From Ideation to Insight: How AI is Reshaping Early-Stage Design

From Ideation to Insight: How AI is Reshaping Early-Stage Design

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM · 1 hr. (US/Pacific)

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This opening keynote sets the stage for the AI Summit by exploring the evolving role of artificial intelligence in shaping the earliest stages of building design. As the architecture and planning industries move beyond theory into practice, AI is being deployed not just for efficiency—but to inspire new ways of thinking, modeling, and optimizing sustainable performance.
Delivered by a leading voice at the intersection of AI and the built environment, this talk will examine how designers are using machine learning, generative tools, and intelligent simulations to test ideas, balance constraints, and unlock value earlier than ever before. The keynote will also preview the downstream impacts of early-stage decisions—from cost control to embodied carbon—setting the tone for deeper, real-world case studies in the session that follows.
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Location
151
Program
Practical AI Applications in the Built Environment Summit
Track
Practical AI Applications in the Built Environment Summit
Learning Level
Intermediate
Learning Objective 1
Identify the core opportunities AI brings to early-stage design workflows in architecture.
Learning Objective 2
Understand the relationship between early design decisions, sustainability outcomes, and project cost implications.
Learning Objective 3
Explore how AI can support conceptual exploration, design iteration, and stakeholder alignment.
Learning Objective 4
Prepare to connect visionary frameworks with practical tools presented in the session that follows.
Continuing Education Credit Offered
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Autodesk539Autodesk provides the AECO industries with the solutions and insights they need to drive and scale sustainable outcomes. These solutions help our customers address challenges associated with carbon reduction, energy efficiency, climate adaptation, materials use, and waste reduction.  Connected data, applied AI, and collaboration across the entire project lifecycle will help the AECO industries achieve their sustainability goals. Autodesk is focused on the convergence of design and make in the cloud, enabled by our platform, industry clouds, and AI. By connecting data, workflows, and teams, we connect our customers to more sustainable outcomes. Today’s workforce is increasingly drawn to careers that combine technology, impact, and purpose. The intersection of AI and sustainability offers exactly that—providing opportunities to drive meaningful change while working with advanced tools. Autodesk’s sustainability solutions support making sustainability data and insights easily accessible to all.

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