Join this session to learn how a web-based configurator built with Autodesk Platform Services can help to improve sales. With an easy-to-use web tool, we'll see how nontechnical users can design interior floor plans and produce high-quality rendering. From enhancing traditional path-tracer renderings to offering new WebGL optioneering workflows, let's explore what new AI rendering techniques can do in a fraction of the required traditional time and cost.

Digital factories offer manufacturers critical benefits of efficiency, innovation, and stability — but they're only truly effective if they are designed, built, and operated thoughtfully. In this first session of the Digital Factory Symposium, you'll hear from top leaders about the opportunities they see for companies who are implementing a digital factory. *This session is part of the Digital Factory Symposium, a learning pathway and networking experience on Wednesday, October 16. To see all related sessions, select the "Digital Factory Symposium" filter. If you would like to attend the private welcome reception on Tuesday, October 15, please email DigitalFactoryAU@autodesk.com.

Uncover how Autodesk's transformative cloud technologies are reshaping the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry and bolstering sustainability. This session will dive into Ramboll's digital transformation journey, using Autodesk solutions in a data-centered approach—part of a broader data and AI strategy. Ramboll and Autodesk's innovative partnership, "Together for Better Outcomes," addresses industry challenges and delivers superior results. A distinct case study features Camino, a key solution developed in this partnership, along with tools like the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform, Autodesk Forma software, and Revit software. These tools equip every project member with vital knowledge, fostering sustainable decisions from design to construction. Detailed examples will underline how a data-centered strategy curtails resource waste and energy consumption, emphasizing the role a data platform plays in sustainability.

In this talk, we will explore the integration of AWS Bedrock with Autodesk Platform Services to create custom chatbots capable of answering complex analytical questions about your design data. Attendees will learn how to harness the power of advanced machine learning models and cloud services to provide real-time, insightful responses to design queries, streamlining the engineering and design workflow. The session will cover practical implementation steps, key benefits, and use cases, demonstrating how these intelligent chatbots can revolutionize design analysis and collaboration.

Hospital design is complex and time consuming, involving numerous stakeholders. We will present innovative advancements in the field with an outcome-based building information modeling (BIM) approach, seamlessly incorporating AI and granular data. We will provide insights into the functionalities of our hospital data management platform connected to Autodesk Construction Cloud with Autodesk Platform Services APIs, thus facilitating bidirectional integration with digital models. We will showcase how our generative deep-learning solutions simplify the incorporation of biomedical equipment and medical furniture, streamlining the design process and enhancing collaboration among stakeholders. Join us to explore the transformative impact of these technologies on hospital design and management, culminating in higher efficiency, improved decision-making capabilities, and, ultimately, better patient outcomes.

The landscape of automotive design is rapidly evolving, driven by the transition to electric architectures and the emergence of agile new competitors. This evolution places immense pressure on design studios to streamline their development processes. At Autodesk, our AI teams are dedicated to assisting these studios in unleashing their creative potential and achieving unprecedented levels of productivity. At this year's Automotive Innovation Forum, we gave a tech preview of Form Explorer, the first AI capability delivered within Alias software. With Form Explorer, automotive concept designers can effortlessly generate and refine 3D concepts within seconds, seamlessly transforming them into functional SubD surfaces. This creates the potential to expedite the creation of proportional exterior designs. This groundbreaking tool harnesses a fusion of AI capabilities exclusive to Autodesk, paving the way for a suite of innovative design interactions within Autodesk's arsenal of tools.

In this talk, we'll explore the transformative potential of generative AI (GenAI) in streamlining conceptual design processes. Our one-year collaborative journey with Kia Motors led to the development of a GenAI wheel concept design tool that bridges design inspiration to creation. Join the talk to discover how GenAI accompanies designers from establishing design directions to exploring design options, facilitating intuitive design workflows. Learn how to harness GenAI's capabilities to interpret designers' inspirations, generating limitless variants efficiently. We'll also discuss how we integrated design constraints into GenAI, providing designers with greater control. Join the conversation and explore the challenges and opportunities for GenAI to streamline your design workflows.

The session will provide an overview of the collaboration between Final Aim and Yamaha Motor to co-create a unique EV designed for agriculture. Using generative AI from the conceptual phase, the project exemplifies the integration of AI into industrial design processes to create innovative solutions for specific functional requirements. Generative AI facilitated extensive ideation, producing more than 2,000 design ideas—which led to a distinctive, practical vehicle design with high visibility and load-bearing features. In parallel, the project incorporated blockchain technology to manage and safeguard design data, intellectual property, and design contracts, demonstrating an advanced approach to maintaining data integrity and authenticity in the manufacturing industry. The project highlights the capabilities of generative AI and blockchain in design and manufacturing. It addresses the complexities of design process, data, and intellectual property in the era of AI-driven creation.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. Innovation requires change not just from each of us as individuals, but also from organizations. Learn how companies from across the Design and Make industries have broken down boundaries between teams, restructured hierarchies, empowered people, encouraged professional development, and adapted to the challenges and opportunities of transformation to create businesses that are more resilient, more collaborative, and more competitive.

AI is transforming every company. An organization's technology stack needs to be flexible enough to respond to all the business demands for AI—now and in the future. For Autodesk users, the same systems that run your design technology today will be the main tool to access AI features both in the cloud and on your local machine. That combination of local and centralized AI features is important to understand as we implement the next generation of technology. In this panel, leaders from Dell Technologies, Intel, and NVIDIA will discuss the role of AI at the edge and how to build a strategy that works for the road ahead.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. Every form of automation brings important ethical considerations and a new relationship between people and the machines they use. AI is no exception, as it enables us to automate processes that were previously only possible through human effort. How can we keep human, community, and environmental needs centered as we seek better ways to design and make with AI? Explore how we can make purpose a central pillar of progress and make intention key to innovation in this new era.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. AI has gone from science fiction to key industry tool in just a few years, and new possibilities emerge every month. From generatively designed cars to autonomous buildings to push-button VFX that can be used by any filmmaker, explore how AI technologies are unlocking new design and make processes and outcomes, redefining collaboration, augmenting creativity, and enabling professionals to work with data in powerful new ways.

Explore industry trends and pioneering ideas from leaders in the Design and Make community. Theater sessions feature short talks on critical themes, from AI and the future of work to business resiliency in a time of digital transformation. Walk-ins are welcome. From better hospitals to healthier neighborhoods, learn how we can put people first in the design process and evaluate potential buildings and infrastructure according to experiential metrics. It's all about making spatial, social, and emotional data indicators part of the design methodology and elevating the user experience while improving environmental impact.

New tools like AI are automating tasks and giving us ways to analyze big data in new ways. But what does this mean for the CAD manager? Is the role more important than ever? Or is it outdated and headed for extinction? This award-winning panel is back to share insights on the digital transformation and important lessons learned from decades of experience. Learn from this panel of diverse CAD managers that are widely respected as leaders in their field. Hear their unique perspectives and solutions to challenges facing CAD managers from organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. The panel will discuss how new tools can make you more effective, while sharing where you need to enhance the human element. Hear how they've worked to embrace the future, while not forgetting the past and being productive today. Join us for a panel discussion that has become an anticipated AU tradition. Take this opportunity to learn from four CAD managers who have been there and done that.

Join us for an in-depth exploration of the latest advancements and future directions in Fusion 360 at Autodesk University. This session, "Fusion Roadmap: Design, Engineering, & Manufacturing," will guide you through the innovative features and upcoming enhancements that are transforming the way we approach design, engineering, and manufacturing.

Learn how generative AI can revolutionize product engineering and lifecycle management. This session will focus on key challenges in the manufacturing product lifecycle, such as the reliance on 2D drawings and PDFs, the time-consuming nature of model creation and analysis, and the complexity of assembly modeling. With a focus on practical applications, we'll discuss how generative AI can address these challenges by transforming engineering workflows and enhancing efficiency. And we'll look at the impact that generative AI (powered on Amazon Bedrock) has on the manufacturing lifecycle. We'll explore Autodesk Fusion 360 software, and we'll showcase the potential of integrating a chatbot or plug-in within Fusion 360 that can assist designers in rapidly building models and accelerating the design process.

This case study explores how we automatically ingested Autodesk Construction Cloud building information modeling (BIM) content (3D model, drawings, docs) using generative AI, knowledge graph technologies, and SAP gateways to automatically generate assets in SAP. This smart handover provides operations with an adapted data framework enabling rapid information contextualization to support any field engineering or maintenance problem-solving activities. In this POV—executed in collaboration with Autodesk, Capgemini, and Cognite—we've explored solutions to the two following business problems: How do we reduce the postdelivery bottleneck of asset creation in SAP from 12 months to less than one month, enabling bidirectional updates between SAP and BIM data sources? How do we reduce downtime and improve reliability by decreasing the response time following an event by 70%–80%? And how do we eliminate the burden of manual data gathering (contextualization) across multiple siloed systems and provide co-pilot support (generative AI) to summarize and correlate data sources?

As technology continues to evolve, the intersection of 3D design and artificial intelligence (AI) presents exciting opportunities for innovation in content creation. In this session, we'll showcase experimentation with innovative techniques—namely, ComfyUI, ControlNet, and Stable Diffusion—to forge a future pipeline that seamlessly integrates 3D rendering with AI-driven processes. We'll outline a visionary approach toward empowering artists and streamlining the content creation process. By using advanced AI algorithms and data-driven insights, we aspire to give artists greater control over their creations as they enhance their efficiency and creativity while using Autodesk tools, specifically Maya and Arnold software. Our vision for the future pipeline revolves around achieving a seamless transition from 3D design to AI render, while empowering artists with unprecedented control over their creations.

This course aims to educate participants on the innovative integration of machine learning (ML) techniques for deformation approximation within Maya software. Using approximations for (part of) a deformation stack can highly improve interactivity when using complex rigs, and can significantly improve the portability between different applications. It is designed for animators, game developers, VFX artists, and any professional interested in exploring the intersection of ML and 3D animation. This course will explore a demo of a rig with computationally expensive muscle deformations that is reduced to a simple, general, black-box neural network that only requires inputs from the motion system. We'll show the entire setup process in detail. In addition, we'll go over best practices, tips, and limitations to help users get the most out of this tool for their production needs.

This academic-focused case study will explore how Autodesk Forma software transforms a student's approach to architectural design with a new outcome-based model. Learn from early examples of Autodesk Forma being used in classrooms of architecture programs across Europe and the United States, and understand why students pick up Autodesk Forma quickly, using contextual automated project setup, smart 3D-design tools, and integrated, AI-assisted, real-time feedback on project outcomes to transform their learning processes. Hear from experienced architecture practitioner and educator Daniel Stine about how his graduate students embraced this new way of thinking within their design processes, and why teaching Autodesk Forma software's in-market offering is instrumental in realizing Autodesk's vision of Autodesk Forma as the architecture, engineering, and construction industry cloud. With these vital skills, students will be well-equipped to play a critical role in addressing climate change and securing their dream professional careers within the industry.