The 2025 NAFEMS ASSESS Summit, which will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, between March 10th and 12th, will bring together senior industry leadership, analysts, business owners, experts, C-suite executives, and visionaries in the community of model-based analysis, simulation, and systems engineering.
The NAFEMS ASSESS Initiative is leading 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.
Jack Castro
The Boeing Company
Jack Castro is a Technical Fellow and Enterprise Mechanical-Structures FEA Capability Owner. He is responsible for structural FEA strategy, development and deployment of digital model-based FEA processes. In this capacity, Jack is working with Boeing internal teams and software suppliers to develop and deploy digitally-aligned processes, especially in the Loads value stream.
Carmen Torres-Sanchez
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.
Updated January 15th 2025 - subject to change
| Monday, March 10, 2025 | |
6:00 PM | Registration and Badge Pick-up | |
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 Summit participants. We ask that all participants try their best to attend this reception. | |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | |
7:45 AM | Join us for Breakfast | |
8:30 AM | Kickoff: Opening Remarks and Call to Order | |
9:00 AM | Keynote Presentation: | |
9:45 AM | Break | |
10:15 AM | Vendor Industry Perspectives | |
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: | |
12:00 noon | Lunch, Networking, & Discussion | |
1:15 PM | Working Session Breakouts 1 We will be breaking out into a set of working groups to discuss focused questions for each ASSESS Theme: Business: What limits the broader business benefits of engineering simulation, and how can we address the roadblocks? Certification: How is certification by engineering simulation different to credibility & confidence? Credibility: How can we address the organizational, social and cultural challenges of establishing confidence in and credibility of simulation? Democratization: What are the technological and organizational barriers to democratization? Integration: How can we integrate multi-fidelity models to drive physics-informed AI? What are the concerns and limitations? Twins: Which activities and scenarios can benefit from an engineering simulation digital twin? | |
2:30 PM | Break | |
2:45 PM | Vendor Industry Perspectives | |
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 | |
4:00 PM | Working Session Breakout 2 Business: How can we broaden the audience that recognizes the business benefits of simulation? Certification: How can the certification by simulation procedures used, for instance, in the aerospace and nuclear industries be exploited in other sectors? Credibility: Can organizations make design decisions based on simulation alone? If not, why not? How can we get there? Democratization: How do we encourage the broader use of advanced technologies (e.g., accuracy-driven adaptivity, AI, quantum computing) to support democratization? Integration: How can we leverage an understanding of model “appropriateness” to improve the integration of multi-fidelity models and associated information? Twins: How do we integrate across multi-fidelity engineering simulation digital twins? | |
5:15 PM | Close-up sessions | |
6:00 PM | Reception | |
7–9 PM | Dinner | |
| Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | |
7:45 AM | Breakfast | |
8:30 AM | Kickoff: Opening Remarks | |
8:35 AM | Keynote Presentation: | |
9:20 AM | Break | |
9:45 AM | Industry Perspectives from Rescale |
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10:00 AM | Understanding the Different Forms of Democratization of Engineering Simulation Joe Walsh, ASSESS | |
10:45 AM | Break | |
11:00 AM | ASSESS 2.0 - The Next Phase of the Initiative Joe Walsh & Nick Appleyard, ASSESS | |
12:00 noon | Lunch | |
1:15 PM | Plenary Session – Open Discussion with Attendees |
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2:30 PM | Close of the ASSESS Summit 2025 |
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Attire for the duration of the ASSESS Summit 2025 is casual.
| Event Type | Summit |
|---|---|
| Member Price | £1554.08 | $1895.00 | €1840.17 |
| Non-member Price | £1882.11 | $2295.00 | €2228.59 |
| Start Date | End Date | Location | |
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| | Atlanta, GA, USA | |
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