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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.

Virtual 2021

Ask Me Anything: Spacemaker Roadmap

Have questions about the product roadmap for Autodesk's now solution, Spacemaker? Join Autodesk product managers at Autodesk University and get them answered live.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Accelerate Your Project Planning and Design Process with Spacemaker

Spacemaker is an easy-to-use software for outcome-driven design in the early stages of AEC projects. The software enables planning and design teams to create an optimal proposal for a building site based on physical data, site constraints, regulations, and local preferences. This class will present a case study in which the Spacemaker team worked with a leading real estate developer to revolutionize the site development process. In this example, Spacemaker was used by NREP Denmark and Årstiderne Arkitekter in developing the 35 000 m2 UN17 Village. The entire project team used Spacemaker´s outcome-driven design capabilities to perform design exploration, test regulatory requirements, and optimize site qualities such as wind, sun, daylight, noise, and outdoor areas. The 3D model in Spacemaker served as a single source of truth for the entire project team.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Extending Design Options to Virtual Environments

This class will show you how to take design options from Revit software and 3ds Max software to Unity Forma to let clients see and choose from possibilities. We will show you how to set up your Revit environment, add your finishes and products with 3ds Max, and finish off in Unity and Unity Forma to create an interactive environment.

Article / 2020

BIM to Blockchain

El proyecto BIM to Blockchain, busca dar trazabilidad durante toda la ejecución de un proyecto BIM, apoyándonos en la herramienta Autodesk BIM 360, creando una solución integral que incluya, diseño, desarrollo y despliegue de redes distribuidas, garantizando la neutralidad del sistema.

Theater Talk / 2022

Applying Artificial Intelligence for Architecture

Theater Talk / 2022

How Data Informs a New Era of Work

Article / 2022

Outcome-Based Design

Artificial intelligence and human designers have different strengths. Why not play to both? Samuel Omans shares the possibilities of outcome-based design.

Article / 2022

How to Develop an Efficient Digital Operating Model in Construction

Thinking about developing a digital operating model for your construction firm? Find out how Finland-based SARA used Autodesk Construction Cloud to get it done.

Theater Talk / 2023

Transforming Structural Design and Make with Quantum Computing and AI

Theater Talk / 2023

Leveraging Technology for People-Centered Innovation

Theater Talk / 2022

Sustainability by Design

Theater Talk / 2021

Architecture in the Age of More, Better, Faster

Rapid urbanization is challenging architects to adopt technologies that allow them to design from the inside out, and the outside in. Nicholas Desbiens shows how KPF uses data-driven visualizations to successfully build the tallest buildings in the world.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Supercharge Your Browser-Based Autodesk Platform Services Applications with WebAssembly

Autodesk Research has a number of C++ toolkits—e.g., for spatial analysis and multi-agent simulation—that would previously only have been used in desktop or server-side applications. With Emscripten and WebAssembly, we can now take these codebases and use them directly in browser-based applications, whether using Autodesk Viewer, Autodesk Tandem, or Autodesk Forma. In this session, we will take a close look at bringing C++ codebases to the web, using a Forma extension as an example. Come along to experience the power you can bring to Autodesk Platform Services applications by integrating advanced libraries and toolkits via WebAssembly!

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Streamlining Design-to-Configuration: Your Rules in Autodesk Forma and Revit Via Dynamo

This class will teach you how to automate decision making by applying predefined business logic and rules to data inside Dynamo software. We’ll demonstrate how to push and pull this data into Autodesk Forma and Revit software to achieve predictable design outcomes that meet your BIM and virtual design and construction (VDC) requirements. Understand how to structure your logic to drive step-by-step configuration processes, delivering building models that precisely match your company’s desired outputs. This class will provide tangible solutions, whether the goal is to rapidly iterate through design options in Forma based on product constraints or to automatically generate precise geometry for construction drawings and fabrication models in Revit based on predefined company standards. By the end of this class, you’ll be equipped with the foundational knowledge and practical insights to begin implementing logic-driven design Automation, Integration, & Customization within your own organizations and see how building configuration is possible.

13p

26p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Concept to Compliance: Forma’s Predictive Analytics and Insights’ Data-Driven Validation

Sustainable design starts with bold ideas—but survives on hard data. In this session, discover how to bridge Autodesk Forma’s early-stage predictive analytics with Insights’ compliance calculations. Start with Forma’s early-stage modeling to forecast embodied carbon, then transition to Insights’ material databases to benchmark against global standards. Learn how Autodesk’s native integrations automate data continuity between tools, ensuring designs evolve from predictive insights to auditable outcomes. Walk away with strategies to eliminate greenwashing, client-ready ESG frameworks, and a workflow to align Sustainable Design ambitions with real-world compliance—all without compromising design intent.

Panel / Nashville 2025

Designing for Health Empowerment Using Autodesk Forma to Reimagine Urban Land Use Through Community Land Trusts

This panel session explores how Autodesk Forma is being used in the feasibility phase of the Big Bold Bordeaux Vision—a community-driven initiative to transform a large parcel of land located in North Nashville through a Community Land Trust. Panelists, including local leaders and AECO professionals, will share how Forma supports early-stage analysis of zoning, urban density, and Sustainable Design to inform equitable land use decisions. The session highlights how Forma enables transparent, data-driven planning that. Lastly, this session will focus on this process that facilitates the foundational communication between municipalities and community voices that supports long-term health equity goals.

11p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Design to Delivery—Faster with the Right AI

In an era where speed, quality, and innovation define success, using AI in design and construction workflows is no longer optional—it's essential. This session, Design to Delivery—Faster with the Right AI, shows how tools like Chaos’ Enscape, Veras and Glyph work in concert with Autodesk Revit and Forma to accelerate ideation, visualization, and construction documentation. Drawing from industry wide findings about where early adopters see the biggest benefits from AI, attendees will learn the best AI applications from the first interview, through design, and into construction documentation. The speakers know not all AI is equal, and will show the audience how to evaluate AI tools through the lens of quality, security, and intellectual property protection. By the end of this class you'll be able to use the right AI capability, at the right time, to boost creativity, improve quality, and shorten project timelines.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Site Planning to BIM with AI: Accelerating Early-Stage Design with Finch and Autodesk Forma

This session will introduce a modern, early-stage, design workflow powered by artificial intelligence (AI), connecting Autodesk Forma, Finch, and Revit software. Learn how site data and massing created in Forma can be used directly in Finch to generate compliant floor plans with AI. As the design evolves, Finch automatically builds a Revit-native model using families and model groups, ready for further development and documentation. We’ll showcase a success story from one of our customers (TBA) highlighting how this workflow reduces manual work, supports more-data-driven decisions, and shortens the path from concept to BIM. Whether you’re an architect working in early-stage design or managing BIM execution, this session will provide a clear, practical view of what a connected workflow looks like and how it can accelerate project delivery.

13p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

How to Maximize Data-Driven Design to Create More Sustainable Projects

In this class, we'll explore how Egis—a multidisciplinary worldwide engineering firm—uses data-driven design to create more-sustainable projects. We'll specifically focus on a case study that highlights the use of Autodesk Forma. Autodesk Forma is a new tool that helps designers make better decisions by capitalizing on data in the early phase of design. Through this case study, you'll better understand how you can use Autodesk Forma on real projects to optimize performance, reduce environmental impact, and promote sustainability. By the end of the class, you'll be equipped with the skills to apply data-driven design principles to your projects.

60p

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