DEVELOP3D LIVE 2026

Conference program
Warwick Arts Centre
25 March 2026

8:00am - Exhibition / Coffee
9:20am - Conference starts
5:00pm - Conference ends

(program subject to change)

Conference #1
(Main stage)

Main stage (AM)

9:20am - 9:30am
Welcome to DEVELOP3D LIVE

9:30am - 10:00am
Ryan McClelland
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.

10:00am - 10:30am
Angel Guerra
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.

10:30am - 11:00am
Coffee break

11:00am - 11:30am
Gian Paolo Bassi
Presentation TBC

11:30am - 12:00pm
Oliver Duncan
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.

12:00pm - 12:30pm
Philip Lunn
Design has changed from a sketch driven ideation process to an intent based process. What do II want to create today?

12:30pm - 1:00pm
Jim Nottingham
Presentation TBC
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch break
MAIN STAGE (PM)

2:00pm - 2:30pm
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.

2:30pm - 3:00pm
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Presentation TBC

3:00pm - 3:30pm
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Presentation TBC
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Coffee break

4:00pm - 4:30pm
Chris Gould
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.

4:30pm - 5:00pm
Ashley May and David Evans
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.
5:00pm - Conference ends

CONFERENCE # 2
(Studio)

Start-up STREAM (AM)

11:00am - Michael (Fino) Finocchiaro
Intro to startup session
11:10am - Raihaan Usman // Bench
AI engineering framework
11:20am - Christian Stein // Threedy
instant3Dhub platform for streaming and managing 3D data
11:30am - Andre Wegner // Authentise
Data-driven workflow management for additive
11:40am - Pradyut Paul // Bild
Modern design management platform 
11:50am - Erdem Ozturk // Productive Machines
Optimized toolpaths for machining
12:00pm - Michael Pfenning // Elevating Patterns
The digital thread platform
12:10pm - Shahroz Khan // Compute Maritime
Generative AI for maritime design
12:20pm - Simon Nielsen // RD8
In stealth
12:30pm - Peter Harman // Infinitive
Platform enabling firms to offer modular, customisable products
12:40pm - Uzair Syed // NexCAD
AI Drawing Checker for reviewing engineering drawings
12:50pm - Michael (Fino) Finocchiaro
Closing remarks
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
AI STREAM (PM)

2:00pm - 2:25pm
Eric Vinchon
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.

2:25pm - 2:50pm
Alex Graham
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.

2:50pm - 3:15pm
Jesper Mosegaard
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.

3:15pm - 3:30pm
Rhushik Matroja
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.
Coffee break

CONFERENCE # 3
(Woods-Scawen)

Viz STREAM (am)

11:00am - 11:25am
Spencer Livingstone
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.

11:25am - 11:50am
Jesper Mosegaard
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.

11:50am - 12:15pm
Presentation content TBC

12:15pm - 1:00pm
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1:00pm - 2:00pm
Lunch break
FUTURE FABRICATION STREAM (PM)

2:00pm - 2:25pm
Ivan Tregear
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.

2:25pm - 2:50pm
Fatos Derguti
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.

2:50pm - 3:15pm
Benjamin Redford
Presentation TBC

3:15pm - 3:40pm
Presentation TBC
Coffee break
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