Registration open for the Smart Manufacturing for Aerospace & Defense Summit in Chicago
The Smart Manufacturing for Aerospace & Defense Summit, which will take place October 29 at the Hyatt Rosemont in Chicago, Illinois, USA, aims to unite aerospace and defence manufacturers and share best practice strategies for implementing advanced technologies for flexible and efficient manufacturing.
The aerospace and defence industry faces soaring demand and stringent quality standards, leading to capacity constraints from limited factory space, supply chain issues, and workforce shortages. Adopting Industry 4.0 technologies like IIoT, AI, digital twins, robotics, and Additive Manufacturing is crucial for optimising production processes, enhancing quality control, and improving supply chain resilience.
However, complex certification processes, skill gaps, and fragmented digital infrastructures and data silos hinder the widespread adoption of these disruptive technologies across the aerospace product lifecycle, slowing scalable digital transformation initiatives.
Confirmed speakers from leading operators sharing their insights include:
- Daniel Braley, Technical Fellow, Boeing
- Crystal Taton, Technical Fellow and Smart Factory Architect, Raytheon
- Andrew Mears, Production Operations Sr. Manager – Digital Transformation and Intelligent Factory Integration, Lockheed Martin
- Laxmi Sivashankar, Director, Engineering Applications, Digital Technologies, Collins Aerospace
- Warren B. Smith, Sr Principal Systems Engineer and Digital Twin Principal Investigator, General Dynamics Mission Systems
- Kevin Maring, Fellow – Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Operations Transformation, Lockheed Martin
- Marvin Vincent, PLM Business Analyst, Moog
- Travis Prior, Senior Manager, Enterprise Ops Smart Factory, Collins Aerospace
- Ammar Abdilghanie, Principal Data Scientist and Director, Blue Origin
- Patrick Hovland, Sr Design Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace
- Dr Waruna Seneviratne, Director, Advanced Technologies Lab for Aerospace Systems (ATLAS), National Institute for Aviation Research
- John Wilczynski, Executive Director, America Makes
- Matthew Thornton, Co-Founder and CMO, Rapta AI
- Mark Burnham, Director of Policy, Additive Manufacturing Coalition
- Michal Bonacum, Senior Director, Government Relations, GE Aerospace
Ahead of the Smart Manufacturing for Aerospace & Defense Summit, the event has provided a complimentary panel discussion featuring Additive Manufacturing experts from GE Aerospace, the Additive Manufacturing Coalition, and America Makes titled ‘Accelerating Additive Manufacturing Adoption in Aerospace and Defense’. The panel will discuss how to accelerate Additive Manufacturing in aerospace and defence manufacturing. Access the panel discussion here.
Those who are interested in registering for the Smart Manufacturing for Aerospace & Defense Summit can do so here. Use the code SPONSOR15 for 15% off.
