Carl is passionate about driving digital innovation, product development and creating empowered organization.
Carl has a goal of deeply improving the way cities are built all over the world which led him to co-found Spacemaker AI, a cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform that helps urban designers and architects discover smarter ways to maximize the potential of a building site. With the acquisition of the company back in 2020, Carl joined Autodesk in the role of Vice President of Product. In his current role, he is pursuing his mission of improving the way cities are built all over the world.
Carl holds M.Sc. degrees in both Computer Science and Business Administration and has more than 15 years of experience building software, leading teams, and experimenting how Artificial Intelligence on the shoulder of a user can help support and improve different workflows and processes for better and more sustainable outcomes.
Autodesk’s Carl Christensen, Vice President of Product Development, will share Autodesk’s vision for realizing the future of AECO with the Forma industry cloud and its data-centric, outcome-based approach. Carl will highlight the importance of combining informed decision-making in pre-design, multimodal collaboration, and an open ecosystem to achieve the next industry transformation and solve the big challenges we face in designing and building the built environment.