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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Building a BIM & GIS Foundation for Digital Prototypings in Enterprise-Scale Operations

How do you turn 20 years of fragmented, paper-based facility documentation into a powerful operational decision-making tool? Join The Kraft Group and Symetri as they unpack the strategy, technology, and value behind their development of a Digital Prototyping that spans BIM and GIS for Gillette Stadium and beyond. Leveraging Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D, and ACC for model development and project delivery, this program federates BIM and other data sources and integrates with an ArcGIS-powered environment to support everything from security planning to energy management. Attendees will learn how the Autodesk ecosystem is being used to enforce data standards, and drive coordination across departments. Discover how BIM content is repurposed as operational datasets, delivering value far beyond design and construction, and how spatial context was added using GIS integration for wayfinding, event planning, and more. You'll also hear how The Kraft Group made the business case for long-term investment in Autodesk and ESRI technologies by capturing value early and often. This session is perfect for facility owners, architects, and consultants looking to evolve their BIM workflows into Digital Prototypings with real-world operational impact.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Revolutionize Your Civil Projects: An Forma Blueprint for Effective Civil 3D Collaboration

We will take you through Verkís's journey of transitioning its Civil 3D project at Keflavík International Airport to Autodesk Forma. This presentation will serve as a comprehensive manual for managing Civil 3D projects in the cloud. We'll explore the specifics of how Verkís orchestrated its project folder structure, and we'll look at the bridges the company recommends establishing between your Autodesk Forma and that of your clients. We will share Verkís's experiences with Desktop Connector, explain how data shortcuts function in a cloud environment, and demonstrate how you can maximize the potential of Sheet Set Manager to improve drawing production. Additionally, we'll discuss strategies for managing review processes, as well as project deliveries. Whether you're considering moving your Civil 3D projects to Autodesk Forma but are uncertain about what to anticipate, or you've begun the process but became overwhelmed and unsure about the optimal way to organize your cloud projects, this session was designed for you.

54p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Civil Infrastructure - Unlock the Power of Automation in Project Management

For years, Topcon has been at the forefront of automating blade control and machine control systems. Today, we are integrating and automating traditional manual workflows to enhance project controls. These innovations are made accessible through intuitive dashboards, providing valuable project insights. Construction companies utilize multiple technology tools for project delivery efficiency. These tools focus on executing tasks and are not easily integrated into an overall project technology ecosystem, creating manual data management and project inefficiencies. Today, a new environment of open APIs has changed how data can be exchanged utilizing automation. Join industry experts that will share their experiences and perspectives on the common field-to-office exchanges, emphasizing heavy civil construction, connecting updated schedules and designs with machines through automated workflows.

50p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Automating the Future with Build: Real-World Forma Applications on Dubai’s $2 billion mega exhibition facility & Palm Jumeriah

Discover how cutting-edge construction technology is transforming project delivery in the Middle East. This session will highlight the role of Autodesk Forma (ACC) in streamlining data collection, enhancing transparency, and improving collaboration and analysis on site. Gain insights into how Khansaheb Civil Engineering a leading UAE construction company is leveraging Automation, Integration, & Customization between CDEs on a $2 billion mega exhibition facility in Dubai and explore how data from its Palm Jumeirah projects is powering customized, automated dashboards, reports, and registers; tailored for both internal teams and external stakeholders. Join us to learn practical strategies for using Power BI to align ACC-extracted data to overcome coordination bottlenecks, address operational challenges, and maintain clear, current, and concise reporting without the need for manual input.

54p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Project Delivery at Scale: Leveraging Forma, APS and Smart Workflows for Megaproject Success

What does it take to successfully deliver a mega project with thousands of models, multiple stakeholders and complex coordination needs? Drawing from AtkinsRéalis’ extensive experience in delivering large-scale frameworks, this session offers proven strategies for managing Project Delivery at scale. Learn to develop a robust digital strategy for mega projects, from standardized project environment setup and information exchange frameworks to multidisciplinary coordination workflows. Explore how Autodesk Forma (ACC), Autodesk Platform Services (APS), ACC Connect, Data Exchange and the Autodesk Validation Tool (AVT) enable seamless collaboration, streamline design review and synchronize project-wide data for quality assurance, coordination, construction (4D), costing (5D) and carbon analytics (6D). Gain practical insights into managing multi-level collaboration and walk away with actionable strategies for implementing data driven solutions in complex, large-scale projects.

17p

48p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

AI-Ready AEC: Building a Smart Digital Foundation with Autodesk and Egnyte

The promise of AI in architecture, engineering, and construction is immense—but without a solid foundation of structured, governed, and secure data, that promise quickly crumbles. In this session, we’ll explore how Autodesk Forma (Forma) tools, when paired with Egnyte’s AI-powered platform, provide a unified, intelligent, and secure digital environment that supports both project delivery and firm-wide data strategy. Learn how Egnyte natively integrates with Forma to provide seamless data governance, intelligent search, and sensitive data classification—all critical for unlocking reliable AI insights. We’ll demonstrate how to centralize project and business data, clean up ROTs (redundant, obsolete, and trivial files), and prepare your firm’s content for AI use cases. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for assessing AI readiness and adopting AI tools responsibly, using the “3Ps”: Practical, Purposeful, and Private.

44p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Clash Review 4.0: Revolutionizing Modeling with Forma, Navisworks, Autodesk Workshop XR, and Beyond!

Step into the future of Modeling with Clash Review 4.0, where Automation, Integration, & Customization and immersive technologies transform clash detection and issue tracking. Discover how to use the Autodesk Forma Modeling module to streamline workflows and enhance collaboration. We'll explore seamless integration with Navisworks Manage and the Coordination Issues Add-In, bridging cloud and desktop environments. Drawing from real-world project examples, we'll share lessons learned in managing complex geometries, multidiscipline collaboration, and large model sets. Learn to handle high-clash volumes and customize issue filters to prioritize critical tasks. Experience the advanced workflow integrating Autodesk Workshop XR for virtual reality (VR) clash reviews. We'll also explore augmented reality (AR) technologies to minimize Project Delivery pitfalls on the jobsite. Leave equipped with strategies to boost clarity, accountability, and coordination speed across teams.

29p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Making your construction schedule actionable

Workplans are at the center of every construction project, and are key to understanding how value is going to be delivered to the customer. Yet, they tend to exist in isolation, disconnected from the rest of project information and the master schedules from which they are derived. One of the biggest causes of productivity loss is the poor communication of the tasks scheduled to complete the job right the first time. What if you could create a truly connected experience between master schedule milestones and workplans to deliver the most efficient sequence of work? What if you could make the workplan a guide that filters the work that has to be done next for project delivery for efficient project execution? BAM will share how its digital approach to work planning delivers value to project stakeholders. The Autodesk product team collaborating with BAM will showcase the digitized, collaborative, and connected schedule experience within Forma Build.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

A Platform for Success: Streamlining the Design Process and Increasing Industrialization Through Platform Design

Using our Autodesk suite to reshape our design process and owning our IP has enabled sustainable scaling and the delivery of large pipelines of work for central government using off-site construction methods. This success has led to a 300% increase in our manufacturing capacity in the last three years, while maintaining client satisfaction with the quality of our design and project delivery. We'll explain how this has been achieved through repeatable and continuously improved designs, supported by Forma Build and Forma Data Management software. In the second half of this talk, the focus will shift toward the potential of Autodesk Informed Design software and how it can facilitate a platform design through the development of subassemblies, ultimately supporting off-site construction by maximizing productivity and improving quality through increased industrialization.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

GeoTripping: Your Guided Journey Through ArcGIS GeoBIM and Autodesk Forma

Embark on a hands-on “GeoTrip”—a practical journey into integrating GIS and BIM data using ArcGIS GeoBIM and Autodesk Forma (ACC). This session equips attendees with workflows and tools to connect spatial and design data for deeper project insights. Participants will explore how integrated GeoBIM environments enhance decision-making, support more accurate coordination, and improve communication across project teams. We’ll dive into visualizing design and geolocation data together, enabling Digital Prototyping development, real-time issue tracking, and project transparency. Attendees will also see how Revit and Civil 3D models and data are linked to GIS features, enabling spatially contextualized coordination and analysis. The session will also cover how connecting Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and model data lays the foundation for future AI applications, empowering owners and stakeholders with AI-ready, lifecycle-aware project environments.

32p

24p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012

Best Practices for Coordinating Multiple Disciplines and the Use of Multiple Software Products on BIM and IPD Projects

Sharing CAD and Building Information Modeling (BIM) data with project team members who are outside of your organization has its challenges. If outside team members are using software packages that are different than yours, the challenges are multiplied. In this class, we will discuss methods and best practices that you can put in place to help make the data-sharing process go a bit smoother. We will also cover best practices for working on a project that uses integrated project delivery (IPD) and only Autodesk® Revit® software among multidiscipline team members, including taking full advantage of the live model for coordination. We will go from the initial project team kickoff meeting, through "in-progress" coordination meetings, and finally through project delivery.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

How to Bridge the Gap

As a manufacturer and installer of structural glazing products, custom designed and assembled in an automated factory, Starline Windows is uniquely positioned to work with developers and architects directly within the Revit environment. This creates many advantages and challenges in working across organizations and various internal departments. I have worked extensively with Autodesk and their Partners to implement a design process at Starline Windows that represents our product to the highest level of excellence within our shop drawings, while simultaneously creating machine data files and material managment information. I will share my experience in identifying oportunities for digital transformation and process improvement, and I will speak to implementing change across organizational boundaries. I will discuss how to bridge from a modeling environment to a data centric solution while still maintaining a "data entry once" approach for efficient, agile project delivery.

10p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Development of Object Library and CDE Infrastructure with Forma for the New Era of Tokaido Shinkansen Maintenance Management

The Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed Japanese rail line excels globally in safety, punctuality, and frequency. This project aims to transform infrastructure maintenance using BIM. Although Japan rail owners are adopting BIM, efforts remain siloed across teams and lack integrated optimization. Rail maintenance requires ongoing inspection, diagnosis, action, and documentation. Seamless data handover is essential to reducing lifecycle costs, but information often stays locked in noninteroperable systems. JR Central addressed this by piloting a common data environment and object library for embankments, following ISO 19650-based information management. Interoperability was ensured through openBIM standards such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary), which unify object definitions and data formats. Revit and Autodesk Forma, powerful BIM tools, were also adopted to enhance authoring consistency and collaborative workflows. This initiative unlocks a new era in infrastructure maintenance—firmly grounded in interoperability.

46p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Digital Project Delivery: The Keystone to a Sustainable Built Environment

Sustainable Design is a pipe dream if you cannot accurately predict, model, and monitor your building’s content and energy usage. Without digital project delivery focused on the specific needs of the building end use—not the needs of national or international standards—we cannot even begin to accurately and predictably lower the energy used by and embodied within our built assets. By using products such as Autodesk Forma alongside traditional delivery tools such as Revit and Civil 3D software, the Buro Happold Information Management team are driving Sustainable Design without uttering the word. By breaking BIM down into its constituent parts, we’re able to work with our clients to create a project data standard that takes the guesswork out of designing, building, and operating a building—and feeds the future by ensuring that we have a stock of buildings that can tell us how good our decisions were and if they’re operating as we hoped they would.

33p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

ROI or Die: Scaling Project Delivery with Global Standards in the AEC Industry

Management without standardization is just digital chaos. This session will reframe ROI not as a one-time win, but as a scalable outcome of globally governed Project Delivery. Learn how enterprise-level programs are using frameworks like Global Facility Standards (GFS) to drive consistency across regions, improve data reuse, and reduce digital friction. We’ll walk through a three-phase maturity model that shows how organizations progress from isolated tech success to global digital repeatability. You’ll also see how our team connects Autodesk Forma, dashboards, and governed QA workflows into a system that has reduced issue closure time by 60% and accelerated project handover. This is not a session about tools—it’s about operationalizing proof at scale.

11p

31p

Meetup / Nashville 2025

AECO Community Meetup - Workflow Wednesdays Live

Curious how your peers are accelerating project delivery and solving real-world BIM and CAD challenges? Join us for Workflow Wednesdays Live — an open, high-energy meetup where Autodesk users come together to swap tips, share wins, and get inspired. Originally launched as a weekly office hours session for AEC professionals, this meetup invites everyone to experience the community-driven format that’s helped dozens of firms build better designs, faster.
Whether you’re a BIM manager, CAD lead, or just passionate about workflow improvement, come connect with like-minded professionals facing the same goals and roadblocks. Expect organic conversations, cross-discipline ideas, and war stories from the front lines of digital project delivery — with zero slides and 100% peer value.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Accelerate Project Delivery: Standardizing Cloud-Connected BIM Coordination

The team of WSP Canada has developed a highly integrated workflow, combining the best of Revit Cloud Worksharing, Design Collaboration, and Model Coordination to optimize the collaboration and coordination workflows. An integrated workflow has been developed on the largest projects, covering both industrial, linear infrastructure, and building projects. Covering 10 to 500 project members working simultaneously, 7,500 model versions are shared with up to 125 task teams during a single project lifetime. All project members are informed of the status of the collaboration and coordination and presented with a uniform coordination overview, all fully automated. Finally, all parts of the workflow were analyzed, documented, and are now standardized. These are made available for use on every new project within WSP globally. The workflow has helped BIM (Building Information Modeling) managers to become 80% more productive and design teams to speed up project execution and enable faster and better project communication.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2020

Scaling Forma in an Enterprise

Are you curious how a 96-year-old company innovates? Today, the amount of new technology available can be overwhelming to organizations—from point solutions that solve one problem to platforms that require strategy around deployment. Barton Malow faced many of those challenges when overhauling software solutions. In this session, we will walk through the journey that Barton Malow took to modernize and transform business development through project operations. We'll lay out the techniques that the firm used to scale deployment of tools like BIM 360 software, BuildingConnected, and Assemble software. We will also cover how to cultivate a "super user" base to scale within an enterprise for success. In this class we’ll uncover best practices deployed to transform enterprise tools, including capitalizing on Microsoft Teams and learning management systems, and we’ll discuss metrics that are lighthouses informing Barton Malow how to scale Forma.

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.

New Orleans 2022

Giant Steps: Advances in Seamless BIM, CAD, and GIS Integration

Learn from the product managers how the Autodesk and Esri partnership is advancing design and geographic information system (GIS) collaboration that benefits the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner/operators industry. The intersection of building information modeling (BIM), CAD, and GIS provides incredible insights to enhance project delivery at every level. The functionality between Autodesk and Esri desktops, and collaborative web applications like ArcGIS GeoBIM, are improving workflows and transparency for project teams. The improvements in direct support for RVT, DWG™, and IFC in ArcGIS Pro, and support for hosted GIS feature service in Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, AutoCAD Map 3D software, and AutoCAD software help bring together design and GIS data. The direct cloud connection between Autodesk Forma and ArcGIS Online/Enterprise offers exponential benefits to help manage the project content for stakeholders. The ability to publish Autodesk data directly to ArcGIS Online/Enterprise for use in shared web and field applications expands the value of the data far beyond the design professionals.

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