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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!

This meeting will be co-located with Object Management Group (OMG) quarterly member meeting. There will be shared keynotes, industry and working group presentations, and social networking events. 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 our sister consortia during the meeting week. Simply submit the NCLA form here after you register in order to freely access sessions in any OMG meetings.

We can't wait to see you there!

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Keynote Presenter



Mark Luciw


Mark Luciw
Director of Strategic Services
ARC Advisory Group


Agenda


timeSession
8:00am-8:30amBreakfast
8:30am-9:00amJoint-Consortia Community Welcome and Opening
9:00am-10:00amJoint-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-10:15amBreak
10:15am-10:45amAI 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-11:05amConsortium 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-12:00pmInteractive Digital Twin Evolution Panel
12:00pm-1:00pmLunch
1:00pm-2:15pmAddressing 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-2:30pmBreak
2:30pm-3:00pmAcademia 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-3:30pmThe 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-4:30pmTechnology 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.

  • MongoDB
    • Digital Twin Data Modelling in Connected Car and Smart Manufacturing Use Cases
      • This presentation will cover principles of data modelling for digital twin use cases in the automotive and manufacturing industry. We will define a digital twin of a car and how it can be represented in the MongoDB Atlas developer data platform. We will also present digital twin data models of manufacturing assets such as machines and robots and how one can enable Generative AI use cases on top of such models. The interoperability and flexibility of different assets is an important challenge due to the volume and variety of data that needs to be modelled for the digital twin. We will model the data in a way that fulfills requirements and needs of Industry 4.0: interoperability, scalability, flexibility and resilience.
    • Toshiba
      • Virtualizing Power Plants using Digital Twins
        • This presentation examines the critical role of Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) in modernizing global energy systems. It provides an overview of VPPs, their integration with Digital Twins, and how technologies like AI and IoT enable optimization of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). A regional case study will discuss Japan's transition from Feed-in Tariffs (FIT) to Feed-in Premiums (FIP) and Toshiba’s contributions, highlighting measurable improvements in grid stability, forecast accuracy, and energy management.
4:30pm-5:30pmWorking Group and Subgroup Roundtables

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

  • Academia and Research
  • Aerospace-Defense
  • Capabilities Periodic Table
  • Mobility and Transportation
  • Patterns
  • Security and Trust

More to be added soon…

 

timeSession
8:15am-8:30amWelcome and Opening
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-11:15amLive 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-12:00amTechnology 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.

  • NEC
    • Optimizing human resources using digital twins with behavior recognition AI
      • While warehouses often rely on manual labor, it is challenging to optimally allocate human resources because the on-site work situation cannot be fully grasped. NEC's behavior recognition AI analyzes the work content, time, and location of workers at the site from video streams and digitizes previously uncaptured facts about the work situation at the site. This enables a more accurate understanding of the on-site work situation, allowing for more efficient resource allocation.
    • Safe and efficient autonomous forklift operation using control AI with digital twin
      • Autonomous forklifts are being introduced due to labor shortages, but safe and efficient operation can be challenging. NEC's autonomous forklift uses a 3D map generated from camera images and control AI to simulate speed and route in real-time, avoiding collisions and course deviations while achieving high transport efficiency.
12:00pm-1:00pmLunch
1:00pm-2:15pmInteractive Panel – Digital Twin Strategy

  • Ingenuity
    • Innovation Infrastructure as a Service: A Strategic Partnership Opportunity with Ingenuity Leeds
      • This interactive panel will cover our 16,000 sq ft Innovation Hub, a 27-acre real-world testbed, a digital twin, and a sustainable data centre with novel carbon capture capabilities.
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.

  • Aerospace-Defense
  • Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO)
  • Capabilities Periodic Table
  • FinTech
  • Health and Life Sciences
  • Manufacturing
  • Mobility and Transportation
  • Power Systems
  • Security and Trustworthiness
  • Telecommunications

More to be added soon…

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

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

  • Academia and Research
  • Aerospace-Defense
  • Capabilities Periodic Table
  • Mobility and Transportation
  • Patterns
  • Security and Trust

More to be added soon…

6:00pm-8:00pmNetworking Reception

timeSession
8:00am-8:15amWelcome and Opening
8:15am-9:15amDigital 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-10:00amInteractive 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-10:15amBreak
10:15am-11:15amTechnology 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.

  • Tritem
    • Tritem Digital Twin and xIL technologies
      • In our presentation we will talk about how Tritem behavioural simulations let us deliver optimal solutions with digital twins for high-speed trains.

We will cover:

  • Constraints & limitations when building a Digital Twin
  • Architecture options & simulation fidelity levels
  • Computational limitations and how to deal with them
  • Extensibility and flexibility
  • Benefits
  • Dassault Systemes
    • Digital Engineering to Digital Twin: Full Circle with a Robotic Arm
      • This presentation will cover the practical impact of systems engineering across the entire product lifecycle and the intersection of systems engineering with electrical, mechanical design, manufacturing, implementation, and verification & validation (V&V) through the digital thread and co-simulation.
    • Corners
      • Intelligence Augmentation for Decision Makers using AI-Powered Digital Twin with Railroad and Manufacturing Safety Cases

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-12:00amStrategy 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-1:00pmLunch
1:00pm-1:30pmWrap Up and Next Steps

Member cost

$645
$545 - Early Bird Discount
(Deadline: November 15, 2024)


Hotel Information

Hyatt Regency San Francisco

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.

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