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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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Delivering Digital Business Case for Change & Predicted ROI. Saving £4.5m
Imagine asking your board for one of the largest digital investments to date operating as a leading UK contractor in an industry well known for slow digital uptake. We put forward our business case three years ago predicating a 20% productivity gain. Our deployment of Forma Design Collaboration is one of our most successful digital transformation projects, with 46+ projects and 1,400+ users engaged. A recent study across our multidisciplinary stakeholders comprising of architects, designers, supply chain, and a variety of general contractor staff has shown that 85% of users confirmed improved collaboration across all functions, team members, and functions; 91% of users confirmed improved visibility and understanding of design information; 77% confirmed the technology has improved design productivity and efficiency; and 86% would recommend the use of the tools to others. We will share details on how we built our business case and predictions, and how we delivered on this to create change in the industry.
16p
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
Streamlining Interoperability: Rhino, Grasshopper, and Revit in a Seamless World
This session will explore how Rhino and Grasshopper software—when integrated into Revit software through the Rhino.Inside.Revit technology—can streamline interoperability and unlock powerful parametric BIM workflows. By bridging the gap between computational design and BIM environments, you’ll learn how to harness the flexibility of Rhino and Grasshopper within Revit to automate geometry translation, manage complex data structures, and enhance design-to-documentation workflows. Through real-world examples and live demonstrations, this session will focus on practical strategies for integrating design intent seamlessly into the BIM ecosystem of Revit. Whether you're working on early-stage concept models or coordinating detailed building systems, this session will show how to use Rhino.Inside.Revit to create more-efficient, responsive, and intelligent BIM workflows that reduce manual work and improve collaboration across disciplines.
23p
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.
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
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Innovators Stage | From Disaster Recovery to Future-Ready Design: Building on a Legacy of Innovation, Resilience, and Management
WAM & Autodesk have built a worldclass partnership centred on technology, resilience, & innovation in the built environment. AU23 AECO Keynote showcased how our collaboration shaped the recovery of Christchurch. Heke Rua Archives represents the next evolution: a proactive, future-ready design model, integrating cutting-edge seismic resilience, Digital Prototyping technology, & cloud-based infrastructure to futureproof our national taonga for 100yrs. This isn’t about recovery; it’s about anticipating, designing for, & adapting to the challenges ahead. The WAM Autodesk partnership began with a response to disaster—but now, we have the opportunity to design for the future before disaster strikes through technology driven design and operations. Heke Rua Archives is the platform to elevate our collaboration, demonstrating how AI, Digital Prototypings, BIM, and cloud technology can create a new paradigm for resilience, Sustainable Design, and cultural preservation.
Panel / Nashville 2025
God Is in the Details: Rethinking Sustainable Design Through Building Practice
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe famously said, “God is in the details.” In sustainable architecture, the impact of thoughtful detailing is more critical than ever. While bold goals shape early design, it’s the resolution of assemblies, continuity of documentation, and firm standards that ultimately drive performance. This panel will bring together envelope experts and practice technologists from small, mid-sized, and large firms to discuss how workflows, standards, and tools are evolving to support sustainable outcomes. Panelists—including D.TO, architects, a BIM manager, and an Autodesk expert—will share real-world challenges, from inaccessible detail libraries to BIM limitations, and we’ll explore how technology is starting to close those gaps. We’ll examine how platforms like Revit software, emerging artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, and context-aware detailing tools are transforming envelope design—aligning performance, precision, and Sustainable Design through smarter practices and better delivery.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Automating a Complex Revit Bridge Model with Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Informed Design
This session will outline a workflow for creating a Revit model of a steel composite cable stay bridge by using a combo of Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Informed Design for Inventor software. Modeling a bridge structure poses challenges due to its complex geometry, which adheres to a vertical, horizontal, and super-elevated roadway profile. Consequently, the steel girders, beams, and connection details must align with this 3D roadway profile, complicating the creation and placement of Revit families. For this challenge, COWI used Grasshopper and Dynamo to automate the creation of steel geometry, parameters, and insertion points, ensuring accurate orientation for family placement. Additionally, Informed Design was used to transform various iterations of intricate steel connections into families, which were then positioned using a Dynamo workflow. The integration of visual programming and Informed Design has been vital in efficiently producing complex bridge structures with a focus on Automation, Integration, & Customization.
61p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Intro to Using BIM and Digital Prototypings
This will be an introduction to how MEP design consultants can contribute to Digital Prototyping workflows in building projects. We’ll highlight lessons learned and best practices for managing and exchanging data throughout the project lifecycle using BIM tools.
9p
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
Accurate Design Intent Modeling for Steel Structures in Revit
Join this hands-on lab at Autodesk University to discover how Revit 2026 software empowers structural engineers to enhance their BIM workflows and accurately model steel structures that are ready for construction and coordination. Participants will create a design intent model using the new point-to-point modeling workflow and enrich it with steel connections from the Autodesk Content Catalog. The lab will cover tips and tricks for modeling accurately, focusing on how to avoid common mistakes and prepare models for downstream use. Additionally, you’ll learn how to use Revit software’s Coordination Model to identify clashes with architectural or MEP systems, thereby improving QA/QC and collaboration with detailers and fabricators. Whether you're transitioning from 2D or seeking to enhance your Revit steel workflows, this session will equip you with the hands-on skills needed to model with confidence.
30p
16p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
The Sustainable Symphony: Orchestrate Complexity with BIM and AI

In this session, discover how Chabanne used granular data, advanced BIM methodologies, and Automation, Integration, & Customization driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to design the Nîmes Convention Center (France)—across multidisciplinary and international teams—a project that harmonizes a historical site with sustainable innovation. Explore how Modeling, clash detection, and cloud collaboration facilitated the integration of complex facades and eco-friendly materials within a heritage context. Learn how Data Management and scripted workflows enhanced compliance checks and streamlined decision making across multidisciplinary teams. This case study illustrates how intelligent data and collaborative technologies can drive sustainable architecture while honoring the past.

70p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
WSP Canada's Journey to Success Using BIM for Bridges
As infrastructure projects become increasingly complex, the adoption of BIM for bridge design and construction has become essential. This session will provide a deep dive into our organization’s BIM journey, showcasing how we transitioned from traditional design workflows to an integrated digital approach. We’ll discuss the challenges we faced, the solutions we implemented, and the innovations we developed to optimize collaboration, accuracy, and efficiency in bridge modeling. Demonstrating the evolution of our methodology, we’ll highlight our progression from manual modeling to parametric workflows using Civil 3D, Revit, and Dynamo—and ultimately to advanced modeling with Revit, including in-house developed add-ins, Dynamo, and SOFiSTiK Bridge and Infrastructure Modeler. You’ll gain valuable insights into best practices, software interoperability, and the future of BIM on infrastructure projects.
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Getting the Most Out of Bridge, Forma Design Collaboration, and Model Coordination: The Contractor Perspective
Miron Construction has been using BIM 360 software and the Autodesk Forma platform for several years now, and has gained valuable experience on how best to set up the building information modeling (BIM) coordination process using all the features of Autodesk Forma, Navisworks, and Revit software. We will lay out how using cloud-based workshared models that are bridged to and from multiple sites, Forma Design Collaboration licensing, and controlled scheduled publishing can bring efficiencies to your BIM coordination workflow. We'll also demonstrate the benefits of operating in a high-trust environment where subcontractors and architects work side by side on each other's sites.
54p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
A Transformational Journey on Rails: Better Outcomes for Passengers
Luxembourg railway owner began its digital transformation journey in 2017, improving quality and efficiency for construction projects through cloud-based project delivery. There are many main subjects for asset management, including maintenance building, earthworks platform, permanent way, overhead lines, signaling, and telecommunications. One specific aspect to the country is to have external project design offices and many subcontractors, using multidisciplinary design management based on Autodesk technologies, including Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor, InfraWorks, and Forma Design Collaborationducts. The geographical aspect is taken into consideration through connected building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS). During this class, you will discover why a common data environment platform and products ecosystem save time and information for the delivery plan, and support supply chains, and how process owner mandates can be imposed on local markets, and what solutions are found to develop a business model dedicated to railway infrastructure.
225p
New Orleans 2022
GIS and BIM Integration Influences Digital Transformation
Blending data types improves visibility into all aspects of the project outside of the model attributes. Grounding the model into the coordinates enables access for stakeholders, which particularly benefits the client. In the design phase, the interface of building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS) data allows all disciplines to review the most current design proposals outside of more traditional methods. Civil, planning, environmental, site investigation, and ecology can visualize the impacts from multiple disciplines, which improves the decisions involving the final design. Publishing BIM data into GIS dynamically integrates BIM content and removes any manual handling and exchange of data. The process reduces the requirement of an additional resource for the project, and saves up to 70% efficiency across project collaboration.
New Orleans 2022
BIM and the Friendly Skies
How does the world's fifth-largest airport manage its capital improvement program using building information modeling (BIM)? Through various project delivery methods and contracts, the owner mandates the use of Revit software and Autodesk Forma. This panel session will discuss the digital transformation happening within the capital improvement program at an international airport. We’ll cover how owners, contractors, architects, engineers, and trade partners all work together to collaborate with their intelligent models in the cloud. We’ll have an open dialogue about lessons learned and what improvements can be made in the future. We’ll will focus on the use of design models, trade models, coordination models, owner-mandated metadata, and the BIM execution plans.
New Orleans 2022
Going Full-Blown 5D BIM in the Largest MEP Project in Sweden's History
Bravida is a 100-year-old mechanical and electrical installations contractor that has fully embraced building information modeling (BIM) and tools in the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection, along with cloud technologies such as Forma Design Collaboration and Autodesk Forge, to achieve significant cost and time savings for the firm. This includes an ROI of 87% through implementation of Revit software and Dynamo. Digitalization is the future of the building and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) industry, with BIM technology evolving every year. Bravida is innovating by putting design in the center of stakeholder management and enriching it with multidimensional data such as time management, procurement, logistics, cost estimation, and work orders. These are modeled in Autodesk Forge via Forma Design Collaboration along with 3D parametrical BIM that’s empowered using multiple different authoring software within the AEC Collection. This session is good for any BIM enthusiast wanting to see a real-life example of a mature yet humble, sophisticated yet easy way to develop a BIM platform.
New Orleans 2022
Beyond a Pretty Scan - Collaborate & Document with Matterport
Beyond simply digitizing buildings, Matterport’s digital twins are visually immersive, interactive 3D scans that connect teammates and stakeholders between offices and job sites directly to the computer in front of you. In this class, we’ll discuss how teams utilize Matterport solutions to jumpstart and streamline workflows starting from concept design, throughout construction, all the way to handover, warranty, and beyond. We’ll demonstrate the depth of Matterport’s documentation and collaboration tools as well as showcase our direct to Revit Scan-to BIM process! Take this opportunity to get a sneak peek at Matterport’s future offerings and integrations with Autodesk.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Application of Autodesk Forma in the Largest Airport Construction Project in Latin America
Do you want to learn more about how Autodesk Forma helps with building information modeling (BIM) management for the largest airport in Latin America? This class is for you! We'll delve into the implementation process of Autodesk Forma at Jorge Chavez International Airport (Lima, Peru), which is the best airport in the region. This project will contribute to positioning Peru as an important international connection center in South America, promoting the country's development. We'll show you how to use Autodesk Forma in the engineering phase of this project using BIM methodology and cloud collaboration. We'll cover the use of Forma Design Collaboration, Forma Data Management for project model management, and interference detection. Without a doubt, this experience will be a milestone in South America.
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