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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 / 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.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Why the Cloud Is the Perfect Companion for Structural Steel Experts

This class will introduce a wide range of Autodesk cloud-based tools, from quick exchanges with the shared views feature for 3D models and 2D documentation to Forma Design Collaboration (formerly BIM 360 Design software) for multiteam collaboration. Learn about how connecting workflows, teams, and data can reduce risk, minimize rework, and maximize efficiency when designing and detailing a steel structure.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Change Won't Happen If We Wait For Someone Else, So Let's Make The Digital Twin Future A Reality, TOGETHER!

Hazen has a strong vision for digital twin technology in the Water industry and we have multiple projects and clients where we are pushing this narrative. From HRSD SWIFT Research Facility with Revit and GeoBIM integration, to Aurora Water BIM-based digital twin project using Autodesk Tandem, and several other large greenfield projects where Hazen is using ACC Design, Build, and Operate solutions. We focus heavily on asset management and operational user cases with high impact and credible visuals, client feedback, and clear values. This also includes our virtual digital twin in Tandem that uses Postman to stream SCADA-type data to Tandem Connect and Tandem Streams to show the future of Tandem, and Info360 Plant for process modeling and analysis for a new greenfield project integrated with Tandem and all things ACC. We will tell the story of why Hazen is putting our name out there for these Autodesk tools and demonstrate why we feel they are important to the future of protecting water.

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 Forma 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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Forma Design Collaboration: ACCelerating Distributed Team Workflows

The cloud-based collaboration services, Autodesk BIM Collaborate & Forma Design Collaboration, are enabling teams to gain efficiencies through an integrated model, document management, and review solution, providing permission-enriched workflows, allowing teams to execute projects with unprecedented efficiency, access, and control for team integration. We will highlight the evolving possibilities provided by these Autodesk services, all managed through a web interface and mobile applications. Looking at the functionality that each service module brings to the project, we will walk through common project workflows and discuss the best approach for migrating your next project to the cloud. As one of the leading consumers of Autodesk Forma services, with over 4,000 active projects, we will share our success and challenges along the way.

12p

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

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Configure - Plan - Fabricate -Build | Sustainable Fabrication Workflows for Timber Buildings

Sustainability and cost efficiency for residential building is more important than ever. We will present with our customer Haas an integrated workflow from the configurator, an automated detailed design process in Revit to fabrication and the construction site. This digital process allows prospects to visually configure and calculate any residential or family timber house. These visualization of the customer's request via the house configurator leads to a faster and high-quality discussion with the customer. Seamless transition from configuration to design in Autodesk Revit ensures that no extra detail design work must be carried out manually. That model is transferred into the fabrication process and finally all data is leveraged via BIM360/ACC BUILD on construction sites for project and quality management and daily logs.

Instructional Demo / 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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Autodesk Forma Meets GPT: A Knowledge Revolution

In the post-pandemic era, organizations grapple with a dynamic workforce, making knowledge transfer a significant challenge. This fluidity necessitates that knowledge is not only stored effectively but also promptly retrievable when required, given the constant influx and outflow of personnel. Autodesk Forma, with its unlimited storage capability, is aptly serving as a robust knowledge vault for Sunway, enabling the firm to overcome this hurdle. The Autodesk Forma Files feature allows us to search keywords within contents, a strength we've capitalized on to maximize its utility. Today, we're pushing boundaries further by integrating Autodesk Forma with ChatGPT via OpenAI API. This integration embeds our files into vectors, forming the foundation for a Q&A system. This groundbreaking approach signifies a knowledge revolution, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer and accessibility, regardless of workforce dynamics.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Immersive BIM Reviews: Eliminating Late-Stage Surprises with Autodesk Workshop XR and Forma

Late-stage design changes and coordination issues often derail project timelines and inflate costs in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. This session will introduce Autodesk Workshop XR software, a VR-based collaboration tool aligned with the Autodesk ecosystem that enables immersive, real-scale, intelligent-model reviews. When integrated with Autodesk Forma, it helps multidisciplinary teams detect constructability issues early, validate models against existing conditions, and communicate changes effectively. You will experience a live demonstration of a full BIM-to-XR workflow, connecting Revit and Navisworks models to Workshop XR for 1:1 scale validation and coordination. The session will also explore integrating segmented point cloud meshes into Workshop XR environments for as-built verification. You’ll gain insights into how Workshop XR workflows can reduce RFIs, enhance cross-disciplinary communication, and improve project efficiency—without the need for complex or costly hardware.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

2022 Workflow for Revit, Inventor, Advance Steel, and Robot Structural Analysis Professional on Forma

In this 60-minute session, you’ll learn about effective Revit, Robot Structural Analysis Professional, Advance Steel, Inventor, and Dynamo workflows. You’ll learn how to link a Revit structural model to Robot Structural Analysis Professional for structural steel code check and optimization. You’ll also learn how to control the models using Dynamo. This class will cover how to set up and use Forma to share Revit, Robot Structural Analysis Professional, Advance Steel, and Inventor models. We’ll also cover working with the 2022 workflow between the manufacturing industry and construction industries through Inventor and Revit Interoperability.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Ask Me Anything: AI in Construction

Join Tomer Rosenthal, AI Product Manager, for an interactive “Ask Me Anything” session exploring the latest AI innovations in Autodesk Forma (Forma). This open forum is your opportunity to dive into recent releases—including Autodesk Assistant, RFI AI Generation, Issue Creation from Images, and Admin Actions—and get direct answers to your questions. You’ll also gain an inside look at the future AI roadmap for Forma and how these advancements can transform your construction workflows.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

The Superb Guide to Easy Revit

Can you maximize the capabilities of Revit software (versions forevermore, especially 2022) as much as you’d like to? Join this conversation (spiced with true war stories) about some of our favorite workflows, shortcuts, tips and tricks, plug-ins, and resources—it’ll help you gain methods to enhance your deliverables and dial up your productivity. One of the challenges of Revit (both 2022 and much older versions) is the number of ways there are to accomplish an objective. We’ll talk about tricks for resolving curve balls in model, view, family, and annotation management and creation. Other conversation topics will include keystroke tricks, out-of-the-box and custom keyboard shortcuts, and simple macros (including Revit Macro IDE). We’ll also segue to cover tools to help you get the best performance in both file-based and cloud-shared projects in Revit; interoperability between Revit and AutoCAD and ReCap software; and system configuration tweaks to optimize Revit performance, even in the latest version.