NYC 23 Schedule
The schedule for CDFAM 23 NYC includes presentations by experts in the field of computational design and advanced manufacturing. Attendees will gain valuable insight into emerging technology, engineering practices and academic research.
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June 14
| Theme | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote | 9:00 | Onur Yuce Gun – New Balance | Design Computation Human |
| Variations on a Theme | 9:20 | Nathan Shirley – HP | Computational Disruption: Design Engines & Additive’s Untapped Potential |
| Variations on a Theme | 9:40 | Thomas D’Huyvetter – Twikit | Enable Mass Customization through Design Automation |
| Variations on a Theme | 10:00 | Adam Wentworth – Mayo Clinic | Scaling & Standardizing Patient Specific Design |
| Variations on a Theme | 10:20 | Ronnie Parsons – Mode Lab | Computational Design Ops |
| Biology | 10:40 | Break | Caffeine by Parlor Coffee |
| Education to Industry | 11:00 | Ryan Carter – Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory | Overcoming the Design Dilemma: Balancing the Organic Shapes of Topology Optimization, & Precision Tolerances in Additive Manufacturing with Post-Process Machining |
| Education to Industry | 11:20 | Ryan McClelland – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Generative Design & Digital Manufacturing at NASA Goddard |
| Education to Industry | 11:40 | Prof. A. John Hart – MIT | Ten Years Teaching Additive |
Lunch Break and Networking
| Theme | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome | 12:50 | Satish Rao – Newlab | Welcome to Newlab |
| Tools of Discovery & Optimization | 1:00 | André A.R. Wilmes – Rafinex | Generate-to-Validate: Optimal Designs and the Need to Deliver Under Uncertainty |
| Tools of Discovery & Optimization | 1:20 | Nina Korshunova – Hyperganic | Physics-Driven Generative Design: The Future of Engineering |
| Tools of Discovery & Optimization | 1:40 | Michael Smell – Autodesk | Unlocking Better Engineering with Generative Design |
| Tools of Discovery & Optimization | 2:00 | Lieven Vervecken – Diabatix | Breaking New Grounds with Generative Design for Cooling |
| Biology | 2:20 | Break + Software Demos | Hydration – Immorel |
| Collaborating with Complexity | 3:00 | Marek Moffett – General Lattice | Digital Materials – Geometry and Data Combined |
| Collaborating with Complexity | 3:20 | Daniel Hambleton – Metafold | Geometry Streaming: Hardware-First Software for Digital Manufacturing |
| Collaborating with Complexity | 3:40 | Hardik Kabaria – Carbon | Defining Performance not Just Geometry with Software, Process + Material Science |
| Collaborating with Complexity | 4:00 | Justin Hattendorf- nTop | Field Optimization – A Modular Design Tool for Advanced Manufacturing |
| Collaborating with Complexity | 4:20 | Kirill Volchek – Oqton | Hybrid DfAM: From Topology to Toolpath & Production to Performance |
| Keynote | 4:40 | Ronald Rael – Muddy Robots – Emerging Objects | Muddy Robots |
Software Demos and Networking Event
Catering Sponsors
June 15
| Theme | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application of Research | 9:00 | Mark Burhop – Siemens | Reinventing the Wheel – Research on Representing & Manufacturing Geometry with a Program |
| Application of Research | 9:20 | Prof. Tim W. Simpson – Penn State | 10 Years of Applying DFAM: Changing Needs and Challenges for Computational Design |
| Educating the Human in the Loop | 9:40 | Chelsea Cummings – The Barnes Global Advisors | MfAM Walks so DfAM Can Run! |
| Educating the Human in the Loop | 10:00 | Rhushik Matroja – Cognitive Design Systems | Design Automation Using Machine Learning & Computational Design to Make Products Manufacturable |
| Biology | 10:20 | Break + Software Demos | Caffeine by Parlor Coffee |
| Biology Continued… | 10:40 | Dr. Natalie Alima – BioLab | Interspecies Forms: Robotic Feedback Systems Between Mycelia Growth & Computational Form |
| Matter Made with Math | 11:00 | Matt Shomper – Not a Robot | Computational Mapping of Biomimetic Structures in Response to External Loading Conditions |
| Matter Made with Math | 11:20 | Daniele Panozzo – NYU | Robust Geometry Processing for Physical Simulation and Shape Optimization |
Lunch Break and Networking
| Theme | Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital in a Material World | 1:00 | Wes John-Alder – Citrine Informatics | Informatics and AI for Materials Development |
| Digital in a Material World | 1:20 | Behrooz Jalalahmadi – Sentient Science | DigitalClone for Additive Manufacturing |
| Digital in a Material World | 1:40 | Alex Roschli – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Designing Material Properties with Advanced Toolpath Generation |
| Digital in a Material World | 2:00 | Mike Grau – Synera | Connect Everything, Engineer Anything |
| Biology | 2:20 | Break + Software Demos | Hydration – Immorel |
| AI, Data + Design | 2:40 | Jaideep Bangal – Altair | The Challenges of Using AI in Computational Engineering |
| AI, Data + Design | 3:00 | Francis Bitonti – Lexset AI | From Simulation to Reality: The Evolution of Computer Vision Training with Synthetic Data |
| AI, Data + Design | 3:20 | Karl D.D. Willis – Autodesk | Learning to Generate Shapes |
| AI, Data + Design | 3:40 | Chris McComb – Carnegie Mellon University | Design for Artificial Intelligence: A Force Multiplier for Additive Manufacturing |
| Closing Keynote | 4:00 | Prof. Neil Gershenfeld – MIT Center for Bits and Atoms | Roadmap to Replicators |
Closing Reception
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