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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Digital Project Delivery. Autodesk Forma Build Implementation.

Our session will show how Autodesk Forma was implemented and governed on a live health care project, adapting workflows to project-specific needs. We will demonstrate the application of standards during active delivery to maintain consistency and data integrity while teams adopt the platform and evolve digital practices in real time. You'll learn how collaboration was structured across Autodesk, construction technology, operations, and BIM by deploying two Autodesk Forma Build projects to separate design coordination from construction execution, alongside targeted training. We'll also cover license provisioning, role-based access, content ownership alignment, and Power BI dashboards that deliver actionable insights for better decisions.

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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Top Firms Share How to Build Knowledge Infrastructure to Scale AI-Powered Digital Adoption

Hear from a panel of top firms including Jacobs, Tetra Tech, IDOM and HDR as they share best practices on building the human intelligence and knowledge infrastructure layer across the AI-enabled tech stack. Learn how to elevate human plus agentic AI workflows to close digital skills gaps to realize the ROI of improved performance, reduced rework and risk and a competitive edge to win more bids. Imagine the AI-powered digital adoption platform where information from trusted sources is instantly converted into consumable and actionable knowledge, personalized for every learner and delivered in the flow of work through mainstream applications connecting the field and office. GeT tangible data on knowledge gaps and skills matrices through organized learning content and skills challenges aligned with company workflows and project standards. Drive tech adoption at scale with AI-powered "just enough, just in time, and just for me" verified knowledge because the best training is training your way. GeT IT Your Way.

40p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
AI: A Practical Guide to Implementation and Risk Management
This talk will offer a clear, practical road map for using AI without sleepwalking into liability minefields. Drawing on real disputes, emerging case law, and live industry data, we'll explain where AI can go wrong in design, delivery, and operations, and what this means for contracts, professional duties, and insurance. Using vivid, real-world examples of AI hallucinations, flawed outputs, and disputed responsibility, we'll demystify what good practice looks like in reality. You'll learn how to cut through AI hype, how to embed internal processes and procedures, and how to structure effective internal training and implement proportionate governance, assurance, and documentation that satisfy clients, regulators, and insurers while still enabling innovation.
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57p
Panel / Las Vegas 2026
Why Universities Aren't Teaching the Offsite Industry We're Building And the Solution
The offsite construction industry is scaling, but the graduates entering it have been trained for a world of bespoke ETO delivery. No accredited degree program teaches configure-to-order workflows, manufacturing product definition, modular interface standards, or offsite logistics. The industry is hiring for skills that schools don't yet teach. This session will present the MBI-CfOC Offsite Construction Accreditation Initiative a joint effort between the Modular Building Institute and the Center for Offsite Construction to establish the first accredited degree pathway for the industrialized construction workforce. With materials nearly complete and first accreditation discussions happening, let's understand what the next generation of offsite-trained talent will know, and how to build a firm that can absorb them.
79p
Panel / Las Vegas 2026
Why AI Struggles in Real-World Making And How to Make It Work
AI has transformed design and simulation, yet its role in real-world making where materials, tolerances, and human judgment converge remains emergent. Fabrication is variable, unforgiving, and governed by physics that challenge AI tools. This panel will explore the current state of AI in manufacturing and construction, focusing on how agentic systems can augment, not replace, skilled practitioners. Drawing on applied research from the Autodesk Technology Centers, we'll share how we train AI on real fabrication data, develop physics-informed models, and test intelligent, automated manufacturing workflows. Join experts across domains to examine how human-AI collaboration can drive impactful outcomes from factory floors to jobsites.
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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
What Owners Want: Honest Guidance on BIM, CDEs, and Becoming a Preferred Digital Partner
You've set up the common data environment (CDE). You've trained the team. You've delivered the models. So why does the owner still complain? Because owners do not think like consultants. In this candid 30-minute session, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MOEI) will share what an infrastructure owner actually expects from BIM deliverables, CDE workflows, and digital submissions. You'll hear how we assess consultant performance, what builds trust, and which common mistakes immediately signal weak digital delivery capability. This is not a product demo or a generic case study. It's an owner-side view of what really influences decisions, repeat work, and preferred-partner status on major government projects.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
People Before Platforms: How Gamuda Made Change Stick with Autodesk Forma
Digital transformation in construction fails far more often than it succeeds, largely due to resistance to change, legacy system complexity, and poor adoption planning. In this AU class, we'll explore how Gamuda successfully navigated these challenges while scaling Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) across a global construction organization. Using real examples from Gamuda's journey, this session will focus on aligning leadership, empowering champions, and supporting end users through continuous training and engagement. We'll examine how Gamuda addressed cultural resistance, integrated Autodesk Forma with legacy systems using open APIs, and implemented robust data governance aligned to ISO 27001 standards.
26p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Predict Before You Model: How We Built an ML-Powered MEP Estimating Bot Trained on 300+ Real Projects
What if you could generate a reliable MEP cost estimate before modeling a single element in Revit software? That's exactly what we built: a Python-based estimation bot trained on more than 300 real MEP projects from our historical data. Instead of relying on disconnected spreadsheets or manual takeoffs, the bot uses pattern recognition to generate estimates at the proposal stage before BIM begins. Our solution achieves more than 95% accuracy versus final costs, and it reduces estimation time by more than 70%. In this session, we'll show how we structured the data, trained the model, and integrated it into our workflow. You'll leave this session with a practical framework to turn historical data into a predictive asset.
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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Right Knowledge, Right Time: Transforming Scattered Training into Scalable Learning
Engineering firms struggle to scale technology training beyond one-off classes and static PDFs, especially when teams are fully billable and tool stacks evolve rapidly. At Thornton Tomasetti, the CORE technology team addresses this by combining Eagle Point Software's Pinnacle Series with Glean an AI-powered enterprise search platform to transform fragmented standards, institutional knowledge, and vendor content into structured, role-based learning journeys. This session will show you how workflow-integrated training and enterprise search deliver the right guidance at the moment of need, embedding learning into daily work, and improving adoption, consistency, and future competency pathways.
6p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Civil 3D and InfraWorks for Resilient Infrastructure Design
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are reshaping how civil teams deliver resilient water infrastructure. Yet integrating watershed-scale insights into detailed design remains a challenge. This session will show how The Nature Conservancy applied targeted training and InfraWorks and Civil 3D software to connect regional watershed analysis with site-level engineering workflows. Learn how to translate watershed data into design inputs, develop NbS concepts into constructible models, and maintain data continuity across planning and design phases. See how connected workflows improved cross-team collaboration, enabled earlier decision making, and reduced project risk in real-world water infrastructure projects.
54p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
From Image to Groom: AI Workflows for Production-Ready Character Hair
As media and entertainment pipelines accelerate, digital hair creation still requires hours of work, with artists meticulously crafting guide curves and tuning modifiers to match reference. This session will demonstrate a research prototype of an AI-powered tool for Maya software that converts one or more images into fully editable grooms. We'll show how this approach reduces grooming time by up to five times through automation of repetitive work, and how it integrates with simulation and downstream departments. We'll also detail our wholly owned, synthetic data strategy for training AI models designed for transparency and control. See this workflow in action and understand how image-to-groom can accelerate your character production workflows.
3p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2015
Transforming Electric Utilities: From 2D to 3D Standards
Electric Grid Transmission and Distribution Construction Standards (STDs) have traditionally been built on known rules in order to conservatively model pole structures to meet code safety and compliance requirements. These STDs were created in 2D, published as “Standards,” and added to construction job packages to aid installation. Moving those same detail STDs to Inventor software 3D models opens a whole new list of opportunities, such as: Do I keep the STDs the same and just add those detail 2D drawings from 3D to the construction package? Do the STDs change based on the new 3D model? Do I share these 3D models with designers and construction contractors, or do I share just the same 2D detail drawings? How do I manage all the data and share with internal/external designers, engineers, and contractors? How do I create an interactive 3D construction assembly simulation? How do I create 3D models as training tools? How do I streamline construction STDs data management? How do I facilitate material cost control and project “bill of material”?
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2018
Train the Trainer: Make Teaching CAD F-U-N
Do students or co-workers call you “Boring Bill,” “Too-Technical Terry,” or “Monotone Mike”? Then this class is for you! In this session, you will learn how to make teaching CAD F-U-N, not only for your students but for you as well. In today's ever-changing technology-based world, we find that there is a need to do more and more training. Whether you’re the person in your firm training your co-workers, or you’re a professional trainer/instructor, keeping your students interested is critical. Just because you know the technical aspects of CAD, doesn’t mean you'd be a good instructor. We will look at ways for you to be sure your students are confident that they can use the software after the class is over. Instructors will see how to get in touch with their class. So, whether you've been training for years or you’ve just started and want to pick up some tips, this session can help you out.
Industry Talk / Connect and Construct Summit 2019
Take Next-Generation BIM 360 Field to the Next Level with AI-Based Workflows (really!)
Hear Clayco (ENR #36)—a contractor with 1,785 employees across offices in Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Greenville—describe implementing next-generation BIM 360 Field software, as well as the AI-based photo and video risk-management software Smartvid.io. The Smartvid.io platform uses a construction-trained AI engine, “Vinnie,” to provide near-real-time analytics of imagery coming from all projects using BIM 360 Field (both next-generation and “classic”) for indicators of safety risk, from workers at height to standing water and even PPE. New capabilities introduced in 2019 enable those observations to be turned into BIM 360 Field safety observations with a click, connecting AI observations with the observations workflows already enabled in BIM 360 software. We’ll describe the implementation journey of Clayco with Smartvid.io, as the platform has expanded from an initial deployment of 10 projects to one now being used on more than 75 projects across the country.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016
How to become a facilitator of collaboration in the construction industry
We have been taught how to create models, how models can be appended together to make an entire building including its building services, but how we work together has often been miss interpreted. Do we simply all design in the same environment and say that's collaboration? Or can we go beyond this? In this session, not only do we discuss how you can engage with each other we inspire you to become the facilitator of change. We have taught a number of Owner / Developers how to feel empowered, embrace the change in to virtual design and now facilitate it's use on their next project. True collaboration through BIM's should be directed from the top, expectations set and met. Efficiency driven with the end in mind. With a facilitator driving everyone forward from the beginning of the project - we have structure.
Roundtable / Las Vegas 2016
Design Computation Symposium
Now in its eighth year, the Design Computation Symposium is one of the premier events at Autodesk University.  This year we are broadening the reach of the half-day symposium with the theme: “Ubiquitous Computing: How Computing Is Being Made More Accessible.”  Writing code has traditionally been the realm of computer nerds and scientists.  Today, high-school, middle school, and even elementary school students are learning programming. With the rise of STE(A)M in education and the teaching of Computational Literacy in schools, how is the world changing and what will this current generation come to expect out of design tools in the near future? Mobile devices and new ways of programming are opening up the world of computing to more people.  Instant feedback allows this expanded group of programmers to test their solutions instantly and create better tools. With computational resources that are easier to access, the focus can change from how to write code correctly to what kinds of problems can we solve, which problems are worth solving, and how well can we solve them?  Come hear fascinating stories from inventors, entrepreneurs, architects, and academics about how they are enabling more people to leverage design computation in inspiring ways.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017
Cadd Nuggets with Conditional Dipping Sauce
This class will be full of "nuggets*" of wisdom from seasoned professionals. We will show users how to use conditional sub-assemblies to minimize the number of regions and assemblies used in corridor design. Add additional value and design information to your model by targeting 2D lines from xref layers. This class will demonstrate a workflow for corridor modeling and sheet production and maximizes the model while keeping all aspects of production in mind.

We will use QTO manager to assign pay items and get quantity take offs on 2D linework that historically is not counted

*Nuggets are those little golden things in a training session that users did not know about, or tools they did not know existed or how to use them.

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Roundtable / Las Vegas 2014
Education Abound: Implementing a Corporate Training Program
Keeping employees educated and up to date on the latest technologies is a full-time endeavor. This discussion will enable its participants to gather and discuss both the hiccups and the successes in their attempts to educate their audiences. We will use the success story from the curriculum that I've developed and implemented at Thornton Tomasetti, a structural engineering firm that employs over 800 people.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019
Automating Efficient and Profitable Digital Practice Management on Autodesk Products
The class will encompass innovation in digital design practice, and showcase leadership evolved and implemented on large-scale iconoclastic projects across the United States. The class will show case studies of structuring an environment of collaboration and creating "enablers" across a firm with specialized digital skills, practice, research and development, training, education and community outreach, and innovation. Architecture and engineering design is evolving and becoming more sophisticated, demanding the best design in the least time. Autodesk Generative Design software with visual programming helps us achieve the best design solution, and also gives us more adaptability to changes and flexibility to be open to better ideas as we move forward, automating regular and repetitive tasks. To summarize: If your firm wants to learn to save time and money on projects and achieve the best design solutions using Dynamo scripts and other latest innovations, please attend this class.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2019
Exploring Python Nodes in Dynamo
Learn how to use Python in Dynamo to enable more editing options than ever before. Python is one of the fastest-growing scripting languages and can be used for daily tasks in your own projects. Dynamo can let you directly input Python code into your scripts to do things regular nodes can’t. This course will lead you through how to plan, edit, and execute your own scripts with Python for Dynamo. Learn about the essentials of setting up your own Python script, and edit geometry, sort data lists, write content to Revit software, and much more. With Python, you can unleash the potential in your projects so come and see what’s possible.
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