CDFAM Computational Design Symposium

This presentation delves into our collaboration with Coperni to develop and release the Ariel Swipe Bag for Paris Fashion Week 2024, a project exemplifying the principles of Design for Advanced Manufacturing. By leveraging our novel production methods, we navigated design creativity and manufacturing constraints to realize an innovative outcome. Key topics include the design development process, t...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Amsterdam , 2025 https://cdfam.com/amsterdam-2025/ Open Source, Parametrics, and Lattice Obsession https://fequalsf.blogspot.com/p/about.html https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/crystallon In this deeply personal and wide-ranging talk, industrial designer Aaron Porterfield reflects on his path from early explorations with BASIC and Blender to foundin...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Amsterdam , 2025 https://cdfam.com/amsterdam-2025/ Organization: Politecnico di Torino Presenter: Dario Carbonaro Presentation Abstract Self-expandable cardiovascular devices, such as vascular stents, stent-grafts, and transcatheter aortic valves (TAVs), are medical devices implanted into diseased anatomies through minimally invasive procedures. Sp...

Recorded at CDFAM Amsterdam, 2025 While computational tools have revolutionized design, many approaches focus on explicit modeling of form. This presentation delves deeper, exploring the creative application of intrinsic geometry processing properties – characteristics inherent to a surface regardless of its embedding in space. These techniques are typically confined to mathematics or specialized...

Blending generations of tradition with technology innovation. Exploring how computational tools and additive manufacturing transforms the footwear industry empowering design and production. From the acceleration of ideation with AI, design through to the optimization of production tooling and mold making with generative design and additive manufacturing. Recorded CDFAM Amsterdam 2025 René Medel -...

Recorded at CDFAM Amsterdam, 2025 Alessandro Zomparelli - AiBuild Multi-axis 3D printing has become a widely adopted technology across a range of industries. In recent years, computational designers and engineers have increasingly explored non-planar slicing strategies for large-format and robotic 3D printing in order to produce support-free parts with better strength and surface quality. While ma...

In this episode, Maia Zheliazkova of ON explores LightSpray , a radical new approach to performance footwear manufacturing from her presentation at CDFAM Amsterdam . Developed by ON’s Innovation Team, LightSpray fuses computational design, robotics, and thermoplastic materials to create ultra-light, seamless uppers in a single automated step—directly onto the shoe’s midsole. Zheliazkova explains h...

In this first episode of Season 4 of the CDFAM Podcast, we kick off a new series of talks recorded live at CDFAM Amsterdam 2025 . This season will feature presentations from across the event, with new episodes released weekly. We begin with the closing keynote by Mathew Vola , Director and Computational Design Fellow at Arup . Mathew shares his perspective on the evolving role of computational des...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Onur Yüce Gün Organization: New Balance This presentation speaks of computation and design, exploring the depths of machine intelligence and the philosophy of being. The aim is to empower the audience with tools so they can navigate the effects of computational design thinking across the disciplines of Architecture Engineer...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Kristen M. Edwards Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s DeCoDE Lab Engineering Design is undergoing a transformative shift with the advent of AI, marking a new era in how we approach product, system, and service planning. Large language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in enabling this shift...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Prof. Ole Sigmund Organization: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK Ole Sigmund is a Danish Professor in Mechanical Engineering who has made fundamental contributions to the field of topology optimization, including microstructure design, nano optics, photonic crystals, Matlab code, acoustics, and fluids. Read an Interview with...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: André Wilmes Organization: Rafinex André Wilmes has co-founded Rafinex to solve customers’ most challenging engineering design and optimization challenges with the most advanced mathematics. Rafinex creates novel algorithms which go beyond current market CAE tools by accounting for real-life variability using uncertainty qu...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Peter Clausen & Pascal Hebrard Organization: Dassault Systemes Dassault Systèmes (3DS) and the 3D EXPERIENCE® Platform provides the principal platform for MODSIM integrating modeling, simulation and optimization. In 2016, 3DS uniquely released CATIA Function Driven Generative Design application, which integrates topology op...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenters: Bradley Rothenberg and Markus Lempke Organizations: nTop + Siemens Energy The demand for energy worldwide is ever growing. At the same time the need to reach Carbon Net Zero requires technology shifts as well as drastic efficiency increases in existing infrastructure. In this talk we want to show some examples how Siemens...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Thomas Rees Organization: ToffeeX Physics-driven design tools such as topology optimization, while transformative at the conceptual level in engineering, have yet to significantly impact production components due to limited adoption in industry workflows. Through a series of case studies and technical analyses, this present...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Moritz Valentino Huber Organization: Hyperganic Moritz Valentino Huber is the Director of Engineering at Hyperganic, a company at the vanguard of the advanced manufacturing sector, especially in 3D printing, with operations in Munich and Singapore. With an extensive professional background spanning over eight years in addit...

Recorded at CDFAM Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Joseph Flynn Organization: Altair Joseph Flynn is a Software Development Architect at Altair, working on the algorithmic design and user experiences for Implicit Modeling within Altair Inspire. Prior to working at Altair, Joseph was an Associate Professor at the University of Bath, and one of the Co-Founders of Gen3D Ltd., which was acquired by Altair in...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Ruiqi Chen, Software Engineer, & Andrew Sink, Senior Application Engineer Organization: Carbon This presentation delves into the use of computational design and additive manufacturing in producing customized, high-performance applications at scale. We’re not talking hundreds or even thousands–Carbon is on a mission to produ...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Dr. Nick Simpson Organization: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL The electrification of transport, in pursuit of Carbon Net Zero, is driving demand for a step change in the power-density of electrical machines. A viable route is to exploit the geometric freedom of metal additive manufacturing to realise next-generation electrical windi...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: David Heiny CEO & Co-Founder Organization: SimScale The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in engineering simulation begins a transformative era in product development processes. This presentation outlines the substantial impact of AI adoption in engineering simulation, focusing on how AI models, trained using real and...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Alexander Pluke Organization: Additive Flow Alexander Pluke is CEO and founder of Additive Flow, a Nano Dimension Division. The company builds software for the simultaneous optimisation of the entire AM workflow, which has worked with companies including Saint-Gobain, Royal Haskoning, Tata Steel and Zeiss to maximise their...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Presenter: Rick Titulaer Organization: ARUP The renovation of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid has recently been completed. The stadium’s extensive history and renovation posed unique design challenges, particularly in addressing and analysing reflections caused by the new metallic façade. In response to this challenge, a compu...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 The traditional way of making shoes is evolving together with technology. The fabrication is turning more into digital processes like Additive Manufacturing and Automation. However, the ideation and design stages are also powered by Extended Reality (XR) and the adoption of Artificial Intelligence. In this presentation will be covered...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Omar Fergani is CEO and co founder of 1000 Kelvin , he is a holder of Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering and an expert in digital manufacturing. Omar held various executive positions at Siemens and MKS Instruments including director of strategic business, Senior Director of Digital platforms and product management lead. His expertise an...

Recorded at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Berlin , 2024 Elissa Ross, CEO of Metafold Infrastructure consists of the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a system. 3D printing has highlighted cracks in the foundations of the geometric infrastructure for digital manufacturing, illustrated by time-consuming workflows, bloated file sizes, and projects that c...