DEVELOP3D LIVE 2026

Welcome to DEVELOP3D LIVE

Space mission development traditionally spans decades from concept to launch. The Text-to-Spaceship framework integrates AI into mission design workflows, dramatically accelerating development through human-AI collaboration. This methodology represents a paradigm shift in aerospace engineering, leveraging AI to amplify human capabilities and significantly compress development timelines.

This talk explores how real-time visualization and VR have transformed my daily automotive design workflow, from OEM projects to hypercars like the Rimac Nevera and Bugatti Mistral. I will also show how strategic use of demo projects and social media positioning helps designers attract high-end clients and stay relevant.

Bassi will present how the expanding SOLIDWORKS portfolio and industrial AI enable teams to move beyond CAD, using SOLIDWORKS as a strategic platform to accelerate product development and improve decision-making. With a focus on healthcare, he will share real-world insights on aligning tools, processes, and teams to drive faster innovation

He will be joined on stage by Alex Cleaver, Senior Mechanical Designer, ScubaTX, a UK firm that has created a device for safer transportation for organ transplants.

AI is becoming a practical part of design and engineering, reshaping how products are imagined where complexity, speed and adaptability matter more than ever. Learn how AI is being embedded across the Siemens Designcenter portfolio and beyond, connecting intelligent design, simulation and data management across desktop, cloud and immersive workflows.

Ever wondered how high-performing modern organizations approach DFM/A to save cost, time, and improve product quality? Are you looking for ways to enable a “Design Right the First Time” philosophy to achieve a competitive advantage?

Learn about HCL’s AI/ML-driven collaborative DFM/A solution and how it can solve your design and manufacturing challenges.

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For decades, the gaming industry was dismissed as "trivial" But while the industrial world was focused on static blueprints and heavy PLM systems, game developers were forced to solve the hardest problems in computing: real-time physics, massive multi-user environments, and extreme graphical efficiency on consumer hardware.

Today, the walls between "Virtual" and "Physical" are collapsing. Whether it’s a digital twin of a factory, a real-time car configurator, or AI-driven simulation, the tools and methodologies born in the games industry are now the gold standard for enterprise innovation.

Discover how the most demanding work on Earth—and in space—is shaping the future of professional computing. In this session, HP explores how extreme environments like space missions and high‑pressure product development push technology to its limits and reveal what truly matters for advanced workflows.

Drawing on real examples from NASA and high‑pressure product design environments, you’ll see how reliability, focus, and speed directly shape outcomes when there’s no margin for failure. Learn how next‑generation workstations and breakthrough solutions are helping designers, engineers, and AI teams overcome compute bottlenecks and move faster without compromising control. The session also dives into how AI‑driven and multi‑software workflows are changing expectations for performance and productivity. These insights don’t stay in space—they apply to any organization building complex products under real business pressure.

Design has changed from a sketch driven ideation process to an intent based process. What do II want to create today?

This talk explores how immersive technologies such as Virtual and Augmented Reality are reshaping the design process, enhancing design quality, accelerating decision making and transforming stakeholder engagement. From large commercial vehicles to lightweight electric sports cars, discover how Avant Design has adopted VR to elevate creativity while preserving human intent.

This talk shares how additive manufacturing enabled a design consultancy to create award-winning loudspeakers. By treating 3D printing as a starting point – not just a prototyping tool – we developed patented acoustic technologies, overcame manufacturing challenges, and built scalable products that challenge traditional assumptions about how loudspeakers are designed and made.

HP and AMD are giving DEVELOP3D LIVE delegates the chance to take home a stunning HP ZBook Ultra G1a
mobile workstation worth £3,000, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro processor.

Visit the HP / AMD stand during the day to enter.

The winner will be drawn live on stage — so make sure you’re in this session to be in with a chance of winning!

AI Drawing Checker for reviewing engineering drawings

12:50pm - Michael (Fino) Finocchiaro

Closing remarks

AI is transforming engineering, yet CAD data remains one of the hardest assets to leverage at scale. This session explores how geometry-aware architectures and embedding techniques allow machines to understand shape directly, enabling similarity search, prediction, and business intelligence across engineering workflows.

As product complexity rises, simulation must evolve from isolated analysis to a scalable, decision-making capability. This session explores agentic engineering workflows powered by Engineering AI and Physics AI — enabling guided, physics-grounded autonomy that scales simulation insight across NPI while preserving human oversight and engineering accountability.

Industrial design is entering an AI-native era. The advantage is no longer access to models, but how deeply AI is embedded into 3D workflows, rendering, and decision-making. As capabilities commoditize, designers can even build their own specialized tools. Mosegaard will share lessons from Figurement and what this shift means for you.

For decades, mastering the software interface was enough. AI will automate 80% of what simulation engineers actually do, and exposing a divide that was always there: engineers who understand the physics, and engineers who understood the menus. This talk explores what comes next, and how CDS is already building it.

Presume reflects the aesthetic of its founder, Spencer Livingstone. Striving for warm, cosy atmospheres with dramatic golden-hour lighting. Combined with photorealism and subtle imperfections, each image is crafted to feel authentic and emotive. The result is work that moves beyond visuals alone, creating scenes that feel alive and resonate with viewers.

Industrial design has always been a team sport. But most of our software isn’t. It’s still files passed around, one person at a time. I’ll share how browser-first tools change that: everything linkable, faster decisions, and work that flows from renders into reviews, CMF docs, decks, and even AI edits.

Default Office is a London-based industrial design practice with a significant visualisation capability. D'Souza explores how the two sides fuel each other, why the practice prioritises art direction over new software, and how it builds its own creative tools to get more from a small team.

Learn how to create high-quality product animations in KeyShot, then discover how AI-generated sequences can help turn a great render into a complete visual story.

Having spent the last two years running our own restaurant and using it to iterate hardware, software and AI on a daily basis, we realized we had underestimated the challenge of deploying hardware at scale. This is how we, at KAIKAKU.AI, pivoted within 25 days.

This session explores how advanced 3D design and metal additive manufacturing are expanding into critical automotive applications for Pagani and Donkervoort. It’ll examine how these technologies enable complex geometries for demanding functions like heat transfer, structural performance, and weight reduction, redefining what’s possible in high-performance vehicle engineering.

This is not a talk about AI. It’s a talk about making real things in the real world and how there has never been a better time to do that.

From concept to production, additive manufacturing is reshaping how high-end automotive manufacturers develop and produce components. RYSE 3D shares real-world experience from supplying the hypercar sector.