Below is a recap of Mary's live tweets from the event in the order they were tweeted.

@Autodesk expecting 95 journalists and bloggers @ #AU2011. More than 8,000 attendees from 80 countries expected at the show.

Steve Blum @ #AU2011. Discussed focus on education down 2 elementary level. Wants students to use #Autodesk software 2 unleash creativity.

@ #AU2011. Blum says mobile & cloud are major trend. Access to mobile devices is growing @ staggering pace.

@ #AU2011. Blum: Cloud & mobile changing the way people think about getting their jobs done. Giving them opportunities they've never had.

Amar Hanspal on stage @ #AU2011: The opportunity in front of us as a company is about empowering more customers around the world.

Hanspal @ #AU2011: Get more stuff in more people's hands & let them run wild. Help everyone imagine, design & create better world.

Hanspal @ #AU2011: Cloud is inherently good @ 4 things - connecting people/devices; connecting u 2 info; infinite computing; & design 4 all.

Carl Bass on stage @ #AU2011, discussing challenges associated w/the Cloud.

@Autodesk CTO, Jeff Kowalski, now on stage at #AU2011 discussing the complexity and disruption our world faces today.

Kowalski: 5 waves of disruption R access & experience, new ways of doing biz, digital fab, ambient intelligence & infinite computing #AU2011

Chris Anderson, Wired magazine, on stage @ #AU2011. He says: Past decade was about finding new social & innovation models on the web.

Anderson says the next decade will be about applying the social & innovation models to the real world. #AU2011

@Autodesk launching PLM software. Carl Bass says, We didn't do it until we could do it right.

@Autodesk new PLM product called 360 Nexus. Will be available in Q1 2012. Will be available in the Cloud. #AU2011