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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.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

23p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Digital Doppelgängers: The Truth Beneath the Model

Have you ever wondered what’s under the hood of a Digital Prototyping? Most are familiar with intelligent models as they pertain to the design and construction process, but where and at what point does metadata from an intelligent model merge with live data streams from Internet of Things (IoT) devices and other software integrations? In this session, we will dig beneath the 3D visuals commonly seen and look at the mechanics of a Digital Prototyping—how it’s designed, how it’s built, and how it all works in concert. Participants will walk away from our session with a better understanding of how the merging of these two environments is possible through the journey of a project lifecycle. We’ll give an in-depth overview of how Aptitude | Intelligent Integration has tied together the latest tools of the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry with innovative technologies and integrations to use asset management and Sustainable Design goals that owners are looking for to get the smart building overlay they desire.

53p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Insight Is Going Global: Regionalized Carbon Results Supported by Autodesk’s New Sustainable Design Data API

Feeling the pressure to deliver complex projects quickly while balancing Sustainable Design? The key to managing and reducing carbon emissions is accessible, connected, and useful data. Despite growing demand for Sustainable Design information, many face barriers in data consistency and reliability. Autodesk’s platform connects data across design processes, shares insights, and uses workflows powered by artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainable environments. The new Sustainable Design Data API links customers with trusted third-party Sustainable Design data sets at all design stages. The Insight and Sustainable Design Data APIs partnered up to support additional embodied carbon databases, providing essential data for analysis. This integration equips designers with tools to measure embodied and operational carbon, visualize reduction opportunities, and track environmental impacts. Learn how to use Revit Insight software for sustainable design and use the Sustainable Design Data API to connect more data sources or build custom tools with Autodesk Platform Services.

17p

40p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Harnessing the Autodesk Ecosystem to Support Academic and Employer Partnerships

Our talk will showcase the close partnership between employers and academic institutions within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. At the heart of these partnerships sits Autodesk, which has a long-standing commitment to assisting educational establishments through training and licensing. In this talk, we will discuss the unique relationship Foster + Partners has forged with Nottingham Trent University (NTU) to develop curriculums and opportunities for students and show how the recipe for success could be shared globally. We’ll showcase the innovative use of Autodesk products, such as Autodesk Construction Cloud, within an educational setting. This session aims to discuss the benefits of nurturing future talent prospects, and ensuring as an industry we are focused on future skill developments that will help push new innovative ideas forward.

101p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Exploring the Dynamo Product Road Map and Vision for the Future

This product briefing will showcase the latest advances in the Dynamo ecosystem, and dive into our new North Star and future vision that’s shaping where we head next. Come learn from Autodesk’s Dynamo product managers about where they’ve been focusing their efforts. This briefing will explore the growth and improvements in Dynamo this year, diving deeply into what has changed and why it matters. We’ll touch upon impactful customer use cases and shed light on Dynamo’s new direction. By strengthening the base, building a cloud-native future, and embracing AI, Dynamo will transform computational design. All these changes seek to dramatically shift the ability for you to have more impact with Dynamo, supercharging your workflows today and tomorrow. Come join us and explore our vision for the future of Dynamo and the steps we’ve both taken and will take to make it a reality.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Data to Intelligent Automation, Integration, & Customization: Building Trusted AI Pipelines for Outcome-Based BIM

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how we design and deliver construction projects. But real innovation begins with data. This session will offer a strategic and technical road map to scaling AI-driven design pipelines for outcome-based BIM, using tools like Autodesk Platform Services. We’ll explore how structured data pipelines, intelligent agents, and modular architectures enable the generation, enrichment, and validation of intelligent models by integrating geometry, constraints, and regulatory metadata. You’ll gain a practical framework for implementing secure, transparent, and scalable workflows that support real-time consistency checks, compliance tracking, and iterative refinement. We’ll also examine how AI impacts productivity, costs, and timelines, while addressing the legal, regulatory, and ethical implications of automating design. Aimed at decision makers, this session will show how AI can augment human expertise, with outcomes driving the model, to support business-aligned innovation in design and construction.

25p

57p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Moving from Revit API Add-Ins to the Design Automation, Integration, & Customization API: A Beginner’s Guide

Traditionally, firms have developed and deployed Revit Add-ins using C# to implement Automation, Integration, & Customizations and custom capabilities in Revit. Autodesk now offers the Automation, Integration, & Customization API, part of the Autodesk Platform Service (APS), which provides access to the Automation, Integration, & Customization capabilities of Autodesk’s core products, including the Revit API. This session will assist developers in transitioning from the Revit API to the Automation, Integration, & Customization API. The Automation, Integration, & Customization API introduces a new workflow that allows developers to access the full Revit DB API without needing a Revit desktop installation. This enables seamless creation, extraction, and modification of Revit data. This workflow facilitates the creation of custom Revit families, data extraction, and more, without the need to open Revit models. We outline from start to finish how to convert a Revit Add-in to Design Automation, Integration, & Customization. This includes using Postman, managing References, Access Tokens, AppBundles, publishing, and running WorkItems.

57p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Carbon Reporting Is Not … Sustainable? The Carbon Cost of Counting Carbon: Rethinking Sustainable Design Workflows.

Despite the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions, many organizations are locked into Sustainable Design reporting processes that ironically generate carbon themselves. Manual data collection, countless spreadsheets, disjointed systems, and repetitive quality checks consume thousands of hours across project teams—a resource-intensive cycle that ultimately undermines the very goals these frameworks aim to achieve. This session will explore the paradox at the heart of today’s carbon reporting commitments, drawing on real-world insights from the collaborative effort of Autodesk and Stantec to streamline carbon workflows. We’ll unpack how the development of an open, automated data architecture—grounded in the ECHO schema—enables scalable, lower-carbon reporting that not only aligns with the AIA 2030 Commitment, SE 2050, and other programs, but actually frees up time and energy for deeper Sustainable Design work. It’s time to reduce the carbon cost of carbon reporting—and this session will show you how.

12p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Early Design Wins: How We Used Autodesk Forma to Accelerate Sustainable Urban Planning

Discover how Autodesk Forma software enabled our team to optimize a large-scale urban development project in its earliest design phases. This session will showcase how we used Forma to simulate daylight, wind, and energy impact in real-time, enabling smarter massing and faster stakeholder alignment. By integrating Forma with Revit software and using environmental analytics early, we shortened iteration cycles, improved design outcomes, and delivered a more sustainable, compliant solution. Whether you're an architect, urban planner, or Project Delivery lead, this session will offer practical workflows to transform your early design process with Forma.

Panel / Nashville 2025

Bricks, Bytes, and Biodiversity: The Future of Building in the Age of AI

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers is transforming not only how we work—but what we need to build. As demand for digital infrastructure accelerates, so do the challenges: energy consumption, embodied carbon, land use, and impacts on nature and biodiversity. For architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals, the question is no longer if we build for AI, but how we do it sustainably. In this panel, industry leaders will explore what the AI and data center boom means for Sustainable Design and the built environment. We’ll unpack the real-world pressures facing designers, planners, and builders—and the strategies they’re using to respond with agility and impact. From site selection and carbon-aware design to the role of cloud collaboration with tools like Autodesk Construction Cloud and Autodesk Forma software, this session will spotlight how Sustainable Design and innovation must work hand in hand as we design the digital world’s physical foundation.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Accelerating Outcome-Based BIM with Podium

This session showcases how Podium is transforming early-stage building design workflows by enabling outcome-based decisions from day one. Attendees will see a demonstration of the Podium platform and it’s integration with Autodesk Forma and Revit. Using the new Podium extension we enable property developers to accelerate pre-concept to schematic design workflows. By embedding supplier-defined product data, cost information, and buildability constraints into the pre-concept and schematic design phases, Podium empowers developers to make faster, more informed decisions—balancing commercial constraints, design, time, Sustainable Design, and constructability. We'll show how Podium's engine enables Industrialized Construction by aligning design intent with DfMA, supplier data, and performance goals for better outcomes. Real-world case studies will illustrate the improvements in speed, cost, Sustainable Design, and standardization.

43p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

AECO Roadmap: Architecture

Designing for impact means designing with agility, insight, and collaboration. In this session, Autodesk product and strategy leaders will share what’s new—and what’s coming next—for architects across Revit, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk’s cloud collaboration tools. Learn how we’re advancing workflows to support early-stage design, performance analysis, documentation, and multidisciplinary coordination. From concept to construction, get a preview of features designed to streamline your process, support Sustainable Design, and unlock creativity.

Meetup / Nashville 2025

BIM & VDC Professionals Meetup

Join us for a collaborative meetup tailored to BIM and VDC professionals
Explore how ISO 19650 is enabling connected data and seamless workflows, and share practical strategies for overcoming implementation challenges; Hear real-world career journeys from BIM professionals who’ve progressed from graduate roles to leadership, offering insights and inspiration for your own path; or dive into BIM/VDC best practices that are shaping more efficient, tech-driven construction.
Whether you're focused on standards, career development, or best practices and future-ready delivery, this session offers a unique space to connect, learn, and grow.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Chaos to Configurations, Be the RULER of them All

Ready to reduce engineering time and get sales quotes and drawings to production faster. Come along for an unexpected but advantageous journey. Ruler is a CAD-neutral sales and design Automation, Integration, & Customization platform designed to streamline and enhance your product configuration and design processes. As one fellowship, Ruler maps the plan to CAD such as Autodesk Inventor and Revit to deliver pristine models and documentation. It offers a suite of tools that can be tailored to meet the needs of various industries, including CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote), CTO (Configure to Order), and ETO (Engineer to Order) business models. Embark on this quest with Ruler, and let it be the guiding light that leads your projects to triumph.

28p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

0 to 100 in Stratus: A Newcomer’s Guide to Setting Up Stratus for Mechanical Contractors

In this class, you’ll learn how to set up and optimize Stratus for mechanical contractors, based on firsthand experience. We’ll cover the essential steps for setting up Stratus from scratch, automating repetitive tasks, and streamlining workflows to improve project efficiency. You’ll gain insights into managing data and generating reports for better decision making, as well as strategies for troubleshooting and resolving issues you may encounter during the setup process. Additionally, we’ll explore techniques to speed up the development process, helping you implement Stratus faster and more effectively on your projects. Whether you’re new to Stratus or looking to enhance your skills, this class will provide valuable lessons from someone who’s recently navigated the process firsthand.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

End-to-End Structural Analysis Workflow with Revit in the BIM Center

In this hands-on lab, you will hear a real-life story of an architect and an engineer collaborating on specific building design. Together, we will walk through the major steps of the structural analysis workflow, and discover the features fostering the most effective use of tools for analytical modeling in Revit. For some steps, we will use customized Dynamo scripts to demonstrate the power of this visual programming tool that enhances the out-of-the-box Revit features with extra capabilities. You’ll learn how to send the analytical model to analysis software, where we will perform some calculations and design checks to experience the modifications of elements. We’ll close the loop by demonstrating the tools for effective version control and changes monitoring to update our Revit model with analysis outcomes and transition the changes from analytical to physical model. This is a full end-to-end workflow flavored with a dose of humor, which we all like and need.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Extending Automated MEP Analysis in Revit 2026

"Revit 2026 introduces powerful new capabilities that transform how MEP designers work. In this session, we’ll explore two major enhancements that give users unprecedented control and flexibility over electrical and mechanical systems. You’ll also learn how to apply Dynamo scripts to automate the task. On the electrical side, we’ll cover the newly introduced user-controllable conductor sizes and cable configuration tools. These updates eliminate long-standing limitations, enabling both imperial and metric workflows with custom logic to automate conductor sizing and assign cables to circuits based on your own standards and rules. On the mechanical side, we’ll showcase a highly requested feature: the ability to override pressure loss coefficients for ducts and pipes. This gives mechanical engineers precise control over pressure drop calculations, ensuring more accurate sizing, balancing, and performance simulations across HVAC and hydronic systems. By the end of this session, attendees will gain insight into how Revit 2026 empowers MEP professionals to create smarter, more adaptable, and globally compliant designs—all from within the native Revit environment. "

53p

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

MEP Content Editor: Fabrication Services and Content Creation Workshop

In this session, we’ll explore Autodesk’s MEP Content Editor, a powerful tool designed to streamline the creation and customization of fabrication components within Revit and AutoCAD workflows. You’ll gain hands-on insights into modifying database-driven parts, adjusting specifications, and optimizing content for enhanced project coordination. We’ll cover best practices for maintaining data consistency, using parametric capabilities, and integrating manufacturer-specific components to ensure accuracy in fabrication modeling. Whether you're a BIM manager, detailer, or engineer, this session will equip you with the skills to efficiently manage and refine MEP fabrication content, improving workflow efficiency and project outcomes.

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