Architects and BIM teams are generating AI images faster than ever. But outputs rarely connect back to real materials, specifications, or fabrication. This session will draw on three MIT Architecture and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) research projects to show exactly where the design-to-build pipeline breaks down and what fixes it. What we'll cover includes steering AI image generation with element-level references, matching rendered materials back into BIM specifications, and connecting natural language to robotic assembly each finding maps to a workflow that practitioners can act on. You'll leave with research-backed behavioral changes where AI tools genuinely add value in their pipelines and where the gaps need bridging.

Projects shouldn't feel like starting over at every phase yet they often do, leading to lost data, and rework. This interactive lab tackles that challenge through a full lifecycle experience with Autodesk Forma. Experience how one connected workflow can take a project from AI-powered site planning in Forma Site Design, through data management and collaboration, to construction outcomes. Along the way, you'll step into different project roles, experience real-world scenarios, make critical decisions, and achieve the best results across the lifecycle. You won't just learn the workflow you'll experience it, making it memorable and directly applicable to your projects.

The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) will share key lessons learned from its journey toward using BIM, geographic information system (GIS), and asset management for better project delivery and capital planning. Large project and asset owners will learn how Massport turns project, spatial, and asset data into actionable insights for better decision making. This session will highlight how Massport manages more than 200 capital projects across five airport/seaport campuses using BIM-enabled workflows. You'll learn how Autodesk Forma is used as a common data environment to collaborate with design and construction teams, enable on-time digital delivery, and create a virtual campus as a single source of truth supporting Massport's broader digital transformation goals.

Electrical VDC teams routinely enter coordination late, racing to populate models while other trades claim space first. This talk shows how Owen Electric used AI-powered conduit routing to shift that dynamic across three complex jobs in three months. Instead of manually entering electrical data, the team embedded that information from the start and then explored routing options allowing for faster decisions and optimal layout. The result: modeling time cut in half, tens of thousands of feet of conduit populated, in days rather than weeks, returning time back to specs, submittals, and constructability reviews. Attendees leave with a framework to walk into the first coordination meeting fully populated as well as practical tactics to build infill data early so a lean team can take on bigger, more complex scope and meaningfully grow capacity.

Structural teams across design engineering, fabrication and construction face increasing pressure to deliver safe, sustainable, and highly coordinated outcomes on tighter schedules. Designers must produce accurate, analysis-driven models that inform decision-making, while fabrication and construction teams need detailed, buildable information for efficient execution. Discover how Autodesk is advancing model accuracy, enhancing analysis capabilities, and strengthening multi-disciplinary collaboration across the structural workflow, persona and project phases. You'll also get an early look at features in development and get the opportunity to share your feedback directly with the team shaping the roadmap.

When the United Arab Emirates set its Net Zero 2050 target, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MOEI) faced a critical challenge: Project data was spread across disconnected systems in seven emirates, creating delays, inconsistency, and poor visibility. This session will share how the MOEI moved to a connected delivery model using Autodesk Forma, scaled ISO 19650-aligned BIM standards nationally, created a single source of truth, and used AI-powered environmental analysis to support better design decisions. We'll also share what failed, how we handled resistance, and the lessons learned. You'll leave with a practical road map you can apply to government and institutional projects immediately.

This hands-on lab will teach a repeatable early-stage design workflow using Autodesk Forma Building Design through a controlled case study of a famous, modernist, residential icon. Using a shared reference model reduces project complexity and allows participants to focus on workflow, not design invention. Participants move from site context and massing to environmental analysis and iteration then to facade and plan design options evaluated on daylight and solar performance, orientation, and layout design. The workflow supports continuity into Revit software, reducing rework and improving coordination.

The way architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams work across tools has long been fragmented: models reimported manually, analyses running outside the authoring environment, and design intent lost at every handoff. Forma Connected Clients is here to change that. Two of the product managers behind Forma Connected Clients will share insights into the strategy and walk you through a real workflow connecting Autodesk Forma Site Design, Forma Building Design, Forma Board, and Revit software. Hear from customers on what's already shifting. See Autodesk Forma analyses spanning across design applications, keeping multiple models aligned without reimport, and collaborative live design review with Forma Board all in one connected process.

This session will demonstrate how to implement a common data environment (CDE) from scratch for teams using Autodesk Forma Data Management. Drawing on real-world experience with constantly changing projects, the session will address challenges such as version-control issues, rework, permission control, uncoordinated deliveries, and time wasted between disciplines. Participants will learn how to structure folders, define review workflows, assign responsibilities for each stage, and control the flow of information to reduce errors and accelerate decision making. We'll also cover how to create a learning notebook to help avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future.

This comprehensive 90-minute presentation will cover the entire vibe-coding landscape for architecture, engineering, construction, and owner (AECO) professionals. We'll provide platform-agnostic coverage of AI-powered development tools, prompt engineering, token economics, deployment strategies, and real-world AECO workflows from proof of concept to production.

The offsite construction industry is scaling, but the graduates entering it have been trained for a world of bespoke ETO delivery. No accredited degree program teaches configure-to-order workflows, manufacturing product definition, modular interface standards, or offsite logistics. The industry is hiring for skills that schools don't yet teach. This session will present the MBI-CfOC Offsite Construction Accreditation Initiative a joint effort between the Modular Building Institute and the Center for Offsite Construction to establish the first accredited degree pathway for the industrialized construction workforce. With materials nearly complete and first accreditation discussions happening, let's understand what the next generation of offsite-trained talent will know, and how to build a firm that can absorb them.

For years, digital twins have been presented as the ultimate goal of digital transformation. But today the conversation has evolved. The real value lies in creating a digital representation of an asset and enabling it to analyze, predict, and support better decisions via artificial intelligence. This session will explore how engineering models, BIM, reality capture, operational data, and AI combine to create intelligent digital ecosystems. We'll examine the evolution from traditional to AI-enabled digital twins. We'll discuss the role of foundation and domain-specific engineering models. And we'll explore how organizations can leverage existing digital assets to unlock new operational insights and automation. This session will provide a practical road map for those seeking to transform engineering and construction data into actionable intelligence. You'll leave with a clear understanding of how AI complements digital twins and how technologies can drive measurable business value throughout the asset lifecycle. 

Autodesk Flow Studio software is a generative solution in the Autodesk Media & Entertainment Collection. This software helps artists produce layout, create content, and drive home visuals across film, television, and games. This solution can also be used in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) space to help standup Revit content and aid with visuals to maximize customer impact.

Managing Fabrication ITM content effectively is critical to keeping projects on track and teams working efficiently. This session will cover advanced strategies for connector naming and connectivity, helping you build smarter, more consistent content from the ground up. We'll explore tips and tricks using a hybrid workflow using MEP Content Editor in the cloud alongside local products like Fabrication CADmep, Fabrication ESTmep, and Fabrication CAMduct to build and manage content with precision. You'll also learn how to execute mass content changes while modeling jobs are in progress, minimizing disruption and avoiding costly errors. Walk away with strategies you can implement immediately.

Learn how Porsche uses ReCap software, mesh extraction, and Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) to create accurate “last stand” models of production factories before retooling. In high-cost environments where production downtime must be minimized, existing Revit models of assembly lines are compared with current as-built conditions using lightweight, segmented meshes. This enables precise adjustments or extensions of production lines with reduced risk. This session will cover mesh generation, semantic segmentation, and integration into Model Coordination, with real project insights and best practices for large-scale manufacturing environments.

AI tools are not just adding new features to CAD workflows. They are changing where the real work happens.
Some tasks that used to require deep CAD knowledge can now be researched, diagnosed, or automated faster than before. At the same time, more decisions about standards, support, compliance, and workflow ownership are landing on the CAD manager's desk.
This session looks at what is actually changing in day-to-day CAD management, including advanced support research, complex CAD issue diagnosis, CER crash analysis, CAD standards compliance, and using real project and support data to develop better best practices. We will focus on the skills that are becoming more valuable and how to prepare your team before the shift catches you off guard.

How do you turn an intelligent model into a lever for real environmental performance? At the Chabanne office, we developed a suite of custom Revit plug-ins directly connected to live environmental databases (INIES/RE2020). This enabled our teams to query material carbon data, track biosourced ratios, and monitor energy indicators directly inside the model in real time. This outcome-based BIM helped us across different projects especially Thoiry's Kindergarten to reach Passivhaus-level energy needs, exceed the RE2020 2028 carbon threshold, and achieve 1.5 times the Level 3 biosourced label. Through Autodesk Platform Services, plug-ins, Autodesk Forma, Forma Site Design, Forma Building Design, Model Context Protocol (MCP), API, and AI, the intelligent model turned into a decision-making engine for our whole team.

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.

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.