CDFAM is Coming to Washington DC
CD/DC | July 15-16, 2026 | Station DC
CDFAM is bringing the Computational Design Symposium to Washington, DC on July 15-16, 2026.
The CD/DC program brings together engineering practitioners, software developers, and researchers to present current work in computational design, simulation-driven engineering, AI-assisted workflows, and data-centric approaches to engineering problems across aerospace, defense, infrastructure, manufacturing, and energy.
Confirmed speakers represent organizations including NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Boston Dynamics, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Atomic Machines, Neural Concept, Coreform, InfinitForm, Pasteur Labs, SimScale, Lexset, Virginia Tech, and Thornton Tomasetti, among others.
The format follows the established CDFAM structure: practitioners presenting real work to a technically qualified peer audience.
An evening session for government observers
On July 15, beginning at 5:00 PM, there is a dedicated evening session open to registered government observers at no cost.
The session is built around a live demonstration.
Six AI-native engineering tools: Istari Digital, Arena Physica, Luminary, nTop, C-Infinity, and SysGit will operate together as an interoperable stack.
The demonstration will show how these tools can integrate new sensor and compute data, update a complete UAS design, and re-certify it for manufacturability and safety in a single connected workflow, in real time.
Each participating organization addresses a different layer of the engineering stack: digital thread management, electromagnetic design, multi-domain physics optimization, implicit-function-based geometry, assembly configuration, and systems engineering integration.
The demonstration is not about any one tool. It is about what becomes possible when they work together.
The evening format includes networking and direct access to the engineers and developers running the demonstration.
The evening event complies with Widely Attended Gathering guidelines as specified by the legislative and executive branches of the United States Government.
Who should attend
The full two-day program is for engineers, researchers, and software developers working in or adjacent to the problem domains on the agenda.
Previous CDFAM attendees have come from organizations including Airbus, BMW, Sandia National Laboratories, Nike, NASA, New Balance, Samsung, BIG, HP, Apple, Lockheed Martin, GM, Princeton, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, NVIDIA, Siemens, GE, IDEO, Carbon, Foster + Partners, ARUP, Stryker, Tiffany, Relativity Space, Blue Origin, DARPA, INQTEL, USAF, US Navy, ORNL, and many more.
The evening session is specifically intended for government observers: program managers, contracting officers, policy staff, and technical advisors who need a firsthand look at where AI-native engineering workflows currently stand and what integration between tools looks like at program scale.
Registration for government observers is now open: https://cdfam.com/cd-dc-registration/
Details
Full program: July 15-16, 2026
Evening session (government observers, no cost): July 15, 5:00 PM
Location: Station DC, 1323 4th St NE, Washington, DC 20002
Registration and program details: cdfam.com/cd-dc-26
