Altair Unveils Future.Industry 2025 Global Event

13 Feb 2025 CW Team

“The pace of innovation in computational intelligence has never been faster. Future.Industry is where leaders of all specialties and industries can explore, discuss, and make sense of the changes and technologies shaping our world,” said James R. Scapa, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. “No matter what you specialize in or what your skill set is, Future.Industry has presentations and demonstrations that will give you the insight you need to drive innovation.”

Featured speakers at this year’s event include:

• Samantha Simmonds, journalist and broadcaster, On Air With BBC News • Bill Magro, director and chief technologist, high-performance computing, Google • Sandy Carter, senior vice president and channel chief, Unstoppable Domains • Rowan Curran, senior analyst, Forrester • Monica Schnitger, industry analyst and principal, Schnitger Corp. • Cyril Francois, executive vice president global sales officer, financial services, Capgemini • Douglas Eadline, managing editor, HPCWire • Matt Jones, founder and chief executive officer, Veramed

The event is geared toward audiences of all levels and disciplines and will offer high-level content as well as specialised industry- and topic-specific presentations and panels. Day 1 and the first portion of Day 2 will feature a unified main session, while the latter portion of Day 2 will feature four parallel tracks:

• Track 1: Design and Simulate Without Boundaries – Engineering Meets AI • Track 2: Accelerating AI Adoption for the Enterprise • Track 3: HPC for Every Challenge – Any Workload, Any Scale, Anywhere • Track 4: Shaping Tomorrow’s Innovators – Real-World Readiness for Engineering and Data Science Students

Future.Industry 2025 will take place in three time zones covering the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions, and will feature live audio translations into eight languages.

Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, is pleased to announce Future.Industry 2025, the company’s flagship annual event, which will take place virtually on March 5-6. Attendees will hear from premier organisations such as NVIDIA, Microsoft, AMD, the University of Nottingham, Accenture, and more, along with Altair experts and executives as they discuss today’s biggest trends in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and academia. “The pace of innovation in computational intelligence has never been faster. Future.Industry is where leaders of all specialties and industries can explore, discuss, and make sense of the changes and technologies shaping our world,” said James R. Scapa, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. “No matter what you specialize in or what your skill set is, Future.Industry has presentations and demonstrations that will give you the insight you need to drive innovation.” Featured speakers at this year’s event include: • Samantha Simmonds, journalist and broadcaster, On Air With BBC News • Bill Magro, director and chief technologist, high-performance computing, Google • Sandy Carter, senior vice president and channel chief, Unstoppable Domains • Rowan Curran, senior analyst, Forrester • Monica Schnitger, industry analyst and principal, Schnitger Corp. • Cyril Francois, executive vice president global sales officer, financial services, Capgemini • Douglas Eadline, managing editor, HPCWire • Matt Jones, founder and chief executive officer, Veramed The event is geared toward audiences of all levels and disciplines and will offer high-level content as well as specialised industry- and topic-specific presentations and panels. Day 1 and the first portion of Day 2 will feature a unified main session, while the latter portion of Day 2 will feature four parallel tracks: • Track 1: Design and Simulate Without Boundaries – Engineering Meets AI • Track 2: Accelerating AI Adoption for the Enterprise • Track 3: HPC for Every Challenge – Any Workload, Any Scale, Anywhere • Track 4: Shaping Tomorrow’s Innovators – Real-World Readiness for Engineering and Data Science Students Future.Industry 2025 will take place in three time zones covering the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions, and will feature live audio translations into eight languages.

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