On Tuesday morning, the beginning of the first day proper of Autodesk’s DevCon Europe 2025 in Amsterdam, attendees started to arrive at the historic Beurs van Berlage.
It’s really a beautiful conference venue.
It wasn't long before I was catching up with old friends, including past and present Autodesk employees.
The Piro brothers are regulars at Autodesk events, although they're now there with different companies.
For the first day's general session employees were asked to use an overflow room with a large screen.
I ended up standing at the back.
I propped my machine on a table holding a scale model of the value, so I could catch up on some work. The table wasn't locked into place, which made for several funny moments as people leaned on it from one side or another and it started to move.
I didn't attend m any sessions, but I did stop by a few. Here's one by Stephen Brockwell from Esri.
The main exhibition space – which was absolutely fantastic – filled up nicely at…