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...