Wednesday, December 31, 2025
CCTech at Autodesk University 2025: Energizing a New Era of Design and Make
By
Vijay Mali
Autodesk University 2025 brought together innovators, designers, and makers from around the world in Nashville. Participants gathered to discuss innovation, creativity, and collaboration. Branded as "The Design & Make Conference," this year’s AU focused on entering “A New Era of Making.” In this future, the power of AI, data, and human ingenuity converge to transform how we design, build, and manufacture.
From September 16–18, the city buzzed with energy. Engineers, architects, and creators came together to explore how Autodesk is transforming industries. The event highlighted how Autodesk is helping teams achieve new levels of creativity, efficiency, and sustainability.
Through inspiring general sessions and powerful keynotes, Autodesk also showcased how AI is reshaping workflows and innovation, from accelerating design reviews to enabling connected, intelligent ecosystems across the built environment and manufacturing.
As a Bronze Sponsor, CCTech found AU 2025 to be a forum for meaningful conversations, idea exchange, and discovery across the global design and manufacturing community. It was an opportunity to share how our collaboration with Autodesk is empowering businesses to modernize the way they work, integrate data across disciplines, and make faster, more informed decisions through the power of AI and connected design.
Groundbreaking Announcements from Autodesk at AU 2025
AU 2025 opened with key announcements from Autodesk’s leadership that resonated with CCTech’s vision:
- Unified Cloud for AECO: Connecting design, construction, and operations under one collaborative ecosystem.
- Autodesk Forma: Smarter, faster, and more intuitive than ever.
- Autodesk AI Assistant: A sharper digital partner that helps teams work smarter.
- Tandem Upgrades: Transforming Operations & Maintenance workflows with deeper integration and analytics.
- Fusion AI Assistant & Motion Maker: Automating design reviews, generating visuals, and streamlining creative workflows.
The sessions underscored how AI is transforming from a supportive tool into a creative and operational partner. It's reshaping the way industries design, make, and operate.
Strengthening the Autodesk and CCTech Partnership
Strengthening the Autodesk and CCTech Partnership
CCTech’s partnership with Autodesk has reached new milestones every year. As Rachel Tuller (Vice President of Global Channels at Autodesk), shared in her conversation with Sandip Jadhav (CEO of CCTech), from the event:
“We explored how digital strategies and AI are transforming digital factories and data centres with efficiency, and innovation. We can’t wait to work with CCTech and their clients on shaping the future of connected environments.”
This shared vision of bridging AI, data, and Autodesk technologies, underlining a powerful collaboration of CCTech and Autodesk. Watch the conversation between CCTech CEO and Vice President of Global Channels at Autodesk
CCTech Showcases Autodesk-Powered Innovation at AU 2025
CCTech Featured on the Big Stage for Data Exchange
A proud moment for the CCTech team came during the Autodesk AI Keynote, where the company was featured for its foundational work in Autodesk Data Exchange. It is the technology that enables granular versioned data transfer across tools like Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Rhino, Tekla, and Navisworks.
During Data Exchange Customer Spotlight, Autodesk experts highlighted CCTech’s cricket stadium project that used multiple data exchange connectors to synchronize design models seamlessly across teams and platforms
From AutoCAD conceptual layouts to Revit documentation, Rhino massing, and Tekla structural models, the project demonstrated how real-time federated exchanges eliminate manual exports and coordination delays, thereby creating a truly connected design ecosystem.
Building on this foundation, CCTech also presented two Autodesk-powered sessions that demonstrated how AI and data are transforming engineering and building performance workflows:
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Automating Design Code Compliance Using Agentic AI and Autodesk Technology
Led by Sandip Jadhav (CEO of CCTech), this session explored how CCTech and Atlas Copco collaborated to automate design code compliance directly within Autodesk Inventor using Autodesk Platform Services (APS). Manual compliance checks often slow down manufacturing processes. However, integration of APS cloud workflows with Inventor’s API, helped CCTech to build an intelligent assistant that evaluates designs in real time against engineering standards, enabling faster reviews, fewer errors, and smarter design decisions. CCTech’s early work on AI-driven valve design has now evolved into production-ready Agentic AI systems, used by hundreds of engineers worldwide to save time, cost, and effort.
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Buildings AI — A Whole-Building Performance Platform
CCTech also presented Buildings AI, a cloud-based platform developed with Autodesk Platform Services, AEC Data Model API, and Design Automation for Revit. The solution addresses one of the biggest challenges in energy modeling by bringing fragmented data and stakeholders into a single connected workflow. By linking CAD, BIM, BEM, and Tandem, Buildings AI delivers accurate energy and cooling-load analyses while integrating seamlessly with Revit, AutoCAD Architecture, and PDF drawings. Built on Autodesk’s data models and APIs, it enables HVAC to improve sustainability, ensure compliance, and reduce energy costs.
Highlights from the Booth
As a Bronze Sponsor, CCTech’s booth attracted professionals eager to experience Autodesk-powered AI and digital transformation solutions. They explored demonstrations of:
- Agentic AI for automating compliance and design intelligence
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) for secure, structured AI access to design data.
- Digital Factory solutions integrating FlexSim, Fusion Manage, and PLM systems.
From Collaboration to Charting the Road Ahead
Connecting with Industry Leaders and Clients
Throughout the event, CCTech’s team connected with thought leaders and customers from different sectors. A shared theme echoed across discussions about how AI and connected data can redefine business capacity, sustainability, and performance. These exchanges reinforced CCTech’s approach to domain-specific workflows and sparked new collaborations in the future to expand the Autodesk ecosystem even further.
Looking Ahead: The Road to AU 2026 and Beyond
AU 2025 was more than an event. It was a clear signal that the future of design and make lies in intelligent, connected, and collaborative ecosystems. At CCTech, we are proud to be part of this transformation, co-innovating with Autodesk to:
- Enable AI-driven compliance and decision-making.
- Build digital threads across design and operations
- Create sustainable, data-centric workflows for the next generation of engineers
As Autodesk continues to evolve AI, Data Exchange, and Platform Services, CCTech remains committed to delivering measurable impact through these technologies — turning innovation into implementation.
Read more about CCTech's partnerships and customer success story
About author
Vijay Mali
Vijay is a technology explorer, a visionary and a product maker. As CBO of the company, he plays a critical role in defining the growh path of the company. He also leads the center of excellence (CoE) department at CCTech which is responsible for exploring new technologies & building a strategy to bring it to common designers. Vijay has over 15 years of experience in providing the CFD solutions for many complex problems. He has conceptualized many software solutions including the Pedestrian Comfort Analysis & Control Valve Performer app developed on simulationHub platform. Vijay is known for his transformative way of teaching and trained more than 500 candidates on complex topics like computational fluid dynamics and design optimization. He has delivered talks at various events and engineering colleges about CFD and its use in design optimization of a product. Vijay holds a master degree in aerospace engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay).
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