CDFAM NYC 2025 Was Sold Out. Here's What You Missed.
And why you may want to attend next year!
Last week, we wrapped CDFAM NYC 2025, our biggest and strongest event yet with a fully packed program, and for the first time ever, we sold out completely.
Across two days, the stage lit up with a sweeping range of computational design innovations from the AI augmented design and discovery of materials to the mega-scale systems reshaping cities and infrastructure.
🎥Now Streaming: CDFAM 2025 Recordings Begin
We’re rolling out the full CDFAM NYC 2025 archive—two presentations per week—on:
All major podcast platforms
Subscribe now to stay updated as the full event drops piece by piece.
First Two Talks Now Live
1. Keynote – Superintelligence for Scientific Discovery in the Material World
Markus J. Buehler – MIT
AI is no longer just analyzing data, it’s designing the world itself. In this keynote, Buehler explores the rise of superintelligent discovery engines combining reinforcement learning, graph reasoning, and physics-informed neural networks. From synthetic proteins to engineered materials and agriculture, this is AI as autonomous scientific collaborator.
→ Watch now
2. AI and the Battle for the Soul of Design
Chris McComb – Carnegie Mellon University
As AI pushes deeper into design workflows, what happens to creativity, authorship, and intuition? McComb unpacks the promise and tension of algorithmic co-creation and asks what it really means to “design” in the age of generative models.
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From Atoms to Architecture: What Made This CDFAM Different
CDFAM NYC 2025 covered more subjects and scale than ever before.
This wasn’t just about academic theory. This was real-world, production-level work at the bleeding edge of design, simulation, and manufacturing.
Highlights included:
AI-driven material discovery revealing hidden structure-property relationships
Origami-based mechanisms with non-intuitive polarity behaviors for deployable structures
Kirigami geometries in stainless steel, converting rigid sheets into adaptive systems
Autonomous design pipelines for large-scale architecture, tuned with real-world feedback loops
Simulation-optimized spinal implants and patient-specific biomedical devices
3D-printed custom saddles, built with lattice optimization and ridden to Tour de France victory
Computationally engineered running shoes, built for performance and worn in marathon wins
This is where computational design stops being speculative and becomes the backbone of actual innovation.
Want In? Submissions Are Open for CDFAM 2026
If you’re working at the edge of design, simulation, software, or manufacturing—at any scale—we want to hear from you.
Now accepting proposals for:
CDFAM Barcelona 2026
CDFAM NYC 2026
CDFAM Tokyo 2026
Apply to speak at: cdfam.com/submit-to-participate
This community is growing fast, and the work being shared is raising the bar across every industry it touches. Whether you’re building with code, materials, machines, or all of the above, CDFAM is the place to share, connect and learn with the leading experts in computational design at all scales.
Thanks to everyone who made NYC unforgettable. We’re just getting started.
See you at the next one,
The CDFAM Team
info@cdfam.com
cdfam.com
Massive thanks to our supporting sponsors who help keep this platform financially sustainable, the volunteers who made it possible to spend less of the sponsors money, along with everyone who presented and attended who made the event such a great success!
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