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Ford, Airbus and Ricardo keynote speakers and industry thought-leaders address the UK engineering design community Altair Engineering, Inc., an enterprise solution provider for product innovation, today announced that it will hold its Fifth CAE Technology Conference on the 17th April at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire. This complimentary event is renowned as the 'must attend' conference for the UK engineering community. Online registration and a complete seminar schedule are available at its web site. The biennial conference will showcase companies that have accelerated their product development processes through virtual design software. The event has again attracted an industry A-list of keynote speakers and technical presentations. Conference keynote addresses will discuss current business challenges and the vision of the future by prominent industry leaders: -- John Sullivan, Director of Process, Methods, Tools and Information, International Operations at Ford Motor Company -- Alan Humble, Head of Stress Function ESAW, Site Coordinator ESA at Airbus UK -- Mark Garrett, Group Director Engineering and Products at Ricardo PLC. Technical presentations chosen for the conference reflect the diverse industry sectors that are currently benefiting from advances in CAE and virtual design technology. The conference line-up includes presentations by Ford Motor Company, Jaguar & Land Rover, Airbus UK, McLaren Cars, Bombardier Aerospace and Unilever. These presentations will showcase innovative computer-aided-engineering (CAE) technologies and identify current trends and future directions in virtual product design and development. "I am pleased to say that our conference agenda has gone from strength to strength. Our first Technology Conference was held in 1999 and has earned a reputation for presenting innovative and successful CAE applications that demonstrate real business benefits," explains Dr Royston Jones, Managing Director of Altair Engineering Ltd. "That is why it attracts such high calibre speakers and delegates, ensuring we create a forum for debate and discussion among the leading thinkers and practitioners involved in engineering design today. As always, we welcome familiar and new faces to this year's event and look forward to another exciting day of learning and networking." In addition to the conference programme, visitors can experience the Exhibition Zone which will include physical examples of products which have benefited from Altair's virtual design process. This will include components from the automotive, aerospace, offshore, packaging and medical industries (e.g. Airbus A380 Drop Nose Ribs, Jaguar Cars knee bolster system etc). This provides a historical perspective of how the technology increasingly delivers world class products. Further information and free registration is available at its web site, tel +44-01926-468-600 or email events@uk.altair.com.