This was presented at the NAFEMS World Congress 2025, held in Salzburg, Austria from May 19–22, 2025.

The NAFEMS ASSESS initiative is a think tank that brings thoughts leaders and visionaries together from industry, government and academia with the sole purpose addressing the challenges and shaping the future of engineering simulation to have capture the untapped potential and make a larger business impact.

Originally launched in 2015, the ASSESS Initiative was created in response to the growing recognition that simulation has massive untapped potential to make a business impact— limited not by technology, but by adoption barriers, executive sponsorship, organizational silos, and fragmented strategies.

At its core, ASSESS is about creating the future of simulation — a future where simulation is no longer a specialty activity for a few experts, but a strategic capability used throughout the engineering lifecycle by a broader range of users and making a greater business impact.