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The Issues

Where is engineering analysis and simulation going? Where should it be going, and how will we all help get it there? What are the business, technological, and human enablers that will carry the past successful developments, applications, and business impact of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) to higher plateaus during the next decade and beyond?

The Event

NAFEMS, the premier global organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of engineering simulation, is hosting NAFEMS:2020 in Hampton, Virginia during October 29-31, 2008 to bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies and business processes to share relevant trends and roadmaps, to explore common themes, and to address these issues in an open forum. The goal is to provide attendees with the best “food for thought and action” to deploy CAE over the next several years.

The Topics

A vision of CAE’s potential in 2020 has many facets associated with maximizing the value of using engineering analysis and simulation in addressing the ever-increasingly complexity of products and their life cycles. NAFEMS:2020 will include keynote speakers, exhibits, and breakout sessions exploring the following subjects:

• Business developments to increase the financial impact of CAE investments
• • Development and deployment of CAE roadmaps
  • Management and executive awareness and understanding to make CAE deployment decisions with enduring positive impact
  • Integration of simulation information within Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  • Broadening the scope of industries and applications that benefit from advanced engineering analysis and simulation
  • The roles of CAE software and hardware developers

• Technical developments to improve speed, accuracy, reliability, accessibility, and applicability of results (“the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers .”) 
• • High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems for CAE (further synergies between hardware architectures and software algorithms)
  • Capturing the relevant physics well enough to gain engineering insight through multifunctional and multiphysics simulation
  • Material characterization including multiscale material models and data management; understanding and coping with model limitations, etc.
  • The impact of nanotechnologies on CAE requirements such as multifunctional “designer” nano-materials
  • Timely insight of mushrooming results: visualization, animation, and immersive virtual reality (“Moore’s Law doesn’t apply to the human brain ”)
  • Driving design improvement and optimization from smart simulations
  • Real-Time virtual simulations
  • Design uncertainty quantifications and non-deterministic optimization
  • Innovative approximation methods and evolutionary optimization

• Human issues
• • Intelligent engineering collaboration environments
  • Teaching simulation as part of the basic engineering curricula 
  • Evolving engineering processes and organizations to leverage CAE advances 
  • Certification of engineers to help ensure safe and effective use of CAE 
  • Training and education aligned with a 2020 vision

Submission of Abstracts & Presentations

Abstracts of 300-600 words should be submitted for consideration by June 1st, 2008. Abstracts must be clearly marked with author's name, organization, address, fax, phone numbers and email address. If you intend to submit an abstract, please complete the form below, or contact Matthew Ladzinski at NAFEMS by calling 1 (704) 248-2628. You may also email your abstract to: na2008@nafems.org. Note : Please be sure to use the abstract template below.

Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to prepare an extended abstract (typically 1-2 pages) and a PowerPoint presentation. Full written papers will not be required.

Note : The registration fees are waived if you are presenting at this event.

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Who Should Attend?

We would like to invite CAE end users, visionaries, researchers, educators, industry managers, and CAE software and hardware developers. Come share your experience and viewpoints to help shape the future of CAE in maximizing its impact on tomorrow's design environment, or come listen and learn what directions CAE will be moving over the next several years and how it can help your organization. 

The event is open to both members and non-members of NAFEMS.

Attendance is free for NAFEMS members, subject to sufficient remaining seminar credits.

Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities

The 2008 North American Regional Summit: NAFEMS 2020  provides an excellent opportunity for promotional and product / project awareness, and direct access to technology leaders. A select number of exhibition spaces and sponsorships will be available for vendors of software, hardware and associated services to demonstrate their solutions and meet with delegates.

For more information, click on the following link - Exhibition & Sponsorship Opportunities .

Register your Interest

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Registration Fees

NAFEMS members:

NAFEMS members can apply seminar credits towards free attendance at this event. This event will charge 5 seminar credits per delegate.

What if I do not have any seminar credits? What if I only have a few seminar credits left ?

Partial payment for individual registrations will be accepted based on the schedule below:

• No seminar credits = $400
• 1 seminar credit + $320
• 2 seminar credits + $240
• 3 seminar credits + $160
• 4 Seminar Credits + $80
• 5 Seminar Credits = N/A 

If you do not have any seminar credits to apply towards a delegate registration, still login to the NAFEMS website to secure the members' discount for this event.

If you would like to apply 1-4 seminar credits towards a delegate registration, please contact Matthew Ladzinski by email.

If you would like to apply 5 seminar credits towards a delegate registration, please login to the NAFEMS website. Once you have logged-in, a box will appear containing a "Request Free Places" button at the top of this page.

If you have any questions about this process, please contact Matthew Ladzinski .

Non-members of NAFEMS:

NAFEMS non-members rate is $599.

Interested in attending this event for FREE? Join NAFEMS .

Presenters:

The registration fees are waived if you are presenting at this event. 

Note: These fees include attendance at the conference, one copy of the proceedings, lunch for all three days, break refreshments each day, and the conference banquet on the first night. Hotel accommodation is not included.