DTC Q4 2026 Member Meeting

Save Your Seat for our Member Meeting in Baton Rouge!

A special thank you to Louisiana State University (LSU) for hosting this quarter's Digital Twin Consortium Member Meeting! Join us December 8-10 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for an exciting opportunity to connect and collaborate with DTC Members. This quarter's meeting will be packed with three days of thought leadership and networking with the leaders in digital twin innovation and AI technology – our members!

This quarter's meeting features dynamic keynotes, cutting-edge industry sessions, working group presentations, and engaging social events. You will experience firsthand how our forward-thinking is leading the charge in technological transformation. We are working together to boost technology efficiency, sustainability, and resilience across industries.

We can't wait to see you there!

Program Agenda

Time	Session
8:00am - 8:30am	Registration, Refreshments & Networking
8:30am - 9:00am	EDM Association Cross-Consortia Welcome EDMA community and consortia update — trusted and interoperable data as the foundation for collaboration. John Vickers, Director, Digital Twin Core Facility, Louisiana State University
9:00am - 9:30am	Keynote Session Mark Luciw, Senior Director, Strategic Services, ARC Advisory Group
9:30am - 10:00am	Executive Leadership Panel Said Tabet, Distinguished Engineer, Dell, DTC Steering Committee Chair, EDMA Board of Directors Member Greg Porter, Principal Solutions Architect, Entarian, DTC Steering Committee Member Others TBA
10:00am - 10:15am	Morning Refreshment Break
10:15am - 12:00pm	Testbed Updates & Presentations In this session, participants will get an inside look and hear from members leading testbed initiatives across industries Education: GIANTS OF OAKRIDGE Energy: GEOTHERMAL Facility Management: NEXUS/CRYSP Manufacturing: COGNOS-X, BEYOND AUTOMATION, DM FLAW FREE MATERIALS, FAB Compute: QPOD
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:15pm	Member Presentations Digital Twins & Open Standards Matthias Bolke, Chairman of the Board, Industrial Digital Twin Association Model Based System Engineering for Digital Twin Composability Dr. Antonios Kontsos, Director of the Digital Engineering Hub (DEHub), Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Rowan University The AI-Enabled Digital Twin: Driving Value from Exploration Through Production Nima Bahrami, Product Sales Executive, Synopsys/Ansys From Edge to XR: Transforming Medical Workflows into Digital Twins Emiliano Rodriguez, Digital Twin Architect, Planned Systems International This presentation will demonstrate how edge-captured medical workflows transforms into interactive simulations within the digital twin that showcases how these workflows can be visualized, analyzed, and explored in immersive XR environments to support workflow optimization and AI-enabled engineering. The approach also highlights potential applications of this technology to physical AI and simulation-driven workflows across industries, including energy.
2:15pm - 2:30pm	Afternoon Refreshment Break
2:30pm - 5:00pm	Industry/Application Focused Themed Workshops & Panels Digital Twins in the Energy Sector Digital Twin System, Model Based System Engineering Modeling & Simulation Industrial Reality, GenAI & Physical AI

Time	Session
8:30am - 8:45am	Opening Remarks Welcome comments, including a recap of Day 1, along with Day 2 objectives.
8:45am - 10:00am	Interactive Workshop: Trusted AI & Governance A DTC Framework for trustworthy AI deployment, this session will highlight the 10 laws established for trustworthy autonomous operations, emphasizing bounded autonomy, human oversight, physics awareness, deterministic behavior, and digital twins as the substrate for safe AI deployment. Pieter van Schalkwyk, CEO, XMPro, Composability Framework Lead, Digital Twin Consortium
10:00am - 10:15am	Morning Refreshment Break
10:15am - 11:00am	Interoperable Agents Panel: – Standards for Connecting Vendors, Digital Twins and Agent Frameworks
11:00am - 12:00pm	Member Presentations Trusted Digital Twins Prachi Kumar, Vice President, Principal Engineering, UL Solutions Heike Thomas, Senior Manager, Strategy, Portfolio and Innovation - Consumer Industries, UL Solutions Regional Resiliency Hubs John Reynolds, President, Agile Fractal Grid Hybrid Digital Twins & AI for Power Generation Facilities Bill Weisbrod, Director of Sales, Toshiba The integration of empirical models, machine learning, and AI with physics-based digital twins enables earlier detection of performance degradation, equipment anomalies, and developing reliability risks. This presentation explores the evolution toward hybrid digital twins and how these technologies can support more informed decisions around thermal performance, reliability, and asset optimization.
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Digital Twin Research Projects: LSU EXXON: Scan-to-Navigation Digital Twins for Industrial Robotics Developing a scan-to-robotics pipeline connecting reality capture, digital twin reconstruction, autonomous navigation, and robotic manipulation to reduce the time and cost of creating and updating industrial digital twins while making robotics development more accessible and improving worker safety. Digital Humans Initiative: Athlete Digital Twins for Injury Prevention Designing an all-inclusive physical therapy app with a medicially accurate digital twin of athletes that combines motion tracking and muscle simulation to estimate strain and injury risk for injury prevention. Patrick F. Taylor Hall Digital Twin Project Developing an accurate, one-to-one digital representation of Patrick F. Taylor Hall that serves as both an interactive virtual environment and a practical resource management tool to support administrative decision-making while allowing prospective students to explore and become familiar with the building. PFT Distillation Columns: An Open-Source, Multi-User XR Digital Twin Showing that a high-fidelity, collaborative digital twin can be built using only open-source software and consumer-grade hardware for workforce and safety training, predictive maintenance and turnaround planning and real-time operational visualization. CREATED: Fluid Dynamics System for Louisiana Spillways Developing a digital twin of the Morganza Spillway’s interaction with the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, the program will be a hub that can accommodate several data sets to process land and fluid simulations in a 3D environment for any situation. EMSight: Digital Twin for Microscopy Building a human-centered digital twin of the electron microscopy workflow showing that an interface can adapt to the operator’s state, help non-experts reach expert-level faster and develop more acute scientific analytical skills.
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Working Group Briefs Hear from the Chairs and Leads of our Working Groups and Focus Areas as they share the latest updates on ongoing activities and initiatives. Learn about current projects, upcoming opportunities, and how to get involved.
3:00pm - 3:15pm	Afternoon Refreshment Break
3:15pm - 5:00pm	Working Group Roundtable Sessions Member participation in focused meetings for Working Groups and Focus Areas working towards actionable deliverables. Capabilities, Technology & Digital Engineering WG Manufacturing WG Energy Solutions WG
5:30pm - 7:30pm	Networking Reception

Time	Session
8:00am - 8:30am	Public Registration & Networking
8:30am - 8:45am	Welcome and Summary of Day 2: Outcomes and Actions
8:45am - 9:30am	Keynote Session Dr. Adam Drobot, President & Chairman, OpenTechWorks
9:30am - 11:00am	Student Poster Session & Demonstrations Including Morning Refreshment Break Student poster awards and displays showcase emerging research, creative applications, prototypes, and new ideas related to digital twins, alongside member demos where attendees can interact with real-world implementations and gain insight into the technologies, building blocks, methodologies, and techniques behind digital twins.
11:00am - 11:30am	Digital Engineering Methodologies Panel
12:00pm - 12:15pm	Presentation Joey Coco, President, CEO, Digi Twin Global Nedra Hains, Vice President of Operations, Digi Twin Global
12:15pm - 1:00pm	Lunch - Sponsored by Digi Twin Global
1:00pm - 2:30pm	AI & Digital Twins: Driving Digital Transformation Digital Panels & Presentations Future of Urban System Planning: University of Central Florida Trusted Carbon Data for Smart Cities: Track & Trace Buildings and Supply Chains
2:30pm - 2:45pm	Afternoon Refreshment Break
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Networking Session
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Summary: Next Steps- Strategic Direction This session will highlight activities and key takeaways from the Q4 member meeting and upcoming initiatives, events, and projects that members can get involved in, as well as ways to maximize participation and impact. Dan Isaacs, GM & CTO, Digital Twin Consortium, EDM Association

NOTE: Sessions, speakers, and delivering organizations are to be confirmed except where explicitly named and subject to change.

MEETING HOST

Meeting Registration Fees:

$695 - Standard Rate
$595 - Early-bird Rate
(Discount Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, November 13, 2026)
Register Today!

Meeting Location:

Louisiana State University
Digital Media Center
888 S Stadium Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70808

Hotel Information:

For Q4, there is a small DTC group block of hotel rooms available at The Cook Hotel, an on-campus hotel within walking distance to the Digital Media Center. The booking deadline is Friday, November 13, 2026. Reservations are on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last.

Plus, you may also choose from a variety of brand hotel options located near the University.

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

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