On Sunday I'll be heading to the US for a pretty full-on week, split between Autodesk University 2025 in Nashville, from Monday to Wednesday, and the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) 2025 conference in San Diego, from Thursday to Saturday.
I asked AI to create an image morphing Nashville with San Diego and it came up with this. I know neither city well enough to recognize whether it succeeded, to be honest.
There weren't any direct flights available between the various legs, so this is what I ended up with. It could always be worse, I suppose.
On Monday I'll for sure be at the Dynamo & APS Hackathon in the morning, and 90% sure will be at the Platform Leadership Forum in the afternoon (the 10% uncertainty is in case I end up joining a Hackathon team or am otherwise needed). Both events are at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville. The evening will be a frantic bit of hopping between the post-pre-conference drinks thingy (I do wish they'd called it that), the Speaker Social and the AU Welcome Reception. All of which are overlapping and quite probably in different locations. Should be interesting!
On Tuesday I'll be at the Expo Hall when it opens after the General Session - be sure to come by the Autodesk Research area where I'll be helping people play a fun game that's a bit like a sorting hat (for the Harry Potter fans) for roles in our Research organisation. Employment is not guaranteed, unfortunately. My class is in the last slot of the day, which might well be a bit of challenge, jet lag-wise. We shall see.
Wednesday is a little more free, but it's also the day I'll be leaving for San Diego. I hope the stars align on my flights, as I have a short layover in Minneapolis and a late arrival into San Diego.
Thursday to Saturday's ANFA 2025 will be a new experience for me and my team: we're sponsoring the event, and will be showing a special version of Workshop XR that attempts to capture - via speech analysis - the human experience of virtual, architectural spaces.
We think this area of research is likely to be of some interest to the neuroarchitecture community and we'll soon find out whether that's true. If you're reading this and will be at ANFA, please stop by our table (it's definitely not a booth - it's not that kind of conference) and take it for a spin. We'd love to talk to you about our work!
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