SIMULIA Innovation Day - Agenda | Dassault Systèmes

Thursday, June 4, 2026

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM PDT

Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM PDT

Welcome & Opening Remarks, John Cichy, Dassault Systèmes

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM PDT

SIMULIA Brand Insights 2026, Mark Bohm, Dassault Systèmes

Last year, we celebrated twenty years of the SIMULIA brand, using the milestone as an opportunity to showcase our commitment to enhancing and expanding our simu...

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM PDT

The Third Wave of Innovation: AI-Powered Virtual Twins are the New Engine of Progress, Dr. Steven Levine, Dassault Systèmes

For decades, industries learned by building things and seeing what happened. Then they learned by laboriously measuring everything and extracting insight from d...

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM PDT

Capillary Underfill Flow Simulations for Flip-Chip Packages Using Lattice Boltzmann Method, Eylul Simsek, Intel Corporation

Underfill encapsulation is crucial in flip-chip packages to improve reliability by reducing the thermal expansion coefficient mismatch between die and substrate...

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM PDT

Morning Break

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT

Modeling & Simulation ( +AI ) – Enabling Transformation from Sequential to Concurrent Engineering, Ramji Kamakoti, Dassault Systèmes

Exploring how the MODSIM paradigm is allowing customers from many industries to shift their engineering and product development process from sequential to concu...

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM PDT

Driving Innovation Through Advanced Fluid Dynamics and Integrated Workflows, Harikrishnan Murali, Dassault Systèmes

High-Tech and Life Sciences industries rely on advanced fluid dynamics to solve challenges in thermal management, precision manufacturing, and biological transp...

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM PDT

Lunch

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

Structures Breakout Session

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

Efficient Multi-drop Simulation Workflow using Next-generation Import Paradigm, Sagar Bhamare, Dassault Systèmes

Predicting cumulative structural damage from multi-drop and tumble testing is critical for the durability and compliance of consumer electronics devices such as...

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Integrated, End-to-End Solution Bridging Radio Frequency (RF) Design with Additive Manufacturing (AM), Karthik Thalappully, Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA provides an integrated, end-to-end solution bridging Radio Frequency (RF) design with Additive Manufacturing (AM), enabling engineers...

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

Simulation-Driven Consumer Electronics Design Using Virtual Twin Physics Behavior (VTB) on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, Ashwani Kumar Goel, Dassault Systèmes

The increasing complexity of next-generation consumer electronics requires faster and more intelligent approaches to structural design evaluation and engineerin...

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

SIMULIA R&D Abaqus Structures Technology Update, Ross McLendon, Dassault Systèmes

Abaqus technology is the living heart of t: Abaqus technology is the living heart of SIMULIA structural simulation. In this presentation, members of the SIMULIA...

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

Electromagnetics Breakout Session

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

Consumer Device Antenna Optimization, Bala Shanmugam, Google LLC

Leveraging EM antenna simulation is critical for the antenna design and overall product development process. It helps to predict the antenna performance risk fo...

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Day to Day Antenna Design Challenges and How AI Could Help, Huan Liao, Meta Reality Labs

Antenna design involves repetitive, time-consuming tasks: material assignment, simulation setup, data export, and radiation pattern comparison, etc. We develope...

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

Virtual Electromagnetic Compliance, Nivedita Parthasarathy & Yun Xu, Dassault Systèmes

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

Electromagnetic Technology Updates 2026, Peter Hammes, Dassault Systèmes

This session will include new features and workflow and R&D/AI future for CST Studio Suite, OPERA, IVCAD Suite, Antenna Magus, Idem, and Manatee.

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

Life Sciences & Healthcare Breakout Session

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT

Powering Drug Development with Virtual Processes, Vince Adams & Jialun Han, Dassault Systèmes

Learn why many leading biopharma are increasing their reliance on simulation to bring new drugs to market faster with more consistent efficacy. Oral Dosage: S...

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PDT

Simulation-Driven Design and Evaluation of Neurovascular Stents for Aneurysm Treatment, Dr. Harkamalijot Kandail, Medtronic & Debarun Das, Dassault Systèmes

Aneurysm treatment using neurovascular stents involves complex interactions between the deployed device, patient anatomy, and pulsatile blood flow. Towards this...

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM PDT

Virtual Test to Regulatory Evidence through V&V40 + Physical AI, Salwa Anam, Dassault Systèmes

A practical pathway from validated simulation to in silico clinical trials. Modeling and simulation are rapidly evolving from engineering tools used to understa...

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Networking Reception