The BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (BC MoTI) plans transportation networks and provides transportation services and infrastructure for the Province of British Columbia. BC MoTI has transitioned from CAiCE and is now using Civil 3D software for consultant and in-house survey, design, and construction administration workflows. This class will detail the entire Civil 3D implementation process, including a BIM (Building Information Modeling)-based approach for the development of workflows and data handoffs, CAD standardization, subassembly and application customization, training and information dissemination, continued support, and documentation. The end product is a Civil 3D terms-of-reference document that describes all of the requirements for using Civil 3D for survey, design, and construction administration tasks, and is applicable to both Ministry staff and private sector consultants.

This session is a high-level strategy road map of how companies with a large project portfolio can use Autodesk Forma to take pragmatic steps within the Autodesk Forma user interface to benefit both in the short term and long term. We'll use real-world examples using Amazon Transportation Engineering Services (TES) as a case study. We'll work through the practical planning of using cornerstone Autodesk Forma features such as Issues and Forms, and we'll look at how building on the use of these features can lead to powerful QuickSight dashboards, and, later, robust machine learning. The presentation will be broken down into three categories: 1) The Foundation: using out-of-the-box Autodesk Forma features with specific use cases; 2) The Frame: building automations and integrations to aid in manual efforts (with a focus on Autodesk Platform Services); and 3) The Roof: advanced machine learning and AI using Amazon Web Services (AWS). For each of these categories, we'll investigate the appropriate tools available in our toolbox (Autodesk Platform Services and AWS).

Managing one of India's largest RE portfolios, Prestige is transforming project delivery to address fragmented systems, siloed data, and limited cross-functional visibility. This session will introduce Prestige NEXTRA, an enterprise initiative to create a connected and standardized delivery ecosystem. We will showcase how Autodesk Forma integrates systems such as SAP, Primavera P6, procurement, and cost tools to improve information flow across design, planning, and execution. You will gain insights into enterprise rollout, governance, and adoption, along with key lessons from scaling digital processes across a large portfolio.

Procurement risk rarely shows up early enough to act on. Most GCs find out about a lead-time problem when a submittal comes back rejected or a delivery date slips by then, the schedule has already absorbed the hit. This session reframes the procurement log from a record of what happened into a signal for what's about to go wrong. We'll unpack what "proactive" actually means in practice: knowing critical lead items before design is finished, prioritizing submittals by schedule impact rather than spec order, and catching a delivery shift the same day it happens not weeks later at the next OAC meeting. With switchgear lead times now stretching past a year and tariff-driven cost escalation, procurement has stopped being a construction activity and become a development-phase decision. We'll discuss what it takes to move that decision upstream and why the construction "data leaders" already doing this see meaningfully higher profit growth as a result.

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.

Procurement issues cause roughly 50% of project delays, and using inconsistent, manual processes for planning/tracking is a recipe for cost overruns and missed deadlines. DPR Construction manages more than 2,000 projects annually, so the stakes couldn't be higher. Success demands disciplined best practices across process, tools, and metrics. In this session, we'll present a proven, measurable procurement planning and tracking approach using tools like Autodesk Forma, ConstructivIQ, and more. DPR has already implemented this across hundreds of projects moving from disconnected workflows to a scalable, connected system. Join us to learn how you can apply the same principles within your own organization to drive more-predictable and efficient outcomes.

Product development is evolving beyond traditional CAD workflows. Join Avnet and Autodesk to see how AI-powered engineering experiences are helping engineers move from concept to manufacturable products faster while making smarter decisions earlier in the design process. Learn how Avnet's component intelligence including real-time pricing, availability, lifecycle data, alternate part recommendations, and engineering content integrates directly into Autodesk Fusion. Discover how AI-assisted design workflows combined with supply chain insights enable teams to evaluate feasibility, manufacturability, and sourcing tradeoffs from the start. By connecting AI-driven design with real-world component and procurement intelligence, engineering teams can reduce redesigns, improve collaboration between engineering and sourcing, and accelerate the path from idea to production-ready products.

Many firm leaders can name the software tools they bought last year. Fewer can say which ones are still in use. Dan Stine, Director of Design Technology at Lake Flato, walks through how his team decides what tools are worth evaluating, what they measure during a pilot to know whether a new tool is achieving its objectives, and what it takes to roll out a tool firmwide, including the parts that did not go as planned. He is joined by Ross Wagner, a former architect and Head of Product Strategy at Pirros, on the patterns that separate the rollouts that take hold from the ones that fall out of use after a few months. Attendees will learn how industry-leading firms evaluate the ROI of new software and incorporate new technology into existing workflows.

Architecture and engineering firms are going agentic. The ones moving now will set the pace for everyone else. This session will get into what that actually means for your practice, with a concrete plan you can act on immediately. An agent isn't a smarter chatbot. It's a system you give instructions, skills, tools, and context and then trust to do real work. Chello, Mosaic's AI planning assistant, shows what that looks like in practice: it watches project deadlines, catches scope creep before it eats your profit, forecasts workload and revenue, and keeps the whole firm's plan current, so leadership is always in control and never caught off guard. We'll cover how agents connect to your existing systems through Model Context Protocol (MCP), how to capture your firm's expertise so it scales across every team member, and when to build versus buy. The firms that get this right will operate at a level their competitors can't match. This session will be your starting point.

AI is changing how work gets done in architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO), but it's also complicating the path forward. Do you wait for a feature, bolt on an add-in, or hack together an AI solution? In this panel, industry experts will respond to real-world scenarios and rapid-fire questions. Drawing from experience across platforms, add-ins, and AI workflows, they'll weigh trade-offs between features, integrations, and fast AI solutions, including what works, what breaks, and what creates risk. This session is for teams working within real constraints. Whether you have development resources or you're figuring it out on your own, you'll leave better equipped to decide what to buy, what to build, and when a quick solution makes sense.

Imagine this scenario: You're a developer and a user identifies a problem that, when solved, could save hundreds of hours per project. Moreover, there doesn't appear to be a solution on the market that solves this problem adequately, so you get to build something. In an industry where users are more likely to buy a story than a product, how do we tell a good story? This discussion will center around our approach to collaboratively translating ideas into prototypes. We'll use generative AI and Autodesk Platform Services as our low-barrier-to-entry tools for the code, and demonstrate the value of building trust in the solution by building it together.

You own a survey-grade scanner. The point clouds it produces sit on a drive, hard to share and useless to anyone who is not a surveyor. This session will show you a different path. See how a point cloud from a Leica, FARO, Trimble, or other scanner becomes a navigable Matterport digital twin, then feeds Autodesk Forma, Revit, AutoCAD, or other design software through the integration your team already uses. You keep the hardware you bought. You make its output usable for the whole project team, not just the person who captured it. Through a live workflow, you'll see Point Cloud Import turn a raw scan into a true 3D model with scan-to-BIM and scan-to-CAD output, and where that model fits against the photo-based documentation tools you may already run. You'll leave able to map your own capture-to-coordination plan and put the scan data you've already paid for to work across design, construction, and closeout.

Industrialized construction is widely discussed but unevenly implemented. This panel will bring together perspectives from research, technology, academia, and industry to examine what it will take to scale prefabrication, productization, and design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA). Drawing on new global research with Dodge Construction Network across five markets, the session will explore why fewer than half of organizations report scaled use despite strong intent. Panelists will test these findings against real-world experience, focusing on procurement, early design decisions, supply chain integration, and workforce capability to identify what must change to reach industry-wide adoption.

The presentation will cover the 4D management of hundreds of machine installations, each with various stages of preparation work required. Previously the workflow involved comparing 2D AutoCAD layouts to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. First, we'll define the prerequisites of having a Factory Design Utilities layout, where the machines are individually laid out in 3D. The layout will then be imported into Navisworks software and prepared for the TimeLiner function. Then, we'll export a schedule as a .CSV with all the necessary details. Next, we'll import the file into Navisworks for the TimeLiner function. We'll show the process of making links, and explain all other necessary setup parameters. We'll run the sim, and export the viewport into a .PPT for distribution. In closing, you'll see an update to the original layout which then reflects in the end results. And we'll even include a change in schedule, to emulate logistical issues. The workflow helps with collaborative agile planning.

At Avnet, our mission is to accelerate the adoption and seamless supply of new technologies. We understand the challenges engineers face when bringing innovative designs to life, and we're here to help. Our latest app is designed to empower engineers by providing direct access to critical resources, streamlining the design process, and optimizing the supply chain. This session will be an engaged demonstration of Autodesk Fusion Electronics and Avnet's App to solve for the most-challenging obsolescence problems within your electronics supply chain

Fragmented data, disconnected tools, and inconsistent workflows continue to limit visibility and slow decision making across complex projects. Vanderlande's projects span design, construction, and operations, and maintaining reliable and aligned information is increasingly challenging. In this session, discover how Vanderlande is transforming project delivery across both airport and parcel logistics projects using Autodesk Forma as a unified platform. While airport projects require tailored approaches for each customer, parcel programs demand scalable, repeatable workflows across multiple sites. Explore how this approach replaces fragmented systems, improves collaboration, and enables consistent delivery across diverse project types.

Want to be the next Tony Stark? Then this session is for you! Come explore this extended reality (XR) buyer's guide with a quick overview of virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) industry workflows, ensuring optimum immersive as well as augmented experiences. As the VR/AR industry advances toward innovative solutions with tethered and untethered VR gear and a wide array of tools, apps, and software, consumers and end users need to make informed decisions about buying and using the right gear, apps, or software for their custom design needs. This class will offer a deep dive into the best VR gear (headsets—wired and wireless, cybershoes, haptic gloves, and so on). We’ll also discuss top-notch VR/AR tools and, most importantly, discover compatibility with our Autodesk software. If you’re looking for information on the best combinations of all of the VR essentials to suit your budget, then this session is your one-stop shop—with recommendations, bonus reviews, and pros and cons serving as an expert buyer’s guide.

Now that you have purchased one of the Vault products, you need to get the environment set up for you and your users. This class will look at what to do once the Vault Server has been installed. We will discuss topics such as creating users and groups, setting up permissions and security, establishing projects and working folders, and getting your CAD content into the Vault itself.

Buying habits have changed due to the global pandemic, with the Retail industry experiencing a reduction of in person shopping. The great return (post lockdown) meant people flocked to bars and restaurants but in person shopping has never recovered with retailers experiencing a 5.7% decrease in sales. Retailers have to reimagine themselves having seen the reality of layoffs and store closures around them The effect of this has accelerated adoption and requirements to provide immersive experiences to allow customers to shop in familiar environments whilst visualizing products they want to buy. It is a pivotal time right now to support this industry as there is a possibility of a sink or swim phenomenon of retailers with varying levels of technology maturity. In this Convergence session we’ll discuss how Autodesk technology can support physicalizing digital retail experiences and enable product buying decisions