Q4 DTC Member Meeting
San Francisco, CA
Save your seat for our member meeting in San Francisco!
Join us for the DTC Q4 member meeting on December 10-12, 2024 in San Francisco, CA USA. It will be packed with three days of thought leadership and networking with the leaders in digital twin innovation and IoT technology – our members!
We can't wait to see you there!
Keynote Presenter
Agenda
time | Session |
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8:00am-8:30am | Breakfast |
8:30am-9:00am | Joint-Consortia Community Welcome and Opening |
9:00am-10:00am | Joint-Consortia Community Keynote: The Open Digital Ecosystem Landscape The Open Digital Ecosystem has the potential to deliver significant value throughout the entire asset lifecycle. This presentation shall explore the current state of digital ecosystems in industrial sectors such as Energy, Petro-Chemical, Chemical, CPG/FoodBev, and Aerospace & Defense, and how they can revolutionize operations. We shall discuss methodologies for scaling value without excessive costs, organizing expertise for maximum impact, leveraging standards, and enhancing productivity. Additionally, we will examine governance structures, reducing technical debt, avoiding vendor lock-in, and rethinking the role of legacy systems in evolving Industrial AI ecosystems. Join us to discover how digital ecosystems can transform your operations and drive innovation. Speaker: Mark Luciw, Director of Strategic Services, ARC Advisory Group |
10:00am-10:15am | Break |
10:15am-10:45am | AI Agents and the Future of Organizations Decentralization and Agentic AI are set to shatter the core assumptions of organizational structure and function. In this talk, we will explore into how these forces will fuel the rise of adaptive, just-in-time, autonomous, and self-organizing enterprises. The Post-Industrial Enterprise will be a computational artifact — a dynamic network of humans and AIs working together. Speaker: Frode Odegard, Chairman & CEO, Post-Industrial Institute |
10:45am-11:05am | Consortium 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). Speaker: Dan Isaacs, CTO, DTC |
11:05am-12:00pm | Interactive Digital Twin Evolution Panel |
12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch |
1:00pm-2:15pm | Addressing Workforce Shortage and Skills Training Speakers: Bill Hoffman, CEO, OMG / Mark Buckner, Robotics Innovation Design & Manufacturing Teacher, Oakridge School System / Kyle Hatchard, Digital Innovation Lead, Hartree Centre |
2:15pm-2:30pm | Break |
2:30pm-3:00pm | Academia Update - Data-Driven Insights for Informed Decision-Making and Training This presentation explores the transformative potential of digital twins in academia. By creating detailed digital replicas of physical assets, we can unlock valuable insights from vast amounts of data. From maintenance records to operational logs, digital twins provide a comprehensive view of an asset's lifecycle. This data-driven approach enables informed decision-making, predictive maintenance, and optimized performance. Speaker: Eileen Smith, Director of the E2i Creative Studio, UCF Institute for Simulation & Training |
3:00pm-3:30pm | The Data Centric Architecture of a Factory Digital Twin - From Conception to Implementation to Operation This presentation will cover a step-by-step approach to factory digital twin implementation, focusing on four key applications that are impactful to manufacturing processes. Our findings have significant implications for both practitioners seeking to implement digital twin technologies and researchers exploring the future of digital manufacturing. Speaker: Joe Pekny, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University |
3:30pm-4:30pm | Technology Spotlight – Digital Twin Use Cases 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.
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4:30pm-5:30pm | Working Group and Subgroup Roundtables Contribute to Working Group and Subgroup focused meetings. Interact and work on focus areas and deliverables.
More to be added soon…
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time | Session |
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8:15am-8:30am | Welcome and Opening |
8:30am-10:00am | AI 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-10:15am | Break |
10:15am-11:15am | Live Demo: Multi-Agent Based Digital Twin leveraging XMPro APEX AI and MongoDB Atlas This demo showcases a multi-agent based digital twin solution to optimize manufacturing processes using Agentic AI. The demo leverages XMPro APEX AI platform and uses MongoDB Atlas Vector Search as the semantic search tool for the AI agents. The agents collaborate to manage and analyze data streams from connected devices, providing insights that drive efficiency and quality across production lines. We will showcase example scenarios from the automotive and pharmaceutical industry in this demonstration. Speakers: Humza Akhtar, Senior Principal Industry Solutions, MongoDB / Pieter Van Schalkwyk, CEO, XMPro |
11:15am-12:00am | Technology Spotlight – Digital Twin Use Cases 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.
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12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch |
1:00pm-2:15pm | Interactive Panel – Digital Twin Strategy
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2:15pm-2:30pm | Break |
2:30pm-3:30pm | Working Group and Subgroup Updates Hear from Working Group and Subgroups Chairs and Leads on latest activities and how to get involved.
More to be added soon… |
3:30pm-5:00pm | Working Group and Subgroup Roundtables Contribute to Working Group and Subgroup focused meetings. Interact and work on focus areas and deliverables.
More to be added soon… |
6:00pm-8:00pm | Networking Reception |
time | Session |
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8:00am-8:15am | Welcome and Opening |
8:15am-9:15am | Digital Engineering Overview Speakers: Vitor Lopes, Systems & Digital Twins, Ansys / Detlev Richter, Global Head of Industrial and Energy Products, Tuv Sud / Gordon Shao, Computer Scientist, NIST |
9:15am-10:00am | Interactive Digital Twin Demos Interact with real-world implementations that provide insights into various digital twin technologies, building blocks, methodologies, and techniques. These in-person demos will cover domain-specific scenarios with value-driven outcomes. |
10:00am-10:15am | Break |
10:15am-11:15am | Technology Spotlight – Digital Twin Use Cases 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.
We will cover:
The presentation demonstrates the implementation and effectiveness of AI-powered digital twins in railroad and manufacturing safety management. By combining real-time data with historical information, the system has achieved multi-digit efficiency gaining in infrastructure operation, specifically in preventing serious injuries and fatalities in railroad stations and manufacturing factories. The integration of mathematical optimization and machine learning-based algorithms has established an early warning system for safety risks. In emergency situations, the system provides automated decision support processes for rapid response. The continuous learning capability of the machine learning models has resulted in a 40% reduction in error rates. Furthermore, an automated documentation system has been implemented to ensure regulatory compliance. These outcomes clearly demonstrate how the convergence of AI and digital twin technologies can substantially enhance safety and efficiency in industrial settings, providing decision-makers with powerful tools for operational excellence |
11:15am-12:00am | Strategy and Ideation Discussion This session will be an interactive and open opportunity for members to discuss what deliverables would be the most impactful and valuable for the Working Groups to develop and to provide input on the focus and direction of the Consortium moving forward. |
12:00am-1:00pm | Lunch |
1:00pm-1:30pm | Wrap Up and Next Steps |
Member cost
$645
$545 - Early Bird Discount
(Deadline: November 15, 2024)
Hotel Information
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Ctr
San Francisco, CA 94111 USA
Tel: +1 (415) 788-1234
Room Rate: Single/Double Occupancy: USD$249.00
(plus 16.5% & .195% applicable taxes and service fees)
Discounted Room Deadline EXTENDED:
Monday, November 25th, 2024.