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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Unlock the full potential of AI in AutoCAD 2027 toolsets. Building on our AU 2024 award-winning class, this session will explore how AI-powered tools revolutionize CAD, driving unmatched efficiency. Experience how AutoCAD 2027 software's AI automates complex workflows from intelligent object recognition and predictive drafting to real-time generative design. With automated dimensioning, predictive error-correction, and material optimization, you'll slash design cycles. Use AI-driven simulation to stress-test designs against real-world scenarios, ensuring peak performance. Transform your workflow with seamless, AI-enhanced interoperability that bridges multidisciplinary teams. Future-proof your craft with smarter, faster, and more creative CAD.

ITT Flow Technologies designs highly configurable equipment. But as with many manufacturers, the digital thread breaks as data moves from engineering to programming, production, and the shop floor. Disconnected CAD, CAM, and manufacturing systems reduce traceability and drive manual work-arounds, delays, and rework. This session will show how ITT Flow Technologies is reconnecting design and manufacturing using Inventor, Vault, and Autodesk Fusion software. We'll review a real-world approach to creating a connected data flow across the product lifecycle. And we'll assess digital maturity, identify high-impact opportunities, and build a phased road map that delivers early value while improving collaboration, productivity, quality, and efficiency.

Disconnected workflows between 2D design, 3D modeling, and manufacturing often lead to delays and reduced productivity. This session will demonstrate how to connect AutoCAD, Inventor, and Autodesk Fusion software into a seamless design-to-manufacturing workflow, supported by cloud platforms like Autodesk Desktop Connector for data management and collaboration. Learn how to transform 2D drawings into parametric models and generate computer numerical control (CNC) toolpaths while maintaining data continuity. Through real-world examples, discover how connected workflows reduce errors, minimize rework, and accelerate delivery from design to production.

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.

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.

Have you ever wanted to design a part but weren't sure how to approach it using the available tools and materials? Would you like to analyze existing products to identify optimizations or potential failures before they occur or transform current designs into smarter, more capable products? In this hands-on lab, we'll use Autodesk Fusion to work more effectively across key stages of the product lifecycle from initial concept to optimization and intelligent enhancement. Using a smart desk lamp as our example, we'll explore three distinct workflows: designing a manufacturable component from scratch, analyzing and optimizing critical parts, and finally enhancing the product by integrating electronics to create a smarter, connected system.

What if your designs unintentionally limit who belongs in the spaces you create? This strategy talk reveals the hidden infrastructure gap behind “low battery anxiety” for power mobility users and why it matters to AEC and Design & Make professionals. Through Teresa Valenzuela's story, discover how culture, empathy, and inclusive innovation can reshape design. Learn to uncover overlooked user needs, design for accessibility at scale, and apply practical strategies that expand access and participation. Walk away with actionable ways to embed accessibility and belonging into your next project.

AI is changing how products are imagined, explored, and developed from the earliest stages. In this partner panel, Vizcom, Avnet, and Naya Studio will show how their Autodesk Fusion integrations bring AI and intelligent automation into conceptual design and the early stages of product development. Attendees will learn how Vizcom connects AI-powered concept visualization with Fusion design workflows; how Avnet supports electronics decisions, BOM insight, and early supply-chain awareness; and how Naya Studio connects Fusion models with the briefs, sketches, feedback, and approvals around them while turning Fusion geometry into early cost and sustainability insight. Together, these partners help product design teams turn early ideas into informed concepts and make smarter decisions before downstream development begins.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Discover how Autodesk Fusion, Claude, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) can work together to create smarter, more connected engineering workflows. This introductory session will explore how conversational AI can assist with design, automation, scripting, documentation, and workflow generation inside Fusion environments, while MCP enables secure connections between AI, tools, and data sources. Attendees will learn foundational concepts, practical integration examples, and real-world use cases that demonstrate how AI-driven workflows can improve productivity, collaboration, and decision-making across product development and manufacturing.