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

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

Pikes Peak, Nürburgring-Nordschleife, Goodwood, Tianmen Mountain – fully electric Volkswagen ID.R has made his mark in the history books of Motorsport

Sven Smeets, Motorsport Director, Volkswagen AG

Affordable Healthcare through Digital Innovation  Suresh Kumar, Clinical Care Solutions India & Digital Incubators, GE Healthcare      
     

Porsche AG: Formula E, More Than a Tech Lab   Pascal Zurliinden, Director of Factory Motorsports, Porsche
         
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,
       
    
When Life Gives you Lemons: Digital Transformation in a Post-COVID-19 World  Kate Russell, Technology Reporter, BBC Click 

Convergence of Massive Data and Compute   Pradeep Dubey, Senior Fellow, Intel 
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On Demand

10:50 am BST A Simulation Tool Chain for Verification and Validation of L3 and Higher Level Autonomous Vehicles,  
10:50 am BST Rene Grosspietsch, Head of Autonomous Driving Cooperations and Eco System, BMW

11:20 am BST  Homologation of Sensors, Sensor Fusion & Automated Driving:High Fidelity Environment Modeling  Stefan-Alexander Schneider, Prof., Univ. of Kempten

10:35 am BST  From POC to Production: Functional Safety Considerations for Your Embedded Software   Kerry Johnson, Senior Product Manager, QNX

ON DEMAND SESSIONS
Ansys Autonomy: An Introduction  Sandeep Sovani, Director, Industry Marketing, Ansys 

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

Azure for Autonomous Vehicle Development  Vijitha Chekuri, Business Strategy Director - Autonomous Vehicle Industry Solutions, Microsoft
10:15 am BST Virtual ADAS Validation Using Physics-Based Camera HiLTesting  Vaclav Trnka and Maximer Vaclav (SKODA Auto), Loukas Rentzos (Ansys),

10:45 am BST Applications of Optical Simulation in Comfort and Driving Assistance Systems – Intuitive Controls and Vision Systems  
10:45 am BST Maryline Thoraille, Optical Department Manager Valeo and Karthic Sethuraman, Sr. Engineering Manager at Valeo

11:00 am BST Ansys DSM: The Digital Transformation for Safety Management    Rüdiger Diefenbach, Dipl.Ing.(Fh) at Daimler


ON DEMAND SESSIONS
Ansys Autonomy in Practice   Bernard Dion, CTO, Ansys

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

Azure for Autonomous Vehicle Development  Vijitha Chekuri, Business Strategy Director - Autonomous Vehicle Industry Solutions, Microsoft

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


 
DAY 2   KEYNOTES
10:50 am BST   How companies drive democratization of simulation with Discovery Live, Marc Vidal, Product Manager, Discovery, CADFEM GmbH

11:15 am BST   Engineering & Digital Development in Demanding Times, Prem J Babu, Director, Engineering, Lennox International Inc.

11:30 am BST   Virtual Simulations Lead to Real Victories in Elite Cycling, Bert Blocken, Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

11:45 am BST   Simulation for Future - with Customized Solutions Leading, Matthias Hoermann, Head of Engineering Services, CADFEM GmbH


ON DEMAND SESSIONS
The Role of Simulation in Digital Transformation, Mark Hindsbo, VP & GM, Design Business Unit at Ansys

Learn How to Speed Up Your Simulations with More Powerful Hardware   Tony DeVarco, HPC, Manufacturing Segment Manager, HPE 

Simulation Verification of Automotive Millimeter Wave Radar 
Mingliang Gao, Pre-research Director, Radar System Engineer & Senior RF Expert, Beijing Autoroad Technology Co.,
10:15 am BST  CFD-DEM coupled Simulation of Hair Flow Inside a Cyclonic Device, Kon Leung, Staff Simulation Engineer, BISSELL Homecare

10:30 am BST  Best Practices for Industrial Flows and Turbomachinery, Paul Galpin, CFD consultant, ISimQ Ltd.

10:45 am BST  Workflow for Predicting Chain Whine in a T-case using Ansys Motion, Ujval Kumar Taunk, CAE Development Engineer, BorgWarner

11:15 am BST  Optimizing Materials Selection at Electrolux for Food Preservation, Francesco Clementi, PU Foam and Plastic Expert , Electrolux Major Appliances 

ON DEMAND SESSIONS
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

Metal Additive Manufacturing & Defense Electronics: A Discovery Live Success Story, William Villers, VP of Engineering, Ten Tech LLC

Taking Simulation from the Microchip to the Mission, Josh Reicher, Senior Engineer, AGI

Accelerating Product Development Through Digital Transformation, Dr. Ragupathy Kannusamy, Global Engineering COE Leader-Structures & Fatigue , Garrett Motion

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

Paving the way to the Next-Generation Virtual Lung Model for Personalized Pulmonary Healthcare, Yu Feng,  Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University

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

Digital Transformation to support the NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship Program, Valerie Noble, WCI Directorate Applications Manager, Lawrence Livermore National Lab


Common Simulation Capabilities to Accelerate Digital Transformation, Rob Harwood, Director, Industry Marketing, Ansys

10:50 am BST  Digital Twin for High-Voltage Electric Motors, Coupled Rotor-Dynamics & Electro-Mechanics System Simulation
10:50 am BST Philipp Rauh (Simulation Engineer, Siemens Large Drive Applications), Johannes Einzinger (Lead Application Engineer, Ansys)

11:05  am BST  Detailed 3D Simulations to Enable Digital Twin Development and Validation, Eros Gabellini, Business Development Manager, GDTech
 
ON DEMAND SESSIONS  
Simulation Verification of Automotive Millimeter Wave Radar  Mingliang Gao, Pre-research Director, Radar System Engineer

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

 
10:15 am BST  Simulation-based Digital Twins for Predictive Maintenance, Optimal Operation and New Business Models 
10:15 am BST  Teresa Alberts, Christof Gebhardt CEO, Head of Digital Twin Innovation LabITficient AG, CADFEM GmbH


ON DEMAND SEESSIONS
Introduction to Digital Twins Dr. Prith Banerjee, CTO at Ansys

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, 
On Demand    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.

Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) Using Digital Twin Concept in Oil and Gas, Dr. Ali Marzban, Manager, Simulation & Analytics, NOV

Nonlinear Reduced Order Model for Life Assessment of a Digital Twin,
Dr. Philipp Engels, Edward Carman, Simulation Key Expert, Sr Application Engineer, Siemens Energy, Ansys
DAY 1   AUTONOMY TRACK
DAY 2   AUTONOMY TRACK
DAY 1   DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION  TRACK
DAY 2   DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION  TRACK
DAY 1   DIGITAL TWIN AND IIoT  TRACK
DAY 2   DIGITAL TWIN AND IIoT  TRACK
DAY 1   ELECTRIFICATION  TRACK
9:15 am BST  Can simulation and digital twin keep up with "C.A.S.E", Detlaf Juerss, Marelli Corp

9:30 am BST  Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) in the light of digitalization, Mona-Caroline Stunckel, Lufthansa

9:45 am BST  Role of Simulation in Defending the America's Cup, Steve Collie, Emirates Team New Zealand

10:00 am BST Design to Operate - Intelligent Product Development for Intelligent Products, Frank Spiegel, SAP



ON DEMAND SESSIONS    
Focus on Photonics: The State of the Art, Ashkan Seyedi, Senior Research Scientist , HPE

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
10:50 am BST  Cable Emissions/Immunity Analysis for Automotive Applications, Karen Burnham, Principal ScientistElectro Magnetic Applications Inc.

11:10 am BST  Use of AI for Optimization of Induction Machines designed using Ansys Maxwell, Dr. Praveen Kumar, Assoc. Prof., Indian Institute of Technology

11:30 am BST Continental Automotive integrates Ansys Sherlock into the Design Process
11:30 am BST Tony Asghari, Principal Engineer, Quality & Reliability Physics, Continental Automotive

11:50 am BST 
Novel Method to Model Emissions through small gaps in Housings, Christian Römelsberger, Application Engineer, CADFEM GmbH


ON DEMAND SESSIONS
Simulations for EMC Concept of On Board Battery Chargers, Antonio Camarda, R&D EMC Engineer, Metasystem

e-Motors & Power Electronics Technology in Automotive Electrification, William Cai, Professor, Harbin University of Science and Technology

Multiphysics electric motor models for system engineering Using Ansys Motor-CAD and a standardised FMU interface  
Marc Brueck (Senior Expert Simulation Technology, Robert Bosch GmbH), Dr. James Goss (CEO, Motor Design Ltd.)

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

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


Using Ansys Simulation for Better Battery Design with Improved Safety/Reliability, Vidyu Challa, Consulting Manager, Ansys
DAY 2   ELECTRIFICATION  TRACK
ON DEMAND SESSIONS
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 Grumma
DAY 2   5G  TRACK
9:30 AM BST  Modeling and Simulating the Coupled Effect Between Antenna Arrays and Nonlinear RF Front Ends in Modern Communication Systems
9:30 AM CST    Saaabe Wissam, MoEngineer at Amcad Engineering

 
ON DEMAND SESSIONS
RF Synthetics – A virtual wireless globe, Paul Tilghman, RF Director, Microsoft

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

Ansys Multiphysics for 5G: Chips to cities, Wade Smith, Manager, Application Engineering, Ansys
DAY 1   SEMICONDUCTOR  TRACK
DAY 2   SEMICONDUCTOR  TRACK
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
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

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lastic Compute Scalable Design Methodologies for Next-Generation FPGAs, Nitin Navale, CAD Manager, Xilinx
DAY 1   HFSS  TRACK
DAY 2   HFSS  TRACK
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
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
10:50 am BST  Ansys Mechanical Performance on a 1500 cores, Skylake Cluster,  Herbert Guettler, Dr. , MicroConsult GmbH

11:05 am BST  Multi-objective free-shape optimization of a heat sink by means of the Fluent Adjoint Solver, Peter Wasserman, Fluid Dynamics, Bosch



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
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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​​​​​​​