Every time the slide below was presented at the Forge developer's conference, the smartphones came out. I think this was the most photographed slide at the conference.

As you may recall, Forge is actually 3 things:

Forge DevCon was held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. I attended because I would like to see parts of Autodesk and other Forge-based developers leverage Autodesk Labs early in their development processes. This will allow them to get feedback on their potential web-based solutions early in their development processes rather than waiting until their ideas are sufficiently developed to reach the beta stage.

By all measures, the conference was a big success.

• 6 Tracks: Design and Manufacturing, AEC, Forge Basics, AR/VR, IoT, Business Development
• 15+ exhibitors and various Forge expert tables for technical training and support
• 24 classes with packed classes throughout the day

By the way, the complete class content will be made available in the next few weeks.

Here is my social media recap:

I was quoting Amar (below), but my either my phone messed up or Twitter would not let me type any more characters.

I had enough characters to give Chris Anderson his proper attribution:

The same was true for Thiago da Costa:

ForgeDevCon was also a great place to network. For example, I got to meet Brett Young, CEO of Building System Planning.

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Web service development is alive in the lab.