Digitization of engineering is transforming complex systems and software development. New technologies like AI, shorter development/product lifecycles, emergence of electrification, drone and autonomous vehicles, and the aging workforce is forcing a strategic response from A&D companies. Share your digital engineering challenges, initiatives and insights with peers and Industry leaders. Learn how IBM’s engineering lifecycle management platform is helping leading organizations accelerate key engineering initiatives as they shape the foundation for successful digital transformation.

Discussion Topics:

• Share challenges your company / development team is facing in managing the increasingly complex development process for combined systems and software products and emerging cyber-physical products.
• Discuss ideas and areas of interest on how to best tame complexity and improve your engineering processes.
• Discuss engineering collaboration challenges, leveraging product configurations/variants and how to leverage the digital thread of engineering data across disciplines.

Speaker:

Kim Cobb, Global A&D Industry Executive, IBM Kim Cobb is an experienced Industry Sector Leader for IBM’s AI Applications business unit with extensive global markets and industry domain knowledge in Engineering, AI, IoT, Cloud, SW and Systems Development, Product Lifecycle Management, EAM, Blockchain, Supply Chain and HSE/Compliance/Regulatory. Kim focuses on the unique challenges of developing safety critical and mission critical products and systems in the A&D and Medical Device industries. She helps companies improve their product and systems engineering design, development and operational practices by performing business and process value assessments and helping customers in selecting and tailoring platform solutions to accelerate digital transformation.