{"id":2322,"date":"2017-09-20T10:17:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2017-10-20T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:39:08","slug":"autodesk-toronto-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/autodesk-toronto-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Autodesk Toronto has Completed Our Landing at MaRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gordon Kurtenbach<\/p>\n<p>You might have read about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/autodesk-toronto-is-moving-to-mars\/\">our journey<\/a> and I\u2019m happy to share that <a href=\"http:\/\/careers.autodesk.com\/ca\/toronto-jobs\">Autodesk Toronto<\/a>\u00a0has officially landed at our new home at MaRS Discovery District. In one of the world\u2019s largest urban innovation hubs, our official opening in this building is particularly important. Why? Because MaRS is all about tackling key challenges, collaboration on and commercialization of discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Autodesk has been contributors to the Toronto business community for some time. In recent years, the company began creating Technology Centers at strategic locations all over the world, and now we have our very own here in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/TO-Exterior.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2325\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/TO-Exterior-1024x701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/TO-Exterior-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/TO-Exterior-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/TO-Exterior-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/TO-Exterior.jpg 1661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At yesterday\u2019s official opening, we received a warm welcome from neighbors like The Vector Institute and Johnson + Johnson Innovation JLABS and were also joined by Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost; Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski; the Mayor of Toronto John Tory and the VP of Corporate Development and Partnerships at MaRS, Karen Greve Young.<\/p>\n<p>Our 60,000 square foot space houses more than 250 Autodesk research, product development, sales, marketing and human resources team members. The two office floors are the first large-scale example of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/04\/autodesk-project-discover\/\">generatively designed office layout<\/a> and we also have one additional floor that is ideal for Toronto community collaboration and exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Our new office space is a place where our customers, partners, experts and academic and government leaders can come together to explore the future of making things. Our goal is to research and showcase what is possible with emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence; build solutions that address the world\u2019s epic challenges and invest and partner with start-ups, academia and governments to create a shared vision for the future of innovation.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019ll join us!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2324\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/ribbon-cutting.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2324\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2324\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/ribbon-cutting-1024x685.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/ribbon-cutting-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/ribbon-cutting-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/ribbon-cutting-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/ribbon-cutting.png 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Autodesk CEO, Andrew Anagnost, John Tory, Mayor of Toronto and Karen Greve Young, VP of Corporate Development and Partnerships at MaRS.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2323\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2323\" class=\"wp-image-2323 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/09\/5.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Tory, Andrew Anagnost and Autodesk CTO, Jeff Kowalski.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gordon Kurtenbach<\/p>\n<p>You might have read about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/autodesk-toronto-is-moving-to-mars\/\">our journey<\/a> and I\u2019m happy to share that <a href=\"http:\/\/careers.autodesk.com\/ca\/toronto-jobs\">Autodesk Toronto<\/a>\u00a0has officially landed at our new home at MaRS Discovery District. In one of the world\u2019s largest urban innovation hubs, our official opening in this building is particularly important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,20],"tags":[584,583,363],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companynews","category-future-of-making-things","tag-ai","tag-ceo","tag-generative-design"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Autodesk Toronto has Completed Our Landing at MaRS - In the Fold<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/autodesk-toronto-mars\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Autodesk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/autodesk-toronto-mars\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/autodesk-toronto-mars\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Autodesk\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2fe6071949598957391b579ca67e73a9\"},\"headline\":\"Autodesk Toronto has Completed Our Landing at MaRS\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-09-20T15:17:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-10-20T20:39:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/autodesk-toronto-mars\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":335,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/autodesk-toronto-mars\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/71\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/TO-Exterior.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AI\",\"CEO\",\"generative design\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Company News\",\"Future of Making Things\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/autodesk-toronto-mars\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/autodesk-toronto-mars\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/autodesk-toronto-mars\\\/\",\"name\":\"Autodesk Toronto has Completed Our Landing at MaRS - 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