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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.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Better Data Delivers Better Outcomes: Automating the MIDP from Autodesk Construction Cloud

In this session, we’ll delve into the transformative impact that using digital Master Information Delivery Plans (MIDP) made on our design and construct operations. By using Morta to automate MIDP production, Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) has significantly enhanced data quality and the decision-making process. Synchronizing data from Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures our MIDPs and associated dashboards provide real-time information to all project stakeholders. This session will highlight how we’ve improved outcomes by enforcing naming standards and fostering better information management awareness across our project teams. You’ll gain insights into overcoming industry challenges related to data management and project coordination. Join us to explore the benefits of these solutions, and learn how to implement similar strategies in your organizations.

33p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Constructing with Confidence: The Autodesk Construction Cloud Role in Delivering 105 Victoria Street

This session will explore how Autodesk Construction Cloud is being used as a transformative tool on the 105 Victoria Street project—one of the first large-scale UK projects to fully embrace Autodesk Construction Cloud. The content will focus on real-world applications, such as tracking mega planks and steelwork from off-site production through to installation, monitoring cladding in 3D, and enhancing quality control with NCRs and visual data. We will also highlight how Skanska uses Autodesk Construction Cloud in combination with Power BI dashboards to provide project managers with real-time insights, driving accountability, improving efficiency, and enabling data-driven decision making.

30p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Model Your Assets Off: Using Autodesk 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 Autodesk 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 Autodesk 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?

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Top Firms Share How to Use AI in Training to Close the Digital Skills Gap and Scale Knowledge Management

Hear from top AEC firms, including Jacobs, Stantec, HDR, SLB, Tetra Tech, SSOE, and STV, as they share how they’re closing the digital skills gap using Autodesk’s 3-step framework from the 2025 Design & Make Report. Learn how AI-powered training, skills gap assessments, and embedded workflows drive tech adoption at scale. Discover the ROI: improved performance, reduced rework, stronger retention, and a competitive edge to win more bids. See how firms are leveraging AI in training to learn faster, retain more, and save time. Explore how custom learning paths and custom workflow training elevate information into knowledge management by curating and pinpointing the exact combination of external training materials with internal workflows—so teams get just enough, just in time, and just for me learning that’s applied to real-world projects.

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 Autodesk 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.

Panel / Nashville 2025

Innovators Stage | Out of the Shadows. Into the Light: From Experience Designer to Architect—Success Stories of Women in AEC.

Throughout history, women have pioneered innovations that have shaped the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, laying the foundation for groundbreaking technologies and radical transformations. We’ll explore the powerful impact of women driving change across the industry, and look ahead to the future of how we design and make. Hear from Autodesk Expert Elites and influential product designers at the forefront of transformative technologies. These women have adopted AI-powered generative design solutions. They’re using Digital Prototyping technology to create climate-resilient architecture. And they’re driving the successful integration of cloud-based platforms across large-scale organizations. Whether you're a woman in AEC or an ally, this session will provide actionable insights, inspiring stories, and an opportunity to connect and ask questions with the trailblazers shaping the future of design, construction, and technology.

Panel / Nashville 2025

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Making the Switch from Procore to Autodesk Construction Cloud

Switching construction management platforms is a major decision that impacts every phase of the project lifecycle. In this panel session, a team of experts from both the general contractor and consultant side will share their unfiltered experiences transitioning from Procore to Autodesk Construction Cloud. You’ll hear real-world stories of what worked, what didn’t, and what surprised them the most—ranging from platform comparisons and workflow changes to team adoption and stakeholder buy-in. With perspectives from both in-the-field execution and strategic implementation, this session will provide a well-rounded look at the benefits, trade-offs, and growing pains of leaving one ecosystem for another. You’ll leave with practical lessons, implementation tips, and a clearer understanding of how Autodesk Construction Cloud performs in real-world construction environments—especially in comparison to Procore.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Putting Precon First in Autodesk Construction Cloud Projects: A Hands-On Lab

What comes before any successful construction project? An accurate estimate is a good place to start. You have a lot to gain from a standardized pre-con environment in Autodesk Construction Cloud, from the first schematic drawings brought into Autodesk Docs software then quantified in Autodesk Takeoff software. In this hands-on lab, you’ll gain firsthand experience in quantifying a new project’s design the right way. What we'll give you: Step 1: A standard project template will offer your team a playbook to follow for Management. Step 2: Typical items you need are present for you to quantify on the new project. What you’ll do: Step 3: (This is the hands-on part.) In accessible interactive activities, you’ll apply advanced 2D and 3D quantification tools. You’ll translate project scope into material, labor, and equipment costs to generate an accurate project estimate. Come work with us to experience the value Autodesk Construction Cloud can bring to your pre-con workflows.

19p

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Connected Coordination Level 2: Effective Clash Resolution Using the Power of the ACC Closed Loop Issue Management System

For effective clash resolution, it’s essential to notify the design partners about the clashes in a timely manner. It is also imperative to maintain an auditable and trackable record of notifications related to the clash resolution process. In this Connected Coordination Level 2 lab, we’ll build upon where we left off in the 2023 Connected Coordination lab, and learn to use the power of the closed-loop issue management system to assign, notify, resolve, and close clashes on a project. You’ll also learn about the Autodesk Construction Cloud Issues add-in for Revit software that allows design teams to download clash issues directly within Revit to highlight the clashing elements and take action to resolve them. You’ll learn how the closed loop issue management system keeps all the stakeholders notified every step of the way, allowing for an effective clash management system. Finally, you’ll learn how to export reports of all the active clash issues and link them to Power BI for the relevant stakeholders.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Intent to Distribute: How to Control Distribution and Updating of Your Fabrication Database and Profiles

Join us for a session focused on managing the distribution and updating of your Fabrication database and profiles. We'll cover essential techniques to ensure smooth and efficient operations.

25p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Banishing Obsolescence from Your Electronics Design

At Avnet, our mission is to accelerate the adoption and seamless supply of new technologies. We understand the challenges engineers face when bringing innovative designs to life, and we’re here to help. Our latest app is designed to empower engineers by providing direct access to critical resources, streamlining the design process, and optimizing the supply chain. This session will be an engaged demonstration of Autodesk Fusion Electronics and Avnet’s App to solve for the most-challenging obsolescence problems within your electronics supply chain.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Field Data to Smart Decisions: Real-Time Insights with Autodesk Build and Insight Builder in Civil Infrastructure Projects

In complex civil infrastructure projects—such as highways, bridges, and utilities—the ability to turn field data into actionable insights is essential for performance, safety, and cost control. This session will show how MRS Logística used Autodesk Build software and Insight Builder to convert raw field inputs into real-time analytics, enabling smarter and faster decisions across project lifecycles. By structuring data from Issues, RFIs, Checklists, and Forms, MRS created dynamic dashboards that track physical progress, monitor compliance, and surface predictive alerts before risks escalate. These insights connected field operations with executive decision making, providing transparency over construction quality, schedule health, and contract performance. You’ll learn how to structure data flows from the field, configure Insight Builder rules, and deploy scalable dashboards that support real-time monitoring, predictive insights, and strategic oversight in civil infrastructure delivery.

14p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Stop Taking Photos on Site! Integrate Mobile 3D Capture and 3D Gaussian Splatting in Civil Infrastructure Management Instead

Have you ever taken a photo of something critical during a site visit only to forget where it was or find it lacking context when reviewing it later? The increasing accessibility of advanced reality capture devices—such as photogrammetry and SLAM LiDAR technology—offers an unprecedented opportunity for AECO professionals to accurately capture detailed and extensive site details. Integrating these technologies into your workflows can dramatically enhance documentation at various construction stages, improve coordination among stakeholders, and provide timely and transparent as-built information. This case study will demonstrate how to effectively use these advanced technologies (SLAM point clouds and 3D gaussian splatting) to enrich civil Infrastructure Management with Autodesk tools like Civil 3D, ReCap, InfraWorks, Revit, and Autodesk Construction Cloud.

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64p

Panel / Nashville 2025

Mo' Data, Mo' Problems — How a Data Strategy Helps You Transition Your Multi-Discipline Workflows to ACC: Panel Discussion

Colliers Engineering & Design’s (CED) transition from on-prem Vault to Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) was driven by the need to eliminate data silos, support massive datasets, and scale across multi-discipline teams and acquisitions. This session explores how CED approached the shift strategically — partnering with ARKANCE and Autodesk to reimagine workflows while honoring what already worked well. You’ll learn how to analyze your current environment, define end goals, and run effective pilot programs with SAT/UAT testing to evaluate performance, latency, and user experience. Discover the importance of documentation, change management, and building an ACC Guideline and Data Process Document to support rollout and adoption. Whether you're a large firm or a small team, this session offers practical insights, lessons learned, and a roadmap to a successful ACC migration — paving the way for connected clouds, integrations, and a smarter future.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Zero Paper, Full Control: Digitalizing Metro Design with Autodesk Docs

The entire rail system design process is now managed digitally using Autodesk Docs software. Instead of relying on traditional email-based file sharing and approvals, all stakeholders—including the client, consultant, and designer—collaborate in real time on a single digital platform. As a result, delays in approval phases have been significantly reduced, achieving up to 70% savings in paper usage and up to 30% time efficiency in past projects. For upcoming projects, the goal is to implement a fully digital, paperless workflow that boosts Sustainable Design and operational efficiency across the entire design phase.

39p

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