AECtech 2025 | NYC

November 7-16, 2025 Annual Conference NYC

BUILDING COMMUNITY FOSTERING INNOVATION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

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AECtech Since 2013 Thornton Tomasetti has hosted the annual AECtech Conference in NYC orgnanized by CORE studio, Each year this event welcomes design and technology professionals from architecture, engineering, construction, fabrication, and software industries and beyond. Over the past decade the annual confernece has evolved from a two-day to a week long conference featuring professional development workshops, speakers, 24+ hour hackathons, and much more. We strive to offer the most enriching networking experience exploring the latest development in technology and practice that engage industry leaders in a forward looking forum for growth.

By serving as a space where creative minds can devise new technologies, acquire skills and make new connections, AECtech builds an open community of knowledge sharing to promote industry progression and enhance collaboration and communication.

Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio CORE studio is Thornton Tomasetti’s virtual incubator of ideas. Its name derives from the union of computational modeling and research and development, which are at the core of our firm’s mission. Our team is a diverse assortment of specialists, with each member bringing expert knowledge and an inquisitive mind to projects of every size and scope. Our experience working across all Thornton Tomasetti practices affords us unique insight into the needs of, and solutions for, our clients and our firm.

CORE studio provides a valuable interface among design and construction teams, developing new workflows and processes that promote collaboration and enhance building design. Our analyses of today’s practices allow us to envision the optimized workflows of tomorrow.

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Contributors

Program AECtech NYC 2024 marked the twelfth annual conference hosted by Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio, bringing together over 300 forward-thinking professionals from 160 organizations across 22 countries. Held on Roosevelt Island, the week-long conference celebrated innovation and collaboration in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

This year’s lineup featured 8 Virtual Workshops and 11 In-Person Workshops hosted by experts from around the world. The popular Tech Crawl returned, featuring 12 local architecture and engineering firms who opened their offices to attendees.A new addition, the Tech Tour, allowed participants to explore built works in New York City through guided tours hosted by the firms that designed and developed them.

This lead up to this year’s Full Day Symposium live-streamed from the Cornell Tech in Roostevelt Island, NYC where 16 presenters and panelists shared their insight. The event finished strong with a 26-hour hackathon that produced 10 uniquely innovative projects.

Friday

November

7

Virtual Workshops

Tuesday

November

11

Tech Tours

Wednesday

November

12

Tech Crawl

Thursday

November

13

In Person Workshops

Friday

November

14

Symposium

Saturday

November

15

Hackathon Day 1

Sunday

November

16

Hackathon Day 2

Tech Tours This year’s expanded tours saw new and returning partners who hosted four oustanding tours of their built works in NYC.

Foster + Partners

SOM

SHoP Architects

Hearst Tower

425 Park Avenue

270 Park Avenue

Moynihan Train Hall

LIRR Concourse

East End Gateway

Pier 17

American Copper

FIT

The Shed

The Vessel

Thornton Tomasetti High Line Connector

Tech Crawls Returning for the fourth year, fifteen companies opened their offices and processes to five tours this year.

KPF

HOK

Perkins & Will

Contech Alliance

SOM

Walter P Moore

Beyer Blinder Belle

Studio Gang

Grimshaw

SOFTlab

nbbj

Buro Happold

Bjarke Ingels Group

SHoP Architects

Thornton Tomasetti

Nomic AI

Dassault Systemes Happy Hour Dassault Systemes closed out the Tech Tours hosted a stunning AECtech kickoff happy hour at The Edge at Hudson Yards.

Nomic Happy Hour & Fireside Chat Nomic.ai hosted an incredible happy hour and fireside chat exploring the impact AI is having industry today.

Virtual Workshops An international group of hosts representing diverse industires lead seven virtual workshops for over a hundred attendees.

A Microservice Approach to Computational Web Applications | ShapeDiver

Mathieu Huard Head of Product ShapeDiver

Working in Grasshopper often presents challenges regarding scaling, reusability, and collaboration. As definitions grow in complexity, maintaining, updating, and sharing logic within larger teams and across projects becomes difficult. With the latest release of ShapeDiver’s App Builder, these limitations can now be overcome through a microservice approach to computational design.

This workshop introduces a new way to structure Grasshopper-based workflows by using individual definitions as modular, reusable “microservices” within a broader, complex web application. Using App Builder’s new capability to link multiple Grasshopper models inside a single web app, participants will learn to create contextual, adaptive interfaces that extend far beyond what’s possible in a single definition.

Attendees will build a web application using multiple Grasshopper definitions, connected intelligently with App Builder’s latest tools. We will see how this approach allows us to scale the complexity of computational applications while facilitating application maintenance and collaborative workflows.

Customized Intelligence / Adapt RavenAI to Your Workflows in Grasshopper | Romantic Technology

Moritz Rietschel Founder Romantic Technology

The next frontier of computational design is already here, and it’s powered by generative AI. This intensive workshop is a master class in customizing Raven, the AI plugin for Grasshopper, to supercharge your own workflows. We have left one-size-fits-all automation behind and are now building highly tailored, highperformance pipelines that fuse designers’ control and experience with machine intelligence.

Participants will dive straight into hands-on strategies for integrating Raven into their personal design and engineering processes. We’ll explore how to push Raven beyond default behavior: from adapting AI logic to your own scripts, to orchestrating plugin interoperability, to embedding simulation-informed feedback directly into design iterations. Whether it’s energy modeling, physics-informed geometry, or complex datadriven workflows, Raven can be tuned to work with your toolkit and your problems.

Extending Design Intelligence: Skema’s API in Grasshopper | SKEMA.ai

Marty Rozmanith CTO + Co-Founder SKEMA.ai

Nikita Bokhan

Senior Product Manager SKEMA.ai

This workshop marks the first release of Skema’s developer features—giving computational designers programmatic access to the platform. We’ll walk through how Skema’s API connects to Grasshopper, enabling users to call Skema’s layout and geometry services directly from parametric definitions. Through real-world examples such as curtainwall design and unitized facade systems, attendees will see how Skema can become a data-rich engine inside custom Grasshopper workflows. Whether you’re building your own firm-specific tools or testing new design logic, this is your chance to get an early look at how Skema extends into openended computational design.

Build AEC Apps in Minutes with the VIKTOR App Builder | VIKTOR

Marcel Slootweg Technical Specialist VIKTOR

Discover how to accelerate automation in your AEC workflows using the AI-powered VIKTOR App Builder. In this interactive session, you’ll build your own web app in minutes, tailored to your workflows and seamlessly connected with tools like Revit, Grasshopper, and Autodesk (APS, ACC). Explore how you can use AI to turn your ideas into working solutions. No coding, just prompting.

Prompt, Respond, Refine: Vibe Coding in Design | Perkins & Will

Harish Palani

Digital Practice Specialist Perkins & Will

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in design practice, a new paradigm is emerging—one where we code not through syntax, but through conversation. This workshop introduces Vibe Coding, a design-oriented workflow that uses large language models (LLMs) as collaborative partners in generating scripts, geometry, patterns, and more. The participants will explore how to frame the right question, interpret responses, and refine outputs—all without traditional programming experience.

Generate Floor Plans in Finch | Finch

Jesper Wallgren CPO & Co-Founder Finch

From feasibility to BIM - faster. This workshop will use the Finch extensions to Grasshopper and Revit. You will build a parametric mass in Grasshopper, send it to Finch to generate floor plans, and continue with generating a native Revit BIM model.

Design Space Exploration and Optimization with Tunny | HRNTSM

Hiroaki Natsume Tunny Developer HRNTSM

Discover how Tunny revolutionizes optimization in Grasshopper, offering powerful alternatives to traditional genetic algorithms. This hands-on workshop explores the full spectrum of optimization techniques, from Bayesian optimization (TPE, GP) to evolutionary algorithms (NSGA-II, CMA-ES), applicable to any design challenge.

Starting with fundamental concepts through simple mathematical functions, you’ll learn to set up optimization problems, analyze results using Tunny’s interactive dashboard and AI-powered tools, and understand when different algorithms excel. We’ll progress from basic parameter optimization to multiobjective problems with constraints, demonstrating principles that apply across all design disciplines.

Through practical examples, including building facade design, you’ll see these techniques in real-world challenges. You’ll explore Tunny’s unique human-in-the-loop functionality using Preferential Bayesian Optimization to incorporate subjective design preferences into computational workflows.

Beyond finding single optimal solutions, Tunny’s design space exploration using Quasi-Monte Carlo sampling helps understand parameter relationships and build predictive models. Whether you’re a structural engineer, architect, product designer, or computational designer seeking efficient optimization tools, this workshop provides practical skills beyond traditional trial-and-error approaches.

In-Person Workshops This year’s amazing lineup of twelve workshops packed the venue with over two hundred amazing attendees!

Bringing Rhino models to life with Unreal Engine | Epic Games + Heatherwick studio Stephen Phillips Solution Architect Epic Games

Radu Axinte

Senior Designer Heatherwick Studio

There are many great tools out there for rendering your parametric designs, but a game engine might just be the most flexible. Working in an interactive real-time renderer allows for a dynamic presentation that supports creative exploration and wows stakeholders. In this full day workshop, attendees will take a Rhino model designed by Heatherwick Studio and turn it into an interactive animated scene using Grasshopper and Unreal Engine.

Parametric & Generative Design in CATIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform | Dassault Systèmes + SHoP Architects Jonathan Asher

CATIA Global Sales Director Dassault Systèmes

Nuri Miller

AEC Solution Technical Senior Manager Dassault Systèmes

John Cerone Principal SHoP Architects

The focus of this workshop will be to explore parametric, generative design & engineering techniques in a collaborative project environment. We will focus on early concept design and late-stage detailed design methodologies, harnessing the power of CATIA automation on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

While algorithmic design has become commonplace in most design & engineering practices, manufacturing and assembly of building components remain highly confined to flattened construction documents and contractual 2D representations. In this workshop, we will seek to break that paradigm by designing and building systems that are constructed by an algorithm, not a drawing.

To achieve this, we will focus on deploying a novel approach to the design and engineering of a lattice space-frame structure and its accompanying façade system. We will work with dedicated CATIA applications focused on freeform surface and solid modeling, algorithmic/generative modeling of space-frame structures, automated lattice creation, and detailed cladding system design.

All components will be managed on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, providing all participants with a live view of each other’s progress and the opportunity to collaborate in real-time on each other’s models.

Grasshopper inside AI: Run GH from AI assistants w/ MCP & Rhino.Compute | KPF + Robert McNeel & Associates Justyna Szychowska

Associate Principal & Senior Software Engineer KPF

Aleksandra SojkaSr. Data & Analytics Lead KPF

Andy Payne

Software Developer Robert McNeel & Associates

“Hey AI, could you run this Grasshopper definition for me?”

With Rhino.Compute you can run Grasshopper definitions remotely—without ever opening Rhino or Grasshopper. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables you to connect AI assistants directly to your custom tools. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to combine both technologies and make them work together.

We’ll start with an introduction to Rhino.Compute, followed by an overview of MCP. Then, we’ll walk through building an MCP server that interacts with Rhino.Compute.

By the end of the session, you’ll be able to run Grasshopper definitions remotely through an AI assistant using Rhino.Compute and MCP.

Cyclops: Real-Time GPU-based Environmental Simulation | Foster + Partners

Oscar Borgstrom Associate Partner Foster + Partners

Learn GPU-accelerated techniques for near–real-time analysis of solar obstruction, daylight autonomy, and cumulative radiation at façade, building, and urban-context scales.

Advancements in GPU-accelerated ray tracing have transformed our ability to conduct city-scale environmental analyses in near real time. This hands-on workshop presents reproducible workflows for GPUbased evaluation of solar obstruction, daylight autonomy, and cumulative radiation at three hierarchical levels of the built environment—façades, individual buildings, and urban contexts.

Modern UX for AEC Stack: Building Web Interfaces in Revit & Rhino | Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Victor Wanderley Barbosa Senior Digital Practice Manager Schmidt Hammer Lassen

This hands-on workshop will guide participants through building a modern web-based application on top of an AEC-focused tech stack, integrating with both Revit and Rhino. Over the course of 4 hours, we’ll create a shared web interface loaded inside each host application using WebView2, and connect it to their respective APIs to perform a fun, lighthearted task. The focus will be on showing how a web interface can help deliver delightful, intuitive, and visually polished user experiences, while keeping the architecture clean and maintainable. Attendees can choose to follow along, building only the Revit add-in, only the Rhino plugin, or both if they’re feeling adventurous.

Exploring Buildings as Graphs

| IaaC + Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio David Andrés León Director MaCAD IaaC

Sophie Moore

Senior Applications Developer Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio

Representing buildings as graphs enables efficient analysis of spatial relationships, navigation, and connectivity by abstracting their properties based on their relationships. This approach helps humans and computers understand buildings, enabling tasks like pathfinding, optimization, and simulation. The workshop will focus on the representation and visualization of buildings as graphs while exploring their opportunities.

Participants will learn how to convert IFC files to graphs, visualize them in a web application to get insights, and query their properties using LLMs.

Parametrically Driven ETABS, SAP2000 & SAFE | Kudu

Stephen Prendergast Developer Kudu

Learn how to interface with ETABS, SAP2000, and SAFE using the CSiAPI with Grasshopper, C#, and Python, while improving your data processing workflows through modern tools and custom scripting that enable faster geometry creation, automated property definitions and assignments, and enhanced visualization of analysis and design results.

Computational Design with Grasshopper 2 | McNeel + Proving Ground Nathan Miller CEO Proving Ground

Japhy Walton

Application Specialist Robert McNeel & Associates

For over 15 years, Grasshopper has been the essential tool for computational design workflows in architecture and engineering. In recent years, David Rutten from McNeel has been actively developing Grasshopper 2 (G2).

Now in the alpha stage of development, users can begin to test and try G2 in Rhino 8 and Rhino 9.

This workshop will introduce computational design workflows with Grasshopper 2. The workshop will benefit experienced computational designers who are interested in getting oriented to G2. The topics will also serve as a general introduction to computational design concepts for new users.

Grasshopper 2 is more than an incremental update to the tools that designers have become familiar with: G2 is a ground-up rebuild and reimagining of the graphical programming language free of the technical debt of its predecessor. While the overall workflow will be very familiar to veterans of Grasshopper, the G2 interface is modernized with new data management concepts and performance enhancements throughout.

Developing Custom Plugins for Grasshopper 2 | McNeel + Proving Ground Nathan Miller CEO Proving Ground

Japhy Walton

Application Specialist Robert McNeel & Associates

Grasshopper’s success can be attributed to the computational design community’s efforts in developing an extensive ecosystem of custom plugins. This workshop will serve as an orientation for developing and porting custom plugins with Grasshopper 2 using C# and .NET Core workflows.

This workshop is geared toward Grasshopper users, developers, and script builders interested in creating new plugins or porting their existing plugins to Grasshopper 2. To guide the workshop, C# templates and example source code will be provided for building a functional Grasshopper 2 plugin.

From concept to BIM: Reusable design intelligence in the cloud with Grasshopper, ShapeDiver, Skema, and Revit | Skema + ShapeDiver

Marty Rozmanith

Nikita Bokhan

Alexander Schiftner

Edwin Hernandez Gomez

CTO & Co-Founder SKEMA.ai CTO & Co-Founder ShapeDiver

Senior Product Manager SKEMA.ai Project Manager ShapeDiver

This two-part workshop shows how firm-specific knowledge captured in Grasshopper and Revit can be reused through a cloud-based workflow.

Part 1 covers how to generate custom unitized facades and integrate Skema with ShapeDiver for reusable, firm-specific design logic.

Part 2 demonstrates how those results flow into Revit for high-fidelity BIM deliverables that preserve design intent.

Scaling Up Parametric Engineering Workflows with Karamba3D | Karamba3D

Matthew Tam

Operations Manager Karamba3D

Karamba3D is a parametric finite element analysis tool embedded in Grasshopper, enabling fast, interactive structural analysis within the Rhino environment. This hands-on workshop will explore how to make these powerful capabilities more accessible to non-expert users, facilitating both the rapid creation of structural models and intuitive interaction with analysis results.

Building on the latest developments at Karamba3D and custom workflows developed by Bollinger+Grohmann, the session will focus on UI/UX strategies and templated model setups designed to lower the entry barrier for architects, engineers, and designers. The goal is to support wider adoption of computational design methods across multidisciplinary teams.

Participants will gain insights into practical tools, templates, and interface techniques that eliminate the need for advanced scripting knowledge. The second half of the workshop will introduce simple interaction methods—such as custom UI elements and keyboard-based input tools within Rhino and Grasshopper—to make result exploration easier and more engaging.

SYMPOSIUM Thank you to the over three hundred Symposium attendees who made this such an incredible event!

Motif

Matt Jezyk

VP, Head of Product

Epic Games

Stephen Phillips Solution Architect

MORNING PRESENTERS Thank you to our fantastic round of morning presenters who showcased an incredible array of AEC workflows.

KARAMBA 3D Matthew Tam

Operations Manager @ Karamba3D

Dassault Systemes Jonathan Asher

CATIA Global Sales Director

SHoP Architects John Cerone Principal

Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio Alloy Kemp

Director CORE Studio Operations

Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio Nicholas Mundell

Director CORE Modeling

AI IN AEC ROUNDTABLE The first roundtable featured an in depth dialog on the state of AI in the AEC bringing insights from developers to designers.

NVIDIA

MODERATOR

Sebastian Misiurek Senior Product Manager

Heatherwick Studio Pablo Zamorano

Senior Associate & Head of Geometry and Computational Design

ARKI

Natalia BakAEVA Co-Founder & CEO

xFigura

George Guida Founder & CEO

ReOpe

Joachim Viktil CEO

PANELISTS

AFTERNOON PRESENTERS Inspirational presentations by innovative practices blending Architecture, Engineering, Contstruction,and Fabrication.

CODA

Pep Tornabell

Associate Partner

CODA

Enrique Soriano Associate Partner

Heatherwick Studio Pablo Zamorano

Senior Associate & Head of Geometry and Computational Design

Turner Construction Ben Ferrer

Innovation Manager, AI

ZAHNER

Burcin Nalinci

Lead Research And Development Engineer

LEADERSHIP & TECHNOLOGY PANEL The day concluded with an outstanding conversation by an esteemed panel of leaders originating in the technology space

TRXL Media

MODERATOR

Evan Troxel Founder

SOM

Shane Burger

Chief Design Technology Officer

HKS Architects Heath May

Partner, CEO Elect

CBT Architects

Nirva Fereshetian

Principal, Chief Information Officer

Populous

Jonathan Nelson

Global Head of Digital at Populous

PANELISTS

EPIC GAMES HAPPY HOUR The Symposium concluded with a fantastic networked event at the EPIC Games Happy Hour!

KPF

Justyna Szychowska

JUDGES PANEL

Associate Principal & Senior Software Engineer

Autodesk Zach Kron

Product Management Lead

McNeel

Japhy Walton

Application Specialist

IaaC

David Andres Leon Director of MACAD

xFigura

George Guida Founder & CEO

Populous

Jonathan Nelson

Global Head of Digital at Populous

HACKATHON Thank you to the outstanding panel of six judges who reviewed a record one hundred and fifty hackers work by fifteen teams!

WINNER: BEST OVERALL HACK Awarded to the most innovative, Mind-Bending application!

Most ground breaking idea that cleverly uses technology.

Photon- CYBORG

A mixed reality drawing tool that bridges human intuition with computational precision—augmenting, not automating, the act of drawing.

Team • • • • • • • • •

Sergey Pigach, Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio Elcin Ertugrul, Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio Zarak Kasi, Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio Brian Murray, Hathaway Dinwiddie James Coleman, Sum Point David Vargas, DLR Group Polina Ustinova, Entech Nathan Barnes, Zahner Bell Wang, KPF

WINNER: MOST COLLABORATIVE HACK Awarded to the most distinct team comprised of new connections and friends.

BIM Shady

BIMshady streamlines the creation of BIM floorplans by converting simple 2D sketches into BIM-ready 3D models lowering the barrier between early conceptual sketching and structured BIM outputs.

Team • • • • • • • • •

Sophie Moore, Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio Jason Yang, Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio Isandro Gutierrez Malik, Stantec Salma Kattass, Workshop APD Ryan Johnson, Clark Nexsen Harish Palani, Perkins & Will Craig Forneris, Populous Renee Dobre, NBBJ Rachel Min, KPF

WINNER: MOST IMPACTFUL HACK Awarded to the project with the most potential for immediate impact on the professional landscape.

Contract Cadence

A design assistant that detects misalignments between your contracts, specs, and design models—catching scope creep before it catches you.

Team • • • • •

Douglas Kim, Amova Asset Management Americas, Inc. Faye Wang, HLB Lighting Design Scott Lebow, Baskervill Chu Ding, RunToSolve, LLC Janez Mikec, VIKTOR

HACKATHON PROJECTS This year tied the record with 15 hackathon projects developed in just under 26 hours!

Revitify

Discover, organize, and place Revit families like streaming your favorite tracks.

Ellen Berglund / Perkins & Will, Zuzanna Czapla / Perkins & Will, Victor Barbosa / Perkins & Will, Elif Unsal / Perkins & Will, Iffai Mai / Perkins & Will, Nirvik Saha / Perkins & Will, Brian Parish / Perkins & Will, Matt Seager / Perkins & Will

Neighbor

An intelligent digital lens for your neighborhood Anish Reddy / Perkins & Will, Matthew Breau / BBB, Olivia Iarmak / Meta, Akito Shima / Matsuda Hirata Sekkei Inc., Georgy Karpenko / Perkins & Will, Daniel Boba / Perkins & Will, Carlos Amaral / Entech Engineering

ETABS AutoLog

Automatic LLM-powered structural model logs Olek Niewiarowski / SOM, Atishay Lahri / Thornton Tomasetti, Sidharth Jain / UMass Amherst, Skylin Spencer / Thornton Tomasetti, Rolando Villena / Thornton Tomasetti, Hiroaki Natsume / hrntsm, Stephen Prendergast / SOM, Chase Perry / Hardesty Hanover

SIMON

Chat with a LiDAR scan - SIMON is an AI that transforms 3D scans into spatial intelligence. It detects, understands, and labels every object in a space.

Ibtissam Bakchich / Columbia University, Joanna Sabak / Heatherwick, Pintian Liu / Heatherwick, Akshaya Prabhu / Entech, Juan Mosquera / Ryan Companies, Yashwanth Munukoti / ACELAB, Omar Alomar / Mildenberg Boender & Assoc, Sivaraman Krishnan / Corgan, Clay Seifert / University of Texas, Vincent Mai / NBBJ

HACKATHON PROJECTS And a record 40 project pitches were presented during the lighting round!

Revitify

Discover, organize, and place Revit families like streaming your favorite tracks.

Ellen Berglund / Perkins & Will, Zuzanna Czapla / Perkins & Will, Victor Barbosa / Perkins & Will, Elif Unsal / Perkins & Will, Iffai Mai / Perkins & Will, Nirvik Saha / Perkins & Will, Brian Parish / Perkins & Will, Matt Seager / Perkins & Will

Neuro Squad

A more efficient way to make BIM models Alireza Memarian / MEMO studio, Neda Talebzadeh / Entech, Anmol Singla / Haskoning DHV, Ben Gallini / Baskervill, Ioannis Kopsacheilis / Enemco, Dhruv Patel / Turner Construction

GraphHop 2

Unlock the intelligence trapped in grasshopper Alex Schiftner / ShapeDiver, Philipp Hölzenbein / Raven, Maximilian Rietschel / Raven, Peter Zhang / Corgan, Karen Kuo / Autodesk, Pawel Sapiecha / Olson Kundig, Yankun Yang / Minus Design Labs

CloudHopper

Grasshopper in the cloud!

Abhishek Bawiskar / CORE studio, Philip Brouwer / Permitproof, Szabolcs Veress, Benjamin Howes / Thornton Tomasetti, Jun Kamatani / Shimizu Corporation, Yuki Nakano / Ishimoto Architecture & Engineering, Nico Azel / CORE studio, Jacob Russo / SOM

Emergence

Computational Design Educational Video Game Shandon Herft / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Maya Mashiach / LPA Inc, Stephen Phillips / Epic Games, Cullen Sarles / Ryan Companies, Ife Owolabi, Gigi Singh / Perkins & Will, Daniel Lasso / ODP Architects

ShinkaPacking

LLM Orchestration for NP design problems in AEC Chen ChihYuan / Woven by Toyota, Akihito Oka, Masaya Hirai / Matsuda Hirata Sekkei Inc., Naoto Tashiro / Shimizu Corporation

Loveable Constraints

Deliver buildable and on-budget designs by integrating the rules and constraints of systems to the core design of the building form.

Kyle Bernhardt / Collectiv.build, Luke Gehron / Perkins & Will, Wade Vollink / Ryan Companies, Christopher McKenzie / SSOE Group, Justin Jao / StructureCraft, Anik Alam / Mithun

The Bee Team

Intelligent GH Authorship - Suggestive Auto-Complete, Contextual Node Connection & LLM Readability.

Anirudha Agara / PT Blink, Eesha Jain / Thornton Tomasetti CORE studio, Noah Rosenberg / Handel Architects, Edwin Hernandez Gomez / ShapeDiver, Ramy Maher / Revitesse, Rick van Dijk / VIKTOR.AI, Daniel Khalighinejad / Dwellci AI

Project:Sieve

Build a live data pipeline that streams Revit model data in real time - before saves or syncs -so you can analyze and act without slowing down the design process.

Jim Smell / Innovation Design Consortium, Christopher Diggins / Ara3d, Nikita Bokhan / Skema, John Pierson / Autodesk, Anthony Samaha / Perkins & Will, Yao Zhao / HOK, Sen Zhang / Ennead Architects, Greg Schleusner / HOK

HACKATHON PRIZE SPONSORS Thank you to this year’s Hackathon sponsors who brought over a thousand dollars in value of prizes to each winner.

PARTNERS Thank you to our partners who made this years AECtech possible through there generous contributions!

SPONSORS Thank you to our sponsors whose contributions help us provide the best AECtech experience for all attendees.