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By 2027, the Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization market will surpass $400 billion. This isn’t a trend, it’s a transformation. Rising shipping and raw material costs, plus geopolitical instability, are driving manufacturers to reevaluate global strategies. Labor-cost-driven models are giving way to nearshoring and supply chain optimization, enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and 5G. Digital factories offer real-time data, autonomous decision making, and unmatched efficiency. Autodesk is uniquely positioned to lead this shift with end-to-end cloud solutions—from factory design to construction, simulation, Digital Prototypings, and asset management. With tools like Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Forma, Autodesk ensures seamless data flow and collaboration across every phase. This talk will explore how Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization is reshaping global manufacturing—and how Autodesk empowers businesses to build smarter, faster, and more resilient factories.

15p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

A Holistic, Faster Approach to Low-Carbon Design

Discover how Mott MacDonald is driving low-carbon change across infrastructure sectors through the holistic use of Autodesk products. This approach is crucial to creating a sustainable approach to design, as traditional carbon-reduction methods are often siloed and time-consuming. By adopting a unified approach to the Autodesk suite, we have streamlined product workflows for a faster, more inclusive, and cost-effective decarbonization of major infrastructure projects. Our method has been successfully implemented across three sectors in five countries, significantly increasing our audience by 3x. In this session, we’ll share key technical lessons learned through the Autodesk product suite, Autodesk Forma platform, and the Autodesk Sustainable Design suite, and provide actionable insights for organizations to make low-carbon decision making a reality. These insights will help empower teams to create real change today.

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 Forma 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

Reduce Up to 60% Lead Time with an AI-Driven Process: Comfortable Restroom Design with Innovative Workflows

This session will be an introduction to a sustainable workflow initiative that uses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce lead times from the design phase to construction by up to 60%. Building upon the success of A-SPEC (the existing automated restroom design cloud service) initially introduced during AU 2021, we proudly introduce "A-SPEC Plus,” our newest generation of design process that uses the latest AI algorithms. The inclusion of advanced AI in this upgrade allows for the creation of restroom layouts/plans that prioritize user comfort and spacious designs. In addition to the plan proposals created based on the new design logic, A-SPEC Plus significantly reduces lead time from design to construction with very little input by using the capabilities of Autodesk Forma and Autodesk Platform Services. Potential applications of this technology extend far beyond restroom design. It also offers a scalable automated design solution for various building spaces and interior designs.

41p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Noncoders and Nondevelopers: How to Create and Use Autodesk Platform Services to Access Autodesk Forma Data

Have you ever wanted to get into using Autodesk Platform Services to access your Autodesk Forma data programmatically, but didn’t know where to start? Perhaps you thought it would be too difficult. Well, Autodesk Platform Services is not just for developers! This class will show you how to get started and will start at level zero, assuming you have no code or developer experience. If you want to access, use, and automate your project data, or if you’re just looking for smarter ways to pull data from your cloud models, Autodesk Platform Services can help you do it more efficiently. By the end of the session, you’ll not only understand what Autodesk Platform Services can do, but you’ll also be ready to start creating and using it yourself.

21p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Autodesk Platform Services: A Road Map

Are you building apps on the Autodesk Platform Services, Autodesk Forma, or BIM 360 platforms? Are you using Autodesk Platform Services as part of your digital transformation strategy—or helping your customers transform their businesses? Do you want to learn more about what the Autodesk Platform Services team has been working on throughout the past year? Join us to learn about the improved APIs, the new Autodesk Forma APIs, the next generation of APIs to work with data, and more. See what's new with Autodesk Platform Services APIs and what's coming in the next generation of the Autodesk Platform Services platform. Get the insights you need to confidently create your application development plans.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Don’t Just Follow the Tool. Lead the Workflow.

Finding a platform that accommodates all of your needs is impossible. In this session, we, as an owner organization, are on a mission to make the impossible possible. We’ll walk through our real-world deployment of Autodesk Forma, showcasing challenges we’ve faced and highlighting how Automation, Integration, & Customization and standardized processes have streamlined our workflows. At the Copenhagen Metro, we are shaping the cityscape through our large-scale infrastructure projects. To support scalable collaboration across our extensive network of consultants and contractors, we’re deploying customizations for Autodesk Forma to accommodate our process needs.

22p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Digital Innovation: A Three-Step Approach to Digital Transformation

The building and construction industry is feeling the effects of change more than most. This strong and rather conventional economic sector is being digitized at an accelerated pace. The Germany-based construction company BREMER SE is in the middle of a digital transformation process and has digitized its value chain. BREMER is aiming to be completely digitized within three years, re-evaluating its processes. After all, even processes that have stood the test of time for decades have to meet the increasingly demanding requirements of digitization. There are three phases of digital transformation: 1) Implementation of a common data environment (CDE) and communication. 2) Data evaluation and site management. 3) Model coordination and collaboration. With this approach, BREMER has brought together 2,500 project participants—internal and external—on a CDE within a short period of time, and the firm has since recorded steady growth in the number of users and projects.