when surrounded by politics and organizational inertia? This class takes an organizational-change approach to the development and introduction of new corporate strategies and product lines, with a focus on those that have sustainability benefits. We will give participants the opportunity to work on real-world cases.

This roundtable session is a followup discussion for the class DV2258: Introduction to Android™ Development. We discuss questions the attendees may have about what has been presented in the class, go deeper into the topics of their choice, and present some of the sample Android applications that have been developed by DevTech engineers.

The disruptions of the past year and a half have accelerated the digital transformation of every industry. Technology platforms are proving to be an important way to connect everyone from the top floor to the shop floor. In the first part of the General Session, join Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost to learn how Autodesk is empowering innovators to make and build a better world with a technology platform that enables them to focus on the problems they want to solve instead of which tool they want to use.

Great, you've taken the keys to your brand new facility and you are ready to roll. But wait, you have also received an as- built model and load of data. So, how does this help you drive away your brand new facility? The next stage after you receive the keys is that facility now needs to earn its keep and be maintained. Let's take a look at how BIM 360 Field and Glue could be used to help maintain the facility using the data collected from the construction phase. What do owners and operators need to know about the model and the associated data? And, how can they benefit from it, using the same tools as the builders who created it. This course will examine some every day scenarios to build a case that BIM 360 Field and Glue can still benefit the project, even after you have lost your first set of keys.

After Monday breakouts, we will reconvene all attendees for a final session to tie it all together. Join Autodesk CEO Carl Bass, Vice President of Global Services Callan Carpenter, and a special guest speaker as they sum up what these changes mean to you and your business. A final networking reception follows the closing address.

Industry experts discuss the current state of the computer aided manufacturing (CAM) landscape and what role Autodesk can play in shaping the future of the industry.

The future of the construction industry has never been brighter, in part due to the increased adoption of technology across all phases—design, plan, build, and operate. From streamlining specific processes to better collect, manage, and analyze data to embracing new business models, it’s no longer a question of whether to use technology, but how and why. During this keynote, Autodesk leaders will share Autodesk Construction Cloud updates and highlight industry innovators who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.