Webinar – The Renaissance of CAD: What’s New, What’s Now & What You Can Do With It

Are you keeping up with the latest in product design technologies? Now you can. Let our team give you the inside track so you stay ahead of the latest advances in product design and manufacturing. Put on your headset, relax, and learn from those on the front lines.


Are you keeping up with the latest in product design technologies? Now you can.

You’ll hear PTC’s industry experts tell you about these new technologies, and how they are being used now. And what to expect in the future.

Let our team give you the inside track so you stay ahead of the latest advances in product design and manufacturing. Put on your headset, relax, and learn from those on the front lines.

During this expert-led webinar you will learn:

  • How to transform your organization from a 2D centric to 3D Model Based enterprise
  • How to take advantage of both the opportunity the IoT represents and the ever-increasing speed of change
  • How generative design allows you to specify design intent, explore tradeoffs, and discover requirements you might not have considered
  • How Top Performing companies use simulation and why
  • New capabilities to give you greater flexibility when you design for additive manufacturing
  • New features of PTC’s cloud-based AR

About the Speakers:

Session I: Opening Session – The Renaissance of CAD: What’s New, What’s Now & What You Can Do With It


Paul Sagar, VP of CAD Product Management at PTC, leads PTC’s Creo Product Management team. He has responsibility for understanding broad customer requirements for all Creo apps, developing short and long-range product release plans, and communicating those plans across the development organization.

Session II: IoT Product Insight


Arnaud Van de Veerdonk, CAD Product Manager at PTC, is currently responsible for Creo Product areas like: Assembly, Mechanism, Product Insight, Design Exploration (DEX), Options Modeler, Analysis tools, Behaviour Modeling (BMX), Parameters & Relations, Manikin and more.
After joining PTC in 1992 Arnaud has fulfilled multiple CAD related roles, varying from Benchmark Specialist, to Process Consultant, Education development and Creo Product Definition.

Session III: Generative Design


Jesse Coors-Blankenship, Sr. VP of Technology at PTC, joined PTC after the acquisition of his company Frustum Inc. Frustum pioneered generative design technology, utilizing artificial intelligence and new mathematical representations of geometry to make generative design functional. Now at PTC, Jesse leads the effort to bring pioneering work to market in the CREO CAD platform.

Session IV: Creo Simulation Live


Todd Kraft, CAD Product Manager at PTC, has a comprehensive understanding of and experience with engineering and manufacturing environments, processes, goals and challenges through decades of experience in working with discrete manufacturing companies across many verticals and sizes.


Michelle Boucher, VP of Engineering Software Research at Tech-Clarity, spent over 20 yrs in various roles in engineering, marketing, management, and as an analyst. Boucher is an experienced researcher and author and has benchmarked over 7k product development professionals and published over 90 reports on product development best practices.

Session V: Additive Manufacturing


Jose Coronado, Manager CAD Product Management at PTC, has more than 25 yrs of experience in the manufacturing industry, ranging from being CAD/CAM user in a high-tech mold-making facility, to multiple technical, sales and consulting roles during his tenure of 15 yrs at IBM de Mexico.

Session VI: Augmented Reality


Luke Westbrook, Product Manager Augmented Reality at PTC, has a strong background in mechanical engineering and physics. He began his career as an application engineer for PTC Mathcad. A certified technical trainer with a long record of success, he excels at working with sales to ensure customers receive maximum value.

This webinar is sponsored by PTC. To watch, please complete the form on this page.