Smallholder farmers face climate volatility, energy constraints, and post-harvest loss. Yet many products are not designed for their realities. This session will show how Kheyti and S4S Technologies apply Autodesk tools including Revit, Robot Structural Analysis, Autodesk Fusion, and Inventor with Autodesk CFD to design greenhouse systems, agrivoltaics, and food processing technologies that improve yield and income reliability, reduce energy and material use, and minimize crop loss. You'll gain practical approaches for embedding human-centered design into engineering workflows, building internal technical capability through pro bono and E4C support, and applying Autodesk-enabled methods to drive resilience, sustainability, and equitable impact at scale.

Learn how to use effective prompting techniques to accelerate script execution and add-in creation in Autodesk Fusion. This introductory session will cover prompt engineering fundamentals, practical workflows for generating and refining code with AI, and best practices for working with Fusion APIs and automation tools. 

Join us for a conversation and presentation on the application of Autodesk Fusion Generative Design at Ford Racing. Learn about the how, the why, and the results. We'll showcase process, testing, and a workflow of collaboration between Ford and Autodesk. In addition, come find out how engineering and design can work better together.

Kick off the PLM Summit with a high-impact keynote from Srinath Jonnalagadda, vice president of Data Management at Autodesk. He'll dive into how organizations are tackling disconnected systems, data complexity, and relentless pressure to move faster. You'll also gain insights into how Autodesk is addressing these challenges head-on advancing connected data and process strategies and using the power of AI. This session will set the tone by spotlighting key themes, challenges, and opportunities you'll explore during the PLM Summit. Lunch will be served immediately following the session in the same room, so plan to stay and join us.

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.

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.

Over the past year, Autodesk Fusion software has continued to evolve across design, manufacturing, electronics, and data delivering new capabilities that help teams move faster from concept to production. In this session, we'll take a look at the most impactful updates introduced since last AU. You'll see how recent enhancements connect design and manufacturing more seamlessly, expand electronics capabilities, and improve data management and collaboration. We'll also highlight the strategic areas of investment shaping the Fusion future and what they mean for the way you work. Whether you're a designer, machinist, engineer, or product developer, this session will help you understand where Autodesk Fusion is headed and how to take advantage of what's new.

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.

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.

Certification is more than a badge it's a signal of capability and a demonstration of skills applied in real industry workflows. Employers are looking for people who can step into projects and make an impact. As tools and workflows continue to evolve especially with the growing influence of AI- demonstrating applied capability is becoming even more important. That's why certification is shifting from a one-time milestone to something more continuous part of how professionals build, demonstrate, and validate their skills over time. We will explore how to navigate Autodesk certifications from foundational to professional levels, align them to career goals, and use preparation to build skills that translate into effectiveness on the job.

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

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.

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.

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.

In this technical deep dive, we'll walk through a real machined project designed in Inventor and programmed in Autodesk Fusion Manufacturing Extension. Follow the complete workflow: creating and iterating the part in Inventor, uploading to Fusion, applying toolpaths, generating G-code, and efficiently updating toolpaths after design changes using simple refreshes. We'll cover both the cloud approach (AnyCAD linked references and Desktop Connector) and the enterprise version using Vault Professional software for controlled releases and revision management. We'll share the actual files, challenges encountered, key lessons, and measurable time savings. You'll leave with actionable steps to build an effective digital thread between design and manufacturing teams.

What's the difference between topology optimization and generative design and why does it matter when you're building components with strict safety factors and manufacturing requirements? In this session for both CAD beginners and pros, we'll explore the tools and workflows that helped Elara Aerospace design a launch-ready, record-breaking rocket capable of surviving the extreme forces of space. You'll work through guided exercises in Autodesk Fusion software, learning how to apply both generative design and topology optimization to reduce mass, increase strength, and improve overall performance under tight constraints. By the end of the session, you'll have built and optimized a component ready for spaceflight-level performance.

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.

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.