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Speaker(s)
Merri Lawan
With over a decade of experience in construction both on site and off site, Merri joined the
French leading general contracting company Vinci Construction France’s (VCF) BIM team at its
inception in 2011. Having worked for Bouygues Construction, Merri has been a keen Revit user
since 2010 and as of 2011, He is now responsible for the BIM implementation in VCF’s
Construction France, in charge of Revit integration within design teams, technical departments
and cost estimations to construction sites.
As an Autodesk Developer Network Member (ADN), Merri focuses on custom software
development and takes an active part in the Autodesk Beta Testing Program. As an expert in
the Revit software API, he has developed and deployed VCF’s in-house plugins and tools
accelerating business workflow among BIM products. Finally, as a BIM evangelist in VCF, his
role includes the training supervision and technical support for all subsidiaries in France.
Eberhard Michaelis
CAD and BIM development expert, Project Manager and founding Partner of G.E.M. Team
Solutions / Inopso Companies in Germany. Eberhard has been developing CAD core software
and plugins since 1990 and software on various Autodesk platforms since 1996. Leading the
development of the initial IFC interface for Autodesk Architectural Desktop and interfacing
various Autodesk and other platforms he has a solid knowledge of the possibilities and
problems of CAD interoperability and BIM. Eberhard has been developing software plugins for
Revit since 2008.
G.E.M. Team Solutions / Inopso, being a very active Autodesk Developer Network (ADN)
member since its founding in 1999 has successfully implemented projects on various AutoCAD
vertical products, Navisworks, Inventor, 3DStudio Max, Maya and Revit.
Pamela Maier
As a Consulting Project Manager, Pamela is leading agile project deliveries, software
implementations and training programs in the Autodesk Customer Success Organization.
Enabling customers to get the best value out of Autodesk Consulting services and experience the
bandwidth of Autodesk solutions is her main focus. She is working with a global team of
consultants, support specialists and customer success managers to achieve best customer
outcomes and increase their ROI.
Pamela joined the Vinci Construction France (VCF) & Autodesk project team in 2018 and currently
helps to coordinate, plan and execute 5 main projects around Formworks, Revit API and Forge
with VCF. She is trained in Scrum Methodology (PSM I) and a certified PMP member. She
operates out of the Amsterdam office (Netherlands), after working stays in France & Germany
and is with Autodesk since 2014.