20th Time Presenting at RTC / BILT Conferences

RTC 2014 - Pump Up the Volume - Competition Entry

Last year this blog reached a milestone of 1 Million views.

This year I reached another milestone: Presenting at my 20th RTC / BILT Conference on various Revit topics.  At several of the conferences I did multiple presentations, so the actual total is more than 20.

For the record, here is a list of :
RTC & BILT conferences over the years:

RTC (Revit Technology Conference) grew out the Sydney Revit user group, started by Wesley Benn.  The first conference was organised by RUGS (Revit User Group, Sydney - the longest running Revit user group in the world).  As the conferences went from strength to strength, they were run by a company RTC Events, which has now morphed into DBEI (Digital Built Environment Institute).

RTC 2005 - Blue Mountains (West of Sydney), NSW, Australia 

The inaugural conference.

• I missed this one, sadly.

RTC 2006 - Shoal Bay (North of Sydney), NSW, Australia

• Attended as a delegate only - and learnt a huge amount about Revit.

RTC 2007 - Roadshow event held in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth (Australia) & Auckland (New Zealand)

• 1.  I presented at the Sydney event: "Documentation in Revit"

RTC 2008 - Brighton Beach, Sydney,  Australia

• 2.  Presented: "Revit Architecture - Advanced Modelling"

RTC 2009 - Albert Park, Melbourne,  Australia

• Attended as a delegate only - the first year of having to submit abstracts (which I failed to do)

RTC 2010 - Manly Beach, Sydney,  Australia

• 3.  Presented: "Locking Down Revit Drawings"

RTC 2011 (Australasia) - Broadbeach, Gold Coast, QLD,  Australia

• 4.  Presented: "Designing in Revit Using Parametric Formulas"

RTC 2011 (North America) - Huntington Beach, California, USA (NE of Sydney)

Inaugural North American conference

• 5.  Presented: "Designing in Revit Using Parametric Formulas"

RTC 2012 (Australasia) - Northbeach, Wollongong (South of Sydney), NSW,  Australia

• 6a.  Presented: "Divide and Conquer Revit v2013" - Adaptive Components & Repeaters
• 6b.  Presented: "New Stair Tools in Revit Architecture v2013"

RTC 2012 (North America) - Stone Mountain, Alanta, Georgia, USA

• 7.  Presented: "Divide and Conquer Revit v2013" - Adaptive Components & Repeaters
• Won the "Innovation" drawing competition.  Prize: Building Design Suite from Autodesk 

 

RTC 2013 (Australasia) - Auckland, New Zealand (East of Sydney)

• 8.  Presented: "Fractal Fun with Revit Repeaters & Adaptive Components"

 

RTC 2013 (North America) - Bayshore, Vancouver, Canada

•      Attended DTS (Design Technology Summit) as a delegate 
• 9.  Presented: "Fractal Fun with Revit Repeaters & Adaptive Components"

 

RTC 2013 (Europe) - Delft, The Netherlands

Inaugural European conference- one of my favourite venues/events

• 10.  Presented: "Fractal Fun with Revit Repeaters & Adaptive Components"

 

RTC 2014 (Australasia) - Albert Park, Melbourne,  Australia

• 11.  Presented: "Pump Up the Volume- With or Without Dynamo"

RTC 2014 (North America) - Schaumburg (West of Chicago), Illinois, USA

• 12.  Presented: "Pump Up the Volume- With or Without Dynamo"

RTC 2014 (Europe) - Dublin, Ireland

• First international conference I missed

RTC 2015 (Australasia) - Broadbeach, Gold Coast, QLD,  Australia

• 13.  Conducted a LAB: "Stairway to Heaven"

RTC 2015 (Asia) - Sentosa Island, Singapore

Inaugural Asian conference

• 14a.  Presented: "Best Tall Building in the World - in Revit" - a case study on One Central Park in Sydney
• 14b.  Conducted a LAB: "Stairway to Heaven"

RTC 2015 (North America) - Washington DC, USA

• Missed this one - 4 events in one year would be too much!

RTC 2015 (Europe) - Budapest, Hungary

• 15a.  Presented a case study: "Best Tall Building in the World - in Revit"
• 15b.  Conducted a LAB: "Stairway to Heaven"

RTC 2016 (Australasia) - Hunter Valley (North of Sydney), NSW,  Australia

• Attended as a one-day delegate (taking a break due to presenter burn-out)

RTC 2016 (North America) - Kierland Resort and Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

• 16a.  Presented: "Computational Design - Power to the People" - Global Parameters in Revit
• 16b.  Presented: "Making Component Stairs Work for You"

 

RTC 2016 (Europe) - Porto, Portugal

• Missed this one

 

RTC to BILT

In 2017, the name RTC was changed to BILT - as the conferences were no longer restricted to Revit

BILT 2017 (Asia) - Singapore

• Missed this one

BILT ANZ 2017 - Adelaide, SA (West of Sydney),  Australia

• 17.  Presented: "Power to the People - Global Parameters New Revit Feature"

BILT 2017 (North America) - Harbour Castle, Toronto, Canada

• 18.  Presented: "Create Good Looking Organic Nurby Revit Content" - Massing in Revit

BILT 2017 (Europe) - Aarhus, Denmark

• Missed this one

BILT 2018 (Asia) - Singapore

• Missed this one

BILT ANZ 2018 - Fortitude Valley, Brisbane (North of Sydney),  Australia

• 19.  Presented: "Create Good Looking Organic Nurby Revit Content" - Massing in Revit

BILT 2018 (North America) -St Louis, Missouri, USA

• Missed this one

BILT 2018 (Europe) - Ljubljana, Slovenia, Denmark

• Missed this one

BILT ANZ 2019 - South Bank, Melbourne, Vic (South of Sydney), Australia

• 20.  Presented: "Choosing Standards from 50 Ways to Do That in Revit"

 Anyone notice a theme in the locations?  Beaches, parks, islands, bays, valleys . . . .

*NB. This list does not include the various ancillary events such as 'Data Days', DTS, BCS etc

RTC Europe 2015 - Revit goes to Budapest

Danube from Pest Castle

RTC Europe is over for another year. The 'Revit Technology Conference' concept is broadening its horizons - it is now all about BIM, not exclusively Revit. This year the event was held in Budapest - the home of Archicad.  Graphisoft were very much in evidence at the event, what with sponsorship and organising tours and competitions.  I think this is a very healthy thing for the industry.  Autodesk and Revit need some effective competition otherwise they will stagnate.

As always, I learned a few more tricks about Revit - in fact quite a few more than normal this time, so this was a very fruitful conference.  We also saw a number of interesting new products on show, such as Enscape, Fuzor and Avail, along with established ones like the Ideate Revit add-ins and CAD Learning - the latter were doing a wonderful job of organising free Revit certification at the conference.

Corinthia Hotel, Budapest

What a spectacular venue for a conference:

Corinthia Hotel Atrium

Stairway to RTC, Corinthia Hotel

Grand ballroom, Corinthia Hotel - main RTC venue

Site Visit to Graphisoft Park

The day before the conference started, a few people went on a tour of Graphisoft Park, outside the centre of Budapest.  We had a guided tour around the technology park set up by the owners of Graphisoft in order to create a good working environment for the Archicad programmers (amongst others).  The park was created on the site of old gasworks, and some of the old buildings were refurbished.

Gasworks Towers at Graphisoft Park

Graphisoft Park, Budapest

Graphisoft Headquarters, Budapest

Original specs on first Mac used for Archicad

Pecha Kucha

This sounds like a Hungarian invention but was actually started in Japan - it is a presentation competition.  Each competitor has 20 Powerpoint slides and 20 seconds to speak on each one.  The inaugural Pecha Kucha event at RTC, sponsored by Graphisoft, was won by Joe Banks of Brisbane, Australia - that means free attendance for him at the next European RTC in Porto, Portugal in October 2016.

Shopping in Budapest

Knockdown sale on Vasari?

Retro mobile phone shop