Autodesk employees: How to deduce where to go without applying much thought?

At Autodesk we do lots of collaboration. Our days are spent working at our desks and in meetings. We have four buildings in San Francisco, so every once in a while I get a meeting invitation, and I am not sure where its conference room is. So I decided to do a little research about our conference room names and see if there is a pattern.

Here are our locations:

• The Landmark Building
• The Spear Tower
• The Steuart Tower
• Pier 9
• 60 Broadway

We have multiple floors in these locations. As it turns out, sometimes each floor uses a different naming convention for its conference rooms. Some floors do not. Regardless of whether the naming strategy is unique to a floor or building, at least they all have some convention.

Here's what I found:

• The Landmark Building
• Floor 2 - Old world scientists such as Brahmagupta, Euclid, and Copernicus
• Floor 4 - New world scientists such as Heisenberg and von Braun
• Floor 5 - Bodies of water such as Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico.
• The Spear Tower
• Floor 2 - Scientists such as Pelli, Bracci, and Exner
• The Steuart Tower
• Floor 2 - Scientists like Darwin, Salk, and Skinner
• Floor 3 - Scientists like Leakey and Montessori
• Floor 4 - Scientists like Hawking, Oppenheimer, and Pasteur
• Pier 9
• Floor 1 - Sea monsters like Kraken and Jormungandr
• Floor 2 - Sea monsters like Hydra
• 60 Broadway
• Floor 1 - Flowers like Bluewitch and Trillium
• Floor 2 - Flowers like California Poppy and Prickly Phlox

Now if I get a meeting invite to a room whose name I don't recognize, I can get a hint at its location before looking it up in the company directory.

How do you name your conference rooms where you work? Let us know at [email protected].

Conference room naming conventions are alive in the lab.