Autodesks Automotive Innovation Forum 2019

This is “one of those weeks”, with presentations in Munich on Wednesday, Barcelona on Thursday and London on Friday. I haven’t had a week like this since the old DevDays tours. The good old days!

I arrived on Tuesday night at Munich Airport.

Someone walking through Munich Airport

Wednesday’s event was the Automotive Innovation Forum in Munich. It’s the first time I’ve attended this event, and it proved to be very interesting: around 560 automotive customers came to the Hilton at Munich Airport to learn about our automotive-related offerings (primarily Alias and VRED but also our generative design tools).

The Hilton at Munich Airport

AIF 2019 welcome

The day opened with various keynotes. I particularly enjoyed those by Rivian and BMW design.

Rivian's keynote

BMW's design keynote

I was part of the “Experience” track, which was kicked off by Daniel Darancou from Qiantu, an emerging Chinese EV company:

Daniel Darancou from Qiantu

I was asked to talk about “Digital Twins for Factories of the Future”, which largely meant talking about Dasher 360 and how it’s progressed from buildings to infrastructure and onwards…

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