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JUNE 10-11, 2020  AGENDA
9:00 am CST    Engineering What's Ahead   Dr. Ajei Gopal, President and CEO, Ansys

9:15 am CST    Convergence of Massive Data and Compute   Pradeep Dubey, Senior Fellow, Intel 
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DAY 1   KEYNOTES
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On Demand   Ansys Autonomy: An Introduction  Sandeep Sovani, Director, Industry Marketing, Ansys 

9:30 am CST  Autonomous Safety in Sight   Philip Koopman, Co-Founder and CTO, Edge Case Research

9:50 am CST  Azure for Autonomous Vehicle Development  Vijitha Chekuri, Business Strategy Director - Autonomous Vehicle Industry Solutions, Microsoft
9:30 AM CST  Combining Ansys VRXPERIENCE & NI to Solve ADAS/AD HIL Validation, Ashish Naik, Sr. Business Development Mgr., ADAS/AD, National Instruments

ON DEMAND SESSIONS
2020 State of Automated Driving
Sam Abuelsamid, Principal Analyst, contributor to Forbes, Autonomous Vehicle Engineering and One Zero and co-host of Wheel Bearings Podcast, Forbes

Thermal Cameras for Safer Cars  Mike Walters, VP Product Management, Micro Cameras, Flir

The COVID Factor: Prospects for Autonomous Cars  Jim Motavalli, Journalist, Auto Expert, New York Times

Ansys Autonomy: An Introduction  Sandeep Sovani, Director, Industry Marketing, Ansys 

Autonomous Safety in Sight   Philip Koopman, Co-Founder and CTO, Edge Case Research

A Simulation Tool Chain for Verification and Validation of L3 and Higher Level Autonomous Vehicles,  
Rene Grosspietsch, Head of Autonomous Driving Cooperations and Eco System, BMW

Towards Homologation of Sensors, Sensor Fusion & Automated Driving:High Fidelity Environment Modeling Stefan-Alexander Schneider, Professor, University of Kempten

From POC to Production: Functional Safety Considerations for Your Embedded Software   Kerry Johnson, Senior Product Manager, QNX

Azure for Autonomous Vehicle Development  Vijitha Chekuri, Business Strategy Director - Autonomous Vehicle Industry Solutions, Microsoft
DAY 2   KEYNOTES
On Demand      The Role of Simulation in Digital Transformation, Mark Hindsbo, VP & GM, Design Business Unit , Ansys

9:30 am CST     Learn How to Speed Up Your Simulations with More Powerful Hardware  Tony DeVarcoHPC, Manufacturing Segment Manager, HPE 

9:45 am CST     Simulation Verification of Automotive Millimeter Wave Radar 
9:45 am CST 
   Mingliang Gao, Pre-research Director, Radar System Engineer and Senior RF expert, Beijing Autoroad Technology Co., Ltd.
9:30 am CST  Accelerating Product Development through Digital Transformation  
9:30 am CST  Dr. Ragupathy Kannusamy, Global Engineering COE Leader, Structures & Fatigue, Garrett Motion

10:00 am CST Automotive Shape Aerodynamic Performance Optimization based on Adjoint solution   Chao Ren, Engineer at SAIC Volkswagen


ON DEMAND SESSIONS
Best Practices for Industrial Flows and Turbomachinery, Paul Galpin, CFD Consultant, ISimQ

Automotive Shape Aerodynamic Performance Optimization based on Adjoint solution   Chao Ren, Engineer, SAIC Volkswagen

Analysis Process for Predicting Thermo-mechanical Fatigue Life  Dennis Chan, Structural Analyst Engineer, Cummins Inc.

CFD-DEM coupled Simulation of Hair Flow Inside a Cyclonic Device, Kon Leung, Staff Simulation Engineer at BISSELL Homecare

Workflow for Predicting Chain Whine in a T-case using Ansys Motion, Ujval Kumar Taunk, CAE Development Engineer, BorgWarner

Optimizing Materials Selection for Food Preservation, Francesco Clementi, PU Foam and Plastic Expert, Electrolux Major Applicances

Material Data Management in a Digital Environment  Nicola Campo, Senior Director, Baker Hughes

Advanced Simulation in Process Industry   M Venkatesh, General Manager & Head, Larsen & Toubro

US Air Force Digital Campaign  Major General William T. Cooley, USAF Digital Campaign Executive Steering Committee Chair, US Air Force

Common Simulation Capabilities to Accelerate Digital Transformation  Rob Harwood, Director, Industry Marketing at Ansys
9:30 am CST   Extending Azure Digital Twins with Ansys Twin Builder Basak Mutlum, Principal Program Manager Microsoft Azure Iot  Engineering, Microsoft

On Demand    Simulation-Based Digital Twin with Ansys Twin Builder  Sameer Kher, Senior Director, Twin Builder Product Line, Ansys


 
ON DEMAND SESSIONS
Integration of Simulation-based Digital Twins Across Design-to-Operate Businesses Processes  Ismail Serin, Area Product Owner, SAP

Improve Time to Market Through Enhanced Virtual Commissioning with Rockwell Automation and Ansys, 
John Pritchard, Business Architect Lead, Digital Engineering, Rockwell Automation

PANEL: Leveraging a Transformative Digital Twin Ecosystem to Improve Product Operations  Moderator: Kenneth Wong, Digital Engineering
PANAILISTS: Sam George, CVP of Azure IoT, Microsoft, Vatsan Govindrajan, Global Head of PLM and Engineering, SAP, 
Tom O’Reilly, VP, Global Business Development, Rockwell Automation, Steve Dertien, CTO at PTC, Eric Bantegnie, VP/GM, Ansys

Enhance Monitoring & Service Applications with Digital Twin Simulation  Mark Williford, Senior Director of Product Management, Analytics, PTC

The Digital Twin Consortium  Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Object Management Group, Inc.

Extending Azure Digital Twins with Ansys Twin Builder Basak Mutlum, Principal Program Manager Microsoft Azure IoT Engineering, Microsoft

Digital Twin for High-Voltage Electric Motors, Coupled Rotor-Dynamics & Electro-Mechanics System Simulation
Philipp Rauh (Simulation Engineer, Siemens Large Drive Applications), Johannes Einzinger (Lead Application Engineer, Ansys)

Detailed 3D Simulations to Enable Digital Twin Development and Validation  Eros Gabellini, Business Development Manager, GDTech
9:00 am CST   Ansys Long Term Technology Strategy, Prith Banerjee, Ansys

9:15 am CST   
Focus on Photonics: The State of the Art, Ashkan Seyedi, Senior Research Scientist , HPE


ON DEMAND SESSIONS     

 
Microsoft’s Partner Strategy: Ubiquitous Cloud, Digital Twins, Autonomous Vehicles & more, Uli Homann, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

Digitizing the 21st Century Oil and Gas Industry, John Hofmeister, Founder and Chief Executive, Citizens for Affordable Energy

Multiphysics Simulation  Scott Parent, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Solutions, Baker Hughes

Ingraining Simulation into our DNA, Bob Sharpe, Executive Director Simulation Based Product Development, Cummins

Accelerating the Autonomous Revolution With A 100+ Yeas of Innovation, Doug Boles, President & CEO, Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Engineering Simulation–Still much to offer, huge potential to discover, Ferdinando Cannizzo, CTO, Head of GT Racing Car Design & Development, Ferrari

Pikes Peak, Nürburgring-Nordschleife, Goodwood, Tianmen Mountain – the fully electric Volkswagen ID.R has made the history books of Motorsport,
Sven Smeets, Motorsport Director, Volkswagen AG

PANEL: COVID-19 and Me: How the Global Pandemic Changed the Way we Work Forever, Moderated by Kate Russell (Technology Reporter, BBC Click)
PANELISTS: Jacqueline de Rojas, President, techUK, President, Digileaders, Co-Chair, Institute of Coding; Rachel Neaman, Technology Leader,
Non-Executive Director, Leadership Mentor & Coach, Neaman Consulting; Kay Oswald, President of International, SmileDirectClub


Affordable healthcare through digital innovation, Sureshkumar R, CTO Clinical Care Solutions India & Digital Incubators, GE Healthcare

Porsche AG: Forumula E, More Than a Tech Lab, Pascal Zurliinden, Director of Factory Motorsports, Porsche

When life gives you lemons: Digital transformation in the post-pandemic world, Kate Russell, BBC Click

 

9:30 am CST    Simulations for EMC Concept of On Board Battery Chargers, Antonio Camarda, R&D EMC Engineer, Metasystem

9:50 am CST    Electro-thermal Coupled Mode for a 48V Li-on Batter Pack Using Reduced Order Thermal Model, Yufeng Liu, A123 Systems LLC

10:10 am CST  e-Motors & Power Electronics Technology in Automotive Electrification, Prof. Dr. William Cai, Harbin University of Science & Technology



ON DEMAND SESSIONS 
Four Pillars of Electrification, Larry Williams, Director of Technology Evangelism, Ansys

Ansys Electric Machine Design and Analysis Simulation Platform, Mark Solveson, Managing, Application Engineering, Ansys

Using Ansys Simulation for Better Battery Design with Improved Safety/Reliability, Vidyu Challa, Consulting Manager, Ansys
DAY 1   AUTONOMY TRACK
DAY 2   AUTONOMY TRACK
DAY 1   DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TRACK
DAY 2   DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TRACK

DAY 1   DIGITAL TWIN & IIoT  TRACK


DAY 2   DIGITAL TWIN & IIoT  TRACK


DAY 1   ELECTRIFICATION  TRACK
DAY 2   ELECTRIFICATION  TRACK
ON DEMAND SESSIONS
Cable Emissions/Immunity Analysis for Automotive Applications, Karen Burnham, Principal ScientistElectro Magnetic Applications Inc.

Use of AI for Optimization of Induction Machines designed using Ansys Maxwell, Dr. Praveen Kumar, Assoc. Prof., Indian Institute of Technology

Continental Automotive integrates Ansys Sherlock into the Design Process  Tony Asghari, Principal Engineer, Quality & Reliability Physics, Continental Automotive

Novel Method to Model Emissions through small gaps in Housings, Christian Römelsberger, Application Engineer, CADFEM GmbH

Electro-thermal Coupled Mode for a 48V Li-on Batter Pack Using Reduced Order Thermal Model, Yufeng Liu, A123 Systems LLC
 
Aerospace Platform Electromagnetic Environmental Effects Virtual Test Environment, Alex Jensen, Sr. Principal System Engineer, Northrop Grumman


 
DAY 2   5G  TRACK

9:30 am CST   RF Synthetics – A virtual wireless globe, Paul Tilghman, RF Director, Microsoft

On Demand    5G Design Innovation Through Simulation, Shawn Carpenter, Senior Product Manager, Ansys

On Demand 
  Ansys Multiphysics for 5G: Chips to cities, Wade Smith, Manager, Application Engineering, Ansys
ON DEMAND TRACK 1

Multi-objective free-shape optimization of a heat sink by means of the Fluent Adjoint Solver, Fluid Dynamics and Bosch

Ansys HPC/Cloud Solutions for Scalability, Judd Kaiser, Lead Software Developer, Ansys

Machine Learning Initiatives at Ansys, Jay Pathak, Director, Software Development, Ansys

Machine Learning Based Radar Perception for Autonomous Vehicles Using Full Physics Simulation, Arien Sligar, Principal Application Engineer, Ansys

Turbulent Times: Challenges in CFD, Florian Menter, Chief Scientist, Ansys

Fatigue Crack Growth - A New Paradigm,  Guoyu Lin, Principal R&D Developer, Ansys

Adaptivity in Implicit Nonlinear Mechanical Analysis, Jin Wang, Adaptivity in Implicit Nonlinear Mechanical Analysis, Ansys

Large Scale Computing in Ansys Simulation Products - Dipankar Choudhury, Ansys

Ansys Mechanical Performance on a 1500 cores Skylake Cluster  Herbert Guettler, Dr. , MicroConsult GmbH


 
ON DEMAND TRACK 2

Parallel Volume Meshing, Jan Frykestig, Sr Manager (PhD), Ansys​​​​​​​

Mesh Morphing and its Applications at Ansys, Young kyu Lee, Senior Manager, Software Development, Ansys​​​​​​​

Demand Recent progress in CAD Workflows for Topology Optimization and Model Deformation, Wolfgang Seibold, Principal Software Developer, Ansys​​​​​​​

Recent progress in Geometry Modeling: Hybrid Modeling for Automation in SpaceClaim   Michael Janes, Lead Software Developer, Ansys

Adjoint Methods and Optimization Technology, Chris Hill, Chief Technologist, Fluids, Ansys

Comprehensive Li-ion Battery Solutions in Ansys Fluent   Genong Li, Principal Software Developer, Ansys​​​​​​​

Gas Turbine Simulation Overview, Samir Rida, Director, Gas Turbine Product Management, Ansys
DAY 2   SIMCON TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION  TRACK
ON DEMAND TRACK 1

AI accelerated Scientific Computing & Engineering  Sanjay Choudhry, Senior Director, Nvidia

Predicting Thermo-mechanical Fatigue Life in Exhaust Manifolds, Dennis Chan, Technical Specialist, Cummins
 
How Extended Reality Changes Visualization of and Interaction with Simulation results  Nicolas Dalmasso, Pierre Galmiche, Chief Technologist, Ansys

Deliver Engineering Grade Light Simulation to Studio Designers with Ansys and  Autodesk, Lionel Bennes, Product Manager, Ansys

Engineering Post-Simulation Analysis in a Web-Centric World, Sean Ahern, Lead Software Developer / Nexus Project Manager, Ansys

SCADE Hybrid, Jean-Louis Colaço, PhD in Computer Science, ANSYS SBU Distinguished Engineer, Ansys

ROM Capabilities Within Twin Builder Product Line,  Lucas Boucinha, Senior Product Specialist, Ansys

Real-time lidar simulation  Claudio Perini, PhD, Senior Software Developer, Ansys

Recent Technology Development for Real-Time Automotive Radar Sensor Simulation Using SBR    Robert Kipp, R&D Fellow, Ansys

Patient Specific Real Time Coupled System & 3D Hemodynamic enabled by Reduced Order Modeling, Michel Rochette, Senior Director Software Dvelopment, Ansys

Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) - the glue and the driver of virtual prototyping, Johannes Will, Senior Director optiSLang Product Line, Ansys

 

ON DEMAND TRACK 2

Computational Modeling of Hypersonic Flows   Iain Boyd, Sears Endowed Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado

Materials Data for Simulation, Andrew Miller, Director, Data Products and Collaborative R&D, Ansys

Additive Manufacturing and Materials Intelligence, Sakthivel Arumugam , Senior Product Manager, Ansys

Process Parameter Optimization for Metal Additive Manufacturing through Simulation, Brent Stucker, Director, Additive Manufacturing, Ansys

Materials for Optimal Processing & Performance using Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, Deepankar Pal, Chief Scientist, Mechanical Business Unit, Ansys

Material Designer - Multiscale Simulation Made Easy, Andreas Hiltebrand Dr,, Ansys

Data-driven Fast Static On-chip Thermal Solver,  Norman Chang, Chief Technologist, Semiconductor BU, Ansys

Multiphysics simulation solution for complex SoC and power management IC, Karthik Srinivasan, Sr. Manager, Corporate Applications Engineering, Ansys

Dynamic Thermal Management with AEDT Icepak 2020R2,  Manoj Nagulapally, Senior R&D Manager, Ansys

Multi-Scale Electromagnetic Modeling for Antenna Applications,  Kezhong Zhao, R&D Fellow, Ansys​​​​​​​

Time Decomposition Method for Transient Electromagnetic Field Simulation, Bo He, Research and Development Manager, Ansys​​​​​​​

Creating World Class Designs in Record Time with Photonic Inverse Design, James Pond, Director (CTO, Lumerical), Ansys​​​​​​​
 
DAY 1   SEMICONDUCTOR  TRACK
DAY 2   SEMICONDUCTOR  TRACK
DAY 1   HFSS   TRACK

ON DEMAND SESSIONS
Is Your Chip Green Yet? Steps to Power-Efficient RTL Design, Preeti Gupta, Head of RTL Product Management, Ansys

All things 3D-IC: Taking the Headache out of Managing Multiphysics Co-design for a 3D-Chip-Package-System, Karan Sahni, Director Applications Engineering, Ansys

Optimizing Electromagnetic Crosstalk and Power Distribution for High-Speed Serial Links on Silicon, Dai Dai, Mixed Signal Design Manager, NVIDIA

E
lastic Compute Scalable Design Methodologies for Next-Generation FPGAs, Nitin Navale, CAD Manager, Xilinx
ON DEMAND SESSIONS
Reducing Your Project Risk in a Time of Great Change, John Lee, Vice President and GM, Semiconductor BU, Ansys

Not Your Dad’s Power Integrity Analysis, Ankur Gupta, Senior Director, Application Engineering, Ansys

Top Electromagnetic Coupling Issues to Watch Out for in High Frequency Silicon Design, Anand Raman, Senior Director, Key Global Accounts, Ansys

Designing High-Speed Memories for the Edge Without Falling Over the Edge, Karthik Srinivasan, Senior Manager, Product Management, Ansys
ON DEMAND SESSIONS
A Review of HPC Technologies in Ansys HFSS, Matt Commens, Principal Product Manager, HF, Ansys

Overview of Ansys HFSS Solver Technology, Rickard Petersson, Director of Research & Development, Ansys

Best Practices for Maximizing HFSS Performance During Package, PCB, and Connector Simulations, Denis Soldo, Director, Ansys

New HFSS Simulation Technologies that Solve Complex IC Layout Designs in Hours vs. Days  Bryan Boots, Senior R&D Manager, Ansys
DAY 2   HFSS   TRACK
ON DEMAND SESSIONS
The Next Generation of Phased Array Design with HFSS, Hawal Rashid, Lead Application Engineer, Ansys

Design Innovation of Handheld 5G Antenna Design Systems with HFSS Simulation, Shawn Carpenter, Program Director, 5G, Ansys

Ansys HFSS Comprehensive Radar Solution for Autonomous Vehicles, Ushe Chipengo, Senior Application Engineer, Ansys

EMI/EMC Workflows in HFSS, Juliano Mologni, EMI/EMC Sr. Product Manager, Ansys

HFSS Theater Curtain Call, Sara Louie , Electronics Customer Support Manager, Ansys
DAY 1   SIMCON TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION  TRACK