Collaboration
& Interoperability
Congress - May 3-5, 2010

Managing for Success Through Challenging Times

Richard Riff

Technical Fellow

Ford Motor Company

Richard will describe how Ford has been able to leverage collaboration and PLM technology to help manage its way through the worst downturn in auto industry history. Ford continues to produce some of the most innovative new products in the industry, recently winning the most prestigious awards at the international auto show in Detroit.

Speaker bio:

2010 Sessions and Schedule

Agenda Topics (to date)

Keynote: A 21st Century Product Development Paradigm

Terry Wohlers, Principle Consultant & President Wohlers Associates, Inc.

Managing for Success Through Challenging Times

Richard Riff, Technical Fellow, Ford Motor Company

Implementing Interoperability Standards for Engineering Data

Cecil New, Principal Technologist, General Electric

Long-Term Data Archival Strategies & Solutions

Rick Zuray, Technical Principal, The Boeing Company

CAD Data Reuse in the Model Based Enterprise

Paul Huang, Materials Engineer, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Strategy, Standards & Tools for Successful Certification

James Delaporte, PLM Project Manager, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

MODEL BASED DESIGN: Why you want it. Why you hate it.

Jennifer Herron, Founder, Action Engineering

Leveraging Mobile 3D Web Applications for Design Collaboration

James Rodden, Sr. Software Engineer, Ubermind, Inc.