Dr. Tonya Custis (Director of AI Research at Autodesk) shares how she learned about management and strategy by playing both offense and defense as a roller derby skater. She will feature her team’s work and how it makes a difference in the industries Autodesk serves. Her team’s research papers focus on making designers’ jobs easier by using AI to reverse-engineer objects and assemblies into sketches and CAD models, as well as to generate the designs themselves. This includes CLIP-Forge which allows users to describe 3D objects via natural language, and the system then generates 3D models of those objects. It’s an early step in using words for 3D geometry generation, which help users build entire 3D scenes for games, movies, and more.

Aliza Carpio (Director, Product and Tech Evangelist at Autodesk) shares tips for you to consider beyond the base salary in a job offer, from future facing (RSUs / PSUs) to extra incentives (signing bonus, negotiating your job description / title). She asks key questions about what is important to you (and how to prioritize that in your counter offer), understand why having a good negotiating strategy is “good for your soul”, what “total package” means – and which levers can be easily negotiated, and how to thoughtfully and confidently respond back with your own request (the counter).