Starting tomorrow, another (41st actually) AEC Hackathon will be held this time in beautiful Seattle Washington and I will be participating. The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies and its developers and designers. It has quickly become a community of innovators that include all elements of the built environment, not just AEC all around the world.

Please join all of us at the AEC Hackathon Seattle

Schedule:

Friday evening, April 26th

6 pm Doors Open (Open to the Public)

7 – 7:30 pm

• Intro AEC Hackathon Executive Director

• Salla Palos Microsoft, Director of Transformation Services

• Mollie Fadule Partner at Cephas Partners and Board Member at CREW

7:30 pm Lighting Rounds / Team Formation

10 pm Adjourn

Saturday, April 27th

9 am Doors open

11 AM – 12 PM Magic Leap workshop with engineers from the Magic Leap Team

12 PM – 1 PM Lunch and Hacking

1 – 2 PM Unity and AEC – Mark Schoennagel of the Unity AEC Team will lead a workshop. Mark is the Lead Evangelist focused on the Automotive and AEC verticals while leading the Americas team of Unity Evangelists.

2 – 3 PM The Future of Real Estate, Panel Discussion

• Mollie Fadule, Cephas Partners and CREW Seattle

• Simon Stevenson, Professor or Real Estate at UW

• Sam DeBord, Real Estate Standards Organization and Seattle Homes

• Drew Meyers, Geek Estate

3 – 4 PM The Future of Construction, Panel Discussion

• Shaan Hurley, Autodesk Research,

• Damon Hernandez, Samsung Research

• Stefan Schneider, CutMyTimber

• Greg Howes, AEC Hackathon

10 pm Adjourn

Sunday, April 28th

9 am Doors Open

1 pm Hacking Concludes

1:30 pm Artificial Intelligence and Real Estate, Bryan Copley, CEO of CityBLDR

2 pm Team Presentations (Open to the Public)

6 pm Adjourn

Unity is a Community Sponsor of our Hackathons and their AEC Team will be available as mentors and advisors at the Hackathon
Shaan Hurley, Autodesk Research – Shaan will participate in the hackathon as a mentor.

Autodesk and Unity announced a partnership at Autodesk University and the Gaming, CAD and AEC industries are converging as the building industry becomes a technology industry and the built environment evolves into an innovation platform.
This has become THE event for creating innovation for these industries so get engaged today! Our world faces fresh new problems that urgently need brilliant minds to solve them and this is the community that is improving how our world is designed, built, and operated.

The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies and its developers and designers. It’s a weekend of geeking at its finest for improving the industries that affect all that live or work in a house or building. It has quickly become a global community of innovators that include all elements of the built environment.

I hope to see you in Seattle, and hope the weather is nice. Its going to be a Sleepless in Seattle weekend with the AEC hackathon.

Cheers,
-Shaan