Future.Industry 2021

Discover what's next in Advanced Manufacturing

Below is the collection of presentations from the Future.Industry 2021 virtual experience.

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Hear from our Keynote Speakers

Learning to Expect the Unexpected
– Sheryl Connelly | Strategic Futurist, Ford Motor Company

Connecting Physics and Real-World Data for Meaningful Digital Twins
– Romano Lazurlo | Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Head of Materials & Processes Technologies, Leonardo SpA - Electronics Division

Reinventing Rail Mobility through Digital Transformation
– Vanderlei Bueno | Head of RSC LAM & Head of RSC & Services Brazil, Alstom

The Importance of Computing to Our Data-Driven Future
– Jim Jeffers | Senior Principal Engineer, Senior Director, Advanced Rendering and Visualization, Intel

Bringing the Future Faster Through Innovation and Analysis
– Craig Renneker | Vice President, Driveline Product Engineering, American Axle & Manufacturing

The Evolution of Designing Smart Connected Products
– Dwight Howard | Engineering Manager for Infotainment and Connectivity (Retired), Aptiv

Implementing Digital Transformation Initiatives in the Energy Industry
– Dr. Ali Marzban | Director of Data Science and Analytics, NOV

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Altair Leadership's Vision for the Future

The Convergence of AI, Simulation, and HPC
– James Scapa | Founder, Chairman, and CEO
Transforming customer decision-making in a smart, connected world.

Path to Augmented Simulation
– Dr. Uwe Schramm | Chief Technology Officer
As AI early adoption gains traction, how will this impact the future of product development?

Embracing a Data Transformation, Why Now?
– Sam Mahalingam | Chief Technology Officer
Synthesizing human expertise and enterprise data for long-term global competitiveness.

Thought-provoking Conversations

Panel Discussions and Fireside Chats



Delivering on the Promise of Future Mobility
Faster, Cleaner, Safer, More Accessible. How manufacturers are adapting to thrive the next transportation age.

Designing for a Smart, Connected World
Digitalization changes all areas of life, from the way we stay informed, travel, connect, and buy things, to how products are manufactured.

What's Next for Tomorrow's Engineer?
With more data available to engineers than ever before, how will they translate these streams into usable information that can be retained as organizational knowledge?

Aligning Technologies and Business Practices to Ensure a Sustainable Future
Sustainability is driving new and innovative business practices across the globe as companies find ways to harmonize CO2 emission reduction with economic goals.

Why Engineers Will be the Key to Unlock the Digitilization Potential at Manufacturers
While virtual methods, interoperable tools, and standardized interfaces become state of the art, engineers and their management will play a significant role to break down silos and benefit from a Digital Thread.

Industry Trend Sessions

Altair customers share, challenge and explore the best practices that will inspire our future.

Designing for a Smart, Connected World
Featuring presentations from Altium, GN Audio R&D, Samsung Mobile, and Toggled.

Learn how successful enterprises set up their development ecosystem to master the electrification of everything.

Driving Sustainability Imperatives Across the Enterprise
Featuring presentations from Bulk Materials Engineering Australia (BEMA), Ford, Smith and Wallwork, The Electric Storage Company, and Vortex Bladeless.

Learn how sustainability can lead to efficient development processes, desirable products, and competitive differentiation.

Tomorrow's Engineer, Trends, and Technologies
Featuring presentations from ANTA Industrial Solutions GmBH, BMW Group, DuPont, and Renishaw.

Advancing technology and groundbreaking developments are changing engineering routines. Simulation and AI provide answers to questions we hardly dared to ask.

Evolving the Manufacturing Digital Thread
Featuring presentations from MABE, Servia Dinamik, and ZKW.

How do manufacturability simulation, Big Data, AI, analytics, and digital twins come together to provide new insights that create new business models and inform product development?

Breakout Sessions

Discover the power of simulation, applied to our most complex design and development challenges. Learn about practical applications of the latest Altair technology and how to deploy it throughout the product development cycle.


Accelerate Innovation with the Cloud
Altair’s industry-leading HPC tools let you orchestrate, visualize, optimize, and analyze your most demanding workloads, for breakthrough results.

Boost Your Productivity: Driving More Design with Simulation
Built on a foundation of design optimization, performance data management and process automation, Altair HyperWorks is ideal for rapid design exploration and decision making.

Designing for a More Sustainable Future
Altair’s software technology gives designers and engineers a complete toolkit to solve today’s stringent regulation requirements with original, lightweight designs.

Enabling Data-driven Manufacturing Operations and Smart Products
Leverage new and innovative tools as part of the Industry 4.0 revolution, solving engineering challenges with data-driven decisions, and driving next-level results in smart product development.

End-to-end Electronic System Design
Altair’s simulation-driven design tools enable your team to collaborate across all aspects of PCB development from concept to manufacturing.

Enhancing Product Manufacturability with SDfM
Users can validate designs early in the manufacturing process, as well as use optimization technology with specific manufacturing constraints to design better, more efficient products.

Getting Started with Simulation
Altair simulation-driven design changed product development forever, enabling engineers to reduce design iterations and prototype testing.

The Power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Product Design
AI-driven design, augmented simulation and predictive analytics are all contributing to increased collaboration, faster design convergence, and greater product innovation.

The Right Model, for the Right Decision, at the Right Time
Altair provides workflows for early system models, to mixed-fidelity simulations and multiphysics validations, across domains.

Unparalleled Breadth of CFD Simulation Solutions
Altair’s offering for CFD includes multiple robust, fast, and accurate solutions providing engineers with the most appropriate technology for each application.

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