Architects and BIM teams are generating AI images faster than ever. But outputs rarely connect back to real materials, specifications, or fabrication. This session will draw on three MIT Architecture and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) research projects to show exactly where the design-to-build pipeline breaks down and what fixes it. What we'll cover includes steering AI image generation with element-level references, matching rendered materials back into BIM specifications, and connecting natural language to robotic assembly each finding maps to a workflow that practitioners can act on. You'll leave with research-backed behavioral changes where AI tools genuinely add value in their pipelines and where the gaps need bridging.

Projects shouldn't feel like starting over at every phase yet they often do, leading to lost data, and rework. This interactive lab tackles that challenge through a full lifecycle experience with Autodesk Forma. Experience how one connected workflow can take a project from AI-powered site planning in Forma Site Design, through data management and collaboration, to construction outcomes. Along the way, you'll step into different project roles, experience real-world scenarios, make critical decisions, and achieve the best results across the lifecycle. You won't just learn the workflow you'll experience it, making it memorable and directly applicable to your projects.

The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) will share key lessons learned from its journey toward using BIM, geographic information system (GIS), and asset management for better project delivery and capital planning. Large project and asset owners will learn how Massport turns project, spatial, and asset data into actionable insights for better decision making. This session will highlight how Massport manages more than 200 capital projects across five airport/seaport campuses using BIM-enabled workflows. You'll learn how Autodesk Forma is used as a common data environment to collaborate with design and construction teams, enable on-time digital delivery, and create a virtual campus as a single source of truth supporting Massport's broader digital transformation goals.

Autodesk tools generate some of the most complex documentation in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), yet reviewing and coordinating it still takes hours of manual effort, with errors slipping through. Join Nomic for a live 20-minute demo of purpose-built vision-language models that catch issues earlier, reduce rework, and give teams back time on every project. We'll show three workflows running on real AEC projects: 1) Drawing QA/QC: catching coordination issues and cross-discipline conflicts before they become RFIs or change orders; 2) Submittal reviews: extracting, comparing, and validating data against specs with findings cited to source; 3) Automated code compliance: surfacing violations on sheets early in design, referenced to applicable code sections. Each demo will pair with real ROI data from firms running Nomic in production, so you'll leave with a clear picture of what deployment delivers. Nomic's AI is built for drawings, specs, and complex documentation: inspectable, governable, and grounded in your project data.

Electrical VDC teams routinely enter coordination late, racing to populate models while other trades claim space first. This talk shows how Owen Electric used AI-powered conduit routing to shift that dynamic across three complex jobs in three months. Instead of manually entering electrical data, the team embedded that information from the start and then explored routing options allowing for faster decisions and optimal layout. The result: modeling time cut in half, tens of thousands of feet of conduit populated, in days rather than weeks, returning time back to specs, submittals, and constructability reviews. Attendees leave with a framework to walk into the first coordination meeting fully populated as well as practical tactics to build infill data early so a lean team can take on bigger, more complex scope and meaningfully grow capacity.

Models should not live in silos. They should drive decisions. This session will explore how Autodesk connects BIM and virtual design and construction (VDC) workflows across design and construction, from early concept through handover and beyond. Learn how teams can better coordinate, collaborate, and use models across tools and roles. We'll share what's coming in Autodesk Forma to make models more usable, accessible, and valuable in both the field and the office. Explore the recent and future capabilities for Autodesk Forma Design Collaboration, Autodesk Forma for Model Management, and Navisworks Manage users to better coordinate models and collaborate across teams.

Structural teams across design engineering, fabrication and construction face increasing pressure to deliver safe, sustainable, and highly coordinated outcomes on tighter schedules. Designers must produce accurate, analysis-driven models that inform decision-making, while fabrication and construction teams need detailed, buildable information for efficient execution. Discover how Autodesk is advancing model accuracy, enhancing analysis capabilities, and strengthening multi-disciplinary collaboration across the structural workflow, persona and project phases. You'll also get an early look at features in development and get the opportunity to share your feedback directly with the team shaping the roadmap.

When the United Arab Emirates set its Net Zero 2050 target, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MOEI) faced a critical challenge: Project data was spread across disconnected systems in seven emirates, creating delays, inconsistency, and poor visibility. This session will share how the MOEI moved to a connected delivery model using Autodesk Forma, scaled ISO 19650-aligned BIM standards nationally, created a single source of truth, and used AI-powered environmental analysis to support better design decisions. We'll also share what failed, how we handled resistance, and the lessons learned. You'll leave with a practical road map you can apply to government and institutional projects immediately.

Producing and controlling data from project models at a defined level is still largely a manual and error-prone process. This session will present ISO 7817 (Level of Information Need), the emerging standard beyond traditional Levels of Detail, and show how BIM execution plan requirements link to a Revit model. The session will explore a closed-loop workflow that tracks data from requirements to reporting. The method includes transferring information requirements from Microsoft Excel into Revit elements as parameters using Dynamo, guiding modelers by showing what data to input and why within element properties, collecting data back into Excel, and automatically generating performance reports by doing a row-by-row comparison of “Required” and “Provided” data using a large language model (LLM).

Heirloom Carbon, a direct air capture (DAC) company, shares how its infrastructure team turned Autodesk Forma (including Forma Data Management, Forma Build, and Forma Takeoff) into a reliable, daily delivery platform. Like many architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) teams, they faced inconsistent onboarding, fragmented document control, and unclear governance across projects. This session will break down how the team established a scalable common data environment (CDE) through standardized templates, permissions, and workflows issues. You'll see how they improved collaboration, reduced rework, and increased delivery capacity, and you'll understand what failed or took longer than expected. Walk away with a practical playbook to configure and standardize Autodesk Forma for consistent, scalable project delivery.

Discover how to effectively use Revit software's Coordination Model Changes to monitor and manage updates across disciplines. In this hands-on session, architects and engineers will learn practical methods to detect, review, and act on element changes directly within their models. The session will cover step-by-step workflows for identifying additions, deletions, and modifications, using visual cues, filters, and structured object data. You'll also explore how to assess geometry, properties, and transformations of updated elements to support better decision making. By the end, you'll be able to reduce manual coordination effort, improve accuracy, and confidently integrate change tracking into your daily Revit workflows.

Unlock the secrets behind Autodesk Certification. These exams are designed to validate real-world workflow skills required across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Yet many candidates struggle to understand what's truly being evaluated or how to prepare. Join exam authors for a behind-the-scenes look at how exams are designed to reflect industry practice and skills being tested. Learn from contributors to Certified Professional Exams in BIM Management and Revit Architectural, Structural, and Electrical Design. They will present certification-style examples inspired by real exam objectives and explore interpretation strategies. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of how certification aligns with project workflows and how to improve skills needed to succeed.

Biodiversity net gain is rapidly becoming a regulatory requirement across global markets, yet most assessments still rely on disconnected spreadsheets, manual calculations, and static reporting creating risk, inefficiency, and limited design insight. In this session, Ramboll will share its "nature as an asset" perspective and explore evolving biodiversity frameworks across the United Kingdom, European Union, and United States. We'll examine limitations of traditional workflows and demonstrate how Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud), integrated with ArcGIS, enables geometry-driven habitat unit calculations via Ramboll's Biodiversity Calculator. Discover how digitalizing biodiversity assessment enables proactive, data-informed design improving accuracy, transparency, and long-term project value.

Every electrical project depends on three things agreeing: the Revit model, the single-line diagram, and the load calculations. In vanilla Revit they live in three places, and engineers keep them aligned by hand. Rename one panel, and you update it three times. Resize a transformer, and you update the single-line diagram, the upstream breaker size on the Revit panel schedule, and the voltage drop calculation. Generating a diagram from the model once is the easy part. The cost shows up on revision twelve, when the model has moved and the diagram hasn't. This session presents a practical framework for treating the Revit model as the single source of truth, with the single-line diagram and calculations synchronized to it. Using real projects, we'll show which changes should propagate automatically instead of being redone by hand. You'll leave with a simple test for your own workflow: does a change propagate, or do you redo it by hand?

Can a multidisciplinary team across countries and companies deliver a better wastewater treatment plant, faster, by working as one? At AU 2026, Sweco's Zinta Rize shares the Kongsberg WWTP: a project that doubled capacity while meeting strict EU standards. Using Plant 3D, Revit, Civil 3D, and ACC as a single source of truth, plus VR reviews in Autodesk Workshop XR, the team broke silos and improved coordination. Results: 25% efficiency gain, 15% less 3D effort, and major reductions in 2D drafting. Discover how integrated BIM, cloud workflows, and immersive collaboration enabled smarter decisions, faster delivery, and a more sustainable, future-ready facility.

In this session, you'll learn how to move beyond drawing-based coordination and establish a connected design-to-manufacturing workflow based on data convergence. Through an actual project of a general contractor operating a precast concrete plant, this session will explain how Revit and Inventor software were integrated via Autodesk Forma and Informed Design to enable the convergence of design and manufacturing data. You will see how configurable and reusable manufacturing models are created, and how data can flow consistently from BIM to production. The session will demonstrate how this convergence-driven approach reduced workload by more than 40%, and how it provides practical insights that designers and manufacturing engineers can apply to reduce rework, improve quality, and strengthen cross-team collaboration.

For too long, BIM data quality for operations has been treated as a downstream problem discovered late, remediated manually, and handed over with gaps that limit long-term value. In reality, these are rarely technical failures, but governance failures. This class will explore how organizations can shift from reactive records remediation to upstream prevention by introducing a BIM governance coordinator role: bridging client requirements, internal standards, and multidisciplinary delivery teams to ensure expectations are understood, tracked, and enforced throughout the project lifecycle turning BIM deliverables into more-reliable operational assets.

What happens when mega projects push Revit beyond its limits? For Multiconsult, 30+ minute open and sync times became a critical barrier across multidisciplinary teams working on highly detailed healthcare projects. In this session, we'll show how Autodesk and Multiconsult partnered to expose performance bottlenecks by analyzing journal data, model structures, and sync patterns. Together, we optimized linking strategies, streamlined sync workflows, and strengthened model health practices, turning insights into targeted Revit hotfixes addressing scalability challenges in loading and regeneration. This collaboration built trust and delivered shared value. Discover how this work is driving scalable, cloud-centric workflows and how to apply it.

Most architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) organizations struggle to scale automation and AI because BIM data is fragmented, inconsistently governed, and tied to individual projects. This session will show how Drees & Sommer and AnkerDB built a centralized BIM data backbone using Autodesk Platform Services and Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) to enable reliable automation and consistent data quality at scale. The collaboration started as a rapid proof of concept at DevCon 2025, was validated across multiple projects, and is now scaling at the business-unit level. The session will explain how Autodesk Forma data, Autodesk Platform Services software, and downstream systems were connected to support automated validation, data enrichment, analytics, integrations, and AI-supported workflows for cost management and lifecycle assessment (LCA).

Civil infrastructure firms manage complex portfolios across fragmented legacy environments like network drives, ProjectWise, Microsoft SharePoint, and BIM 360. Transitioning to Autodesk Forma Data Management establishes a unified, cloud-native ecosystem. But doing so at scale introduces high operational risks. How do you migrate massive Civil 3D data sets without disrupting active data shortcuts and xrefs? Where do heavy InfraWorks models and point clouds reside? What is the governance strategy for historical deliverables? This session will deliver a strategic, repeatable migration playbook engineered for complex multi-office environments. Moving beyond theory, we'll provide a tool-by-tool, phased workflow. You'll learn how to audit file dependencies across legacy storage, map structures to the Autodesk Forma architecture, and execute staged migrations that maintain business continuity. You'll leave with an enterprise decision framework and an immediate deployment checklist.