September 20-23, 2021 | Long Beach Convention Center, CA

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Satellite Sessions

For the past decade, the SME Technical Community provided support and expertise to the AeroDef Manufacturing event. AeroDef has been your trusted source for the most comprehensive aerospace manufacturing content and collaboration available. We are here to help you stay connected to the best and brightest in the aerospace manufacturing community. Toward that end, we are introducing AeroDef Manufacturing: The Satellite Sessions.

A series of monthly online webinars, the SME Technical Community and AeroDef Manufacturing will keep you linked up to the aerospace community. Covering a variety of topics ranging from “Next-Generation Automation” to “Industry 4.0 for Aerospace Manufacturing” to “Cybersecurity” and more, these monthly sessions will lead the way to AeroDef Manufacturing 2021 in Long Beach.

Stay connected. Register today for our monthly satellite sessions.

The Satellite Sessions will take a holiday break in December and be back with more Satellite Sessions in the new year!

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July 16, 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Industry 4.0 for Aerospace Manufacturing in 2020: Impact, Challenges and Best Practices

The application of Industry 4.0 technologies and concepts in Aerospace manufacturing has taken off in numerous directions, as the industry’s leading OEMs and suppliers seek to leverage the massive r …

Satellite Sessions

Avner Ben-Bassat
President & CEO
Plataine Inc.

Don Kinard, PhD
Senior Fellow
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Shachar Fine
EVP
Kanfit Ltd.

Robert Yancey, PhD
Business Development Director
Hexcel

Curtis A. Richardson
Technical Fellow
Spirit AeroSystems

August 20, 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Pushing the Envelope on Large Bonded Structures – with the Composites Awards Special Presentation

Industry experts from the major defense OEMs, and critical suppliers will be discussing the challenges and opportunities associated large, integrated, bonded, composite structures into a full-rate, pr …

Satellite Sessions

Doug Decker, FSME
President
The Composites Consultants, 2019 Jud Hall Winner

Mikhail Grigoriev
Manufacturing Engineer
Northrop Grumman

Giles Dillingham, PhD
CEO
Brighton Technologies Group, Inc.

Brietta Oakley
Material and Process Engineer
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

Kay Youngdahl Blohowiak, PhD
Senior Technical Fellow
Boeing Research & Technology

September 17, 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Next Wave in Aerospace Manufacturing

Hear from the Next Wave of Leaders in Aerospace ManufacturingThe AeroDef Virtual Career Development Forum is being held for college and university students, faculty members and early careerists (e …

Satellite Sessions

Dan Braley, CAM-T
Associate Technical Fellow – Additive Manufacturing Technical Focal & Initiatives Lead
Boeing Global Services

Curtis Lemieux
Sr. Applications Engineer
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Rick Oppedisano
CEO
Delta Bravo Artificial Intelligence

Michael Ripperger
Research Engineer
Southwest Research Institute

Tara Thomasson
Lockheed Martin Fellow
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

October 22, 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Next Generation Automation for Aerospace Composites

It is estimated by both Boeing and Airbus that around 40,000 commercial aircraft will be required over the next twenty years. In addition, the US military researching concepts of swarms of unmanned sy …

Satellite Sessions

John D. Russell, D.Sc., FSME
Chief, Structures Technology Branch
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/RQVS)

Anoush Poursartip, PhD, P.Eng.
FCAE Director, Composites Research Network Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, The University of British Columbia and Director of Research
Convergent Manufacturing Technologies

Robert Harper
Director of Technical Sales & Market Development
Fives Machining Systems Inc.

Bob Koon
LM Fellow – Materials and Processes
Lockheed Martin

Waruna Seneviratne, PhD
Director – ATLAS, Sr. Research Scientist – Composites & Structures
National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR)

November 12, 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

SME Speed Presentation Challenge

The SME Speed Presentation Challenge provides a forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present 5-minute pitches on their innovative research, case studies, and/or applications in Advanced Ma …

November 19, 2020
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Continuous Innovation & Development of the F-35 Program

Hear Dr. Don Kinard, Senior Fellow in Production Operations at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics discuss the progress of the ongoing ramp-up to the rate production, the continuous improvements in affordabil …

Satellite Sessions

Don Kinard, PhD
Senior Fellow
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics