I work in the Research Engineering team at Autodesk, a centralised pool of software engineering talent that contributes to research projects across our various industries. Organising this way allows us to explore commonalities (and efficiencies) that would otherwise be hard to achieve. Every year or two we have an internal “Innovation Days” event, which is essentially an internal team hackathon. (Lots of other teams at Autodesk do this, of course, we’re far from being unique in that regard.)
Our latest Innovation Days took place on Thursday and Friday of last week, with the theme of sustainability. I met with the extended Dasher team (which is still very small, even when extended 🙂 for our team meeting the day before, and we brainstormed a few possible ideas (the broader team had had a very interesting presentation by Zoé Bezpalko, a Sustainability Strategy Manager at Autodesk, before the break, but I wanted to get some Dasher-specific ideas on paper). Alex Tessier…