Join construction leaders from cmBuilder.io, Laing O'Rourke, and McCarthy Building Companies as they explore how digital site planning is transforming the way complex projects are won and delivered. Learn how empowering field teams with intuitive 3D and 4D planning tools is democratizing construction logistics reducing reliance on specialists while enabling project managers, superintendents, and site teams to take ownership of planning and coordination. Discover how digital simulation of construction sequencing, logistics, and site operations helps teams validate plans before work begins, identify risks earlier, improve stakeholder communication, and optimize project execution. Through real-world case studies from major projects in the United Kingdom and North America, this session will demonstrate how digital site logistics plans are helping contractors win more work, improve collaboration, and deliver safer, more efficient projects.

Irrigation systems are often managed in silos: Reservoirs, canals, and farm distribution lack integrated visibility, leading to inefficiencies and water losses. This session will demonstrate how Autodesk water infrastructure solutions can create a connected, data-driven irrigation system. InfoWorks ICM is used to model river basins and canal hydraulics, while InfoWorks WS Pro simulates pressurized distribution networks. InfoAsset Manager structures irrigation assets for seamless integration, and Info360 Insight enables real-time monitoring and operational decisions. In this session, you will learn practical workflows to improve water allocation, reduce losses, and enable demand-based irrigation using simulation, asset intelligence, and analytics.

Digital twins are moving from concept to reality, but success looks different for every organization. This session will bring owners, operators, technologists, and consultants together to discuss moving from digital models to operational twins. Panelists will highlight different types of digital twins, from simulation-based twins like FlexSim to operational and asset-based twins like Autodesk Tandem, enabling connected asset data and certainty from design through operations. The discussion will compare platform ecosystems, use cases, and scaling strategies across the asset lifecycle. You can expect examples, lessons learned, and open dialogue on what works and what doesn't, while connecting with peers shaping the future of digital twins.

Today's architects are integrating sustainability analysis early to reduce environmental impact and meet carbon targets. Yet early design has traditionally relied on intuition due to limited data. This hands-on lab will introduce an outcome-based workflow that brings actionable carbon insights into early-stage design. You'll use Autodesk Forma, Revit, and Insight to move from conceptual massing with real-time operational and embodied carbon feedback to detailed analysis, including Energy Use Intensity (EUI) and carbon trade-offs across design options. Through dashboards, metrics, benchmarks, and simulation factors, you'll learn to optimize carbon performance and enable cross-disciplinary, data-driven design decisions.

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 has transformed design and simulation, yet its role in real-world making where materials, tolerances, and human judgment converge remains emergent. Fabrication is variable, unforgiving, and governed by physics that challenge AI tools. This panel will explore the current state of AI in manufacturing and construction, focusing on how agentic systems can augment, not replace, skilled practitioners. Drawing on applied research from the Autodesk Technology Centers, we'll share how we train AI on real fabrication data, develop physics-informed models, and test intelligent, automated manufacturing workflows. Join experts across domains to examine how human-AI collaboration can drive impactful outcomes from factory floors to jobsites.

Don't attend this session if you're looking for yet another boring hardware session. This won't be that. Join Lenovo with Intel's global workstation user and segment lead for an engaging, (almost) vendor-agnostic look at how Autodesk workstations are evolving and what it means for your projects and future investments. Is an AI PC good enough for Autodesk software? Are more CPU cores always better? Which upgrades deliver real value and which just add cost? We'll cut through the hype to explore how Autodesk workflows use CPUs and GPUs, and we'll examine how the NPU is used by other software, as well as for AI technologies. Learn how modern SoC architectures are reshaping visualization, simulation, rendering, and AI-enabled workflows. You'll also discover workstation buying trends, future technology directions, cost-saving opportunities, and critical security considerations often overlooked by professionals. Whether you're evaluating AI PCs, planning your next workstation refresh, or future-proofing your Autodesk environment, you'll leave with practical insights and a clear understanding of what matters most in the next generation of workstations.

Unwanted vibration can lead to equipment failure, structural fatigue, and costly downtime. In this technical deep dive, we'll walk through a practical modal and frequency-response workflow in Inventor Nastran software using a fully generic vibrating‑machine model. You'll learn how to identify natural frequencies, interpret resonance behavior, tune stiffness, shift critical modes, and validate safe operating ranges. This session will deliver a repeatable, production-ready simulation workflow for engineers working with vibrating systems across mining, manufacturing, and machinery design.

In this session, we'll share a strategy discussion into ReCap software's new mesh workflow for creating scan-derived meshes that perform reliably in Model Coordination in Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) and Navisworks software. Using a confidential project case study, you will see how our team processed 1 TB of scan data across 1.2 million square feet and resolved repeated model crashes that disrupted access for virtual design and construction (VDC) engineers and trade partners. By moving from Leica Cyclone 3DR to ReCap-generated meshes, we improved mesh quality, stabilized performance, streamlined scan-to-coordination workflows, and enabled automated clash detection with existing conditions for more-reliable downstream delivery.

Have you ever wanted to design a part but weren't sure how to approach it using the available tools and materials? Would you like to analyze existing products to identify optimizations or potential failures before they occur or transform current designs into smarter, more capable products? In this hands-on lab, we'll use Autodesk Fusion to work more effectively across key stages of the product lifecycle from initial concept to optimization and intelligent enhancement. Using a smart desk lamp as our example, we'll explore three distinct workflows: designing a manufacturable component from scratch, analyzing and optimizing critical parts, and finally enhancing the product by integrating electronics to create a smarter, connected system.

Modeling is no longer just about clean quads and edge loops it's about data integrity for a global pipeline. As studios transition to OpenUSD, Maya artists must evolve their workflows to ensure assets are portable and performant. In this technical deep dive, we'll move beyond basic topology to explore the authoring of "smart" USD assets. We'll cover the latest Maya 2026 USD modeling tools, demonstrating how to manage complex hierarchies, variants, and metadata within a single file. You will learn how to optimize meshes for seamless deformation across platforms and avoid common pitfalls in a multisoftware environment. Stop modeling for a single scene start building assets that thrive in a universal production ecosystem.

In this hands-on lab, you'll experience a connected digital factory workflow by executing it in real time. Starting with a 2D factory layout in AutoCAD using Factory Design Utilities, you'll convert it into a 3D model in Inventor with a single click and bring it into FlexSim for simulation. The lab will also demonstrate how design changes are synchronized across AutoCAD, Inventor, and FlexSim, ensuring a connected workflow and reducing manual rework. You'll gain practical skills to move from layout to simulation in minutes.

Turning point clouds into reliable BIM inputs is still a challenge for many architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) teams. In this lab, you'll execute a complete, field-tested ReCap Pro workflow that transforms scan data into structured, interoperable mesh models ready for enhanced design and collaboration. Guided by subject matter experts, you'll apply automatic classification to generate clean meshes, standardize outputs using Template Manager, map Revit categories, and export IFC models for downstream BIM use. You'll then use these outputs as modeling references in Revit and validate them through coordination workflows in Navisworks and Model Coordination. Walk away with a repeatable, end-to-end scan-to-BIM process that reduces manual remodeling and accelerates coordination across project teams.

Many organizations adopt Autodesk Forma industry cloud as their common data environment (CDE) for BIM collaboration. But complex infrastructure projects rely on far more than BIM tools alone. Traffic modeling, hydraulic analysis, geotechnical simulations, and geographic information system (GIS) workflows often depend on specialized software that cannot operate effectively within cloud collaboration platforms. This session will show how Parsons implemented a practical CDE architecture with Autodesk Forma at the center of coordination while supporting discipline-specific production environments. You'll learn how clear governance, ISO 19650 alignment, and defined workflows can unify multidisciplinary collaboration without constraining engineering delivery.

AI is changing how products are imagined, explored, and developed from the earliest stages. In this partner panel, Vizcom, Avnet, and Naya Studio will show how their Autodesk Fusion integrations bring AI and intelligent automation into conceptual design and the early stages of product development. Attendees will learn how Vizcom connects AI-powered concept visualization with Fusion design workflows; how Avnet supports electronics decisions, BOM insight, and early supply-chain awareness; and how Naya Studio connects Fusion models with the briefs, sketches, feedback, and approvals around them while turning Fusion geometry into early cost and sustainability insight. Together, these partners help product design teams turn early ideas into informed concepts and make smarter decisions before downstream development begins.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the AEC space. Bringing new capabilities to Autodesk applications such as Revit, AutoCAD, Forma, Construction Cloud, and emerging AI-powered design and productivity tools. Realizing the full value of these innovations requires more than software it demands modern, AI-capable hardware. This session explores how workstation architecture, including high-performance CPUs, professional GPUs, dedicated AI accelerators, and optimized memory and storage configurations, enables faster design iteration, intelligent automation, real-time visualization, and enhanced collaboration. Attendees will learn how AI workloads are changing hardware requirements across BIM, CAD, visualization, simulation, and reality capture workflows, and how to future-proof their technology investments. Join us to discover why AI-ready workstations are becoming an essential foundation for the next generation of Autodesk-powered AEC projects.

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create, manage, and maintain analytical models in Revit for the purpose of structural analysis, BIM coordination, and design documentation. You'll explore how to keep analytical and physical models coordinated as your design evolves, prepare your model for structural analysis, and bring analysis results back into your BIM workflow. By the end of the session, you'll be able to close the loop between design and analysis, improving accuracy, efficiency, and collaboration in your structural projects. The session is for structural engineers and technicians who design and coordinate for BIM.

Around 80% of a building's environmental impact is determined in the first 20% of design, yet this phase often relies on intuition rather than data. This presentation will introduce GHD's outcome-based workflow that embeds predictive AI and cloud simulation into early design, providing carbon insights when decisions matter. Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) enables real-time evaluation of wind, thermal comfort, and early embodied carbon from simple massing models. As designs progress, Autodesk Forma Carbon Insights (formerly Autodesk Insight) calculates energy-use intensity and examines trade-offs between operational and embodied carbon. The result is an iterative, data-driven approach that integrates carbon performance into design and enables credible sustainability narratives from project inception.

Laser scanning has become indispensable for capturing existing conditions, yet getting that data into Revit efficiently remains a challenge for many firms. This class will show a proven real-world workflow from registering point clouds in ReCap software to structuring and linking RCS files into Revit across a cloud-connected team in Autodesk Forma. Beyond today's best practices, we'll explore how the ReCap 2026 scan-to-segmented mesh capabilities and classification features can fundamentally transform the scan-to-BIM pipeline. As meshes increasingly replace raw point clouds as the geometry reference standard, you'll leave with both a time-tested workflow you can implement immediately and a clear-eyed view of where this technology is headed.