The ASSESS Simulation Leadership Summit comes to Europe.
The ASSESS Simulation Leadership Summit is where the industry's thought-leaders and change-drivers come together to secure engineering simulation's position as an integral part of delivering business value.
You already know the problem - despite serious investment in technology and genuine talent across your organisation, the gap between simulation's potential and its business impact persists. AI initiatives stall at the pilot stage. Simulation still sits one step removed from mission-critical decisions. The contribution to the bottom line is real, but nowhere near what it should be.
Closing that gap is not a technical issue, it's a leadership challenge.
That's what this summit aims to solve.
After ten years in the United States, the Summit crosses the Atlantic for the first time in 2027.
Europe is home to a huge concentration of the world's simulation-intensive industry, from aerospace and automotive OEMs to the regulatory bodies shaping how simulation supports certification. In 2027, the Summit location will make it easier for the leaders of those organisations to join the conversation, broadening the perspective and further enriching the strategies that emerge.
If you attended in Atlanta before, then you know what these three days deliver.
If you're in Europe and the travel has kept you away until now, this is your year.
This is not passive attendance. It's collaborative, structured problem-solving with people who face the same challenges you do.
Limited to just 80 senior executives. No vendor pitches. No exhibition halls. Just the space and time for the discussions that don't happen anywhere else. For 2027, the Summit will run observing the Chatham House Rule, meaning attendees can speak freely, openly, and candidly throughout the event.
You'll develop actionable strategies alongside executives from the likes of Boeing, Piper, MillerKnoll and many more, through facilitated working sessions on:
Each working session builds directly on the outcomes of the 2025 and 2026 Summits, with expert facilitators guiding small groups through structured problem-solving. This is a conversation with continuity. You're not starting from zero, you're joining a body of work.
Our keynote speakers, including Dr Javad Fatemi of Airbus, and invited speakers will add depth to the discussion.
And to close, we bring together the ideas, strategies and commitments from across the three days, and agree how the community takes them forward.
You'll leave with concrete strategies, connections that matter, and a clear roadmap for progress.
Company owners and presidents. CEOs, CTOs and CIOs. Directors, VPs and the senior managers who own simulation strategy.
If you're a decision maker frustrated by the gap between technical capability and business impact, and you're ready to do something about it, you belong here.
The 2027 Summit will bring together simulation leadership from across Europe, North America and beyond. Expect the peers you know, and the ones you should.
To stay competitive in today’s aerospace and defence product development, organisations must shorten time-to-market while reducing non-recurring costs. This demands risk-informed decision-making throughout the development lifecycle and a clear shift away from expensive, large-scale physical tests. However, replacing full-scale qualification testing with computational models requires demonstrated, proven confidence in modelling and simulation.
This keynote presents a structured methodology for leveraging the Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ) process to systematically establish simulation credibility. Two real-world industrial cases show how VVUQ enabled successful blind predictions of full-scale metallic and composite launcher structures.
Beyond the technical success, the focus is on leadership and enterprise strategy: how credible simulations mitigate risk during early development, empower leaders to make confident risk-informed decisions, satisfy regulatory standards for Qualification by Simulation, and deliver measurable business ROI by significantly shortening time-to-market and lowering costs.
Agenda subject to change. All sessions are held under the Chatham House Rule.
The Chatham House Rule is used around the world to encourage inclusive and open dialogue in meetings. The Rule helps create a trusted environment to understand and resolve complex problems. Its guiding spirit is: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it.
The Rule reads as follows:
"When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed."
Used effectively, the Chatham House Rule helps to bring people together, break down barriers, generate ideas and agree solutions.
| Event Type | Summit |
|---|---|
| Member Price | €1500.00 |
| Non-member Price | €1900.00 |
| Start Date | End Date | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
Registration fee is subject to local Netherlands VAT at 21%, where applicable.
Barbizon Palace Hotel
Prins Hendrikkade, 59-72
1012 AD
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Click here to book your discounted accommodation at the Barbizon Palace Hotel
ASSESS is a think tank that brings together thought leaders and visionaries from industry, government, and academia to address challenges and shape the future of engineering simulation.
Sponsoring the ASSESS Simulation Leadership Summit 2027 puts your organisation in front of the most senior, most targeted audience in engineering simulation, at the first European edition of the Summit, in Amsterdam, 8-10 March 2027.
Earlybird Registration Deadline - Save €200 until January 31st 2027
Prices from February 1st 2027 €1,700 (members) & €2,100 (non-members)
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