Have you ever wanted to explore using more-advanced technology in your firm? This class will show how you can rise above all the day-to-day technology that’s used within your firm and focus and use advanced technology in the industry. Advanced technology is anything that is not used in your firm's office on a daily basis, but that could be hugely beneficial to your firm for specific tasks such as job proposals, design competitions, or even small-production support. This is only possible by getting the right teams at your office and the partners involved early. This requires you to rethink how your office is structured and how your firm will need to redefine another level of management at the advanced technology level. So, what are you waiting for? If you ever wanted to take advantage of all the exciting advanced technology out there but didn't know where to start, then keep an open mind and attend this class. This class will focus on advanced tech used in and around 3D in architecture, engineering, and construction.

The introduction of visual programming tools in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has introduced a generation of building professionals to coding. Architects, engineers, contractors, and owners are changing their own workflows by mass-producing custom scripts, and in the process, they’re learning programming languages and methods. The result is often drastically increased productivity and a sense of user ownership to design processes. Sometimes it breaks and sometimes it crashes, but once you go down the rabbit hole, there’s no turning back. Yet, many who want to start, struggle with finding the right projects, teams, leaders, workflows, and even tools to turn coding into value. And many leaders are trying to figure out how to scale the abilities and knowledge of one or two coders to an entire organization. This talk will address both perspectives, and help designers and managers in achieving what we all want: better and faster designs, while having more fun.

While it’s certainly not surprising that the cloud-computing market got a major boost due to the pandemic, what’s stunning is just how much. According to market-intelligence firm CB Insights, investors have spent nearly $3 billion on cloud-computing funding between April and June in 2020. Many companies were already on a path to digitization and digitalization, but COVID-19 sped up the acceleration of cloud technologies as billions of people were forced to work remotely. Months later, after the dust settled from everyone's efforts to react, cope, and build resilience, one promising silver lining of the pandemic is that it’s opening doors to new and innovative business models and ways of working. In this panel, executives from NVIDIA, Ansys, Advance2000, Symetri, and Autodesk will discuss the opportunities and challenges of the acceleration to cloud and platform solutions and why they believe digital transformation will lead to better and longer-lasting prospects in the future. Hear from Bob Pette from NVIDIA, Chris France from Advance2000, Eric Bantegnie from Ansys, Nick John from Symetri, and Autodesk CIO Prakash Kota.

This interactive class focuses on tools and workflow to help you get the best results from your HP Designjet printer. We present an overview of print management and cover calibration of both monitor and printer, file submission, and troubleshooting tips. We will show several examples that can help you be more creative with your Designjet. Past attendees have said that what they learned in this class has helped them save time and money and win new business.

In today's ultra-competitive market, executing a good strategic plan makes the difference between being out in front or just keeping pace with the competition. All too often those great, well thought out plans stumble during execution because they were poorly understood or poorly communicated downstream. Who takes the blame for that? You do. Here's how to save time, save money, and save frustration: If you understand where your company is headed and how they want to get there (i.e., their strategic plan) then identifying how to support it is much easier. This class gives technology managers, like you, a basic set of tools for developing strategic plans for their teams that align with and support the overall goals of the firm. And, hopefully along with that, you can show the folks up the ladder that you understand the bigger picture and your role in it.

Are you responsible for CAD standards but frustrated because users ignore them? Ever feel like your senior management doesn't back you up on enforcing standards? If so, you are not alone. In this class, you will learn a methodology for identifying what to standardize, concepts for standardizing your CAD programs, how to use server-based standards management to eliminate managing individual machines and laptops, how to document your standards for training, plus more. Along the way, we will maintain a ruthless focus on how standards save users time and the company money to help you sell users and senior management alike on the benefits of standards. If you need to get your standards under control, but have been frustrated by the process, this class is a must.

This roundtable session is a prelude discussion to the class BO2858: One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Autodesk® PLM 360 Implementation: Sprint to the Finish. In this session, we expand on the case study presented in the lecture, diving deeper into the discussion and examples from the speakers and attendees on what the implementation process will be like and sharing potential ways to accelerate the process. These discussions focus on how to plan for PLM implementation and what unique considerations participants should watch out for. We also explore industry examples on how to improve cross-functional teamwork and global collaboration, as well as process and data optimization with innovative implementation use cases. If you are considering implementing Autodesk PLM 360 cloud-based software or are just about to begin, this in-depth discussion can help you prepare for your experience and give you the customized and personalized knowledge to prepare ahead and accelerate the process.

Autodesk, Inc., licensing expert Jerry Milana has helped hundreds of companies implement, troubleshoot, and maintain Autodesk license management systems over the last 20-plus years. Jerry will share proven, successful concepts that will save your company money and spare you headaches. Starting the license manager and getting the applications to the desktop are important first steps; but there is more to responsible software-asset management. Ongoing management is needed if you want to keep the help desk quiet and maximize your company’s software investment. This course will help you understand the tools and techniques available to you and the compelling reasons to implement them.