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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.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026

Design-Driven Reinforcement in Revit: From Analysis Results to Automated Rebar and Documentation

Revit software is evolving into a design-driven environment for structural engineers, enabling a seamless transition from analysis to reinforcement and documentation. In this hands-on session, you'll integrate results from FEM software such as Robot Structural Analysis, GRAITEC Advance Design, or other tools directly into Revit to perform code-based checks and generate reinforcement for concrete members, including beams, columns, footings, and walls. You'll automate rebar cage generation, produce engineering reports, and generate drawings and schedules within a single BIM-integrated platform, reducing manual work, improving coordination, and ensuring compliance with US and European standards.

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13p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026

Harnessing AI for AECO: Live Workflows Connecting Design, Engineering, and Fabrication

Artificial intelligence is reshaping AECO, but most solutions remain disconnected from engineering and fabrication workflows where technical decisions are made. Through live demonstrations, this session will show AI embedded within production environments, leveraging engineering standards, deterministic calculation engines, fabrication rules, and BIM data. Explore AI-assisted model management, load generation, detailing, and cross-platform workflows enabled through AI skills and APIs/MCPs, delivering reliable, auditable results while keeping engineers and fabricators in control.

44p

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026

Information Management Strategies at the World's Busiest Airport

Let's talk about implementing a comprehensive information management strategy as it relates to BIM, digital twins, and asset data. In this session, you'll hear about the new information management strategy created for the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) Planning and Development department.

42p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026

Sabesp Digital Transformation: Largest Water CAPEX in the Southern Hemisphere Powered by Autodesk Portfolio

Come to this session to hear how Sabesp powers a $15 billion+ CAPEX program, universalizing water and sewer systems for 28 million people across 375 municipalities with more than 1,100 work fronts. Over five years, custom Civil 3D/Revit/AutoCAD Plant 3D libraries and Autodesk Forma Data Management (engineering CDE) enable full intelligent modeling of water intake, transport, treatment, reservoirs, distribution, sewage collection, pumping stations, and effluent treatment plants (ETPs) replacing 2D workflows. Forma Data Management and Autodesk Forma Build orchestrate CAPEX, from planning to commissioning. Autodesk Forma Design Collaboration streamlines model coordination. Water solutions including InfoDrainage, InfoWorks WS Pro, and SCM6 handle hydraulic modeling and rehab planning. ArcGIS supports CAPEX spatialization and BIM publishing. Pioneering AI via Autodesk Platform Services automates Sabesp standards compliance checking.

17p

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026

From Data to Decisions: Putting AI to Work in Construction

The AEC industry has invested heavily in BIM, cloud collaboration, fabrication technology, and connected project platforms. Yet many teams still face the same challenge: turning all that project data into clear, actionable insight. This session explores how AI can close the gap, connecting existing project data to surface insights faster, identifying risks earlier, tracking progress more effectively, and supporting better decisions across design, fabrication, and field operations. Beyond the technology, attendees will learn what it takes to put AI to work in real construction environments, including implementation, governance, and lessons learned. Participants will leave with a practical framework for improving project visibility, streamlining reporting, and getting more value from the data they already have.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026

Delivering Kentucky Lock with BIM, GIS, and Federated Models: A USACE Case Study

The Kentucky Lock Addition Project is a high-priority U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) effort requiring coordination across multiple districts, agencies, and contractors. This session will provide a technical deep dive into how BIM, CAD, and GIS were integrated through an Advanced Modeling Project Execution Plan (PxP) to support design, coordination, and construction. Using tools that include Civil 3D, Revit, Inventor, and Navisworks software, teams developed federated models for clash detection, sequencing, and as-built deliverables. You will see how model-based workflows improved coordination, reduced errors, and supported better decision making across the project lifecycle.

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.Â 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

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026

Integrating Structural Analysis Workflows in BIM with Revit

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create, manage, and maintain analytical models in Revit for the purpose of structural analysis, BIM coordination, and design documentation. You'll explore how to keep analytical and physical models coordinated as your design evolves, prepare your model for structural analysis, and bring analysis results back into your BIM workflow. By the end of the session, you'll be able to close the loop between design and analysis, improving accuracy, efficiency, and collaboration in your structural projects. The session is for structural engineers and technicians who design and coordinate for BIM.

37p

59p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026

Design, Make, and Move: Real-World Workflows on Slim Mobile Workstations Powered by Intel

Design and Make teams are under pressure to deliver more-complex projects, faster, from anywhere. In this session, a frontline super-user from industry joins Intel to show how Autodesk Fusion, AutoCAD, and Revit come together on slim mobile workstations powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Intel Arc B390 graphics to meet that challenge. You'll see how the speaker's organization moved from traditional, desk-bound workflows to a flexible, AI enabled setup that keeps designers, engineers, and BIM teams productive whether they're in the office, on the shop floor, or on the jobsite. Revit drives rich intelligent models and documentation. AutoCAD handles detailed 2D and 3D work that still anchors many projects. Autodesk Fusion connects design, generative exploration, and manufacturing in a single environment. All of it runs on slim, professional mobile workstations with integrated Intel Arc graphics and on-device AI acceleration without sacrificing performance or reliability.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026

ReCap Meshing for BIM Coordination

In this session, we'll share a strategy discussion into ReCap software's new mesh workflow for creating scan-derived meshes that perform reliably in Model Coordination in Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) and Navisworks software. Using a confidential project case study, you will see how our team processed 1 TB of scan data across 1.2 million square feet and resolved repeated model crashes that disrupted access for virtual design and construction (VDC) engineers and trade partners. By moving from Leica Cyclone 3DR to ReCap-generated meshes, we improved mesh quality, stabilized performance, streamlined scan-to-coordination workflows, and enabled automated clash detection with existing conditions for more-reliable downstream delivery.

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23p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026

Ditching the Bloat: Re-Engineering MEP High-Density Modeling with Revit DirectShapes to Save Model Health

A major crisis facing the VDC industry is model bloat. On large scale projects, placing thousands of dynamic, deeply nested native Revit hangers or small components triggers endless CPU parametric calculations that cripple model health, max out workstation RAM, and freeze synchronization times. To break this bottleneck, our product team chose a disruptive approach: pivoting away from standard Revit Families (.rfa) entirely and adopting Revit DirectShape technology. In this session, we will deep dive into the strategic evaluation behind moving the parametric engine outside of Revit to process calculations externally. We will demonstrate how injecting raw geometry directly into the project environment bypasses the family constraint solver, turning slow CPU-bound processing into fluid, GPU-driven visualization. Finally, learn how we map standard Shared Parameters to these elements to retain 100% of required BIM scheduling and tagging data.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026

Reimagining Facility Operations: A Client's Strategy for a Living Digital Twin

A Confidential Client is redefining facility operations through an Autodesk Tandem-powered digital twin that transforms survey (ReCap software), scan-to-BIM (Revit and Civil 3D software), and project data into a living operational platform, not just documentation. Integrated with SkySpark and a CMMS, the twin enables machine-learning-driven fault detection and diagnostics, submetering analysis, and optimization control at the building level today with a GIS-enabled, facility-wide decision layer on the horizon. The result: faster operational decisions, measurable efficiency gains, and a scalable model for AI-driven facilities management. Hear how a Client's digital delivery workflow became the foundation for continuous operational improvement, and see what it takes to get there.

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