The next decade of physical product design will be defined by what teams choose to automate. Modern design tools should not just make things happen faster. They should free teams to focus on taste-making, creation, and human intuition, while quietly handling the repetitive work no one wants to do. This session explores how end-to-end product workflows, powered by AI and human collaboration, are enabling teams to design faster, more efficiently, and better for the world. See how Autodesk Fusion and Naya complement each other across the full design process, from first concept to manufacturing, and walk away with a strategic view of how Fusion and Naya enable a better design process, and where the next year of AI and workflow is heading.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is often treated as a system of record for BOMs but leading teams are using it to drive product strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment. In this session, we'll show how to evolve PLM into a product management backbone that connects engineering, operations, and business decisions. You'll learn practical workflows for managing product definitions, changes, and lifecycle data in a way that improves visibility, reduces delays, and enables better decision making. Walk away with patterns you can apply immediately to move beyond BOM management and unlock real business value from PLM.

Designing great products is difficult. Successfully taking those products to market on time and under budget is even harder. After working with thousands of product design and engineering businesses, clear patterns have emerged between teams that struggle and those that consistently deliver. In this fast-paced 30-minute session, we'll break down 10 key lessons that separate successful teams from the rest. We'll dive into what worked for them as well as what didn't. You'll leave with practical strategies to reduce delays, improve alignment, and move from concept to production with greater speed and increased confidence. If you're a business owner or business leader who wants to fast-track your company's success, this session is for you.

Design teams rarely start with a complete and coherent requirements package. Instead, they work with fragmented inputs such as briefs, standards, legacy specifications, expert assumptions, performance targets, and evolving stakeholder constraints. This session will explore how AI-enabled workflows combining information normalization, uncertainty quantification, human-in-the-loop review, retrieval-augmented generation, threshold-based routing, and decomposition/aggregation can convert incomplete information into actionable, traceable design intent. Although developed in product design and simulation, the insights directly transfer across industries.

Designing and manufacturing furniture often relies on disconnected tools and repetitive work. This session will explain how to create a connected, end-to-end workflow using the Autodesk Fusion platform. Starting from simple prompts, Autodesk Assistant accelerates design and enables fast creation of parametric furniture models. This workflow will show how models are refined for engineering, prepared for manufacturing with integrated CAM tools, and transferred to production using Autodesk Fusion Operations software while Autodesk Fusion Manage ensures process and data continuity from request to delivery. It will also highlight how design intent is preserved and how a single data environment reduces errors.

This session will demonstrate how the recently introduced Autodesk Fusion AI Assistant enhances product development. AI Assistant accelerates early-stage design exploration, development, and fabrication by translating text into CAD, automating workflows, and accelerating implementation. Case studies of consumer products will illustrate how AI Assistant improves efficiency, when traditional methods are more effective, and how to best combine both. The session will cover prompt engineering techniques that improve output quality. By adopting these workflows, teams can reduce repetitive tasks, improve iteration speed, and focus human expertise on higher-value design decisions, ultimately achieving faster, more informed results.

Discover how Autodesk Fusion and Vizcom radically shorten conceptual design cycles for consumer products by pairing the Fusion parametric engineering and lifecycle controls with Vizcom's real-time photoreal visualization and AI-driven variant generation. Learn how rapid ideation, material/finish sweeps, and perceptual testing produce validated visual states that automatically feed CAM snapshots, BOM and version updates, and manufacturability acceptance gates, preserving traceability and minimizing rework. The talk will include demos, concrete integration patterns, and data-contract best practices for the Fusion-Vizcom workflow. We'll also cover a one-click pilot activation that turns validated concepts into prioritized production pilots with measurable POC outcomes.

Get a greater understanding of how businesses can unlock the full potential of Autodesk Fusion data management and PLM in this hands-on workshop. Learn how to connect design data, streamline workflows, and standardize processes across the product lifecycle. You'll explore key capabilities of Autodesk Fusion Manage, helping you manage product data, improve collaboration, and reduce errors from design through production. This session will provide a clear introduction and practical insights for anyone looking to get more value from integrated data management and PLM within the Fusion platform.

The offsite construction industry is scaling, but the graduates entering it have been trained for a world of bespoke ETO delivery. No accredited degree program teaches configure-to-order workflows, manufacturing product definition, modular interface standards, or offsite logistics. The industry is hiring for skills that schools don't yet teach. This session will present the MBI-CfOC Offsite Construction Accreditation Initiative a joint effort between the Modular Building Institute and the Center for Offsite Construction to establish the first accredited degree pathway for the industrialized construction workforce. With materials nearly complete and first accreditation discussions happening, let's understand what the next generation of offsite-trained talent will know, and how to build a firm that can absorb them.

The Factory Experience gives AU attendees a hands-on way to build a simple electronic device but creating that experience requires coordination across design, manufacturing, and delivery. This panel will bring together Autodesk and industry partners to share how the Factory Experience is conceived, developed, and brought to life on the expo floor. Panelists will discuss how teams align on design intent, navigate real-world production constraints, and deliver a scalable, repeatable experience for AU attendees. Topics will include cross-company collaboration, prototyping-to-production workflows, and the role of emerging technologies like AI. You'll gain insight into how complex systems are transformed into engaging educational experiences.

Product development is evolving beyond traditional CAD workflows. Join Avnet and Autodesk to see how AI-powered engineering experiences are helping engineers move from concept to manufacturable products faster while making smarter decisions earlier in the design process. Learn how Avnet's component intelligence including real-time pricing, availability, lifecycle data, alternate part recommendations, and engineering content integrates directly into Autodesk Fusion. Discover how AI-assisted design workflows combined with supply chain insights enable teams to evaluate feasibility, manufacturability, and sourcing tradeoffs from the start. By connecting AI-driven design with real-world component and procurement intelligence, engineering teams can reduce redesigns, improve collaboration between engineering and sourcing, and accelerate the path from idea to production-ready products.

3D scanning is more accessible than ever, with consumer and prosumer scanners flooding the market. But the real challenge begins after the scan is complete. Raw STL files are often heavy, messy, and filled with artifacts especially when capturing organic subjects like the human body. In this session, we'll dive deep into Meshmixer software, the ultimate Swiss army knife for STL manipulation. We'll cover essential scan triage, basic cleanup, and targeted reconstruction techniques to repair complex holes and smooth organic artifacts. Then we'll transition into Autodesk Fusion software to enable reverse engineering workflows. We'll explore techniques to accurately build and drive solid parametric models on top of your scanned data.

At Avnet, our mission is to accelerate the adoption and seamless supply of new technologies. We understand the challenges engineers face when bringing innovative designs to life, and we're here to help. Our latest app is designed to empower engineers by providing direct access to critical resources, streamlining the design process, and optimizing the supply chain. This session will be an engaged demonstration of Autodesk Fusion Electronics and Avnet's App to solve for the most-challenging obsolescence problems within your electronics supply chain

AI is transforming design workflows, but many firms face the same challenge: how do you encourage innovation while maintaining data privacy, security, governance, and control of escalating cloud costs? In this session, Lenovo explores how architects, engineers, and designers are building AI capability from the ground up using a hybrid approach that combines Autodesk cloud services, AI PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, local AI inference, remote workstations, and centralized AI resources. Learn how organizations are creating safe environments for AI experimentation, enabling teams to test ideas using real project data, evaluate business value, and scale successful workflows with confidence. Discover how firms are empowering users to innovate from anywhere while balancing performance, flexibility, security, and cost. Key message: Experiment locally. Collaborate globally. Scale in the cloud.

Industrialized construction requires coordination across design and manufacturing workflows, but today these processes remain fragmented. This session will explore how AI agents can help connect product and project workflows, enabling earlier decision making and improved constructability. You'll see how validation and specification workflows can be applied today within Autodesk tools, along with a phased view toward configuration, productization, and continuous improvement. A real workflow example will demonstrate how teams can move from disconnected automation to coordinated execution.

The workstation GPU that handles your Revit models and 3ds Max renders may be showing its age not because Autodesk got more demanding, but because AI did. Local AI tools are rapidly becoming part of how design and engineering professionals work: generating concepts, automating repetitive tasks, and running inference without sending sensitive project data to the cloud. These workloads are GPU-hungry, and they compete directly with your Autodesk applications for the same critical resource: graphics memory. In this session, we'll give Autodesk users a practical framework for understanding GPU memory requirements across the workflows that matter to them. You'll see how real Autodesk applications perform under varying VRAM configurations, what happens when local AI enters the picture, and where the common pain points emerge. We'll also look at what the next generation of workstation GPUs brings to the table and whether an upgrade is warranted or premature.

Discover the inspiring collaboration of Team Bath Heart and Autodesk at the Autodesk Technology Centre in Birmingham, merging creativity with advanced technology to create a revolutionary artificial heart. Team Bath Heart is a multidisciplinary engineering team from the University of Bath in England. Two-time champions of the international Heart Hackathon, the team is pioneering innovations in artificial-heart design combining advanced simulation, manufacturing, and biomedical insight to push the boundaries of medical engineering. The team uses the Autodesk Fusion collaborative features, CAM profiling, and generative design tools to accelerate the design, testing, and prototyping of their next-generation artificial heart.

Avalanche Energy operates a high-mix prototype shop where parts must move from design to machining in hours, not days. This session will show how the team uses the Autodesk Fusion Manufacture workspace with CloudNC's CAM Assist to automate toolpath generation and accelerate CAD-to-CAM workflows. See how standardizing tooling, fixturing, and machining strategies enables consistent, repeatable programming across evolving designs. Learn how automation reduces programming time from hours to minutes, allowing programmers to focus on setup planning and process optimization. You'll leave with practical workflows to identify high-impact automation opportunities, structure CAM setups, and scale fast, reliable part production.

Naya is an AI Product Development Platform for physical goods, from footwear to furniture, working with MillerKnoll, Adidas, Google, and hundreds of other brands. Naya connects to Autodesk Fusion. Attendees will learn how Naya Estimation AI helps teams determine manufacturing cost within minutes instead of weeks from a Fusion model, Sketch, BOM, drawing, or CAD, move quicker through product development, negotiate better, and get more products to market at target price. With features for value engineering and scenario planning, teams can make more informed design decisions. Attendees will also see how, from the same Sketch, BOM, drawing, or CAD, Sustainability AI generates a full environmental footprint in minutes: carbon, water, energy, and plastics, so teams can weigh trade-offs before committing to production. Workflow AI brings briefs, BOMs, CAD, drawings, and more into one place so teams move faster, maintain accountability, and unlock greater creative potential.