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CD-adapco Announces STAR Global Keynoter

By DE Editors  

February 16, 2016

CD-adapco, a provider of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation software, has scheduled its keynote speaker for this year's worldwide STAR Global Conference. Martin Whitmarsh, chief executive officer for Land Rover BAR and former CEO of McLaren F1, will headline the event.

Whitmarsh rose to the position of Managing Director of the McLaren F1 team in 1997 before eventually becoming the CEO of McLaren Racing and the McLaren Group from 2004-2013. He stepped into his new role as CEO of Land Rover BAR in April 2015.

Following Whitmarsh’s keynote, the three-day STAR Global Conference 2016 will feature a number of presentations from the likes of Abbott Diagnostic, Airbus Operations GmbH, AREVA GmbH, BAE Systems Maritime - Submarines, BASF SE, BMW, Bottero Glass Technology, Caterpillar, Daimler, Dyson, Ford Motor Company, Hyperloop Technologies, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, UTC Aerospace Systems, Volvo and many more.

For more information, visit CD-adapco.

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

 
 

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