There is a great AEC Hackathon event being held next week in beautiful Copenhagen Denmark. The goal is to break down the silos in AEC design, technology, and the workflows to result in better cities. I will be joined by two of the expertly skilled and amazing Autodesk consultants from our Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery organization. It’s going to be a lot of work and fun.

You should consider attending if you will be in Copenhagen end of next week, or just want to meet and talk innovation over a cup of strong Danish coffee.

Joining me are Paolo Emilio Serra and Jan Liska. These are two of the nicest, humblest, and skilled consultants. I am so grateful to have them join us and they will be a great resource to assist in the teams competing in the Hackathon as floating resources and mentors on what is possible. I will be featuring more of our amazing and unsung coding heroes on this blog who day in and day out make things happen and delight our largest global customers and solving their most difficult workflow challenges.over time. I also plan to share some of their expert tips and tricks to implementing and developing Autodesk tools and technologies.

Paolo Emilio Serra

Paolo’s Blog: http://puntorevit.blogspot.com/

Autodesk University Las Vegas class handout on Computational Design for Civil Engineers. https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/article/Computational-Design-Civil-Engineers-2020

Paolo Emilio Serra is an Implementation Consultant with Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery. Paolo is focused on customer success activities providing domain insight around BIM, computational design, automation and generative design for the Architecture Engineering and Construction industries. He is specifically focused on cross application development. Paolo works closely with many Autodesk Product teams to communicate new product needs and features. He is specifically focused on Computational Design, Linear Structures and Algorithmic Optimization with Generative Design.

Paolo is a construction engineer by trade, worked as BIM Manager in an architectural firm in Milan, Italy for 5 years. He became involved with Autodesk in 2014, supporting customers BIM workflows and Digital Transformation in their business processes. Main focuses are on automation, generative design, integration between AEC and ENI industries. He is involved with process design, requirements gathering, custom development, cross application automation, implementation and training.

Paolo is a certified construction engineer and continues to strive for innovative solutions to manage changes across applications and leveraging cloud based services.

Some Ideas and expertise for the Hackathon:

• · Architecture & Infrastructure Design & Technologies
• · Automation
• · Computational Design
• · Generative Design
• · Business Intelligence Analytics

Jan Liška

Autodesk University Las Vegas sessions:

• Moving Your Jobsite Supervision to Cloud with Forge and Revit
• Developer story: What did I learn when developing enterprise application using Forge
  
  Jan Liska has been working with Autodesk since 2003, initially as software engineer in the Inventor product development and then moved to Customer Success Services organization. He's currently involved in customer projects where we utilize Forge platform.

Some Ideas and expertise for the Hackathon:

• Design Automation (using headless Revit, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, and Autodesk Inventor)
• Forge Large Model Viewer (interactivity & visualization)
• Model checking/validation
• Building sustainability analysis
• Data analytics with Forge & PowerBI

Another AEC Innovation Opportunity in Portland on Mass Timber

Consider joining the AEC Hackathon in Portland Oregon in March. Attend on Friday for the presentations and team forming.

Mass Timber Summit and Hackathon in Portland Oregon
 

Best,
-Shaan