CONFERENCE AGENDA

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Agenda

Agenda

Key Events:

  • Day 1, August 5: ​​​​
    • Conference hours: 8:00 to 17:30
    • Welcome Reception: 18:30
  • Day 2, August 6: ​​​​
    • Conference hours: 8:00am to 18:00
    • Gala Dinner: 19:00
  • Day 3, August 7: ​​​​
    • Conference hours: 8:00am to 13:00
    • Closing Ceremony: 13:00

* Program might be subject to minor changes

AICOMP26 - Day 1 Schedule
AICOMP 2026: Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Day 1 - August 5
Time Event
08:00 Registration and breakfast
08:45 Opening Ceremony
09:00 Plenary Lecture: Dr. Carla Reynolds
Senior Technical Fellow, Digital Materials, Manufacturing Systems and Simulation, The Boeing Company

"The Abstraction Layer: Industrial Scale for AI/ML Starts with How We Encode Knowledge"
09:50 Coffee Break
Session Talks: Track 1 Session Talks: Track 2
10:10 Track Topic: AI for non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring Track Topic: AI-driven design and industrial applications in composites
11:50 Lunch
13:00 Plenary Lecture: Dr. Anoush Poursartip
Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of British Columbia

"From Process Simulation to Quality-Aware Digital Twins in the Age of AI"
Session Talks: Track 1
14:00 Track Topic: AI for non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring
Session Talks: Track 2
15:00 Track Topic: AI-driven design and industrial applications in composites
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 Industry Keynote: Dr. Sunil Acharya
Energy Lead, Ansys

"Credibility Over Accuracy: AI; Physical Fidelity; and the Future of Composites Simulation"
16:30 Industry Keynote: Mr. Etienne Ardouin
Industry Process Consultant, Dassault Systemes Americas

"Artificial Intelligence-Driven Composites Virtual Twins in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform– Industry World Models"
17:00 Industry Keynote: Dr. Sanjay Sharma
Technical Fellow at Hexcel R&D

"A digital characterization of CFRP composite material for multi-scale foundation modeling"
17:30 End of Program - Day 1
18:30 Welcome Reception: UBC Museum of Anthropology
AICOMP26 - Day 2 Schedule
AICOMP 2026: Thursday, August 6, 2026
Day 2 - August 6
Time Event
08:00 Registration and breakfast
08:30 Plenary Lecture: Dr. Pavana Prabhakar
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

"AI-Enabled Forward Prediction and Inverse Design of Composite Materials"
09:20 Academic Keynote: Dr. Frédérick Gosselin
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal

"FENNM: A Hybrid Variational Framework for Robust Structural Modelling and Inverse Problem Solving"

 Academic Keynote: Dr. Mahoor Mehdikhani
FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium

"Learning Composites Microstructure Evolution from XCT Time-Series Using 3D Conditional Generative Models"-

09:50 Coffee Break
Session Talks: Track 3 Session Talks: Track 4
10:10 Track Topic: Mechanical behaviour and failure prediction with AI Track Topic: Data-driven surrogate models and accelerated simulations
11:50 Lunch
Session Talks: Track 3 Session Talks: Track 4
13:00 Track Topic: Mechanical behaviour and failure prediction with AI Track Topic: Data-driven surrogate models and accelerated simulations
13:40 Academic Keynote: Dr. Julia Rubin
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia

"Using AI in Engineering, Research, and Education"
14:10 Panel Discussion: Beyond Plausible: AI Trustworthiness in Composites Engineering
15:40 Coffee Break
Workshop 1 Workshop 2
16:00 Dr. Goran Fernlund & Mr. Alberto Mussali
President, Convergent Manufacturing Tech & Applications Engineer, Convergent Manufacturing Tech
"Uncertainty Aware Process Simulation"

Dr. Navid Zobeiry
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington
"Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Composites: From Processing Physics to Qualification and Certification"

 Dr. Trevor Campbell
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, The University of British Columbia
"Bayesian Inverse Problems via Parallel Tempering"
18:00 End of Program - Day 2
19:00 Gala Dinner: UBC Sage
AICOMP26 - Day 3 Schedule
AICOMP 2026: Friday, August 7, 2026
Day 3 - August 7
Time Event
08:00 Registration and breakfast
08:30 Plenary Lecture: Dr. Steven L. Brunton
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington

"AI for Scientific Discovery and Engineering Design"
Session Talks: Track 4 Session Talks: Track 5
09:20 Track Topic: Data-driven surrogate models and accelerated simulations Track Topic: AI for intelligent composites manufacturing and control
10:40 Coffee Break
Session Talks: Track 3 Session Talks: Track 6
11:00 Track Topic: Mechanical behaviour and failure prediction with AI
Track Topic: Data-driven process modelling of composites
13:00 Closing Ceremony
13:15 Lunch