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New Orleans 2022

Visualizing Digital Prototypes in Context with VRED

In this session, we’ll share insights regarding how to review, evaluate, and showcase digital prototypes in context, holistically. Using the example of a kitchen, we’re showing how Autodesk Fusion 360 and Revit data can be used in VRED software to influence and inform the design and layout process. You’ll learn how to import and set up the data, prepare it for real-time and XR review, and collaborate with colleagues remotely to make an educated decision. Join us and understand the value of advanced visualization and digital prototyping with VRED for your product-development process. Learn how to involve all stakeholders by delivering the same high-quality visualization on any device from anywhere at any time.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Digital Prototyping Summit | Mirror Worlds: Digital Prototypings and the Era of Predictive Intelligence

Unlock the full potential of your asset data with Autodesk Digital Prototyping solutions. This session will explore how Digital Prototypings—spanning both physical assets and operational processes—support the entire lifecycle: design, build, operate, and maintain. Autodesk Tandem software creates rich production twins using live sensor data and structured taxonomy. FlexSim delivers dynamic process flow simulations that model people and operations. Together, they form a connected digital thread, from concept to reuse, enabling smarter decisions, reducing waste, and supporting circular economy goals. Discover how combining asset and process twins drives sustainable, resilient outcomes across buildings and infrastructure.

58p

54p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Intro to Using BIM and Digital Prototypings

This will be an introduction to how MEP design consultants can contribute to Digital Prototyping workflows in building projects. We’ll highlight lessons learned and best practices for managing and exchanging data throughout the project lifecycle using BIM tools.

Panel / Nashville 2025

From Data to Impact: Operational Intelligence with Digital Prototypings

The future of facility operations is digital—and it’s already here. As operators seek to boost performance, extend asset life, and make smarter data-driven decisions, Digital Prototypings are essential. While the potential is vast, success hinges on one thing: adoption. This panel will gather industry leaders who are actively implementing Digital Prototypings. They will share lessons from the field, and unpack the challenges of twining existing facilities—from siloed data and outdated documentation to stakeholder alignment and organizational change. Explore how Digital Prototypings are being used today to streamline facility operations, optimize space utilization, and shape long-term asset and portfolio strategies. Autodesk Tandem VP Robert Bray, Google REWS, Denver International Airport, and other industry leaders will give candid insights into what’s working, what’s not, and how to lay a digital foundation that delivers measurable impact.

Meetup / Nashville 2025

Exploring the Reality and Future of Digital Prototypings in Infrastructure and Construction Meetup

Digital Prototypings are transforming the infrastructure and construction industry by bridging the gap between physical and digital realms. Join us at Autodesk University for a dynamic meetup where we’ll dive into the complexities, practical realities, and future of Digital Prototyping technology.
We’ll explore key topics such as how Digital Prototypings differ from other tools like BIM and GIS, the role of AI and real-time data in reshaping digital practices, and their unique applications in sectors like water utilities. We'll also explore how data insights are driving intelligent construction and fostering integrated ecosystems.
Whether you're evaluating the potential of Digital Prototyping technology, seeking to understand its benefits for Infrastructure and Construction, or looking to connect with industry experts over casual networking, this meetup has something for everyone. Hosted by knowledgeable Autodesk employees from our research, product and consulting teams, participants will gain valuable insights, share experiences, and build meaningful connections.
Join us for an engaging conversation on what it takes to bring Digital Prototypings to life and explore the future of construction and infrastructure through the lens of this transformative technology.

Panel / Nashville 2025

Driving Sustainable Building Lifecycle Management with Data, AI, and Digital Prototypings

This session will explore how building lifecycle management (BLM) empowered by Digital Prototypings can transform Sustainable Design outcomes across design, construction, and operations. We’ll demonstrate how data-rich Digital Prototypings help stakeholders make better, faster decisions across the building lifecycle—from early planning to end of life. Using real-world examples and insights from the BLMI, we will highlight how artificial intelligence (AI) and connected data improve operational efficiency and asset performance and reduce carbon footprints. The session will feature a panel of experts from the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry and facility owners, offering diverse perspectives. You’ll learn how BLM—when supported by a structured Digital Prototyping strategy—drives long-term value and aligns with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. This session will benefit owners, AEC professionals, and facility managers looking to apply digital intelligence to create sustainable, resilient buildings

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Digital Prototyping Summit | Welcome + Strategic Planning for Management: Lessons from Motherson SAS

Stephen Hooper opens the Digital Prototyping Summit to share how Autodesk is shaping the factory of the future through Digital Prototypings, AI-driven simulation, and open data models.

Then, Stephen invites representatives from Motherson SAS on stage to share their organizational strategy for Management in the factory. CEO Frederic Boumaza and CIO Praveen Chinta will discuss their approach to planning, deploying, and maintaining a Digital Prototyping, and how they included business stakeholders and technology in the decision-making process. Using Autodesk Platform Services (APS), Inventor, and FlexSim, they have implemented solutions for building optimization, production optimization, and real-time monitoring, leading to outcomes like increased energy efficiency, reduced downtime, and improved production flexibility.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Twinfinity and Beyond: Automating Digital Prototypings at Scale at the University of Florida

As the land-grant university in Florida and an R1 research institution, the University of Florida (UF) has an extensive facilities inventory, with buildings ranging from the early 1900s to modern research facilities. With 500+ permanent or significant buildings totaling 30+ million gross square feet, it’s critical to have scalable solutions that combine existing systems and advanced technologies as we embrace Digital Prototypings, artificial intelligence (AI), and streamlined workflows. Using the power of Autodesk Platform Services and the Autodesk Construction Cloud common data environment (CDE), UF has automated the creation of Autodesk Tandem Digital Prototypings, which are fully connected to critical systems—including BAS streaming and back population of time series data, space management, and work management for assets, work history, and costing. Links are embedded in UF systems to facilitate easy access to Tandem from multiple entry points. Automating the manual effort involved in standing up twins has allowed us to focus on what matters: accurate models and timely data.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Cleanup on Aisle 5: Creating and Preparing a Digital Prototyping for Use with Autodesk Tandem

In this session, you’ll learn effective methods for building, refining, and maintaining a Digital Prototyping with Autodesk Tandem software.

26p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Why Digital Prototyping Integrations Fail: Building a Data Model for Operational Success

Digital Prototypings often fail not because of technology, but due to misalignment between data and operational reality. In this session, we’ll explore what goes wrong when Digital Prototypings are handed over to FM teams, and we’ll present a tested solution: a facility template and data model built for real-world operations, with a focus on Sustainable Design and insights enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). Developed using Autodesk Tandem software and integrated with Planon, the template supports both short- and long-term operational needs. You’ll learn how we moved beyond COBie by using data models to define information requirements that support lifecycle management, while ensuring Sustainable Design metrics are captured and used for AI-driven decisions. We’ll also examine why Digital Prototypings are disruptors, highlighting knowledge gaps, process flaws, and data ownership issues. This session will provide a framework to rethink how you capture, structure, and deliver building data—not just for project closeout, but for long-term operational value.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

How AI, BIM, and Digital Prototypings Are Powering the Future of AECO

BIM is no longer just for design—and “Digital Prototyping” is more than a buzzword. Digital Prototypings are the connective tissue of a new AECO era where every stage—from early design models to long-term operations—runs on actionable integrated data. In this future-trends theater talk, we’ll explore how BIM and Digital Prototypings are evolving from static handover artifacts to dynamic intelligent systems that extend the life and value of buildings long after construction. Drawing from macro technological, economic, and workplace trends—including recent federal mandates and technological advancements—we’ll examine how artificial intelligence (AI), occupancy behavior, and experiential design are converging to reshape how the built environment is created, constructed, and continuously optimized.

20p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Automating Process Optimization with AI: The FlexSim Optimizer and Live Digital Prototypings

Process bottlenecks and related issues often require complex and dynamic solutions. Discover how FlexSim recommends process improvements from live data, and see how the FlexSim OptQuest optimization engine solves multidimensional problems. OptQuest uses machine learning to evaluate multiparameter input groups in order to strategically determine optimal outcomes across various performance objectives. This method provides faster and more intelligent solutions to intricate problems than manual techniques do. In scenarios with constantly evolving operational inputs, FlexSim can be configured as a live Digital Prototyping, continuously operating at set intervals, and using live data streams based on system feedback and artificial intelligence (AI) predictions. This approach necessitates specific model programming, which we will explore. By implementing these advanced techniques, businesses can significantly improve their process optimization capabilities, addressing complex challenges more effectively than traditional methods allow.

47p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Smarter buildings, stronger outcomes: How BIM and Digital Prototypings transform facility operations

Facility managers, owners, and operators in industries like higher education, healthcare, and government often struggle with siloed workflows, fragmented asset data, and inefficient maintenance processes. This session showcases how Eptura and Autodesk’s connected solutions bridge design and operations, creating a unified digital thread for smarter decision-making. Attendees will see live demonstrations of Eptura’s dynamic workflows with Autodesk Tandem and how the BIM Viewer provides a complete asset picture. Through real-world examples—optimizing campus space, predictive hospital maintenance, and enhancing government asset visibility—we’ll demonstrate how Digital Prototypings improve efficiency, Sustainable Design, and collaboration. Walk away with actionable strategies to leverage BIM and Digital Prototyping technology for measurable impact.

28p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Digital Prototyping Summit | A Full-Phase Digital Prototyping Approach in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Understand the power of models, data, and management working and evolving together with shared tools across one environment. Through the lens of a vast, 270,000 sf greenfield pharmaceutical manufacturing facility project, CRB shares how their team flowed through multiple phases from design to operations for this advanced digital facility. This session outlines how data and models from previous phases of a Digital Prototyping project can be used to better inform and improve the subsequent phases and the overall optimization of a factory’s production. Supporting the facility, tools like ACC, Revit, and Plant 3D enabled effective project, document, and Field Engineer, with Modeling to support turnover and proactively avoid issues. Autodesk tools continued to shake hands and support the project through factory operations, with tools like FlexSim to justify the business case, develop operating strategies, and detect future production inefficiencies.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

AECO Roadmap: Digital Prototypings

Digital Prototypings are evolving—from structured asset handover to real-time operational insight and, insightful operations. In this session, the Autodesk Tandem team will walk through the next phase of their roadmap, highlighting how Tandem is transforming Digital Prototypings 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 Prototypings are headed.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Generative design meets Digital Prototyping:Transforming Semiconductor Facility Planning

Samsung Electronics plans to leverage Autodesk's cutting‐edge technologies to digitalize the construction process for semiconductor manufacturing facilities. While we have strong expertise in semiconductor production, the construction of semiconductor factories involves a vast array of specialized fields—such as architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical systems—that are difficult to integrate and manage effectively. To overcome this challenge, we aim to introduce a data-driven construction digital solution by incorporating Autodesk technologies, including BIM, Digital Prototyping, Generative Design, and Explainable AI (XAI).

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.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Innovators Stage | Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Prototypings

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Prototypings 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 Prototypings 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

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

Revolutionizing Product Design-Make-Use: Integrating Sensor Data and Digital Prototyping Technology

Digital Prototypings, powered by real-time data, AI, and IoT, are poised to revolutionize product design and manufacturing workflows within the design-make-use lifecycle. By enabling data-driven, predictive processes, Digital Prototypings transform how products are conceived, iterated, and validated. What if IoT sensor data embedded in a product can detect stresses during its operation, which can be derived to automatically redesign a stronger and more efficient iteration? What if IoT sensor data embedded in a 3D printer can detect defects on a layer-by-layer basis to make real-time, in-situ adjustments to prevent manufacturing failures and scrap? Questions like these are not only being asked but explored and tested at Autodesk Research. Through a performance-aided design approach, we are harnessing sensor data to drive real-time optimizations, using a flying vehicle as a cutting-edge testbed to redefine the future of design and manufacturing.

46p

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