Misfits of Manufacturing — From Screen to Machine, August 25-26 in Regensburg

 

Misfits of Manufacturing

August 25-26, 2026

CyberCraft Lab, OTH Regensburg, Germany

Many manufacturing challenges have already been solved elsewhere; they just go by a different name in another industry. Misfits of Manufacturing brings together engineers, designers, fabricators, software developers, and digital manufacturing specialists who use Rhino and Grasshopper to connect design, automation, and production. The event focuses on workflows that bridge the gap between geometry and the shop floor by integrating Rhino with legacy CAD systems, CNC machines, industrial robots, laser cutters, ERP platforms, PDM systems, and custom software solutions. Cross-industry innovation rarely happens by accident. This two-day event is designed to foster knowledge exchange between professionals facing similar challenges across different sectors.

Day 1: Show & Tell

• Presentations and case studies exploring: Digital manufacturing workflows
• CAD/CAM integration
• Automation and custom tooling
• Lessons learned from real-world production environments
• Current challenges and unsolved problems

The day concludes with an informal BBQ and networking session.

Day 2: Workshops & Hackathon

• Hands-on sessions focused on: Robotics and automated fabrication
• AI integration in manufacturing workflows
• Rhino Compute and custom user interfaces
• Collaborative problem-solving across industries

This is a practitioner-focused event with no exhibition booths, sales pitches, or vendor presentations—just people sharing experience, ideas, and solutions.

A limited number of presentation slots are still available.

Agenda, registration, and additional information...

Grasshopper Users Meeting & Architectural Hackathon, Warsaw on May 29-31, 2026

Grasshopper User Meeting Warsaw

📅 Dates: 

Grasshopper Users Meeting: Friday May 29, 18:00–21:00

Hackathon: Friday May 29, 21:00 → Sunday May 31, 09:00

📍 Venue: 

Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

👤 Language: The event will be held in Polish.
English-speaking teams are welcome to take part in the hackathon and present in English.

Join us for this local informal gathering for people working with Grasshopper, Rhino, and computational design in architecture.

It will bring together designers, architects, students, developers, and computational design enthusiasts for short presentations, discussions, networking, and a 36-hour architectural hackathon.

The weekend will start on Friday evening with presentations by participants and discussions. Attendees will share their own projects, tools, Grasshopper definitions, workflows, or experiments. Presentations can be informal or work-in-progress—the focus is on ideas, process, and exchange.

At 21:00 on Friday, the hackathon theme will be announced, followed by team formation. Over the following 36 hours, teams will work on prototypes, scripts, tools, plugins, web apps, or services that explore new ways to “hack” architectural reality. 

Final presentations will take place on Sunday morning, followed by jury deliberation and the announcement of results.

Free registration and more information...

AECtech NYC Annual Conference, November 11-16

 

AECtech NYC 2025 Annual Conference
November 11-16, 2025

CORE studio is excited to welcome everyone to the 13th Annual AECtech Conference in NYC! They have a full schedule offering both virtual and in-person workshops, tech tours, tech crawls, a symposium, and a hackathon. Buy your tickets today!

Virtual Workshops | November 7

Immerse yourself in a full day of workshops hosted by design innovators and software pioneers, developed to introduce participants to a wide range of powerful new workflows that enable new ways of working and enhance existing design processes.

Tech Tours | November 11 | Multiple NYC Locations | In-Person

Enjoy a tour through contemporary architecture projects in NYC hosted by the architects and engineers who designed them! 

Tech Crawls | November 12 | Multiple NYC Locations | In-Person

Join your colleagues for a visit to local Architecture and Engineering firms for a tour and discussion on innovation in practice. 

In-Person Workshops | November 13 | Cornell Tech Verizon Education Center

Join your peers for a full day of Masterclasses hosted by design innovators and software pioneers, developed to introduce participants to a wide range of powerful new workflows that enable new ways of working and enhance existing design processes.

Rhino and Grasshopper workshops include:

• Bringing Rhino models to life with Unreal Engine, presented by Epic Games + Heatherwick studio
• Grasshopper inside AI: Run Grasshopper definitions from AI assistants with MCP and Rhino.Compute, presented by KPF
• Computational Design with Grasshopper 2, presented by McNeel + Proving Ground
• Developing Custom Plugins for Grasshopper 2, presented by McNeel + Proving Ground
• Scaling Up Parametric Engineering Workflows with Karamba3D, presented by Karamba3D

Symposium | November 14 | Cornell Tech Verizon Education Center | Hybrid

Be inspired by highly acclaimed leaders in design and technology within the AEC industry. Join us for a series of presentations, discussions, and round table panels reflecting on the state of practice today and what is on the horizon.

Hackathon | November 15-16 | Thornton Tomasetti | In-Person

Create something incredible with a team of your peers during the 26-hour hackathon. Starting on Saturday morning and ending on Sunday afternoon. AEC Tech’s Hackathon is an event for all levels of programmers, developers, engineers, and others. Additionally, it is created for attendees to collaborate, network, build new relationships, and generate new ideas and processes for the AEC community.

Details... 

AECtech+ Boston 2025, September 19-21

AECtech+ Boston 2025
September 19-21, 2025
Buy your ticket here.

Put your skills to the test and embark on an exhilarating 24-hour hackathon! 

Register for the second AECtech+ Boston hosted by Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio, Perkins&Will, and CBT Architects. 

Kick off the weekend early on Friday with a round of Morning Workshops. Take a deep dive into new concepts and workflows within the AEC space. These workshops will give you the foundations to implement these technologies back at the office or in the Hackathon. Workshops include:

• Agentic AI and MCP for AEC: Sergey Pigach, CORE studio | Thornton Tomasetti

• Prompt, Respond and Refine - Vibe coding in Design: Harish Palani, Perkins&Will

• Modern UX for AEC Stack -  Building Web Interfaces in Revit and Rhino: Victor Wanderley Barbosa, Schmidt Hammer Lassen

On Saturday, immerse yourself in a hands-on learning experience at the 24-Hour Hackathon. Join forces with fellow participants to tackle real-world industry challenges using cutting-edge technologies and computational approaches. This concentrated event will provide an opportunity for hands-on collaboration, problem-solving, and prototyping, as you work against the clock to develop innovative solutions. Participants of all experience levels will have the opportunity to collaborate, learn from each other, build new relationships, and generate innovations for the AEC community. 

Details and registration...

AECtech+ Barcelona (June 13-15, 2025)

Put your skills to the test and embark on an exhilarating 24-hour hackathon!

Join us from June 13 to 15 for the second AECtech+ Barcelona, hosted by Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio and BIG.

Kick off the weekend early on Friday with a round of Morning Workshops. Take a deep dive into new concepts and workflows within the AEC space. These 3-hour workshops will give you the foundations to implement these technologies at the office or in the Hackathon. Workshops include:

• Exploring Buildings as Graphs: David Andres Leon & Sophie Moore
• Fundamentals of Parametric Geometry in C#: Christopher Diggins
• From Nodes to Code: Parametric Design for Beginners | Alloy Kemp & David Mans

Get inspired by a fantastic panel of presenters at the Afternoon Symposium speaking on a diverse range of innovations within AEC, from Platforms to Processes to Projects.

• CODA: Pep Tornabell
• ACPV Architects: Vincenzo Panasiti & Giovanni Consiglio
• Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio: Jeroen Janssen & Georgios Athanasopoulos
• Infrared.city: Oana Taut
• BIG: Andreas Bak
• McNeel

On Saturday, immerse yourself in a hands-on learning experience at the 24-Hour Hackathon. Join fellow participants to tackle real-world industry challenges using cutting-edge technologies and computational approaches. This concentrated event will provide an opportunity for hands-on collaboration, problem-solving, and prototyping as you work against the clock to develop innovative solutions. Participants of all experience levels will be able to collaborate, learn from each other, build new relationships, and generate innovations for the AEC community.

Are you new to Hackathons? AECtech provides a unique opportunity to learn from a diverse peer group with varied domain expertise, working together towards a common goal. Need some inspiration? Check out what has been created in over ten years of AECtech hackathons.

Please visit the event site to learn more and register to secure your spot...

Shape To Fabrication 2025 Updates: Hackathon, Dev Day, Workshops and AEC Conference (London, 12-17 April)

Shape To Fabrication
London, UK
12-17 April

Shape to Fabrication (STF) is an architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and design-focused conference presenting innovative real-world projects beyond the theoretical. The focus is on proven application and evidence-based project delivery.

Presenters at the conference represent an international field of architects, engineers, designers, fabricators, and software developers, all working at the cutting edge of their industries within AEC and design.

The 9th iteration of Shape to Fabrication is presented in partnership with the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, and the 2-day conference is taking place at the University of Westminster’s Marylebone Campus, London, on the 16th & 17th of April 2025.

*Conference Early Agenda and Moderators now available

**Mid-conference drinks at Heatherwick Studio on the 16th of April (available to all Conference attendees)

What else is happening?

The Shape to Fabrication 2025 Workshops take place the day before the conference on Tuesday, 15 April. 

*WS11 "Integrated Design for Robotic 3D Printing" revised

Preceding these will be the Rhino New Dev Day hosted by McNeel. 

Additionally, our Shape to Fabrication friends, Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio, are delivering an AECtech Hackathon at Foster + Partners the weekend before Shape to Fabrication 2025. 

Here’s a reminder of all the dates you need to know:

• 12-13 April 2025 – AECtech Hackathon
• 14 April 2025 – Rhino New Dev Day
• 15 April 2025 – STF Workshops
• 16-17 April 2025 – STF Conference

*Please note that tickets for each event are separate, so make sure you book for each event you wish to attend.

Shape To Fabrication details and tickets...

Shape To Fabrication: Hackathon, Dev Day, Workshops and AEC Conference (London, 12-17 April)

Shape To Fabrication
London, UK
12-17 April

Shape to Fabrication (STF) is an architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and design-focused conference presenting innovative real-world projects beyond the theoretical. The focus is on proven application and evidence-based project delivery.

Presenters at the conference represent an international field of architects, engineers, designers, fabricators, and software developers, all working at the cutting edge of their industries within AEC and design.

The 9th iteration of Shape to Fabrication is presented in partnership with the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, and the 2-day conference is taking place at the University of Westminster’s Marylebone Campus, London, on the 16th & 17th April 2025.

What else is happening?

The Shape to Fabrication 2025 Workshops take place the day before the conference on Tuesday, 15 April. 

Preceding these will be the Rhino New Dev Day hosted by McNeel. 

Additionally, our Shape to Fabrication friends, Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio, are delivering an AECtech Hackathon at Foster + Partners the weekend before Shape to Fabrication 2025. 

Here’s a reminder of all the dates you need to know:

• 12-13 April 2025 – AECtech Hackathon
• 14 April 2025 – Rhino New Dev Day
• 15 April 2025 – STF Workshops
• 16-17 April 2025 – STF Conference

*Please note that tickets for each event are separate, so make sure you book for each individual event you wish to attend.

Shape To Fabrication details and tickets...