Everything We Announced at SpeckleCon 2024

SpeckleCon 2024: Highlights & Big News

Our team kicked off SpeckleCon 2024 with a keynote presentation, where we revealed our product plans and celebrated the biggest year of Speckle growth yet.

Missed us in London? No worries — here are the biggest announcements you need to know.

Speckle Is Inevitable

Speckle began as a Grasshopper plugin for multiplayer collaboration. Fast forward a few years, and Speckle has evolved into a connected ecosystem of plugins, a powerful viewer, and your all-in-one AEC data hub.

Speckle: The Collaborative Data Hub

Benjamin Ottensten (Product Lead) and Gergő Jedlicska (Lead Software Architect) shared exciting updates on Speckle’s collaboration features.

Workspaces Exiting Beta

Workspaces — our solution for seamless team collaboration — will soon leave beta. After a successful public beta, we’re launching:

• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Data residency options
• Three new paid plans

This also marks the end of the free beta period.

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The public beta has been running since September with great success and we’re excited to release Single Sign-On (SSO), data residency and three paid plans in the coming weeks. This will mark the end of the free beta period.

Workspaces are Enterprise-Ready

Workspaces give you maximum control and security. Besides having all your projects and team members in one shared space, you can connect your SSO authentication provider to secure access.

And if you want to go even further, we also give you easy access to data residency so you can control where your project data is hosted. Everything is completely self-serve in a few clicks.

Presenting Workspaces Plans

Based on your team and project needs, you will be able use Workspaces as a part of one of the three paid plans: the Starter, Plus or Business plan.

Each plan will give your team a dedicated workspace with role management, guest users, and domain security. The Plus and Business plans equip your team with SSO and data residency. This way, your team can access projects easily while knowing you’re compliant with regional regulations and the strictest project requirements.

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Speckle Gets SOC2 Type 1 Attested

Now we’re not only secure, but we have some pretty strict people attesting that we are!

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You’d be surprised how often we hear that open-source software like Speckle is inherently insecure. We have many thoughts on why this is fundamentally wrong, both theoretically and practically, with Speckle.

We’ve secured our SOC2 Type 1 attestation to cut discussions short going forward. If you’re keen on SOC2 Type 2, this will follow soon!

Be sure to follow Speckle's updates in the coming weeks since Workspaces are coming your way, fully ready to change how you work in AEC teams!

Speckle: The Connected Data Hub

Our seasoned Engineers, Kateryna Konieva and Claire Kuang shared thrilling updates on the Connector front. Emphasis on the “thrilling”!

Here’s a rundown of their key announcements:

Presenting New Next-Gen Connectors

After SketchUp, Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino and ArcGIS got their Next-Gen Connector versions in September, it’s time for more!

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We have three new additions to the list of the fastest and smoothest Speckle Connectors: Archicad, Civil3D and Tekla!

Next-Gen Connectors Bring Unseen Speed

Compared to our legacy connectors, we’re seeing substantial speed increases when publishing and loading with next-gen Speckle connectors.

Did you change some objects in your model and want to re-publish? With next-gen connectors, this is more than 1000% faster than before because, this time, we’re only processing the changes to keep your model up to date. We repeat: more than a thousand per cent faster!

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50% Smaller Versions & Lighter Memory Footprint

Your Speckle data is lighter than ever — we send the same number of objects but in much more optimised formats. Plus, Speckle now uses less of your computer’s memory. Win-win.

Multiplayer Modelling

Stay in sync and file-free while working on the same model across different apps — with high-fidelity native geometry.

Multiplayer Modelling

Real-Time Coordination

Quickly reference Speckle models inside your desktop tools — geometry and key properties included.

Real-Time Coordination

Speckle: The Automated Data Hub

Speckle engineers Chuck Driesler and Jonathon Broughton (yes, that Jonathon from Speckle) shared what’s next for Speckle Automate.

Automate Goes Public in Beta

What do we want? To click less. When do we want it? Now.

Speckle Automate is entering public beta, launching alongside Workspaces. It gives AEC teams powerful tools to automate repetitive tasks.

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Curated Public Functions

Not an automation expert? No worries!

Use pre-built functions for:

• Data transformation
• Model checks
• Validations
• Format conversions

Perfect for streamlining insights, reports, and simplified models.

Public Functions

Automate Private Functions

Your data. Your workflows. Your secret sauce.

Work with your team to build, customise, and deploy private functions tailored to your exact needs — directly in Workspaces.

Private Functions

Wrap-Up

With major momentum from this year’s fundraising milestone, we’re charging full steam ahead with Speckle as the AEC industry’s data hub.

SpeckleCon 2024 proves that Speckle isn’t just a product — it’s a movement. One that AEC professionals are proud to support, contribute to, and grow with.

Expect More Speckle Launches Soon!

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