2025 Witness User Conference

Thursday 10th July, 2025 The Grand Hotel Birmingham 1 Church St  United Kingdom
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We invite you to join us on Thursday 10th July at The Grand Hotel, Birmingham to gain insight into the latest Witness roadmap and updates, as well as how simulation and digital twins can help elevate your business strategies and goals.

The day will offer an opportunity to meet with our Witness product managers and consultants, and to network with other simulation users. Guest speakers will share their case studies, showcasing how they have used simulation to address their business challenges. 

This promises to be an insightful and enriching day. We hope to see you there!

When: Thursday, 10th July, 2025

Where: The Grand Hotel
                1 Church Street
               Birmingham
               B3 2FE
               United Kingdom

The Grand Hotel in Birmingham UK

Agenda and Speakers

 2025 Witness User Conference - 10th July, 2025
8:45 a.m. Registration opens
9:30 a.m. Welcome address from the Haskoning team
10:15 a.m. Guest Speaker: Hara Papachristou, Lead DES Engineer, Trim & Final, MP&L, JLR
10:45 a.m.  Guest Speaker: Jonathon Hill, Global Virtual Manufacturing Lead, Rolls-Royce 
11:15 a.m. Morning refreshment break
11:40 a.m.

Ben Lomax Thorpe, Haskoning
Simulation Extending into Digital Twins

12:05 p.m. 

Guest Speaker Bilgehan Doğaç, Founder & Digital Twin Solutions Architect, CodeArt
Optimisation through Simulation: A Witness Experimenter Case Study

12:35 p.m. Networking lunch 
1:20 p.m.

Academic Showcase

Dr. Radmehr Monfared - Loughborough University - Discrete event simulation of an automotive assembly line 
(Presenting on behalf of PhD student Finley Rudin)

Mostafa Tahriri - Manchester Metropolitan University - Optimising Passenger Flow in High-Rise Lifts: A Discrete Event Simulation
Study Using Witness

1:45 p.m. Guest Speaker: Andy Moseley, BAE Systems
Witness for Aircraft Logistics- Operating Fleet, Repair and Maintenance
2:15 p.m. Afternoon refreshment break 
2:40 p.m. 

Andy Chandler, Product Manager, Haskoning
The latest Witness updates and roadmap for the future

3:30 p.m.

Q&A panel discussion

  • Kalim Yasin-Guilfoyle, Senior Engineer – Chocolate Process Technology Innovation, Mondelez
  • Ian Clarke, Operations Manager, Additive Layer Manufacture, Rolls Royce
  • Carsten Teichert, General Manager, Lanner SimTech GmbH
  • Graeme Borthwick, Facilities Integration Director, XLCC
4:15 p.m. Closing remarks
4:30 p.m. Finish

Please register below

If you experience any issue accessing the registration form, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Oliver Bird - Director, Simulation Advisory Group

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Director, Simulation Advisory Group