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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.
2p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Beyond Digital Twins: How AI and Engineering Models Are Transforming the Built World
For years, digital twins have been presented as the ultimate goal of digital transformation. But today the conversation has evolved. The real value lies in creating a digital representation of an asset and enabling it to analyze, predict, and support better decisions via artificial intelligence. This session will explore how engineering models, BIM, reality capture, operational data, and AI combine to create intelligent digital ecosystems. We'll examine the evolution from traditional to AI-enabled digital twins. We'll discuss the role of foundation and domain-specific engineering models. And we'll explore how organizations can leverage existing digital assets to unlock new operational insights and automation. This session will provide a practical road map for those seeking to transform engineering and construction data into actionable intelligence. You'll leave with a clear understanding of how AI complements digital twins and how technologies can drive measurable business value throughout the asset lifecycle. 
7p
29p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
AI-Ready Workstations: Powering the Next Generation of Autodesk Workflows in AEC
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the AEC space. Bringing new capabilities to Autodesk applications such as Revit, AutoCAD, Forma, Construction Cloud, and emerging AI-powered design and productivity tools. Realizing the full value of these innovations requires more than software it demands modern, AI-capable hardware. This session explores how workstation architecture, including high-performance CPUs, professional GPUs, dedicated AI accelerators, and optimized memory and storage configurations, enables faster design iteration, intelligent automation, real-time visualization, and enhanced collaboration. Attendees will learn how AI workloads are changing hardware requirements across BIM, CAD, visualization, simulation, and reality capture workflows, and how to future-proof their technology investments. Join us to discover why AI-ready workstations are becoming an essential foundation for the next generation of Autodesk-powered AEC projects.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
ReCap Pro Mesh to Revit Lab: Get Hands-On Structured Mesh and IFC Workflow for Faster Intelligent Modeling
Turning point clouds into reliable BIM inputs is still a challenge for many architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) teams. In this lab, you'll execute a complete, field-tested ReCap Pro workflow that transforms scan data into structured, interoperable mesh models ready for enhanced design and collaboration. Guided by subject matter experts, you'll apply automatic classification to generate clean meshes, standardize outputs using Template Manager, map Revit categories, and export IFC models for downstream BIM use. You'll then use these outputs as modeling references in Revit and validate them through coordination workflows in Navisworks and Model Coordination. Walk away with a repeatable, end-to-end scan-to-BIM process that reduces manual remodeling and accelerates coordination across project teams.
47p
15p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Keep Your Scanner. Unlock Your Point Clouds.
You own a survey-grade scanner. The point clouds it produces sit on a drive, hard to share and useless to anyone who is not a surveyor. This session will show you a different path. See how a point cloud from a Leica, FARO, Trimble, or other scanner becomes a navigable Matterport digital twin, then feeds Autodesk Forma, Revit, AutoCAD, or other design software through the integration your team already uses. You keep the hardware you bought. You make its output usable for the whole project team, not just the person who captured it. Through a live workflow, you'll see Point Cloud Import turn a raw scan into a true 3D model with scan-to-BIM and scan-to-CAD output, and where that model fits against the photo-based documentation tools you may already run. You'll leave able to map your own capture-to-coordination plan and put the scan data you've already paid for to work across design, construction, and closeout.
25p
44p
Panel / Las Vegas 2026
Innovators Stage | From Reality Capture to BIM: Preserving Fallingwater with Autodesk Panel Discussion

Explore how one of the world's most iconic buildings Fallingwater is being preserved for the next century using Autodesk technology. This session will walk through an end-to-end digital preservation workflow from reality capture using LiDAR, drones, and photogrammetry to BIM development in Revit and collaboration in Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud). Learn how integrated data enables deeper insight, supports conservation decisions, and lays the foundation for digital twins. Discover how teams are transforming heritage stewardship through connected workflows, innovation, and scalable digital strategies.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Level Up Your Corridors: Unlocking Advanced Civil 3D Modeling Techniques

Think Civil 3D corridors are just for roads? Time to think again. Corridors have a secret life as high-performance grading machines for infrastructure design. In this technical deep dive, we'll push familiar Civil 3D tools to their limits to solve complex geometry. Through scenarios like cul-de-sacs, knuckles, parking lot grading, and driveway connections, you'll see how dynamic corridor models maintain design control in both site and roadway environments. We'll demonstrate advanced workflows for modeling precision and show how Subassembly Composer extends these possibilities. Gain the expertise to build adaptable models that reduce manual rework and streamline digital delivery for every project.

27p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
From Scans to Decisions: Turning Reality Capture into Actionable Digital Twins with AI
Are your scans just visuals or are they driving real project decisions? Reality capture is widely used, but most workflows stop at geometry, leaving critical insights untapped. This session will demonstrate how to transform scan data into actionable digital twins by integrating Revit, Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud), and asset data workflows. Learn how AI can detect deviations, connect model elements to structured data, and surface insights that influence coordination, cost, and project outcomes. If your scans aren't informing decisions, you're missing their true value. This session will show how to unlock the potential of scanned data and workflow.
14p
34p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
The Scan-to-Build Playbook: The Walsh Group's Success with Autodesk Reality Capture
Join us for an insightful session on how The Walsh Group is transforming construction processes using Autodesk Forma and ReCap Pro reality capture. This session will explore the full journey from initial scanning to the final build phase, showcasing how advanced capture technologies improve accuracy, efficiency, and collaboration. Speakers will demonstrate real-world applications of reality capture within a connected platform, highlighting benefits like enhanced visualization, streamlined workflows, and reduced rework. You'll gain practical information about integrating capture data into Forma to support better decision making and project delivery.
14p
50p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
From Sketch to Toolpath: Reducing Design-to-Manufacturing Time Using Connected Autodesk Workflows
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.
29p
Panel / Las Vegas 2026
From AutoCAD Toolsets to Inventor: Enabling Connected Workflows with Desktop Connector and Autodesk Forma
This session will demonstrate how to connect AutoCAD Electrical electromechanical workflows, AutoCAD Mechanical linked with Inventor software, and factory design workflows for seamless data exchange. Learn how to integrate layouts and models across tools, enabling accurate coordination from schematics to 3D design. Discover how cloud-based solutions like Desktop Connector and Autodesk Forma improve collaboration, maintain data continuity, and reduce rework. Through practical examples, see how connected workflows enhance efficiency and accelerate project delivery.
14p
33p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
How to Build a Business Case for Reality Capture: Insights from the Nation's Biggest Builders
Reality capture technology promises to reduce rework, settle disputes, and give project teams eyes on site without being there. Getting support for this new technology internally can be an uphill battle. In this session, you'll learn what it takes to make a successful business case for reality capture programs from leaders at some of America's biggest construction companies. They'll cover what sparked their search for solutions, what use cases they were targeting, what got them past executive skepticism, and what KPIs they measure. You'll leave with a practical framework for building your own business case, including the specific language, metrics, and project examples that moved the needle with leadership.
Technical Deep Dive / San Diego 2024
ACC Roadmap Workshop: Model Management
The life of a model begins in design, or even in early concept stages, but it extends throughout the project lifecycle. It takes on new shape and functions. It's enriched as it progresses from one team to the next. And it acts as a living representation of the project long after handover. Join us as we discuss ways to break traditional silos between teams and use Autodesk's design and construction solutions to author, prepare, and use models. This interactive workshop presented by our product development team will focus on what's to come in Forma and beyond.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Advanced Bridging in Autodesk Forma
As a virtual design and construction (VDC) manager for a general contractor (GC), one of the largest headaches is making sure your subcontractors get their models uploaded to your Autodesk Forma hub on time, and that they're named correctly and in the right format to make Model Coordination work seamlessly. What if it didn't have to be that way? If your subcontractors also happened to be working in Autodesk Forma, it doesn't have to be. What if they just published their own models internally and all the sharing happened automatically? This class will cover how to use the Bridge tool in Autodesk Forma to enable automatic sharing of models between Autodesk Forma hubs to streamline model coordination. Not only will we cover how to share models from the subcontractor's hub to the GC hub and then on into your coordination NWF, but we'll also show you how to share models from one subcontractor to another to enable direct coordination between subcontractor Revit models.
Technical Deep Dive / Virtual 2020
Automate and Connect Workflows Using Autodesk’s Integrations Ecosystem
At Autodesk, we build solutions that include everything from 3D design, to preconstruction, through build, and into project handover. Customers often use Forma in tandem with advanced construction software and hardware, as well as with everyday software tools such as Microsoft Office 365, Smartsheet, cloud-storage solutions, and data-analytics tools such as Microsoft Power BI. Automating the workflows and data passed through these disparate systems helps keep everyone working with the latest and greatest information, eliminating errors due to siloed data and making collaboration easier on a construction jobsite. This talk will focus on using Autodesk APIs and our integration platform-as-a-service—Forma Connect—to build custom workflows and to connect various technologies together to build a tech stack custom tailored to your needs.
Technical Deep Dive / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Water Infrastructure Projects: BIM Collaborative Workflow with Reality Capture and Forma
This case study will explore the transformative impact of integrating Autodesk products into water infrastructure projects. We’ll highlight how operational efficiency is enhanced, collaboration is streamlined, quality control is maintained, and Project Delivery is facilitated throughout the project lifecycle. By using Autodesk Forma (Forma Data Management, Forma Build, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Revit, Navisworks, and ReCap software), the case study will demonstrate practical applications in three pivotal phases: design, construction, and operations and maintenance (O&M). Through two real-world examples, you’ll gain insights into how these tools work together to optimize project outcomes and ensure seamless integration across different stages.
32p
New Orleans 2022
How Autodesk Forge Makes Life Easier Using Your 4D Project Data
Microsoft Project is a strong scheduling and management tool that’s used all over the construction market world. We’ve implemented an innovative workflow that uploads Microsoft Project data directly into a custom web cloud environment shared between stakeholders with security permissions based on project, schedule option, and user role. This maximizes our current tools and easily brings their users into a cloud-based building information modeling (BIM) environment. The developed custom web site implements the Autodesk Forge platform, which connects uploaded data in the cloud with 3D modeling, boosting the information into a new visual format. This workflow has greatly shortened the time it takes to get updates to the 4D dimension of a BIM project and has increased the benefits of its implementation.
Technical Deep Dive / Nashville 2025
Why Digital Prototyping Integrations Fail: Building a Data Model for Operational Success
Digital Prototypings often fail not because of technology, but due to misalignment between data and operational reality. In this session, we’ll explore what goes wrong when Digital Prototypings are handed over to FM teams, and we’ll present a tested solution: a facility template and data model built for real-world operations, with a focus on Sustainable Design and insights enabled by artificial intelligence (AI). Developed using Autodesk Tandem software and integrated with Planon, the template supports both short- and long-term operational needs. You’ll learn how we moved beyond COBie by using data models to define information requirements that support lifecycle management, while ensuring Sustainable Design metrics are captured and used for AI-driven decisions. We’ll also examine why Digital Prototypings are disruptors, highlighting knowledge gaps, process flaws, and data ownership issues. This session will provide a framework to rethink how you capture, structure, and deliver building data—not just for project closeout, but for long-term operational value.
Technical Deep Dive / Virtual 2020
Drone Surveying: Field to Finish
Have you struggled with, “what do I do now that I have a point cloud?” It is a common question in the infrastructure industry. There’s an abundance of software that will assist in the post processing of point clouds into a working/usable format. If you have the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection, you have all you need. Using a "real-world infrastructure project," this class will walk you through the step-by-step process of post processing drone-collected photogrammetric data. Using products available within your AEC Collection (ReCap Photo software, ReCap Pro software, InfraWorks software, and Civil 3D software) surveyors and designers will be able to generate a working existing-condition drawing.
Technical Deep Dive / Las Vegas 2015
Exchange That Data—AutoCAD Map 3D to AutoCAD Utility Design and Back
This class will discuss and demonstrate the concepts of using AutoCAD Utility Design software's Data Exchange (DX) functionality. Using DX, we can attach to feature data object (FDO) and industry model geographic information system (GIS) data stores to pull as-built data into an AutoCAD Utility Design project to be used as the basis for that design. DX enables us to create mappings between our external data store and the internal AutoCAD Utility Design industry model and this mapping is used when importing and exporting data. During this class we will connect to a job-enabled AutoCAD Map 3D software electric industry model, map its feature classes to our AutoCAD Utility Design feature classes, and import data. We will then edit some of those features, remove some of those features, and create new AutoCAD Utility Design features and export that data back into an AutoCAD Map 3D software job. Finally, we will look at the imported data in AutoCAD Map 3D software.
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