SIMULIA Technology Day - Toronto - Agenda

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

Registration & Continental Breakfast

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM EDT

Welcome & Opening Remarks, Kristofer Westbrook, Dassault Systèmes & Jairo Castellanos, GoEngineer

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EDT

SIMULIA Brand Insights: Executive Overview, Karthik Muthuraman, 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...

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

Full-Scale CO2 Pipeline Rupture Simulation using Coupled Eulerian-Lagragian (CEL) in Abaqus, Bruce Williams, CanmetMATERIALS, Natural Resources Canada

Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) simulations were performed to capture the full-scale fracture response of a rupturing pipeline. The two-phase response of CO2...

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Morning Break

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

The Modern Artisan: Driving Product Reliability with a Holistic Simulation Approach, Mehdi Shekarforoush, Zebra Technologies

In an era of accelerating product development and increasing complexity, how do we ensure quality without compromise? At Zebra Technologies, the answer lies in...

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT

Accelerating Innovation Through MODSIM, Dipesh Shah, Dassault Systèmes

MODSIM is at the heart of 3DEXPERIENCE. We will demonstrate how MODSIM is a key enabler for transformation. MODSIM enabled process’ can now reduce the times of...

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT

Lunch

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Abaqus Structural Simulation in Practice: Project Highlights, Custom Tools and Implementation Lessons, Carl Osterwisch, GoEngineer

This talk presents practical project highlights showing how Abaqus has been used to answer design questions, de-risk hardware, and support decision-making. We’l...

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT

SIMULIA Brand Insights: Modeling and Simulation, Multiphysics, Cloud and AI, Hicham Farid, Dassault Systèmes

This presentation will provide a summary of an ongoing simulation paradigm shift among our user base that is based upon a combination of High-Performance Comput...

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Concrete Damaged Plasticity (CDP) Model and Its Applications for Simulating Severe Design Conditions, Lambert Li, Ontario Power Generation

The Abaqus Concrete Damaged Plasticity (CDP) model is one of the most promising models used in simulating severe conditions of concrete structures in terms of c...

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Structures Updates 2026, Will Alcott, Dassault Systèmes

This presentation will cover the latest enhancements available in Abaqus 2026, including new capabilities for contact and constraints, materials, solvers and pe...

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM EDT

Closing Remarks, Kris Westbrook, Dassault Systèmes

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM EDT

Networking Reception