• Challenges and Solutions in Development and Design

Dick Morley, Director of Innovation, Cyon Research; Founder, "The Barn"

• Countering the Braindrain Threat to Engineering

by Kiho Sohn, (former) Chief Knowledge Officer, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne

• Accelerating Innovation in Today's Engineering Organization

by Chad Jackson, President and Founder of Lifecycle Insights

• Overview & Status of Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) Standards

by Ric Norton, Program Manager and Technical Data Analyst for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Logistics Information Service

• If You Build It, Will They Come? – PMI from the other side

by John Callen, Product Manager, Inventor PLG, Manufacturing Industry Group, Autodesk

• Update on Global LOTAR Status, Activities and Solutions

by Rick Zuray, Technical Principal, Boeing

• Using Standards & Visualization formats to Implement 3D Manufacturing Instructions for Long Term Data Archiving

by Trevor Leeson, Consultancy & Services Director, Theorem Solutions

• Trends and Best Practices in Collaboration & Interoperability: Results from the Sixth Annual Survey

by Dr. David Prawel, President, Longview Advisors Inc.

• Making 3D Product Data Cheap and Available - Added Value with JT and STEP

By Dr. Andreas Schreiber, President, PROSTEP Inc.

• Incorporating STEP and Collaborative Formats Together into the Product Lifecycle

by Dr. Nathan Hartman, Assistant Department Head, Department of Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University; Philip Rosche, Senior Associate, ICF International; Kevin Fischer, Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Rockwell Collins

• Integrated Product Development with CATIA V6 and SAP

by Reinhard Staebler, Vice President – SAP Solutions, CENIT North America

• Panel: Getting the Most From Your Engineering Organization

Panelists: Four Senior Engineering Management participants?

• Exploring the Latest Technologies for Accelerating  Secure Collaboration

by Wes Shimanek, Workstation Product Manager, Intel Architecture Group, with guests Nate Nalven, Director Engineering Applications at Northrop Grumman and Chuck Brown, Cloud Technology Director at Intel

• Deploying PLM to Drive Enterprise Collaboration Standards

by Rick Mihelic, Engineering Systems Manager, Peterbilt Motors Company

• Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) Pilot Programs Overview & Status

by Rich Eckenrode, President, Recon Services

• Mitigating Risk in PLM Migration - A Tale of Transition

by Vijay Vasandani, VP & GM, NobleTek

• MBE PLM Technical Data Plan - Definition Update/Status

by Roy Wittenburg, Project Manager for UTRS, US Army

• Panel B: Empowering Engineering Decision Making

Panelists: Four Senior Engineering Management

• Automotive Industry Visualization Standards Based Interoperability: A Global Industry Initiative

by Doug Halliday, Director - Strategic Business Development, Trubiquity

• Leveraging Photorealistic 3D Web Applications in the Cloud for Supply Chain Collaboration

by Phil Lunn, CTO, Bunkspeed

• Open Source in PLM

by Marc Lind, Senior Vice President, Aras

• Panel: Collaboration & Interoperability Industry Update

Panelists:  Senior representatives from the Major CAD and Interoperability companies