On October 21th (12:00pm PST) , SFCDI welcomes Achintya Bhat and Zigmund Rubel, for a discussion of their work in generative design and digital twin. Featured Presentation Rapid Optioneering for Stadium Design While designing a stadium, the most important thing is to make sure every one of the seats offers an unobstructed and good view of … Continue reading SFCDI October 2020 | Stadium Design + Functional Digital Twin
On August 12th, at 12:00pm PST, SFCDI celebrates its 5th year anniversary with two fantastic speakers whose innovative work has disrupted the way we digitally conceptualize and process design solutions. Join us in celebrating our group milestone with Arturo Tedeschi and Phil Langley. Featured PresentationCrossing disciplines with computational tools and methodologies Computational designers are for … Continue reading SFCDI Aug 2020 | 5th Year Anniversary | Arturo Tedeschi | Phil Langley
On July 17th (noon-1:00pm PST), SFCDI welcomes Professor Matthew Gilbert and Emily Olman. This month's event will be only available via live webcast due to the current situation with COVID-19. Speaker: Prof. Matthew Gilbert Matthew Gilbert is a Professor at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has a longstanding interest in the development of structural … Continue reading SFCDI July 2020 | Design Optimization of Building Structures & A 3D Philosophy at the Dawn of Spatial Computing
On June 17th (6:00pm-7:00pm PST), SFCDI welcomes Satoru Sugihara, Dave Alpert, Michael Hoppe, and Mac Dean. This month's event will be only available via live webcast due to the current situation with COVID-19. Speaker: Satoru Sugihara Satoru Sugihara is a principal and founder at the computational design studio ATLV founded in 2012. Prior to starting … Continue reading SFCDI June 2020 | Engineering / Scientific / Imaginative Computational Design & 3D Remote Collaboration – Reduce Time and Costs with a Client-Friendly Solution
On May 15th (noon-1:00pm PST), SFCDI welcomes Gregory R. Schnackel and Layne A. Micek. This month’s event will be only available via live webcast due to the current situation with COVID-19. Speaker: Gregory R. Schnackel Gregory is the lead architect and principal designer of the company’s revolutionary AEA Integration software. AEA Integration is a remarkable new … Continue reading SFCDI May 2020 | Artificial Intelligence in MEP Engineering
On April 17th (noon-1:00pm PST) , SFCDI welcomes Arturs Neiburgs and Sean Fruin. This month's event will be only available via live webcast due to the current situation with COVID-19. Speaker: Arturs Neiburgs Arturs Neiburgs is a Latvian entrepreneur who is passionate about technology. He’s background is civil engineering with 8 years of experience as Head … Continue reading SFCDI April 2020 | Computational Design Experience for Building Structures & Dynamo – First Aid to the Coordination Nightmare
SFCDI is really excited to support YourDeskUniversity a nationwide online initiative intended to help the AEC Tech community connect and share knowledge remotely during these challenging times. The initiative goal is to stream live tutorials and discussions via YouTube Live that cover an array of topics focused on computational skills and a broader understanding of the … Continue reading YourDeskUniversity
On February 14th, 12:00 pm PST, SFCDI hosts a roundtable at the AIA 130 Sutter St # 600, San Francisco, CA 94104. 21th, 12:00pm PST, SFCDI host our Feb meetup at Gensler Office San Francisco, CA 94104 1) Speaker: Robert Otani, CTO of Thornton Tomasetti Robert Otani has 20 years of professional experience, including structural … Continue reading SFCDI February 2020 | Two Events: CTO VIP Roundtable & Rhino.Inside and Rhino.Compute
We regret to inform the community that due to COVID-19 concerns, we will be cancelling our March 25th event, Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Architecture workshop, which was to take place at Microsoft Reactor. The speaker, Petr Mitev, has kindly agreed to produce a video and it will be posted to our SFCDI YouTube … Continue reading SFCDI March 2020 | Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Architecture Workshop at Microsoft – Canceled
On January 17th, 12:00 pm PST, SFCDI welcomes Zach Soflin and Tom Svilans. This month's meeting will be hosted at the AIA 130 Sutter St # 600, San Francisco, CA 94104. Speaker Zach Soflin Zach Soflin, AIA, has spent nearly a decade promoting and leading computational design and innovation initiatives in practice before founding Layer, an AEC … Continue reading SFCDI January 2020 | Abstracting Project-Specific Problems for Broader Application
NVIDIA Voyager SFCDI will host the last event of the year which will conclude with a special guest from NVIDIA, Jack Dahlgren. This presentation will cover how NVIDIA has used computational design tools such as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence to build headquarters known as Endeavor and The Voyager in Silicon Valley. This … Continue reading SFCDI December 2019 | NVIDIA Voyager at Google
In November, SFCDI, we will be in Las Vegas at Autodesk University with presentations by members Alberto Tono, Dennis Eldridge, Cesar Escalante, and Danny Bentley. Read on for news and announcements. SFCDI Python Workshop Our Director of Education: Danny Bentley, kindly started a series of useful Python tutorials, if you would like to support us and be part of our journey … Continue reading SFCDI November 2019 | Autodesk University and AEC Tech Hackathon Recap
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