Jim Cowan has his own firm – Synergy-AEC and provides a balanced assessment of digital media for education. Over the course of his career, he has provided education services to eLearning content developers, 16 universities and hundreds of firms. His areas of expertise include eLearning, interoperability between software products, and overcoming barriers to the adoption of BIM. He brings skills as an educator and in-depth knowledge of how to customize Autodesk software to improve efficiency.
It is his life’s work to help others understand the complex, changing software that drives the AEC industry. His most recent innovations have been in the creating of planting with sustainability data, to promote biodiversity, complex modeling of topography and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate reusable movie content in multiple languages.