From 12:30 to 13:00, guests are welcome to arrive at their own pace and enjoy warm-up conversations in the Atrium Hall over tea and coffee. Don’t forget to check in at the welcome desk to collect your name tag, and a small surprise from the organizers.

Bastiaan Modderman, Femto's Commercial Director, and Sander Quirijns, Sales Operations Manager, will officially open the event with a warm welcome, introduce FEMTO, walk you through the agenda, and reveal a fun surprise activity planned for the day.

Speakers:

Bastiaan Modderman, Commercial Director at Femto Engineering

Sander Quirijns, Sales Operations Manager at Femto Engineering

Our special guest, Tom Delfos, will deliver a keynote on "The human factor in simulation". Will AI replace humans in our field? What is the role of human in simulation: the opportunities and the challenges should we prepare for. Join this thought-provoking session to explore the future of our industry.

Speaker:

Tom Delfos, Founder of Four Seasons Business Performance

Hans van den Wijngaert - Portfolio Development Executive at Siemens Digital Industries Software, will share the latest updates on Siemens Simcenter, including the future vision of the platform and developments around Simcenter X.

Speaker

Hans Van den Wijngaert brings nearly 30 years of experience in the engineering software industry.

He holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from KU Leuven (1996) and began his career at LMS International, a provider of physical testing and computer-aided engineering solutions for discrete manufacturing industries. There, he held roles as Application Engineer and Product Manager.

From 2006 to 2012, Hans served as Sales Director at VRcontext, a virtual reality startup based in Brussels, Belgium. In 2012, both VRcontext and LMS International were acquired by Siemens.

Since then, Hans has held several roles within Siemens. Today, he is part of the EMEA Simulation Go-to-Market team, where he supports colleagues, partners, and customers in discovering the value of the Siemens Simulation & Test portfolio across key industries.

Hans is married, has three children, and enjoys mountain biking, sailing, hiking, and cultivating grapes.

Presentation key take-aways:

• Unlock performance engineering: faster, better decisions
• AI + Cloud convergence (Simcenter X): scalable, intelligent simulation
• Platform approach (SaaS): flexible, on-demand access

Take a 15-minute break to relax, enjoy coffee, tea, and sweets, and connect with fellow attendees. After the break, participants will split into two separate rooms for the Femap and STAR-CCM+ breakout tracks.

Robin Boeykens - Global Product Management head from Siemens, will present the latest updates in Femap and share the product vision for the future.

Bas Aberkrom - Senior FEM Engineer from Femto, will showcase how API tools for Femap can help optimize engineering workflows and improve efficiency.

Speaker

Bas Aberkrom, FEM Engineer from Femto Engineering

This presentation will introduce the latest standard-based verification capabilities added to SDC Verifier for Femap and Simcenter 3D over the past year, with a focus on new standards, supported element types, and practical engineering use cases. The session will cover new verification options for offshore, marine, wind energy, fatigue, weld, buckling, tubular connection, and airframe-type structures, including standards such as DNV RP-C201, DNV RP-C202, ISO 19902, API RP 2A-LRFD, NORSOK N-004, AS 4100 Fatigue, Eurocode 9 Welds, and NACA-based plate buckling calculations. Attendees will learn which structural elements and checks are covered by these additions, including plates, stiffeners, girders, curved plates, tubular joints, welds, and fatigue details, and how these standards can be applied efficiently in SDC Verifier directly on FEA results, making the verification process clearer and easier to document than manual or spreadsheet-based workflows.

Key takeaway points
- Overview of the new standards added to SDC for Femap and Simcenter 3D over the past year.
- Explanation of the structural elements and verification cases covered by these standards.
- Practical guidance on how to work with these standards inside the SDC Verifier workflow.
- Why standard-based verification directly on FEA results provides a clearer and more reliable alternative to manual or script-based post-processing.

Speaker:

Wouter van den Bos, Founder and CEO from SDC Verifier - an engineering SaaS and consultancy provider. Since creating a game-changing program for verification according to standards in 1998, Wouter has started and developed an international company with a purpose to empower engineers with a time-saving automatized workflow for getting the most accurate calculation and code-checking results.
Wouter is also a Researcher at Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands, specializing in Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Transport Engineering and Logistics. He has grown many young specialists encouraging them to look for innovative and most advanced solutions by own example.

Have direct conversations with Siemens experts and share your feedback, ideas, and product questions. Please submit your questions before June 4th.

Emile Arens - Principal Solution Consultant at Siemens, will discuss the latest updates in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ and explore how Physics AI is being applied within the platform.

Speaker

Emile Arens is a Principal PreSales Solutions Consultant specializing in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), design space exploration, and advanced engineering simulation. Based in London, he works closely with customers across EMEA to translate complex engineering challenges into scalable, value-driven solutions using tools such as Simcenter STAR-CCM+, HEEDS, and AI-enabled workflows.

Discover how high-fidelity validated CFD simulations were used to support the safe installation of a new bridge near the Netherlands. During this complex infrastructure project, two large pontoons were used to install a new highway bridge across the river, raising concerns about flow blockage, increased water levels, and potential flooding risks.

In this session, we’ll explore how FEMTO used Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to build and validate a large-scale CFD model of the river, covering nearly 1 square kilometer, to accurately predict flow behavior, barge loads, and water level changes during installation. Learn how advanced simulation helped reduce project risks, validate engineering assumptions, and provide critical insights that traditional analytical methods could not deliver.

Speaker

Martijn van Dijk, CFD Engineer at Femto Engineering.

Martijn studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Twente. His master track was in Engineering Fluid Dynamics. He started at Femto as a Project Engineer in 2015 and have been working on fluid mechanics for almost as long. In his free time, he likes to sail.

Speaker

Tommaso Boschetti works in the Hydraulics for Infrastructure and Industry department of Deltares since 2015. His expertise lies in the numerical modelling of complex flows near hydraulic structures, such as locks, dams, storm surge barriers and spillways.

He uses this specific knowledge on the hydraulic behaviour of engineering structures in the improvement of the schematisations applied to coarser modelling modes, for example at the network level. His work contributes to Deltares' mission (Enabling Delta Life) by ensuring that hydraulic infrastructure functions reliably within complex systems such as deltas.

The Siemens R&D team and product representatives will answer your questions directly and discuss future developments of the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ product. Please submit your questions before June 4th.

Join Project March for an inspiring closing presentation on how digital twins are helping shape the future of mobility. The team will share their vision, the real-life challenges people with spinal cord injuries face, and how exoskeleton technology can create greater independence. Discover their ultimate goal of achieving self-balanced walking, the engineering challenges behind it, and how simulation tools such asSimcenter Amesim are used to optimize control systems and improve the latest generation of their exoskeleton: March XI.

Elke Crooijmans, Student at TU Delft University, Project March

Dariya Chobanova, Student at TU Delft University, Project March

We’ll close the day with a gezellig Dutch borrel: enjoy free drinks, bites, and relaxed networking with fellow attendees, speakers, and the Femto's team.