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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

23p

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.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

From ACC Silos to Power BI Insights: Free Your BIM Data Using Autodesk Data Exchange, ACC, and Revit

Is critical project information stuck inside your Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) project? Discover how to use the Autodesk Data Exchange process and Revit to bridge the gap and connect your BIM data with data visualisation platforms, such as Microsoft Power BI. This hands-on lab will demonstrate and guide how to easily extract specific and relevant data from your 3D model subsets, rather than entire files, to create interactive visualizations and dashboards. This cloud-based method streamlines data sharing with stakeholders who aren't BIM experts, providing automatic audit trails and enabling better, data-driven decisions across your projects. By the end of this lab, you will be equipped with the skills to implement and connect your Revit data on ACC to Power BI and create powerful and visually impactful reports that can be shared with external stakeholders, elevating your BIM data analysis to a whole new level!

65p

Panel / Nashville 2025

From Data to Impact: Operational Intelligence with Digital Prototypings

The future of facility operations is digital—and it’s already here. As operators seek to boost performance, extend asset life, and make smarter data-driven decisions, Digital Prototypings are essential. While the potential is vast, success hinges on one thing: adoption. This panel will gather industry leaders who are actively implementing Digital Prototypings. They will share lessons from the field, and unpack the challenges of twining existing facilities—from siloed data and outdated documentation to stakeholder alignment and organizational change. Explore how Digital Prototypings are being used today to streamline facility operations, optimize space utilization, and shape long-term asset and portfolio strategies. Autodesk Tandem VP Robert Bray, Google REWS, Denver International Airport, and other industry leaders will give candid insights into what’s working, what’s not, and how to lay a digital foundation that delivers measurable impact.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Twinfinity and Beyond: Automating Digital Prototypings at Scale at the University of Florida

As the land-grant university in Florida and an R1 research institution, the University of Florida (UF) has an extensive facilities inventory, with buildings ranging from the early 1900s to modern research facilities. With 500+ permanent or significant buildings totaling 30+ million gross square feet, it’s critical to have scalable solutions that combine existing systems and advanced technologies as we embrace Digital Prototypings, artificial intelligence (AI), and streamlined workflows. Using the power of Autodesk Platform Services and the Autodesk Construction Cloud common data environment (CDE), UF has automated the creation of Autodesk Tandem Digital Prototypings, which are fully connected to critical systems—including BAS streaming and back population of time series data, space management, and work management for assets, work history, and costing. Links are embedded in UF systems to facilitate easy access to Tandem from multiple entry points. Automating the manual effort involved in standing up twins has allowed us to focus on what matters: accurate models and timely data.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

GeoTripping: Your Guided Journey Through ArcGIS GeoBIM and Autodesk Construction Cloud

Embark on a hands-on “GeoTrip”—a practical journey into integrating GIS and BIM data using ArcGIS GeoBIM and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC). This session equips attendees with workflows and tools to connect spatial and design data for deeper project insights. Participants will explore how integrated GeoBIM environments enhance decision-making, support more accurate coordination, and improve communication across project teams. We’ll dive into visualizing design and geolocation data together, enabling Digital Prototyping development, real-time issue tracking, and project transparency. Attendees will also see how Revit and Civil 3D models and data are linked to GIS features, enabling spatially contextualized coordination and analysis. The session will also cover how connecting Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and model data lays the foundation for future AI applications, empowering owners and stakeholders with AI-ready, lifecycle-aware project environments.

32p

24p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Data driven collaboration in the battle against rising tides.

In response to increasingly complex engineering challenges and the urgent need for sustainable solutions, seamless digital collaboration has become crucial. Haskoning has pioneered a data-driven interoperability approach that harnesses the power of Autodesk tools such as Revit and Civil3D, alongside proprietary digital tools and calculation modules, through the 'DataFusr' platform. This innovative platform, supporting 300+ users and 150+ projects, facilitates scalable digital collaboration across our organization, driving future innovations. Our Dike Resilience Suite exemplifies this approach, offering a parametric toolset for dike reinforcement studies. By integrating diverse calculation modules and software tools, including those from partners and clients, we enable project teams of up to 20 engineers to develop reliable and collaborative dike designs efficiently and effectively. A single team is now able to execute 4 long-running projects in parallel, instead of consecutively.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

A Holistic, Faster Approach to Low-Carbon Design

Discover how Mott MacDonald is driving low-carbon change across infrastructure sectors through the holistic use of Autodesk products. This approach is crucial to creating a sustainable approach to design, as traditional carbon-reduction methods are often siloed and time-consuming. By adopting a unified approach to the Autodesk suite, we have streamlined product workflows for a faster, more inclusive, and cost-effective decarbonization of major infrastructure projects. Our method has been successfully implemented across three sectors in five countries, significantly increasing our audience by 3x. In this session, we’ll share key technical lessons learned through the Autodesk product suite, Autodesk Construction Cloud platform, and the Autodesk Sustainable Design suite, and provide actionable insights for organizations to make low-carbon decision making a reality. These insights will help empower teams to create real change today.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Topo and Tribulations: The Battle of Toposurface and Toposolid

With the rollout of the Toposolid tool in Revit 2024 software, and the deprecation of the familiar Toposurface tool, site modeling workflows have shifted—and not always for the better. Revit users are facing practical challenges: unmergeable toposolids, fussy floor excavations, and visible boundaries of toposolids that cannot be turned off, to name a few. This session will unpack those pain points head-on and offer field-tested solutions. We'll walk through a hybrid, adaptive workflow that uses Civil 3D software for precision and transitions strategically to the Toposolid tool for documentation and collaboration. With accessible methods and work-arounds, this class will be packed with tactics you can apply immediately. You'll leave with real-world guidance and a clear sense of how to work with Revit software’s evolving terrain tools, instead of against them.

77p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Harnessing Hardware Efficiency: Optimizing Your Configuration and Software Design for Peak Performance

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.

44p

Meetup / Nashville 2025

AECO Community Meetup - Data model fan club

Do you love freeing data from the confines of models and files? Do you dream of dashboards and connectors? Come hang out with your fellow data heads! We'll bring together AEC data model experts, newbies and everyone in between to talk about real-life successes, future possibilities, open standards and everything in between!

Current users and curious prospective users of everything AEC data-related are invited to meet in real life and swap war stories and best practices. Come AEC Data Model API, Content Catalog, Datum360 and Parameters Service fanatics!

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Smarter buildings, stronger outcomes: How BIM and Digital Prototypings transform facility operations

Facility managers, owners, and operators in industries like higher education, healthcare, and government often struggle with siloed workflows, fragmented asset data, and inefficient maintenance processes. This session showcases how Eptura and Autodesk’s connected solutions bridge design and operations, creating a unified digital thread for smarter decision-making. Attendees will see live demonstrations of Eptura’s dynamic workflows with Autodesk Tandem and how the BIM Viewer provides a complete asset picture. Through real-world examples—optimizing campus space, predictive hospital maintenance, and enhancing government asset visibility—we’ll demonstrate how Digital Prototypings improve efficiency, Sustainable Design, and collaboration. Walk away with actionable strategies to leverage BIM and Digital Prototyping technology for measurable impact.

28p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Revit to Indoors: A Management Journey at Denver International Airport

The Denver International Airport (DEN) is widely recognized for its leadership in BIM. As part of a recent modernization initiative, DEN took a major leap forward by extending that BIM vision into geographic information system (GIS) technology—transforming how spaces inside the airport are mapped, managed, and maintained. In this session, you’ll learn how digital facilities and infrastructure (DFI) and GIS collaborated to build an 18-million-square-foot ArcGIS Indoors database spanning the entire campus using detailed Revit models. More than 7,000 rooms in this space management Digital Prototyping are now spatially enabled and linked to identifiers used in asset and facilities systems. We’ll share key milestones from our 10-year Management and cover how recent breakthroughs connected Revit and ArcGIS workflows. From exporting BIM to ArcGIS Indoors to now strategizing about how to push data back to Revit, DEN is building a truly bidirectional BIM-GIS environment—bringing spatial intelligence to new disciplines and teams across the airport.

26p

Meetup / Nashville 2025

BIM & VDC Professionals Meetup

Join us for a collaborative meetup tailored to BIM and VDC professionals
Explore how ISO 19650 is enabling connected data and seamless workflows, and share practical strategies for overcoming implementation challenges; Hear real-world career journeys from BIM professionals who’ve progressed from graduate roles to leadership, offering insights and inspiration for your own path; or dive into BIM/VDC best practices that are shaping more efficient, tech-driven construction.
Whether you're focused on standards, career development, or best practices and future-ready delivery, this session offers a unique space to connect, learn, and grow.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

What is Forma? Discover the Power of Planning & Design in the Cloud

Join us as we introduce Autodesk Forma, a cloud-based, AI-powered platform designed to support smarter decisions at the earliest stages of design. In just 30 minutes, discover how Forma helps you stay ahead of deadlines, eliminate guesswork, improve collaboration in the cloud, and enhance your Revit workflow, all from a single, connected environment, purpose-built for early-stage planning and design. We’ll walk through a key early-stage design workflow and show how Forma works seamlessly alongside Revit and other tools. Join us live to see how Forma streamlines your planning and design processes, from site context and 3D modeling to environmental analysis and design comparisons, all in one place!

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

From Revit to Robot Structural Analysis: Automating Analytical Models for Complex Underground Subway Structures

Cerro Corá Station is not a typical engineering project. It’s a 50-meter-deep and 50-meter-diameter cylindrical subway station, designed to accommodate two future subway lines intersecting within a single structural volume. The central structural element? A massive cylindrical retaining wall with four large structural openings—a challenge for any engineer aiming to maintain analytical accuracy and performance. Manually modeling such a structure analytically is time-consuming and a potential source of serious design errors. To overcome this, we developed a complete automated and interoperable workflow that begins with the physical geometry in Revit software, uses custom Dynamo routines to generate the analytical model—including the segmental wall with its four massive openings—and seamlessly transfers everything into Robot Structural Analysis 2025 software for structural analysis and verification.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

To Fab or Not to Fab? Integrating Fabrication Modeling into Your Design MEP Workflows.

Why struggle with your current outdated workflows to develop design documents? You can integrate fabrication level modeling into your current workflow and be more efficient—spending more time on engineering and less time on modeling! The current industry standard for engineering firms that use Revit software involves focusing on the out-of-the-box content. Firms struggle with the limitations around modeling advanced systems in Revit. If used correctly, Fabrication Parts for Revit can eliminate the amount of rework that is generated around using Revit design systems. Firms have adopted the approach to build better content and develop stronger templates. But still, modeling systems such as plumbing can be labor intensive. Modeling plumbing systems in AutoCAD Plant 3D software or AutoCAD MEP software can help better bridge the gap for those who struggle with plumbing in Revit.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Get Started with Revit API Using Python

The goal of this presentation is to help Revit users who are looking to use code to improve their workflows. Revit API might sound impossible to learn, but it's not that complicated if you follow the right road map. The speaker has created hundreds of Revit add-ins, made about 100 video tutorials on Revit API, and taught hundreds if not thousands of people how to do the same. And this presentation will show you where you should start and which basics you should focus on. This will be a great brief introduction to Revit API basics, and will demonstrate how to apply it to create a custom Revit add-in.

342p

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Shift Left: Applying Manufacturing Discipline to AEC

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.

43p

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