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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.

Panel / Virtual 2021

Diversity and Its Influence and Importance in Engineering Education

This panel will feature educators from around North America to speak about the challenges, advantages, and successes they found in engaging a diverse student population in engineering. Attracting students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds has traditionally been difficult in higher education. Strides have been made, and this panel will discuss those how those challenges have been mitigated and how to continue to improve the situation.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

Life After Design: Purchases, Supplies, and Cost Control in Execution

Intelligent models have reached a level of maturity in the design, cost estimation, and planning stage. Now what? It’s in the execution that we will recover the previous effort—taking advantage of all the model’s information to calculate the purchases of materials and the needs of our own resources, generate the contracts, and manage the orders, deliveries, and invoices. We'll see this process as it’s being applied in a real building, starting from a Revit model already made by the design team. La clase también será en español (the class will also be in Spanish).

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014

Navisworks and classification based model checking

Become informed on how Navisworks can be used to check models on compliance to the agreed classification system. The adherence to a classification system can be seen as a performance indicator of model quality. The level of adherence can be used to communicate with fellow modelers as well as project managers who want to see projects on time and with reduced risk. As more models start to make it to the maintenance cycle the model quality at a deeper level becomes more critical.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Getting Started with Model-Based Definition in Inventor

In this class, you’ll get some good-to-know basics when using Model-Based Definition in Inventor software. The integrated tolerance advisor helps to ensure GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing) is correct and complete. Additionally, you’ll learn about the benefits of applying all information to the model and using it downstream. This class is intended for beginners and those who want to get started with Model-Based Definition in Inventor.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

Kid Architecture Workshop: A Case Study Demonstrating How Young People Learn 3D Design

The Kid Architecture Workshop offered by Professor Jon Davey in Southern Illinois provides young students with a great foundational experience and appreciation for design as a lifelong career. This workshop has been in operation for the past 20 years, providing insights into how students learn about spatial design, building materials, visualization techniques, and using digital technologies to create design solutions. It also provides a solid foundation for students to pursue design or architecture in their post-secondary academic life. The workshop offers valuable data and insights on how learners successfully combine traditional experiential techniques with computer tools when approaching design problem solving. This class will present the Kid Architecture Workshop and will be followed by a panel discussion to find ways of assimilating and applying its findings to other areas of teaching design for a secondary audience.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2017

Fun with FormIt Pro—A Lab to Hone Your FormIt Skillz

This lab session will focus on some of the newer features of FormIt 360 Pro software, as well as tips and tricks to help with your FormIt 360 Pro workflow. We'll create a building with FormIt 360 Pro software using the Microsoft Windows app. We'll also spend some time understanding the Dynamo Studio workflow within FormIt 360 Pro for Windows software, and how we can use it for quick design iterations.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015

Bringing the Sketch into the Model—Integrating Sketching into the BIM Process

With the integration of hand sketching into the digital workflow, we are no longer bound to the finite limitations of our tools. Step through an integrated design process, utilizing laptops and iPads in conjunction with SketchBook Pro software, FormIt software, Fusion 360 software, Revit software, and Dynamo visual programming language extension. In this course, learn how to integrate and capitalize on the power of design sketching in fluid conjunction with the Building Information Modeling (BIM) model. Learn how to utilize SketchBook Pro in the IOS/iPad to create initial sketch concept(s) and import into FormIt software as background for underlay and development of design into a 3D massing model. Develop the massing model utilizing cloud-based FormIt software in conjunction with further overlays and sketching in SketchBook Pro on a pen/tablet interface. Utilize FormIt conceptual energy modeling to orient and refine the initial design concept. Using Autodesk 360 cloud-computing platform and Revit Model software within the massing environment, models and concepts are shared with the Production Team and distributed to the contractor/owner teams.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015

Innovation Forum: Building Tomorrow's World: Flexing Your Digital Brain and Brawn

Technology disruption is shaking up the way we construct and experience our physical world. Additive manufacturing, robotic fabrication, advanced materials, and other innovations help us exceed expectations as we create new products and build spaces and infrastructure. Join this Innovation Forum on physical production and get an inspiring view of the future from leaders disrupting their industries and creating new value for clients and customers.

Hosted by: Roman Mars

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

AU Freshman Orientation

With over 700 classes and up to 10 things going on at any moment, it is easy for first-time attendees to feel overwhelmed. The AU Freshman Orientation will help you get the most out of Autodesk University. Join Chris Bradshaw, Autodesk chief marketing officer and senior vice president for Reputation, Consumer and Education, Lynn Allen, Cadalyst columnist and Autodesk technical evangelist, and other AU veterans as they explain the program and point out highlights and not-to-be-missed events and gatherings. While targeted at first-time attendees, AU veterans are welcome to attend to learn what is new and different at AU 2012.

Panel / Virtual 2021

How Building Engineers Can Lead on Climate Change Reduction Actions

The United Nation predicts that the world’s population will grow from 7.5 billion today to nearly 10 billion by 2050. To keep up with this population growth, urban areas will need to construct on average more than 13,000 commercial buildings daily. In this context, it is important to consider the impact that buildings will have on climate change, and the depletion of natural resources. It’s been estimated that building construction projects contribute 40% of the waste in landfills, and that buildings produce one-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, use 25% of global water, and use 40% of global energy. The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry must fundamentally rethink how it designs, constructs, and operates the built environment for the world to meet its climate change reduction goals. Join us for this lively and inspiring panel discussion with key industry leaders to explore how the structural and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) engineering industries can help address the climate crisis.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

Plumbing in Autodesk® Revit® MEP: You’re No Longer Just a Subcategory

This class is designed to improve design efficiency specifically for the plumbing discipline. In the class, you will learn how to use the pipe routing preferences in Autodesk® Revit® MEP software to your advantage, how to map plumbing connectors for proper flow, and how to track fixture units within systems. We will also show how the basic lookup tables drive the outside diameter (OD) size of your double-line piping, provide tips for the use of sloped piping, and finally, demonstrate how preconfigured families can make rough-in schedules a breeze.

Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2019

Dynamo for BIM Managers: Managing Dynamo and Dynamo for Managing - Part 1 of 4

Ever felt like Dynamo was hard to wrangle? Is it difficult to get your head around the technical aspects of managing Dynamo for your firm? Is it hard to understand where Dynamo is best suited in your workflows? Maybe you want to learn how to best approach sharing scripts with your peers? Or learn successful practises around effectively teaching Dynamo to new users? Then come join us for the "Managing Dynamo and Dynamo for Managing" stream focused upon all of the above. Please note: This class is most effective with a beginner-medium understanding of Dynamo: We will not be covering entry-level Dynamo. If you are a beginner or have never used Dynamo before consider attending the Dynamo beginner session held during the main AU conference or invest in beginner training ahead of time. Participants will be paired at provided computers (1 computer for 2 participants). Includes the Tuesday AU General Session. Don’t forget to add the AU Full Conference Pass and sign up for the Wednesday evening DynaLightning talks and party.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015

“One Design”: Developing the Vision of BIM for Engineering Design at a Utility

The transformation of an organization’s legacy engineering design systems first requires a vision and a plan. We call our goal “One Design.” We want to stop duplicating effort, we want to share information and design intent more easily between groups, we want to better manage our projects, and we want to manage our assets more efficiently while providing a higher-quality service to our customers. This class will discuss developing the vision and plan for transforming Arizona Public Service’s lines of business (T&D, Fossil Generation, IT Telecomm) using BIM for 3D intelligent design. We will explore tools for process mapping, requirements gathering, and future visioning. The transformation will include the implementation of a number of Autodesk, Inc., Solutions in an integrated mosaic of engineering design workflows. We will also discuss a strategic 4-year plan and change-management efforts to be used to convey the vision and build consensus across the organization.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2016

Redefine Sketching in Architectural Design

In architecture, technology and computers provide ways for us to produce and share design documentation. Until now, the profession has divided our work processes into a discovery phase with hand sketching and a production phase where the sketches are developed into computer-aided illustrations. Architectural design is currently experiencing a shift wherein there is an integration of hand sketching and technology into a single process. This course will demonstrate the ways in which computers can help us sketch and iterate our ideas, and how we can redefine sketching to include all drawing, direct modeling, and computational studies. “When I say artist I mean the man who is building things—creating molding the earth—whether it be the plains of the west—or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction—some with a brush—some with a shovel—some choose a pen”—Jackson Pollock. This session features FormIt 360, Dynamo Studio, and Revit. AIA Approved

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015

Revit + FormIt = Bye Bye SketchUp

For years there has been a conceptual massing part of Revit software that could enable designers to do many of the things they can do in Trimble’s SketchUp modeling program directly inside of Revit software, but this has never really caught on and designers keep returning to SketchUp for ease of use. Now with the help of FormIt software you can take your project from conceptual design all the way to construction documents with these 2 connected products without having to leave the .RVT file format. You can begin the conceptual design in FormIt software and once the design is settled continue the working drawings process inside Revit software. There is also the added benefit of being able to work in FormIt software on your iPad or any computer in a web-based version, enabling for anytime-anywhere design to happen. FormIt software also has a feature that enables real-time team collaboration on a design. This means the multiple members of a team can be simultaneously working on the same file from different locations and different FormIt platforms.

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