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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.
2p
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
Vibe Coding for the Fearless: How AI Lets Anyone Ship Like a Dev
Artificial intelligence (AI) is unlocking a new era of creativity—but it’s not for the faint of heart. In this session, we’ll show how “vibe coding” empowers developers and product managers alike to move quickly, prototype boldly, and ship without waiting. You’ll learn how tools like Cursor enable fearless experimentation—if you’re willing to let go of old workflows. With real-world proof from Arkance—where a PM built an AI-powered web app solo in 48 hours—this session is a wake-up call: You don’t need permission to build.
32p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Facing the Future: Autodesk Forma and ISO 19650 Challenges in the United States
What do you do when a US-based client unexpectedly asks for ISO 19650 compliance and expects it to be delivered through Autodesk Forma? This session will share where to start, how to interpret the standard in a US context, and how to manage the transition. Our practical insights, workflow strategies, and lessons learned will help prepare you for a rare but potentially growing request in the American engineering landscape.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Connecting 3,000 People to Build Sustainable Data Center Infrastructure Across Europe with Autodesk Forma
Imagine trying to connect a 3,000+ workforce on projects with a capacity of 300+ megawatts across Europe. Sisk has been using BIM and innovative technology for many years on complex data center projects. Our Data Centre Business Unit successfully captured two Autodesk Excellence Awards (2020 and 2022). We’ll take you on our Management journey, and share the valuable lessons learned during each stage of the transition from BIM 360 software to Autodesk Forma. We’ll demonstrate how Autodesk cloud platforms have enabled a holistic methodology that streamlines coordination, improves collaboration, drives Sustainable Design, and contributes to the wider digital / artificial intelligence (AI) data center construction landscape. Providing authentic content, we will give real-life examples from live construction projects where the use of Autodesk tools has resulted in a 50% efficiency increase in the management processes as compared to traditional methods, and we’ll cover how we ultimately design digitally and deliver physically using Autodesk Forma.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Using Autodesk Forma to maximize your company's potential
Today’s demands for increased efficiency and higher-quality deliveries require companies to adopt smart, effective tools that enable seamless collaboration across offices and borders. With the growing importance of working from a single source of truth, consolidating operations under one unified platform is more critical than ever. Join us in this session as we explore how Autodesk Forma, enhanced by intelligent AI-driven capabilities, can help us streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and raise the quality of our work to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving industry.
48p
New Orleans 2022
Infrastructure Project Delivery with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Autodesk Forma
This course will outline the steps to take your infrastructure project from planning into design, on to construction, and finally to operations. The Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection connected with Autodesk Forma will empower designers, owners, and stakeholders to communicate seamlessly during the entire duration of the project. Key elements include Civil 3D-to-Revit workflows, InfraWorks simulations, bridge workflows, clash detection analysis, and collaboration and model coordination in Autodesk Forma. With Autodesk Forma, we’ll demonstrate how contractors can have access to live design documents and files.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
How Do You Get Architects to Care About Data?
Architects aren’t exactly known for loving data. But what happens when bad data costs you money—and reputation? In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of A-lab’s shift to becoming a data-forward studio that clients see as partners, not just consultants. Through a strategic collaboration with start-up AnkerDB and established industry systems like Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Platform Services, Revit software, and Microsoft Power BI, A-lab transformed its Project Delivery workflows, building a connected data ecosystem beyond BIM, to support real-time collaboration, transparency, and carbon-conscious design. We’ll share our “proof of concept” of BIM for lifecycle analysis—linking design and environmental data with benchmarks like BREEAM and the EU taxonomy. With live dashboards and automated workflows, this method boosts client trust, cuts CO2 budgets, and reshapes internal attitudes toward data. Perfect for anyone building the case for data-driven workflows in a skeptical environment.
55p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Building a Supertall Tower: BIM at the Core of Burj Azizi’s Management
This session will showcase a landmark case study of Burj Azizi, the 135-story, 725-meter, supertall tower redefining Dubai’s skyline and urban verticality. Explore how AE7 harnessed the full power of Autodesk’s digital ecosystem—including Revit software, Autodesk Forma, Navisworks software, and advanced add-ins like Dynamo and API and third-party Automation, Integration, & Customization tools—to orchestrate a data-driven, model-centered delivery process. From federated model management and real-time cloud collaboration to 4D construction sequencing and Digital Prototyping integration, this session will dive into how BIM enabled AE7 to navigate the immense complexity of building a vertical city. Discover how digital workflows enhanced multidisciplinary coordination, accelerated construction readiness, and transformed design intent into an immersive, high-performance built reality.
40p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Legacy to Digital Prototyping: Scan. Model. Transform.
Elevating the digital maturity of our clients' factories, we aim to transform traditional manufacturing practices by transitioning from outdated paper-based drawings to the powerful concept of the Digital Prototyping. We start by scanning the facility to generate a 3D point cloud, which forms the base for architectural and MEP models in Revit software. These are imported into Inventor software, where we design and optimize the production line with machinery, conveyors, and robots. Factory Design Utilities software allows us to quickly build detailed layouts. With Navisworks software, we perform clash detection and offer virtual reality (VR) walk-throughs. FlexSim simulates the workflow to ensure efficiency. For data management, we use Vault Pro software and Autodesk Forma, while Autodesk Tandem software improves operations. This journey helps clients move beyond outdated systems and embrace the Digital Prototyping and Digital Prototyping.
48p
Panel / Nashville 2025
Beyond the Numbers: Big Data's Role in Shaping Inclusive Collaboration and Decision Making in Aviation Projects
As the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry embraces Management, big data is becoming essential for delivering smarter, faster, and more resilient aviation projects—and shaping the smart cities they connect. But the real power of data lies beyond collection. It’s about how we govern it, share it, and ensure equitable access across disciplines. This inclusive session will bring together aviation design professionals, BIM leaders, and data strategists to explore how big data is driving meaningful change. Grounded in real-world applications, the panel will examine how big data is being integrated into aviation design and construction workflows, why strong data governance builds trust and enables better decisions, and how collaboration makes data usable across diverse teams. The discussion will also highlight the risks of poor data practices and offer strategies to avoid them. Finally, the session will share forward-looking insights into how inclusive and transparent data ecosystems can reshape the industry.
5p
27p
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
Eliminating Construction Waste As a Pathway to Project Success
Material waste in construction commonly adds up to as much as 30% of procured material and 10% or more of project budget, offering a clear opportunity for optimization. Wasted materials also represent a sizable "forgotten" portion of a building's embodied carbon, infrequently measured or accounted for. This session will start from the premise that material utilization cannot be truly improved in isolation, exploring how the pursuit of more sustainable construction is fundamentally interlinked with other measurable outcomes like quality, schedule, cost, and safety—each worthy of optimization in its own right. Drawing on case studies and backed by Forma workflows, the presenters will show how the pursuit of more sustainable construction correlates with project success. They will argue that lean construction, which aims to root out waste in all its forms, offers a pathway to triple bottom-line success, combining positive outcomes for people, the planet, and profit.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
Efficient Digital Operating Model—Technology Is Not an Absolute Value
A small business from Finland recognized wasteful practices in real estate lifecycle's workflows and decided to tackle that waste by developing an efficient, digital operating model around Forma software and its integrations. It was essential to discard many old practices as obsolete and unsuitable for digital workflow. Technology wasn’t considered to hold any value itself; it was simply an enabler and facilitator. Our approach differs from the giants of our industry. We optimize with smaller projects, then move on to bigger ones. The strength of the model is its scalability. As a company that does construction project management, we affect the industry as a whole—owners, designers, contractors. Explore the traditional methods we wanted to discard and the key factors we wanted to master. Discover how we expanded scope, from efficiency factors to utilizing lean principles and dialectic models. This class will bring you everything we’ve learned so far and examine what comes next.
Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020
Connected Coordination in the Forma
With next generation technology, much of the model coordination process has been transformed through automation and digital collaboration, democratizing the model coordination experience for VDC managers and trade teams. But a truly coordinated experience isn’t possible without connecting all parts of BIM data from design to plan to build. This session will show you how Autodesk is delivering on this new level of connected model coordination and how integrated workflows will deliver best-in-class coordination capabilities.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
Forge Road Map

Are you building apps on the Forge, Forma, or BIM 360 platforms? Are you using Forge as part of your digital transformation strategy—or helping your customers transform their businesses? Do you want to learn more about what the Forge Team has been working on throughout the past year? Come join us to learn about the improved API, the new Forma and BIM 360 APIs, the next generation of API to work with data, and more. See what's new with Forge APIs and what's coming in the next generation of the Forge platform. Get the insights you need to confidently create your application development plans.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Workflow of InfraWorks, Civil 3D, Revit, and Robot Structural Analysis Professional for Civil Engineering
This class will showcase the power of the 2022 workflow of InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Robot Structural Analysis Professional software for civil engineering. We'll demonstrate how to create building site, platform, and gradings proposition with InfraWorks. We'll use Civil 3D to perform earthworks optimization from InfraWorks data. We'll link retaining walls for complex gradings from Revit to Robot Structural Analysis Professional for reinforcement analysis and detailing. We'll integrate the completed building site model in the real context in InfraWorks, which can be shared and collaborated on in Forma software.
Autodesk Product Briefing / Virtual 2020
The Future of Quantification with Forma
Estimating teams play a vital role in winning new business. Yet many of today’s solutions lack collaboration, require a highly manual process, and too often result in siloed data across teams. Join this session to learn how estimators can benefit from next-generation 2D and 3D technology to deliver best practices in quantification and estimating. You’ll also learn how Autodesk will be driving the industry forward with connected, cloud-based, preconstruction planning tools with the power of automated tooling and machine learning.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
Scaling Forma in an Enterprise
Are you curious how a 96-year-old company innovates? Today, the amount of new technology available can be overwhelming to organizations—from point solutions that solve one problem to platforms that require strategy around deployment. Barton Malow faced many of those challenges when overhauling software solutions. In this session, we will walk through the journey that Barton Malow took to modernize and transform business development through project operations. We'll lay out the techniques that the firm used to scale deployment of tools like BIM 360 software, BuildingConnected, and Assemble software. We will also cover how to cultivate a "super user" base to scale within an enterprise for success. In this class we’ll uncover best practices deployed to transform enterprise tools, including capitalizing on Microsoft Teams and learning management systems, and we’ll discuss metrics that are lighthouses informing Barton Malow how to scale Forma.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Enhanced Efficiency and Quality to Engineer Factories and Process Plants
This class will showcase groundbreaking advancements in the engineering process and project execution achieved through the seamless integration of Autodesk tools. Discover how our innovative approach utilizes Autodesk Inventor and Vault for factories and process plants, empowering users to select and automatically convert Inventor models into Navisworks for seamless integration into Forma (B360) projects. Additionally, we will demonstrate efficient Brownfield project capturing using Autodesk Platform Services (shared Views, B360) and the CINTOO platform, enabling us to create high-quality 3D planning by integrating precise laser scans into our designs. We will also explore the powerful simplifying and streamlining complex steel structure modeling to be used in Inventor.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
OpenBIM Workflows at Autodesk: 2025 Edition
openBIM workflows enable interoperability and collaboration among different software applications and stakeholders in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry using neutral, industry-standard formats. These workflows center around Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), an open and neutral data format for BIM. But they also include other formats and technologies such as BCF (BIM collaboration format), bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary), and IDS (Information Delivery Specification). As a follow-up to last year’s session, you'll learn about the Autodesk strategy around IFC and openBIM, the newest and future capabilities of Revit software, and other Autodesk AEC products supporting openBIM workflows. We'll also offer some insights for Revit users to optimize their IFC data exchange and quality. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user of Revit and IFC, this session will provide you with valuable insights and guidance to enhance your openBIM workflows and collaboration.
29p
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