The NAFEMS ASSESS Initiative has one vision - to lead every aspect of engineering simulation toward a more valuable and accessible future in the medium to long term, leveraging the expertise and knowledge of top-level figures in industry, government, and academia.
To continue that journey, the 2025 ASSESS Summit will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, between March 10th and 12th. This won't be a traditional conference. It will be an opportunity for thought leaders to work as one to map out the future of engineering simulation and lead the way toward it.
The 2025 ASSESS Summit will bring together key leadership participants, including experts, industry analysts, software providers, researchers, simulation users, and others in the community of model-based analysis, simulation, and systems engineering.
The conference will be highly interactive, splitting into several theme workshops where participants will meet, discuss, and report to the main plenary.
Dr. Carmen Torres-Sanchez – Multifunctional Materials Manufacturing Lab – Loughborough University
Carmen Torres-Sanchez PhD CEng FHEA MIMechE leads the Multifunctional Materials Manufacturing Lab at Loughborough University, England (UK). Her work sits at the interface of mechanical, chemical, bio-engineering, materials science and embedded intelligence. Her multidisciplinary lab works in the design, manufacture and validation (both in- and ex-silico) of structures and materials with coupled functionalities (e.g., structural and biological; acoustic and lightweight). Close collaboration with industry has seen her innovations applied in sectors such as Automotive, Food Technology and Medical devices.
Attire for the duration of the ASSESS Summit 2025 is casual.
| Monday, March 10, 2025 | |
6:00 PM | Registration and Badge Pick-up Opens | |
6-9 PM | Welcome Reception & Cocktails Please join us for food, drinks, and networking opportunities. You’ll have a chance to meet and talk with the other NAFEMS ASSESS Congress participants. We ask that all participants try their best to attend this reception. | |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | |
7:45-8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
8:30 AM | Kickoff: Opening Remarks and Call to Order Joe Walsh will set the stage for the day’s activities | |
9:00 AM | Keynote Presentation: Carmen Torres, University of Loughborough | |
9:45 AM | Break | |
10:15 AM | Platinum Sponsor highlight 1 | |
10:30 AM | Notes from the Front Presentations 1 SLB journey to SDPM Digital Engineering Methods for Architecting Cislunar Ecosystems The Business Benefits of Early-stage Digital Twins for RFIs/RFQs in the Automotive Industry | |
11:15 AM | Invited Presentation: McKinsey Consulting | |
12:00 noon | Lunch, Networking, & Discussion | |
1:15 PM | Working Session Breakout 1 We will be breaking out into a set of working groups to discuss focused questions for each ASSESS Theme: Business: What are the current items that are limiting broader business benefits enabled by Engineering Simulation including organizational limitations of Certification: What makes Certification by Engineering Simulation different from Credibility & confidence? Credibility: How can we address the organizational, social and cultural challenges with establishing confidence (internal) and credibility (external)? Democratization: What are the technological and organizational barriers to democratization? Integration: What are the concerns and possibilities of integrating multi-fidelity models to drive Physics Informed AI? Twins: Which scenarios/activities can benefit from an Engineering Simulation Digital Twin? | |
2:30 PM | Break & Transition to Notes from the Front Presentations 2 | |
2:45 PM | Platinum Sponsor highlight 2 | |
3:00 PM | Notes from the Front Presentations 2 Automating the extraction of engineering simulation metadata Enabling the Next Big Leap in CAE Certification by Analysis | |
3:45 PM | Break & transition to Working Session Breakout 2 | |
4:00 PM | Working Session Breakout 2 We will be breaking out into the second set of working groups to discuss focused questions for each ASSESS Theme: Business: How can we broaden the audience (executive, government, …) regarding Engineering Simulation driven business benefits (e.g. ongoing collaboration with McKinsey)? Certification: How can the Certification by Simulation procedures used, for instance, in the Aerospace and Nuclear fields be exploited in other sectors? Credibility: Can organizations make design decisions based on simulation alone, if not why and how can we move here? Democratization: How do we foster broader use of Advanced Technologies (e.g., accuracy driven adaptivity, AI, Quantum Computing, meshless) to support democratization? Integration: How can we leverage an understanding of model “appropriateness” to improve integration of multi-fidelity models and associated information? Twins: How to integrate across multi-fidelity ES Digital Twins? | |
5:15 PM | Close-up sessions | |
6:00 PM | Reception | |
7–9 PM | Dinner | |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | |
7:45-8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
8:30 AM | Kickoff: Opening Remarks | |
8:35 AM | Keynote Presentation: Jack Castro, The Boeing Company | |
9:20 AM | Break | |
9:45 AM | Platinum Sponsor highlight | |
10:00 AM | ASSESS Presentation: Joe Walsh | |
10:45 AM | Break | |
11:00 AM | Plenary Session – Open Discussion General discussion of the ASSESS Initiative | |
12:00 noon | Close of NAFEMS ASSESS Congress 2025 & Lunch | |
| Event Type | Seminar |
|---|---|
| Member Price | £1353.48 | $1695.00 | €1631.38 |
| Non-member Price | £1672.88 | $2095.00 | €2016.37 |
| Start Date | End Date | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| | Atlanta, GA, USA | |
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