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Dr. Todd McDevitt, Marketing Director, ANSYS

Todd McDevitt is a Marketing Director at ANSYS, Inc. and has more than 15 years experience designing and developing commercial engineering software. His areas of expertise include nonlinear finite element analysis, multibody dynamics, embedded control systems, and model-based system engineering. At ANSYS his efforts are directed towards strategic marketing initiatives and facilitating the company’s R&D planning and decision-making. Todd received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and holds a Professional Engineering license in the State of Michigan.

Diego Tamburini, Senior Industry Program Manager, Manufacturing, Autodesk

Diego Tamburini currently works for the Manufacturing Strategic Industry Relations group at Autodesk. He focuses on defining the vision for Autodesk in manufacturing and evangelizing Autodesk as a thought leader in the industry.

Diego came to Autodesk after 10 years at Microsoft, where he was working in the Microsoft Dynamics development team developing the upcoming first cloud release of Dynamics ERP for Professional Services. Prior to Microsoft Dynamics, he was in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group, where he managed a team of Developer Evangelists whose mission was to help Global ISVs in Engineering...

Matthew Loew, Technical Director , Maverick Innovation Lab

Matthew Loew has a passion for building and leading high-performance engineering teams supporting new product development projects. He is active in large-scale engineering projects in transportation, defense, energy, industrial, and heavy equipment sectors. Matthew recently started Tera Development Solutions to work collaboratively with companies to solve New Product Development challenges utilizing Design Thinking, Advanced Modeling & Simulation, and Accelerated Product Development Methods. He is also the Technical Director at the Maverick Innovation Lab, lectures at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and blogs regularly on ENGINEERING.com.

Chris Wolfe, Lead Product Manager, ANSYS

Chris Wolfe has been with ANSYS, Inc. for nearly 12 years and is currently a lead product manager focusing on multiphysics simulation. After spending almost nine years with fluid dynamics as the Fluent product manager at ANSYS, Chris went on to broaden her horizons to include structural mechanics and electromagnetics and the interactions between these physics. Before product management, she helped ANSYS’ customers to be successful with the software as a technical support engineer. Before joining ANSYS, she worked at DuPont applying ANSYS Fluent to a variety of problems. Chris earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees...

Andrew Foster, M.Eng C.Eng MIET, Senior Offering Manager, IBM Rational

Andrew Foster has more than 16 years experience working on a variety of large scale systems engineering projects at companies specialising in defence, aerospace, IT, and telecommunications. His industry expertise in systems engineering and complex engineering methods led him to join the software company Telelogic AB as a technical consultant specialising in requirements management. After Telelogic was acquired by IBM, Andrew took on a product management role in the IBM Rational brand working with strategic clients worldwide. More recently, Andrew has led a range...

Gérard Morin Vice President, Professional Services, Esterel Technologies

Gérard Morin joined Esterel Technologies (Esterel) in October 2001 as an industry marketing manager. Between 2002 and 2005, he was Vice President of Product Marketing for the SCADE product line. In 2005 he assumed the position of Vice President of Professional Services, directing embedded software projects and managing the development of classroom training courses and self-learning material. Gérard specializes in software and systems engineering processes. He has written handbooks, papers, and training material focused on how the SCADE product line supports safety-critical standards such as: DO-178C,...

Dr. Vincent Talon, Chief of UET Modeling System 0D, Renault

Dr. Vincent Talon is currently Renault’s Chief of UET Modeling System 0D, a role he assumed in 2013. In this role Dr. Talon is involved in architectural definition, control, validation, and tuning. Previously, he was involved in various activities at Renault including model development for HCCI combustion, a model system for control design, and control and tuning for the engine and driveline department. He is also a recognized expert for model system 0D. Dr. Talon's Ph.D. thesis looked into the gasoline engine model using...

Michael Bloor, Chief Operating Officer, ESI North America

Michael Bloor has led ESI’s business activities in North America as Chief Operating Officer since 2005 focused on growth and consolidation of ESI’s engineering simulation and process design products. Michael joined ESI in 2002 following the acquisition of Vibro-Acoustic Sciences with the responsibility of Global Business Development for the ESI acoustic products. Prior to joining ESI Michael led the Vibro-Acoustic Sciences Sales and Marketing team as Director, responsible for global sales strategy and performance. Michael has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University.

Dr. Jan M. Leuridan, CEO, LMS, A Siemens Business

Dr. Jan Leuridan joined LMS International in 1984 as Research and Development Manager and was subsequently appointed to the position of Chief Technical Officer for the company. Since 1987, he also served as a member of the Board of Directors of LMS. Following the acquisition of LMS by Siemens in 2013, Dr. Leuridan became Senior Vice President, Simulation & Test segment, Siemens PLM Software.

Dr. Leuridan received an engineering degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Leuven in 1980. He later received...

Fouad el Khaldi, Ph.D., General Manager of Industry Strategy & Innovation, ESI Group

Dr. Fouad el Khaldi joined ESI Group (ESI) in 1988 and is currently, General Manager of Industry Strategy & Innovation, a position he assumed in 2010. With over 30 years of experience in the CAE industry Fouad has undertaken several different roles of increasing responsibility at ESI including the role of Senior Consultant for a Joint Venture created by IBM Japan and ESI in Tokyo where he was in charge of developing a new solution for sheet metal forming simulation in collaboration...