Save your seat for our member meeting in Chicago!

The Digital Twin Consortium is pleased to announce that our Q3 2024 Member Meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare Chicago, Rosemont, IL, September 10-12, 2024. Our program will be held in parallel with the quarterly member meeting of our sister consortium, the Object Management Group.

Our agenda is packed with Cross-Consortium Keynotes, Working Group Sessions, Case Studies, Panels, Member Presentations, and Networking Activities. See firsthand how these communities are driving technological transformation to improve sustainability, efficiency, and resilience across industries.

Members of Digital Twin Consortium may attend any public sessions of OMG, our sister consortium during the meeting week. Simply submit the NCLA form after you register in order to freely access sessions in our other member meetings. All members will need to sign a new form for 2024!

Certain DTC Membership Levels receive a complimentary pass per quarterly meeting. To see if your company qualifies, please contact your organization's primary representative. If you do not know your company primary representative, please contact [email protected].

We can't wait to see you there!

Presenters

Agenda

timeSession
8:00am-8:30amBreakfast
8:30am-9:00amJoint-Consortia Community Welcome and Opening
9:00am-10:00amJoint-Consortia Community Keynote: Extended Reality and the Importance of Data Visualizations Across Industries

The convergence of Extended Reality (XR) technologies, encompassing Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential for enterprises across various sectors.

Speaker: Athicha Dhanormchitphong, Digital Reality Ecosystem Architect, ExxonMobil

10:00am-10:15amBreak
10:15am-11:00amConsortium Strategy Update

Hear about the Consortium's Digital Twin vision moving forward, with an expanded focus encompassing Digital Engineering, Digital Thread, and Multi Agent Generative Systems (MAGS).

11:00am-12:00pmInteractive Panel – Digital Twin Evolution

Panelists: Greg Porter, Principal Solutions Architect, Sev1Tech / Pieter Van Schalkwyk, CEO, XMPro / David McKee, CTO, Counterpoint Technologies

12:00pm-1:00pmLunch
1:00pm-1:20pmMedical Digital Twins: AI and Predictive Modelling for Precision Based Medicine

The interest in digital twin approaches to realize the potential for personalized and precision medicine continues to grow. Enabled through the convergence of new sources of data and insight, AI and access to compute, predictive models are emerging at all scales, with molecular predictions important in many domains including biomedical applications. Updates will be shared on the ATOM open source software project, including new capabilities, educational resources, runtime installations, and community engagement and development efforts.

Speaker: Eric Stahlberg, Director of Cancer Data Science Initiatives
Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

1:20pm-1:45pmSoftware Defined Automation for Manufacturing

The Digital Twin operating model is tailored to improve the development processes of software defined automation and manufacturing. It bridges the gap between virtual planning and real-world applications, provides detailed insights into potential issues in the development processes, and ensures that design objectives are met.

Speaker: Giuseppe Padula, Founder, Beta Factory

1:30pm-2:15pmRegional Branch Organizers Update and Colloboration Opportunities
2:15pm-2:30pmBreak
2:30pm-3:30pmWorking Group and Subgroup Updates

Hear from Working Group and Subgroups Chairs and Leads on latest activities and how to get involved.

3:30pm-5:00pmWorking Group and Subgroup Roundtables

Contribute to Working Group and Subgroup focused meetingsInteract and work on focus areas and deliverables.

5:00pm-5:30pmRoundtables Summary

timeSession
8:00am-8:30amWelcome
8:30am-10:00amAI Joint Working Group Workshop

Next steps: deliverables prioritization, milestones and contributors, across focus areas of Extended Reality: AR/VR/MR, Interoperability and Intelligent Automation, Standardization and Semantics, and Responsible AI.

10:00am-10:15amBreak
10:15am-11:00amMulti-Agent Generative Systems (MAGS) in Industrial Applications – Overview and Live Demo

This presentation introduces Multi-Agent Generative Systems (MAGS), an advanced AI-driven platform that integrates multiple software agents with large language models to optimize industrial processes. Unlike traditional multi-agent systems, MAGS agents can reason, collaborate, and adapt to complex environments.
We will explore how MAGS agents observe their environment, reflect on past experiences, plan actions, and execute tasks. The presentation will highlight the crucial role of digital twins in providing a real-time proxy for physical assets, enabling continuous monitoring and simulation.

The unique aspects of MAGS include:

1.Advanced reasoning capabilities
2.Collaborative problem-solving among agents
3.Adaptive decision-making in dynamic environments
4.Integration with real-time data and business applications

We will discuss practical applications of MAGS in various industries and demonstrate how it enhances efficiency, safety, and decision-making in complex operational settings.
The presentation will conclude with a live demonstration of MAGS managing an industrial business process using digital twins, showcasing its potential to transform operations through intelligent automation and continuous optimization.

Speaker: Pieter Van Schalkwyk, CEO, XMPro

11:00am-11:30amDigital Twin Autonomous Orchestration and Coordination 

NEC - Negotiation AI technologies can contribute to the autonomous orchestration of constituent elements in a digital twin and coordination between digital twins. A carbon neutrality use case will be covered.

Speaker: Yasser Mohammad, Principal Researcher, NEC

11:30am-12:00pmDigital Twins and Modeling & Simulation for a Sustainable Society

Mitsubishi Electric's DX aims to realize a sustainable society. In recent years, as DX has been in the spotlight, we often see keywords such as model-based development and digital twins. Mitsubishi Electric's model-based development includes Model Based Design (MBD) and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

Speaker: Noriyuki Minegishi, Chief Expert of Future Society Creation lab, Mitsubishi Electric

12:00pm-1:00pmLunch
1:00pm-1:30pmStreamlining Data for Efficiency

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, companies face the challenge of integrating diverse data from a myriad of suppliers. This talk explores why adopting agnostic and simplified data formats is crucial for enhancing operational efficiency, reducing integration costs, and driving data-driven decision-making. By standardizing data to be vendor-neutral and streamlined, organizations can eliminate compatibility issues, accelerate data processing, and ensure more accurate analytics. Attendees will gain insights into the strategic benefits of data standardization, practical approaches for implementation, and how this shift can lead to a more agile and responsive supply chain.

Speaker: Christopher Nelson, Process Consultant, Dassault Systèmes 3DEXCITE

1:30pm-2:15pmTechnology Spotlight Use Cases: Digital Twins In Action Demos

Interact with real-world implementations that provide insights into various digital twin technologies, building blocks, methodologies, and techniques. These presentations will cover domain-specific scenarios with value-driven outcomes.

2:15pm-2:30pmBreak
2:30pm-3:15pmDigital Thread for Assurance and Compliance The digital thread and digital twin are interconnected concepts that play a crucial role in modern industrial applications. The digital thread serves as a comprehensive data framework that spans the entire lifecycle of a product, from design to decommissioning.

Speaker: Pete Mills, Executive Director, Crysp

3:15pm-5:00pmWorking Group and Subgroup Roundtables

Contribute to Working Group and Subgroup focused meetings
Interact and work on focus areas and deliverables.

6:00pm-8:00pmNetworking Reception

timeSession
8:30am-9:30amOMG and ISO Standards for Digital Twins

The OMG Standards Development Organization (SDO) is very active in several areas that facilitate the integration and interoperability of digital twins. This includes the recently adopted Systems Modeling Language (SysML) v2, work in the manufacturing and product lifecycle domain, standard platforms for ontology development and sharing, and emerging standards in AI.
In parallel, work is going on in the ISO/IEC joint subcommittee on Internet of Things and Digital Twin (SC 41), with working groups dedicated to IoT architecture, interoperability, applications, and digital twin.

Speakers: Claude Baudoin, Co-Chair of Business Modeling & Integration Task Force, AI Task Force, and Cloud WG, OMG / Antonio Kung, Co-Founder, Trialog

9:30am-10:15amIntroduction to Digital Engineering – DoD 5000.97 Overview

Digital engineering is a means of using and integrating digital models and the underlying data to support the development, test and evaluation, and sustainment of a system. These collaborative digital environments are key to involving all stakeholders in developing models, executing simulations, and performing analysis and optimizations for the digital models or digital twins.

Speaker: Daniel Hettema, Director of Digital Engineering, Modeling and Simulation (DEM&S) within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

10:00am-10:15amBreak
10:15am-11:00amKeynote: Digital Twin Interoperability for Lunar Explorations

VERSES AI, in partnership with the Spatial Web Foundation, worked with NASA/JPL researchers and California State University, Northridge to model data using Spatial Web standards with the objective of allowing government agencies, private sector aerospace entities, and universities, each having different technology stacks, to demonstrate interoperability between distributed and disparate Digital Twin (DT) systems. Lunar exploration is evolving into a multi-country, global collaboration effort and interoperable digital twins are a critical requirement to fulfill the mission. Digital Twins have the potential to support testing and deployment across organizations globally, however, the primary challenge to achieving this vision of collaborative lunar exploration is the interoperability and governance across platforms and enterprise DT systems. Our project validated how lunar rovers and landers could function autonomously over shared, cross-platform 3D digital twins and physics model of the lunar environment and equipment. The Spatial Web standards, which Genius from VERSES AI is the first developer toolkit to support, were designed to address the universal problem of transforming any multi dimensional data, not just geometry and geography, into a unified shared Digital Twin including the rights and rules that govern the relationships between people, places, and things. This presentation will help you learn about the recently approved IEEE P2874 Spatial Web standard and see a Lunar demonstration of the interoperability between multiple, cross platform DT systems.

Speakers: Michael Wadden, Chief Commercial Officer, VERSES AI and Ed Chow, Manager of the Civil Program Office, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

11:00am-12:00amTechnology Spotlight Use Cases: Digital Twins In Action Demos

Interact with real-world implementations that provide insights into various digital twin technologies, building blocks, methodologies, and techniques. These presentations will cover domain-specific scenarios with value-driven outcomes.

12:00am-12:30pmNext Steps and Wrap Up
12:30pm-1:30pmLunch


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Member cost

$645

$349 - (virtual*)
(Sales end on Sep 12, 2024)
*most, but not all, of the meeting content shared virtually


Hotel Information

Hyatt Regency O'Hare Chicago
9300 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Rosemont, IL 60018
Tel: +1 (847) 696-1234

Room Rate: Single/Double Occupancy: USD$249.00
plus 14% taxes and service fees.
Discounted Room Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, Friday, August 23, 2024 (while supplies last)

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