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CDFAM Computational Design Symposium Asia

Computational design, simulation, and generative design symposium

About this event

The CDFAM Computational Design Symposium Asia brings computational and generative design practitioners to Tokyo for two days. Organised by Bits to Atoms, the 2026 programme covers algorithmic design, simulation-driven engineering and generative workflows, aimed at engineers and designers applying computational methods to product and structural design.

Who it's for

Computational DesignersDfAM/Additive-Manufacturing EngineersArchitects (Parametric/Generative)AI-in-Engineering Researchers

Genuinely useful for practitioners building generative and AI-driven design pipelines across mechanical, architectural, footwear, aerospace, and automotive domains, strong overlap with nTop, Grasshopper-style parametric tools, topology optimisation, and AI-CAD tooling. Not useful for people needing IT-asset-management or general enterprise IT content, or for those wanting a broad "digital engineering" business/strategy conference rather than hands-on technical practitioner talks.

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The attendee notes that most talks highlighted useful AI tools and workflows, combining LLM, LEM, and VLM models with agentic AI.

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Speakers

RM
Rhushik Matroja
Cognitive Design Systems
RB
Rik Baruah
Intact Solutions
DM
Damola Michael
Associate Computational Design Specialist
CannonDesign
MS
Matthew Sederberg
CEO
Coreform
GC
Giorgia Cannici
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech School of Architecture
DB
David Burpee
Sequence
GC
Guido Cossu
Founder
Braid Technologies
The Best Design Is the Design You Can Make
IT
Ivo Timóteo
Founder/CEO
Braid Technologies
The Best Design Is the Design You Can Make
FC
Federico Casalegno
Samsung Research
OY
Onur Yüce Gün
New Balance
From Prototype to Enterprise: 8,430 Days of Computational Design
KT
Kotaro Tanimichi
Director/CTO
Nature Architects
Toward Generative Engineering: Case Studies in Computationally Enhanced Creation of New Design Concepts
JM
João Moura
Lead Solutions Engineer APAC
Neural Concept
Engineering Intelligence: Pushing the Edge of the Known
AK
Anna Kiener
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer APAC
Neural Concept
Engineering Intelligence: Pushing the Edge of the Known
DH
Darren Henry
SVP General Operations
PTC
Teaching AI Engineering Instead of Geometry: Why Text-to-Code-to-CAD Is the Next Step
NK
Namwoo Kang
CEO / Associate Professor
Narnia Labs / KAIST
The Future of Autonomous Design: From Generative AI to Agentic AI
KY
Kentaro Yaji
Associate Professor
University of Osaka
Ultimate Cooling Design: CAD-Ready Topology Optimization for Thermal Management
RO
Ryoma Okamoto
Senior Staff Applications Engineer
Ansys Japan K.K.
Self-Improving Optimization via AI-Driven Data Augmentation
ZE
Zinab Eisa
Master's Student
Harvard GSD/SEAS
Aeroforms: Modeling Olfactory Cartographies of Japan
EM
Esha Morakhiya
Master's Student
Harvard GSD/SEAS
Aeroforms: Modeling Olfactory Cartographies of Japan
KU
Kuniharu Ushijima
Professor
Tokyo University of Science
From As-Designed to As-Built: Integrated Engineering Framework for AM Lattice Structures
JT
Jordan Taylor
Co-Founder/CEO
Vizcom
Pencil to Product: Vizcom's Role in the New Design-to-Manufacturing Pipeline
MH
Martin Hofstetter
Head of E-Mobility Research Group
TU Graz
AI-Powered Design of EV Powertrains
EC
Eamon Carrig
Emergent Matter
Software Defined Matter: An Open Substrate for Design and Optimization
SB
Sarat Babu
SARAT
SUB OPTIMAL
GA
George Allen
Technical Fellow
nTop
Engineering/Manufacturing Processes with Implicit Modeling
TY
Tomoo Yamaji
Founder
Yamaji Design
Case Study: Development of Auto-design Workflow for Heat Exchanger
CG
Chaz Guerrero
Director of Software Engineering
CannonDesign
The Missing Plugin
JK
Jungho Kim
Founder/CEO
IDeA Ocean
METHEUS: A CAD Agent Driving the AI Transformation of Linkage Mechanism Design
DG
Danilo Gigantelli
Alloyed
Reinventing Vapour Chambers with Additive Manufacturing
UH
Umar Hossain
Alloyed
Reinventing Vapour Chambers with Additive Manufacturing
JW
Jimmy Wei-Chun Cheng
Special Faculty
Carnegie Mellon University
AI Repertoires: Recursive Design Spaces for Architectural Ideation
LY
Liang Yang
CEO/Founder
Voxshell
From Implicit to Insight: Native Meshing and AI Agents
SH
Sam Hughes
Postgraduate Researcher
University of Edinburgh
Reduced-Order Modelling of Tidal-Turbine Blade Structures
MN
Masatatsu Nakamura
Founder
Nodi
Nodi: A Unified Computational Design Platform for AM Workflows
YS
Yuta Shimoda
HYBEX
Developing Rotationally Compressible Running Footwear

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