Autodesk University is quickly approaching, and you won't want to miss out on all the amazing sessions, events, and expo hall! Taking place October 15-17, 2024 in San Diego, AU is the conference for those who make anything. From driving digital transformation in construction to implementing sustainable business practices, AU 2024 will be packed with learning and networking opportunities to help you achieve your career and business goals.
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As for why you should attend AU 2024 specifically, here are a few ways this event can help you advance your construction career and business.
As an AU 2024 attendee, you’ll connect with the people behind the products you use daily. The Autodesk Construction Cloud team will be on stage and on the floor to share exciting news and updates.
You’ll hear from key Autodesk product experts and enthusiasts who’ll provide tips on how to get the most out of the latest cloud-based technology. This is your chance to share feedback and learn more about what’s next for Autodesk Construction Cloud.
If you’re looking to the future and want to ensure you’re in the best position to succeed, AU 2024 is a must-attend. You’ll discover emerging trends and technologies and gain new ideas to help you stay competitive in the coming months and years.
AU 2024 will help you see what’s coming next, so you can capitalize on the right opportunities and stay ahead of the competition.
Embracing technology is key for construction professionals looking to progress in their careers today. Notably, construction software and hardware skills are in extremely high demand.
The good news is that AU 2024 offers the perfect environment for learning new technology from Autodesk Construction Cloud products like Autodesk Build, Autodesk Takeoff, and Autodesk BIM Collaborate to products and integrations across our partner ecosystem.
Speaking of our ecosystem, Autodesk prides itself on having a rich network of partners and developers who continuously enhance the software. The AU 2024 Expo will enable you to connect with these trusted partners.
Meet the teams behind the tech and discover solutions and workflows created by Autodesk and our ecosystem members.
AU 2024 has a strong lineup of keynotes, workshops, and live panels led by renowned industry and product experts. These sessions will allow you to ask questions and have lively discussions on construction innovation. Sessions are filling up quickly - make sure you register today to take advantage of these amazing classes:
Join leaders from Edged Energy, Burns & McDonnell, and Gaylor Electric as they unveil innovative strategies for dismantling data silos and enhancing collaboration between owner-operators, general contractors, and trade partners in modular data center developments. This panel will explore the transformative impact of digital delivery, illustrating how unified technology platforms like Autodesk Construction Cloud can streamline communication and data management at a project and portfolio level. Gain insights into the synergistic potential of cross-disciplinary partnerships, and learn how these are critical for developing powerful digital delivery practices. The discussion featuring technology and innovation leads will highlight real-world applications of technology tools, challenges overcome, and the process of driving collaboration across teams throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.
The @one Alliance has delivered more than $1.5 billion in projects throughout the past five years, but is now fast approaching a $3 billion program. Hear about our challenges, successes, and mistakes, and how we’re overcoming them through the application of new technology, innovation, and change in the team culture.
Whether a construction project is simple or complex, it's important that everyone on the project has the same information to deliver work faster. SSOE Group is no stranger to this concept. Named a top architecture, engineering, and construction firm for more than a decade, SSOE Group specializes in delivering complicated, high-stakes projects and sustaining client support through long-term program management, having saved their clients $2 billion since 2009. Even after 75 years in the business, SSOE continuously develops new workflows to facilitate effective cross-team collaboration by using the Bridge collaboration tool in Autodesk Construction Cloud. This agility has contributed to 150 of SSOE’s clients staying with the firm for more than 20 years. Join Luis Angel Garcia from SSOE Group and Matt Burness from Autodesk as they walk through the product basics of Bridge and share SSOE’s best practices of implementing Bridge to standardize data sharing and ensure everyone on the project has the information they need during and after construction.
India’s oldest construction company was established in 1865. Learn how it’s swiftly adapting to the ongoing advancements in cloud-based common data environment (CDE) platforms for efficiently managing highly fragmented construction data generated on a large-scale project in Mumbai, India. In a traditional setup, more than 200 hours of additional time is spent per month across five functions and 12 roles, leading to multiple layers of duplicity of information and data entry. In an attempt to drastically reduce this time spent, the project team has adopted Autodesk Construction Cloud to create powerful workflows that successfully connect teams across various functions, leading to a significant improvement in data transparency and accessibility, and thus closing the gap between site and the project management office. In this session, discover how throughout the last 18 months the platform has been used to create and manage more than 90,000 assets, 9,000 forms, 6,500 files, 1,000 reviews, 600 transmittals, 500 issues, and 50 RFIs—with very little change management involved.
Contractors with subcontractor default insurance programs face ever increasing risk from varying sectors: COVID-19 recovery, recessionary concerns, and rising costs of supply and labor. Ensuring that projects are awarded to the right subcontractor is paramount to deterring potential defaults. The combination of BuildingConnected and TradeTapp has led to a 90% prequalification rate in advance of award. By working bid packages with operations, risk management can detect potential problems and mitigate in pre-award.
This session will involve Mercury Construction—European leader in construction, delivering projects for the world’s leading corporations—and SSEN Transmission, owner and operator of the electricity transmission network in Northern Scotland. Working on either side of the client/contractor fence, Mercury will discuss its respective digital journey and how it embraced the power of Autodesk Cloud Services to deliver excellence and galvanize collective expertise across its teams. Working in different industries, with different targets, you’ll learn how these two organizations developed similar tools and practices to overcome challenges. They will debate the strategies used to achieve success and what may work for one, but not the other. The panel will show the importance of engaging with people outside traditional digital and engineering roles to maximize the impact of digital transformation and ensure everyone is represented, showing that organizations from different industries, with a different outlook, find solutions for similar challenges.
VINCI—a world leader in concessions, energy, and construction—has been using Autodesk software to help streamline its operations and drive its international expansion. With a platform approach, Revit customizations, and building information modeling (BIM) as a standard practice, VINCI has achieved significant time savings of more than 30,000 hours annually, and captured more business abroad. In Q4, VINCI renewed its fourth Enterprise Business Agreement (EBA) with Autodesk, expanding deployment of Autodesk Construction Cloud on major projects to further integrate data and workflows and ensure a seamless transition from design through construction. Together, the VINCI BIM team and the Autodesk Consulting team improved use of these tools by implementing and improving processes and creating customized plug-ins. The latter allow us to match all needs inside our company, which has lots of different disciplines and as many demands.
A recent McKinsey study found that over 80% of executives surveyed say that innovation is among their top 3 priorities, yet less than 10% report being satisfied with their organizations’ performance. In this session, hear from industry leaders, Bill Okland, CEO of Okland Construction, Raghu Kutty, CIO of Power Design and Roger Wahl, CTO of Innovo Group as they discuss their approach towards driving successful innovation while balancing the near-term operational demands. This is not a session to be missed!
This session will explain how to streamline a qualification process, building on TradeTapp’s functionality by extracting qualification data via API and connecting automated workflows. The session will cover how to use custom connectors in Power Automate to extract data and use Power Automate flows to automatically move, create, and update records in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) or database. By doing so, teams can reduce the amount of time spent on internal recordkeeping management related to qualified vendors—such as AP profiles.
Head to the official AU 2024 site to grab your tickets! We can’t wait to see you next month at AU 2024 in San Diego (or virtually)! This year’s event is shaping up to be our most exciting one yet.
