This presentation is centered on optimizing the performance of your desktop or laptop workstation for your design workflows. The concepts covered are relevant to AEC, industrial machinery, Revit, Inventor, and even AutoCAD—though some tweaks may be necessary based on the specific software, and I will give those. Given that many of us depend on AutoCAD for sharing designs and generating printouts, mastering these setup strategies can significantly save time, especially when handling large datasets/drawings. By thoughtfully configuring your system and software, we will consider how it interacts with other applications so you can improve overall performance across all your design tools.

Jam out with us as we explore how Avnet has amplified the music industry and is revolutionizing design workflows across all industries, powered by the free Avnet Add-in for Autodesk Fusion. Enjoy a live performance by Rogelio (AKA Kello) Gonzalez, Applications Engineering Manager at Avnet, and internationally acclaimed bass guitarist. From the stage to space, Avnet is pushing boundaries, innovating, and delivering what’s next. Don’t miss this dynamic showcase of creativity and technology.

What if the AEC industry could build it right the first time—every time? By learning from manufacturing, it can.

In this session, Manuel Liedot, CEO of Graitec, and Emmanuel Leroy, EVP of Graitec Solutions, will explore how Graitec is helping AEC professionals “shift left”—bringing simulation, constructability, and data intelligence earlier in the design process. This approach minimizes rework, shortens project timelines, and improves overall outcomes.

With deep roots in both manufacturing and AEC, the speakers will demonstrate how Graitec’s strategy is transforming traditional workflows. Through real-world case studies featuring Graitec tools like Advance Steel, StrucSoft, Rebar Detailing, Simulate, and Revit integrations, attendees will see how early-stage insights lead to smarter execution.

You'll walk away with a blueprint for moving from reactive problem-solving to proactive planning—designing with construction in mind from day one.

This session will outline a workflow for creating a Revit model of a steel composite cable stay bridge by using a combo of Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Informed Design for Inventor software. Modeling a bridge structure poses challenges due to its complex geometry, which adheres to a vertical, horizontal, and super-elevated roadway profile. Consequently, the steel girders, beams, and connection details must align with this 3D roadway profile, complicating the creation and placement of Revit families. For this challenge, COWI used Grasshopper and Dynamo to automate the creation of steel geometry, parameters, and insertion points, ensuring accurate orientation for family placement. Additionally, Informed Design was used to transform various iterations of intricate steel connections into families, which were then positioned using a Dynamo workflow. The integration of visual programming and Informed Design has been vital in efficiently producing complex bridge structures with a focus on Automation, Integration, & Customization.

In this session, we’ll explore Autodesk’s MEP Content Editor, a powerful tool designed to streamline the creation and customization of fabrication components within Revit and AutoCAD workflows. You’ll gain hands-on insights into modifying database-driven parts, adjusting specifications, and optimizing content for enhanced project coordination. We’ll cover best practices for maintaining data consistency, using parametric capabilities, and integrating manufacturer-specific components to ensure accuracy in fabrication modeling. Whether you're a BIM manager, detailer, or engineer, this session will equip you with the skills to efficiently manage and refine MEP fabrication content, improving workflow efficiency and project outcomes.

Huge volumes of drinking water are lost to background leakage during distribution. This entails large financial and environmental footprints from extraction, transport, treatment, storage, and pumping. While water models usually simplify leakage to behave as fixed demands, InfoWater Pro software’s new modeling capabilities explicitly incorporate the sensitivity of losses to pressure changes. In this session, we will demonstrate how to easily convert a regular distribution model into one with realistic leakage using a new allocation tool. Both hydraulic and asset pipe information (such as age, number of connections, and material) is used to determine realistic allocations of known leakage amounts per zone to individual elements. Moreover, we will explore how a leakage-aware model can lead to detailed spatiotemporal estimates of water loss under different operating scenarios, and lead to precise quantifications of the economic and hydraulic effects of asset replacement and pressure-control programs.

With groundbreaking innovation and a growing number of more advanced AI technologies around every corner of the AECO and MFG industries, it can sometimes be daunting to understand not only how, but where and more importantly when you should get started on tackling the onslaught of AI that can and likely will affect the workflow of many inside these industries. In this session, learn how the latest workstation technology from Lenovo, NVIDIA and Intel, industry trends and updates can transform the industry you work in, and get help demystifying buzz-word AI bingo vs. real-world workflows that your teams operate in every day

In this session, we'll discuss how Woodway converts its engineering bill of materials (eBOM) into its manufacturing BOM (mBOM) using the mBOM Editor in Autodesk Fusion Manage software. We'll then show how we partnered with coolOrange to develop a workflow, and which tools we used, to send these BOMs to our enterprise resource planning (ERP).

ECOFACT is a €12 million Horizon 2020 project aimed at developing an ECO-innovative energy FACTory management platform for four demo sites: Arçelik (white goods industry), Athenian Brewery (Heineken brewing company), Gullón (biscuit factory) and Tofaş (a body painting plant of Stellantis vehicles). This platform features a dashboard that includes an LCA/LCCA module based on SimaPro and an Energy and Resource Management System (ERMS) built on Autodesk Platform Services. The ERMS consists of a Digital Twin Platform (DTP) that combines industrial digital twin models of production lines and machines with simulation and optimization tools into a single web environment. Using an advanced IIoT infrastructure, each digital twin streams real-time field data to ensure user-friendly monitoring. Managers and operators can run simulation and optimization applications integrated into the DTP for improved factory management in terms of energy, resources, and costs.

Difficult and costly importation of equipment. Lack of customized parts. Unavailable spare parts, especially in the remote areas where supply chains may be disrupted. These are some of the daily challenges faced by the staff of MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières—Doctors Without Borders). The 3D Printing for All project aims to democratize access to 3D printing and solve some of those challenges by getting 3D printing in MSF's projects, and developing procedures and guidelines on how to use it safely and efficiently. Describing design needs, context, and technical parameters for a CAD expert to make a design is critical to the production of the products that solve problems in the field. For the most part, the people who have the problems to solve do not have engineering backgrounds—and yet they have to provide precise information. Throughout the implementation of the project, we've experienced this communication gap, learned valuable lessons on how to minimize the number of iterations, and saved material and time involved in putting a product in use.

Curtain Walls in Revit software represent a special category that can be used in many diverse ways, and Revit 2025 has added new important features that improve this complex and flexible category even further. In this session, we will learn techniques and best practices for building our comprehensive, robust, and highly detailed curtain wall types of various common assemblies, appropriate for both the design construction documentation as well as manufacturer shop-drawing production. We’ll review how to build out not just traditional glazed assemblies, but also commercial insulated metal panel systems, flexible corrugated panel systems, and standing seam panel systems. For each of these assemblies, participants will understand how to create an entire library of construction-ready, manufacturer-based components for fast, efficient modeling—complete with automated Level of Detail (LOD)—and get high-quality detailing almost for free.

Exchanging data between applications is a favorite problem in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). We risk undersharing and oversharing, we worry about working on different versions of a project, and we find our data formats have become compatible! While desktop software systems are the powerhouses driving design and engineering workflows, we need to communicate beyond our desks, often through rapidly changing distributed cloud interfaces. We've been talking about reading and writing data to a shared cloud in Autodesk Forma software for a while—and now it’s time to get our hands dirty! Follow along on your laptop or just enjoy the show. We'll walk through how Forma data is structured and why it’s structured this way, and then we’ll use Dynamo to read and write data from the desktop to the cloud. No skills in Dynamo are needed, but if you can, feel free to follow along. Dynamo will be used to show programmers and nonprogrammers the way that Forma data can be created, edited, and searched from really any application or environment.

In this session, you'll join leaders from Autodesk’s product development and impact (Sustainable Design) teams, customers, and partners to learn about new tools and workflows that provide total carbon data analysis and insights across planning, design, and construction. This session will include demonstrations of carbon data analysis and insights using Autodesk Forma, Revit, Insight, and Autodesk Construction Cloud. We'll go under the hood to explain how these tools work on their own and together across planning, design, and construction. We'll also talk about the future development of these tools and how the Forma industry cloud is helping provide clear, consistent guidance toward lower carbon emissions in a more open, extensible, and collaborative way.

According to the 2025 Autodesk Design and Make Report, training is the #1 driver of technology adoption — and AI is set to lead that charge. Join the Global eTraining founding team and AEC industry leaders for the ribbon-cutting launch of GeT’s pioneering AI-driven platform, built to close the digital skills gap, accelerate technology adoption, and confirm project-ready teams. This revolutionary platform transforms corporate training into a powerful catalyst for adoption and retention, with AI capabilities developed directly from client needs. By turning company data into actionable knowledge, it bridges the gap between information and insight. More than a feature upgrade, this is a fundamental shift toward learning that is just-in-time, just-enough, and just-for-me — advancing GeT’s mission to “learn faster, retain more, and save time.”

Join the Autodesk Informed Design Product team for a forward-looking session on how Autodesk is advancing Industrialized Construction. This session will showcase the latest developments and future roadmap for Informed Design—Autodesk’s platform tool that connects design intent to manufacturing execution. Learn how we’re helping AEC and manufacturing teams accelerate delivery, reduce rework, and unlock new levels of collaboration and efficiency.

In this class, you’ll learn how to set up and optimize Stratus for mechanical contractors, based on firsthand experience. We’ll cover the essential steps for setting up Stratus from scratch, automating repetitive tasks, and streamlining workflows to improve project efficiency. You’ll gain insights into managing data and generating reports for better decision making, as well as strategies for troubleshooting and resolving issues you may encounter during the setup process. Additionally, we’ll explore techniques to speed up the development process, helping you implement Stratus faster and more effectively on your projects. Whether you’re new to Stratus or looking to enhance your skills, this class will provide valuable lessons from someone who’s recently navigated the process firsthand.

Informed Design is changing how we think about construction by connecting design, fabrication, and performance to deliver smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable outcomes. Built on the principles of outcome-based BIM, it shifts the focus from drawings to results, ensuring what is designed can be accurately fabricated and effectively delivered. This class will explore how tools like Revit and Inventor software enable early coordination and support modular construction, with a focus on prefabricated frames. Whether you’re in design, engineering, or delivery, you’ll learn how Informed Design reduces rework, improves buildability, enhances Sustainable Design, and sets projects up for success. At A.G. Coombs, we’re preparing to apply this approach within a whole-of-life framework, drawing on our downstream expertise to help close the loop between design and long-term performance. Join us to see how Informed Design can add value to your projects now and into the future.

Join Ryan McMahon, general manager of Autodesk Informed Design to gain insights on how this platform tool enables Industrialized Construction. Roadmap and feature highlights as well as industry imact will be covered in this talk.

Join professionals from across industries for an engaging networking experience passionate about driving sustainable outcomes in the age of AI. Whether you're working on carbon analysis, sustainable design and manufacturing, preserving biodiversity, or water stewardship, this is your chance to connect with peers and explore the strategies and technologies changing the way we create a more sustainable future.

We’ll start with a brief welcome and a few conversation starters, like how Autodesk tools help you design more, guess less, and stay friends with the planet today. We’ll explore how the advent of AI is impacting your Sustainable Design strategies as both a challenge and a catalyst (because Sustainable Design, like AI, isn’t always straightforward). Whether you're here to exchange ideas, discover solutions, or build new connections, this meetup is designed to spark meaningful dialogue and collaboration.

"As industries grow more connected, the ability to share data seamlessly across tools, teams, and domains is no longer a luxury—it’s a competitive necessity. Yet traditional data exchange methods often involve costly conversions, fragmented workflows, and loss of valuable context. This session explores how Artificial Intelligence is redefining interoperability by enabling native, intelligent data exchange across platforms and disciplines. This session will help users to discover how AI can break down silos between AEC, manufacturing, and process industry workflows—automatically interpreting and aligning domain-specific objects and data without manual intervention. Whether you're leading Management, optimizing your data strategy, or looking to future-proof your tech stack, this session will provide a clear vision for how AI-powered interoperability is shaping the next generation of connected design and engineering."