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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.

Las Vegas 2014

Meet the Reality Computing Hardware

Come to the reality computing booth in the exhibit area to see various reality computing technologies in action, including laser scanners, handheld depth sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, 3D printers, augmented reality glasses, and more. Selected partners and the Autodesk, Inc., Team will perform tech demonstrations.

Keynote / Las Vegas 2017

Opening Keynote

Autodesk's President and CEO, Andrew Anagnost, will kick off AU 2017 with a unique perspective on automation and the Future of Work. Passionate about the topic, Andrew will give you the confidence to embrace this new future, and guest speakers will share insights to help you thrive in this new world of working. You'll leave informed and excited about this future.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

Put Your Mind at REST: Extend Your Application to Reality Capture

The reality capture group at Autodesk is working on ways to acquire, manipulate, or analyze real scene data using laser scans or photos through ReCap™ products. While several AU classes demonstrate ReCap use and workflows associated with these products, this class focuses on how to programmatically access the reality capture web API to create or extend an application. We start with a quick overview of basic photogrammetry concepts and image parameters. Then we approach the reality capture REST API and discuss how to define a photo scene from multiple photos and create a dense 3D mesh. We cover some of the advanced features that are available to customize and refine the process. Finally we conclude the class with a complete example written in PHP.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

New Reality

This class showcases a new Autodesk® product in the reality capture portfolio. We demonstrate an all-in-one solution—from capture to high-quality model.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2015

Technology Trends impacting the Future of Making Things, hosted by Lynn Allen

Join Autodesk Evangelist Lynn Allen, Autodesk Director of Emerging Technology, Brian Pene, and technologists from some of our top developer partners for a candid conversation about new and emerging advancements that are shaping the future of how things are made. Arrive early for drinks and hors d’oeuvres, and a chance to win one of four AU 2016 conference passes.

Participating Sponsor include:

Bruce Blaho, HP Fellow & VP, HP Inc.

Stephen Orban, Global Head of Enterprise Strategy at Amazon Web Services

Victor Rios, VP & GM, Performance Computing and Industry Solutions, Lenovo

Mark Seager, Intel Fellow, CTO for Tech Computing Ecosystem, Intel

Rahul Tikoo, Director and General Manager, Dell Precision

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016

Session MFG: Compliment or replace Inventor with Fusion 360

Tips and workflows that show how to use Fusion 360 with Inventor or on its own.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2017

AU Las Vegas 2017 Leadership Forum

AU's Leadership Forum brings futurists, researchers, educators, technologists, and Autodesk executives together with VP- to C-level strategic leaders for a day of discussion and debate on what the future of making things will bring and how to thrive in it all.

Leadership Forum is an invitation-only preconference focused on leadership and management, with an emphasis on developing actionable strategies around technology demands and trends.

Designed specifically for enterprise executives responsible for corporate goals and strategies, Leadership Forum is the most exclusive networking opportunity at AU.

At AU Las Vegas 2017, Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk's CEO, welcomed attendees and shared his experience as a new CEO in a business that is being disrupted, just like yours. Jeff Kowalski, Autodesk CTO and SVP, shared his long-term technology vision and how you can control risk and determinism in your business. Guest speakers included David Rowan, editor-at-large of WIRED Magazine UK, and Greg Brandeau, former EVP and CTO at The Walt Disney Studios and former senior vice president of technology at Pixar.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2013

HP® Designjet Tips and Tricks: Going Beyond Foam Core

This interactive class focuses on tools and workflow to help you get the best results from your HP Designjet printer. We present an overview of print management and cover calibration of both monitor and printer, file submission, and troubleshooting tips. We will show several examples that can help you be more creative with your Designjet. Past attendees have said that what they learned in this class has helped them save time and money and win new business.