Autodesk
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This is really exciting: for the first time, Autodesk Research - and specifically the Enlivened Design team - will be participating in the London Festival of Architecture, hosting a workshop at our office in Covent Garden on Friday June 26th, 2026. The LFA kicked off this week and runs through the month of June. This year's event has the theme of #Belonging, which is perfectly aligned with our research interests. Be sure to check out the programme! Here are some details about our workshop from the LFA website and the Autodesk Research LinkedIn post: Encoding Experience: Rethinking how software shapes…
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In a few weeks I'll be heading back across to Canada for several meetings. During the week of June 15th I'll be in Toronto for internal meetings, then I'll fly across to Calgary (somewhere I haven't been since the early 2000s) on my way to Banff to participate in the SocialSys'26 workshop ahead of the ACM BuildSys conference in Banff. For many old-time Autodeskers, the name Banff immediately brings back memories of AutoCAD, specifically the 2000i release, which had Banff as a codename. This will be my first time visiting Banff - and speaking at BuildSys - so I'm very…
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After an incredible week at TechX in Seattle, I headed back to Europe, but not yet homewards. I changed planes in Frankfurt on my way to Alicante for a friend's 60th birthday. I hadn't slept at all on my flight from Seattle to Frankfurt as - despite having a seat with decent legroom - I had someone next to me who was clearly severely alcoholic (trust me, I'm not one to judge) and was literally sweating alcohol. There was no way I could sleep with the smell of his sweat next to me. By the time I arrived in Frankfurt…
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On Saturday I once again headed to my local railway station to start my journey to this year's annual technical conference for Autodesk employees, TechX 2026. It was, as ever a lovely train journey to Zurich. There were some engineering works, so I had to change trains in Zurich's main station. Not uncommon for a weekend. This year's event was in Seattle. There isn't a direct flight from Zurich, so my first flight was to San Francisco. The flight was uneventful. I had a middle seat but at a bulkhead, so I was actually really comfortable. I'd been warned by…
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I haven't posted since DevCon - other than the excellent guest posts being contributed by Patrick Nadeau - as we've entered quite a busy time of year. My team has now delivered a couple of shareouts for our company's senior leadership, and we'll shortly be going into the Research organisation's mid-year review cycle for our various projects. Anyway, this week has given me a bit of a breather: while Friday was a holiday in Switzerland, today is a holiday in the UK and Canada, presumably for Star Wars Day. May The Fourth Be With You Always! At the weekend I'll…
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Wednesday marked the start of this year's DevCon, after the warm-up day on Tuesday. Things started with a breakfast in the Expo Hall. (These pictures are actually from later in the day, when I happened to be upstairs by the balcony.) Autodeskers were asked to attend the keynotes in the overflow room. The main takeaways for me from the Day 1 keynote were around the imminent public availability of official MCP servers for some of our products, as well as the fact that Autodesk Assistant will be able to call MCP servers that partners have certified in our Design &…
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On Monday evening I started my journey across to Amsterdam for this year's Autodesk DevCon. In this post I'm going to spend an inordinate amount of time talking about this journey, mainly because it was a little different. I took a couple of very standard Swiss trains to get across to Basel. My main hack when it comes to Swiss trains is to camp out in the restaurant car: these are typically very comfortable and give you a feeling of luxury for the price of a second class ticket. Not that I have to travel second class, but I only…
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This week I've finally accepted the winter is over… here's a snap from yesterday, my last day on the slopes for this season. It's now time to think about spring, and where better to do that than Amsterdam? Alright, there's no need to mention say Paris or Osaka… spring is lovely in lots of places, but I happen to be going to Amsterdam. So there. Next week it's once again the Autodesk DevCon at the excellent and iconic Beurs Van Berlage conference venue, a short walk from Amsterdam Centraal station. In fact I'll be walking across from there on Tuesday…
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Autodesk University 2026 will be held in-person in Las Vegas - and online around the world - from September 15-17. The Call for Proposals for AU 2026 is open until April 7. You can find more information - including an FAQ and a handy worksheet for planning your proposal - on this page. Here are the class types available for this year's event. The first two are also available as part of the digital experience. Technical Deep Dive (30 or 60 minutes) Strategy Talk (30 or 60 minutes) Hands-on Lab (90 minutes) The above-linked FAQ includes information on how best…
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I'm starting to get quite excited about Autodesk DevCon 2026 in Amsterdam. Just getting there is going to be an experience: I'm taking the NightJet service - a sleeper train - from Basel to Amsterdam, arriving the morning of the pre-conference day, during which I'll be hanging out at the Dynamo Hackathon. I've taken night trains in the past - several times in India and once from London to Edinburgh - but this will be my first time taking one in mainland Europe. I do hope I arrive rested. 🙂 Anyway, the Dynamo Hackathon is going to be a really…