Last week prospective speakers who submitted class proposals for AU 2025 – which is being held in Nashville from September 16-18 – were notified whether the sessions were accepted or not.
For this year's AU I'd submitted two classes. One was a look at various technologies we've been exploring to capture the human experience of the built environment, going back to projects such as the one we did with The Bentway, but also looking at more recent efforts involving crowdsourcing, EEG and VR. Unfortunately this class was declined.
My other proposal was to repeat the session I delivered at the Autodesk DevCon in Amsterdam a few weeks ago, talking about harnessing WebAssembly from Forma extensions and other APS applications. I'd actually been in two minds whether to submit this one, so I checked in with the Developer Advocacy & Support team. They suggested it was worthwhile as they are expecting only modest overlap between the people who attended DevCon and those attending AU 2025 (and…