When it comes to achieving better project outcomes, automation is the key—whether you’re making buildings, products, or media. Automation is changing how we work, what we work with, and what we’re capable of making—for the better. Join Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost to hear about real and relevant projects from across industries featuring visionary teams embracing the opportunities of automation. Better outcomes start here. Joining Andrew onstage will be these AU Speakers: Asa Kalama: Star Wars™: Galaxy's Edge is a place where you can live your own Star Wars adventure on a truly massive scale. Join Executive Creative Director, Asa Kalama, for a keynote presentation at the AU general session, to hear how Walt Disney Imagineering creatively executed precision technical work to unlock the power of play. Elizabeth Hausler: By 2030, more than 1/3 of the world will live in substandard housing. Join Elizabeth Hausler, founder and CEO of social enterprise Build Change, as she talks about how culturally appropriate design, rigorous engineering, access to financing, policy change, and the power of technology can provide resilient and safe housing for everyone. Watch the AU General Session in Hall D or catch it in the Theater or Venetian Ballroom EF.

Transformation across our industries continues at an extraordinary rate, fueled by the productivity and profitability gains businesses are experiencing as they embrace new technologies and new ways of working. In this session, senior leaders from our Media & Entertainment, Architecture, Engineering & Construction, and Design & Manufacturing businesses will share our vision for the future of our industries and stories of how customers are Making the Future by leveraging the power of Autodesk AI and our industry clouds. Sensory viewing space for General Session will be located in the AU Theater (6A).

Innovators don’t wait for progress, they make it. In the second part of the General Session, join Autodesk executives Amy Bunszel, Diana Colella, and Scott Reese to discover how the Forge platform is evolving to connect workflows between roles and between industries. Learn how we’re making data more accessible, extensible, and open, so you can automate tasks, unlock insights, and unleash the talent of your teams.

The Infrastructure Symposium general session includes the welcome address, the highlights on a few key projects, the presentation of the 2014 Excellence in Infrastructure winners, and an overview of the symposium sessions to follow. The symposium provides peer-networking opportunities across owner/operators and the network of engineering, design, and construction firms focused on supporting infrastructure projects and managing asset lifecycles. The Infrastructure Symposium is on Monday.

Business transformation is a journey that involves embracing new skillsets, toolsets, and mindsets in the face of disruption. During the Day 2 General Session, you will hear from business leaders about their transformation journeys. Learn what steps they took to get started, what their biggest challenges have been, and what outcomes they’ve achieved so far. Come celebrate the amazing work being done around the world by your peers in the AEC, D&M and M&E Industries.

The disruptions of the past year and a half have accelerated the digital transformation of every industry. Technology platforms are proving to be an important way to connect everyone from the top floor to the shop floor. In the first part of the General Session, join Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost to learn how Autodesk is empowering innovators to make and build a better world with a technology platform that enables them to focus on the problems they want to solve instead of which tool they want to use.

The world is changing. Are you ready? Join us to explore the future of construction and leave with valuable insights and real-world examples to help you build a future that is more profitable, more resilient, and prepared for new opportunities. The general session keynotes will include a group of passionate customers, visionaries, and product experts. Take part as some of the leading innovators in the construction industry share their experiences embracing change and technology disruption -- from improving productivity on the job site and using technology to expand capabilities, to inspiring and thought provoking explorations of machine learning, artificial intelligence, or generative design applied to contracting.

After the general session, you will have the opportunity to influence the future of your BIM 360 products with a visit to the Co:Construct Product Advisory session. No additional sign up needed. Co:Construct is your chance to meet the teams behind the BIM 360 platform, and your chance to speak directly to them about whatever is on your mind.

Plus, don't forget to sign up for our afternoon Connect & Construct classes. Your registration includes access to a full day of sessions and our private evening event.

Optimism is returning to all our industries, and many of you feel more prepared to address inevitable change than ever before. Embracing transformation has made you more resilient, and as the cloud unlocks more of your data, many of you are investing in AI to enable powerful new ways of working. Join Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost and CTO Raji Arasu as they show how we are accelerating the Design and Make capabilities of our platform, putting AI to work, supporting your creativity, and enabling you to solve problems big and small. Sensory viewing space for General Session will be located in the AU Theater (6A).

Join Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and CTO Jeff Kowalski as we kick off Autodesk University 2015. They’ll be talking about the trends and technologies they think will have the biggest impact on the work we do, and presenting exciting Autodesk customers from around the world who are doing some things you just won’t believe.

During 2020, we've learned to make beyond the construction site, the factory floor, and the production studio. Whether orchestrating our teams digitally, creating virtually, or customizing our products to address shifting demand, technology is increasingly central to our work. Join Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost to learn about the role data, automation, and insight play in empowering innovators to adapt to change and achieve the new possible. 

Our industries are changing faster than ever. And though the uncertainty we're all facing is accelerating, so is the technology available to us all. With AI looming ever larger for all of us, it feels like our industries are reaching a tipping point. As the cloud connects more of your data, it enables AI to unlock powerful new ways of working. Join Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost and colleagues as they show how our Design & Make Platform is taking us closer to the cusp of a new era, one where technology will unleash your productivity and your creativity, no matter what industry you work in.

Over the last few years, we've all experienced more than our fair share of disruption. And today, our industries are changing faster than ever, the expectations our customers have of us are bigger than ever, and data is more critical than ever. So how might we transform ourselves and continue to delight and deliver value to our stakeholders? Join Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost to learn how moving our collaboration - and our data to the cloud can help create solutions that are the right fit for these challenges.

Autodesk President and CEO Andrew Anagnost will share his perspective on automation, the changing nature of work, and how technology can unlock opportunities to do more, better, with less negative impact on the world. Andrew will be joined by Autodesk CTO Scott Borduin and Director of Robotics Erin Bradner, Autodesk customers, and former GE Chair Beth Comstock.

The digital transformation of industry requires not just a shift in tools and processes, but also a shift in mindset. Join Autodesk CTO Raji Arasu as she explains Autodesk’s vision for the future and explores how designers, engineers, and makers from every industry can achieve greater productivity, more agility, and better outcomes for their companies, their customers, and the global community.

Witness some of the best minds in the business sharing insights, provoking exploration, and inspiring creativity.

Closing Keynote: Presented by Amar Hanspal, Sr. Vice President, Products. Like many kids growing up in India, Amar Hanspal’s parents wanted him to pursue what they considered a noble profession: doctor, politician, or even Bollywood star. But he believes there is a profession just as noble, that of the engineer. Join him as he celebrates the incredible work of the engineers and designers who solve today’s epic challenges of transportation, healthcare, education and access to clean water. Before you head off to the Closing Celebration, discover how you might use your skills to imagine, design and create a better world.

Ever felt like you wanted Dynamo to do more? And custom nodes, python, zero-touch, and nodeModel-derived UI nodes not enough? Maybe you want to create another window to track workspace utilization? Or you want to create a drawing tool inside of Dynamo? If you know the feeling, you may be interested in learning about extensions in Dynamo! Come join us for the first AU Dynamo Developer workshop focused on extensions, a development tool that allows you to extend Dynamo beyond what is offered out-of-the-box and create your own custom functionality and features that leverage the Dynamo API. You will be taught extension basics during the first part of the workshop, and then in the second part get a chance to learn, collaborate, and exchange ideas with other Dynamo community members on a focused extension topic. Please ensure that you have the following as we will hit the ground running from the minute we start the workshop: • Bring your own laptop that has Visual Studio 2015 installed prior to the workshop • On the laptop mentioned above, have Dynamo Studio and/or Dynamo Revit installed prior to the workshop • Preferably have Dynamo C# Zero-Touch node development experience • Preferably have built Dynamo Core from source Preferably have some basic knowledge of WPF

Watch some of the best minds in the business sharing insights, provoking exploration, and inspiring creativity.