This topic was nominated as the focal topic for Autodesk CEO's investor relations AEC Q1 earnings call on May 28th. The pandemic has accelerated the use of technology in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. As we all settle into the "new normal,” there has been significant technological change. We can no longer create the same traditional design teams and expect to deliver on all of the coming infrastructure work. We must rethink how we build our teams to support all of our clients' needs. As we look to capitalize on immersive collaboration platforms, such as The Wild, we are adding entirely new skill sets and resources to our design teams, including immersive media specialists, digital delivery experts, trainers, and adoption strategists. This is enabling rapid growth to our business and changing the way we deliver our infrastructure projects. As a result, we're developing novel adoption strategies to ensure long-term success for our clients in this new digital reality.

Emerging technologies open up opportunities for utilizing new infrastructure construction approaches. vGIS is redefining construction projects with engineering-grade augmented reality and AI-powered digital twin technology.

As AI rapidly advances, we stand at the crossroads of AI's immense potential and the risk and challenges it brings. How will this revolutionary technology affect our workflows and jobs? Join us to learn how the latest AI innovations can accelerate creativity, visualization, and simulation instead of replacing our skills. Get an inside look at experimental projects that transform co-creation between designers and AI. With the right mindset and tools, we can harness AI as a partner to accelerate our creativity, not replace it. Be part of the AI revolution and discover how to co-create the future of accelerated design and creativity!

The East Bank project—located in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, United Kingdom—provided a rare opportunity to push the boundaries of what's possible in terms of building information modeling (BIM) collaboration and digital delivery. With more than 280 live intelligent models across five buildings, Allies and Morrison, BuroHappold, and Mace had to establish a digital strategy that could facilitate collaborative working across an international team, with a wide range of skills across 70 design and construction teams. This presentation will start from the humble beginnings in the early concept stages, and will take you through the evolution of the BIM strategy over eight years. We'll touch on everything from the use of virtual reality (VR) technology in the design process to complex 3D coordination exercises before the fabrication of building components. Finally, we'll present our use of data analytics platforms to track the development of building asset data, for use in the operation of the buildings.

Discover the power of Twinmotion's advanced visualization capabilities to elevate your Revit design process. This insightful session will delve into the deep integration of Twinmotion into Revit, enhancing decision making and asset management and producing stunning visuals. Through an engaging case study, you'll learn how Twinmotion's real-time rendering, user-friendly features, and Auto-Sync technology enrich the Revit design process. You'll explore Twinmotion's practical applications in Revit projects, creating interactive visualizations with superior asset libraries, dynamic visual effects, and intuitive scene settings. Examine Twinmotion's seamless implementation in real-world projects, understanding its impact on design decisions, client presentations, interdisciplinary collaboration, and model updating. Experience the harmonious pairing of Twinmotion's visualization acuity and Revit software's documentation prowess, which together deliver compelling, innovative architecture.

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, workstations stand as pivotal tools that catalyze innovation and drive efficiency across a spectrum of industries. This presentation sheds light on recent innovations in workstations impacting the building design/construction, product manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Driven by the rapid implementation of new Autodesk tools and integrated add-ins, these industries are continually pushing the limits of computational requirements. In other words, the software "monster" that we have created (and love) needs to be properly fed. In this session we will discuss innovation in CPU, GPU, I/O, and workstation engineering that can benefit the complex 3D, VR, AI, and Reality Capture workflows.

Architects today face challenges in task management, fragmented data flow, project complexity, sustainability, and maintaining quality control. Discover how Forma, Revit, 3ds Max, AR/VR, and other digital tools empower architects to overcome these challenges, automate tasks, foster collaboration, and adopt a holistic approach to design. Join us in this inspiring industry talk where we will explore how these tools are improving the design process, enabling architects to unleash their creativity while addressing environmental challenges and delivering sustainable, future-proof buildings.

Come to this session to see how using Variable Rate Shading in VRED software is a good way to achieve good quality on materials and areas you want to focus on, saving performance on areas that can be rendered with lower quality.

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has opened new frontiers for creative expression and world building, transcending traditional boundaries of imagination. This session will explore the potential of AI-generated worlds in fostering empathy, rituals, and community building, while reflecting on the environmental challenges faced in the Anthropocene. We’ll discuss a case study of an imagined world, that we call Eden. This world was designed to have one-to-one mirrors of the relationships formed between ecosystems on planet Earth, while being different enough to avoid an uncanny valley effect. We’ll highlight the role of AI-generated worlds in providing a mirror for understanding our own planet and community, emphasizing the importance of empathetic practices for planetary interests.

Using examples from recent student work at San Jose State University, this session will present a case study on how the introduction of CAD earlier in design workflow benefitted students with little or no design abilities. It will explore how students were able to ramp up quickly and remove the barriers to entry for learning the industrial design process. Incorporating Fusion 360 in the industrial design curriculum at San Jose State University was pivotal in expanding product development workflows in other emerging technologies that improved students' industrial design development success. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and 3D printing make it possible to maintain continuity in design development and evaluation conversations, while also reducing environmental impact through more sustainable, iterative practice

Educators! Have you been tasked with teaching digital modeling and/or 3D printing? In this session, learn step-by-step, tutorial projects for simple consumer items. You can take these fun, actionable projects back to your classes to help get students started. Projects will include: Finding sketches on the internet, turning them into SVG files with an online converter, and using Fusion 360 to turn them into a cookie cutter and business card; Using Recap Photo to turn smartphone snaps of a statue into a reality capture model, importing the model into TinkerCAD, and editing it into a candy jug.

In this industry talk on visual collaboration and communication in design and manufacturing using VRED software, you will gain valuable insights that can enhance your product development process. The course will explore the importance of visual collaboration and communication, capitalizing on innovative technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and high-end rendering. You will learn how VRED integrates with these technologies to facilitate digital prototyping, remote collaboration, and streaming of design data. Additionally, the course will emphasize the advantages of cloud-based solutions for seamless access to project data and the use of high-end rendering capabilities. Real-world use-case examples will demonstrate the transformative impact these technologies have on communication, commitment, and sales.

Smart cities will be part of our daily lives within ten years, creating a sustainable future for humanity in Industry 5.0. This talk will highlight the key concepts of smart cities, digital twin technologies, and the movement of indigenous futurism to identify solutions for climate change. This session will explore how brands play a major role in this sustainable future, the role of the consumer, and the value we can all add to this.

Industries are converging, and so are the workflows and products that today's leading brands are using. In this session, we'll explore workflows with 3ds Max software for digital representations of products that can be used in a variety of ways, including marketing materials, online product imagery, and real-time applications such as augmented reality with the use of open standards which can also extend into the metaverse.

How to gain efficiencies through a Design Driven Prefabrication BIM Process for Timber Construction? Explore the synergy of design-driven prefabrication and Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Timber Construction. Join us for an enlightening session where we unveil how Timber Construction Companies have seamlessly integrated BIM into their prefabrication processes, yielding remarkable efficiencies. Discover the comprehensive end-to-end solutions that arise from this innovative approach, empowering Offsite Construction Businesses to unlock a cost advantage of 30% or more. Beyond financial benefits, witness how our prefabrication process aligns with sustainability goals, minimizing waste throughout the construction journey, both Offsite and Onsite. Embark on a transformative journey with us as we showcase four decades of Timber Construction expertise seamlessly melded with a cutting-edge BIM Process. Together, we're advancing towards global objectives of affordable housing and sustainable construction. Join the conversation and be part of the future of construction efficiency.

The dynamic between technology and design has shifted and will continue to shift, but this evolving relationship is not always seamless. We can tackle challenges of adoption, integration, and collaboration through open dialog that enables change and works with the transformative qualities of technology. Drawing on experience from Grimshaw, as well as wider industry conversations, Andy Watts will provide thoughts and insight on how industry participants need to work together to embrace technology.

In an era dominated by big data, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and generative AI, the question on everyone's mind is: How can these groundbreaking innovations impact your business? Don't miss out on the opportunity to discover the transformative potential of collaborative digital twin solutions in our exclusive session, hosted by experts from Lenovo and NVIDIA. Picture a world where work becomes more efficient, interactions with decision-makers become seamless, and your supply chain operates smarter than ever before. With the fusion of Lenovo Workstations and the latest innovations in NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, we're here to demystify the challenges of digital twin deployment. Join us, and embark on a journey to master the art of intelligent transformation (I.T). Arm yourself with the knowledge and tools to not just survive but thrive in this new era of business excellence. Your future awaits!

As the relentless march of technology continues, it's becoming increasingly imperative to explore the boundless possibilities and potential of artificial intelligence (AI). In this thought-provoking session, we'll shed light on the exciting developments and chart our course ahead. We'll delve into the evolving landscape of AI, and examine the profound impact it has on industries and society as a whole. We'll embark on a captivating journey that explores the innovative advancements in machine learning, deep neural networks, and natural language processing, among others. And we'll highlight the real-world applications and transformative potential they offer. Renowned AI experts, industry pioneers, and forward-thinking professionals will share their insights, experiences, and strategies for harnessing the power of AI. The discussion will revolve around critical questions, such as: What's next?

Lighting design has always been a difficult discipline to communicate; it’s a challenge for clients and project teams to produce the lighting design in their mind’s eye. This is especially applicable with refurbishment of cultural arts and heritage projects, where the complexity and intricacy of such internal spaces makes the way in which light interacts with surfaces and finishes particularly difficult to convey. From the outset, we've been keen advocates of using visualization tools, such as 3ds Max software, to demonstrate the lighting approach with clarity and photometric accuracy, using a range of 3D mediums—from traditional “static” images to in-house developed interactive tools and experimentation in virtual reality (VR) to “show and tell.” In this session, we’ll provide an overview of these visualization processes through selected case studies of our heritage projects for the likes of Historic Royal Palaces UK, as well as University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.

This session will explore how Autodesk Workshop XR is transforming project coordination, making early issue detection and resolution the new normal. With a seamless Autodesk Construction Cloud integration, we'll discover how to harness the power of Workshop XR to enhance workflow efficiency, bridge communication gaps, and minimize costly reworks and materials waste. We'll show what it's like to walk through a model in virtual reality (VR) at human scale, and review its associated building information modeling (BIM) data—while helping to accelerate team alignment during the design phase.