Agenda Out for ESTECO Users’ Meeting North America 2025

ESTECO has shared the agenda for the 9th edition of the biennial ESTECO Users’ Meeting North America, to take place October 14-15, 2025, at Saint John’s Resort in Plymouth, MI. The event features speakers from companies such as Cummins, SLB, Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, Medtronic, Ford Motor Co., and Stellantis North America.

The event will convene engineers using ESTECO digital engineering solutions, allowing them to share experiences and show how VOLTA and modeFRONTIER are beingused across various industries. Attendees can connect with ESTECO experts, discover new features and upcoming advancements, and learn about ESTECO technology through interactive workshops.

Much of the agenda is dedicated to the automotive sector, traditionally one of the industries where ESTECO Technology is most used:

• Bob Tickel, director of Multidisciplinary Simulation, Research and Technology at Cummins will discuss how his company’s OAR (optimization, automation and robustness) initiative impacts simulation-based product development.
• Tarek Belgasam, CAE principal materials research engineer at Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, will focus on AI capabilities enhancing a digital twin framework for virtual quality assessment.
• Peter Kowalow, technical expert – Parametric/Non-Parametric Optimization, will present how modeFRONTIER contributes to elevating product design at Ford Motor Co.
• Ramachandra Bhat, lead engineer at Stellantis North America, will share a use case on workflow standardization for side closures.

The event will also feature contributions from the energy and biomedical industries:

• Amandine Battentier, global technology modeling & simulation manager at SLB, will showcase how the Simulation Process and Data Management approach, leveraging modeFRONTIER and VOLTA, has achieved reduction in simulation time.
• Arric E. McLauchlan, principal design automation engineer at Medtronic PLC, will explore the current and future role of Digital Engineering platforms in improving in silico clinical trial evidence and patient-specific care.

ESTECO experts will deliver talks on recent developments and future innovation drivers such as artificial intelligence and data-driven modeling, democratization in simulation, digital thread integration, and the connection between MBSE requirements and multidisciplinary design optimization workflows. A special focus will be on VOLTA cloud deployment, with a joint talk by Matteo Francia, head of Customer Support & Success at ESTECO, and Sandeep Sovani, global GTM head of Engineering Simulation HPC at Amazon Web Services. Their discussion will highlight how the partnership with AWS will be key to streamlining installation procedures and transforming simulation capabilities.

On the second day, October 15, attendees can explore these topics through hands-on workshops.

Full agenda: um25.esteco.com/north-america/agenda

Registration: um25.esteco.com/north-america/registration

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.