talks

A list of selected keynotes, presentations, talks, lectures, and webinars since 2020 [Last updated March 26].

2026

  1. Podcast
    AI-powered simulation: a new era for industrial engineering
    Rahul Garg, Chris Pennington, and Dirk Hartmann
    Siemens Podcast: IM and AI podcast (episode 8 and 9), Feb 2026
  2. Keynote
    Multiscale Computing: A Unique Opportunity for Digital Twins?
    Dirk Hartmann
    SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP26), Mar 2026
  3. Guest Lecture
    Digital Twins: From Hype to Industrial Reality… and Why Applied Mathematics Plays a Key Role
    Dirk Hartmann
    College de France: Maths 4 Innov-Action Seminar, Mar 2026

2025

  1. Guest Lecture
    Generative AI and Digital Twins
    Dirk Hartmann
    TU Munich: Digital Twin in Engineering and Design, Jan 2025
  2. Webinar
    Engineering Agents - Accelerating Concept Design
    Dirk Hartmann
    DI SW Webinar, May 2025
  3. Conference
    Autonomous 3D-CAE Agents
    Dirk Hartmann, Daniel Berger, Rrobin Bornoff, and 1 more author
    NAFEMS World Congress 2025, May 2025
  4. Conference
    Nonlinear Real-Time Battery Digital Twins - Efficient and Explainable Surrogate Modeling
    Dirk Hartmann and Alexandru Ciobanas
    NAFEMS World Congress 2025, May 2025
  5. Panel
    Future of Simulation
    Dirk Hartmann and Ujwal Patnaik
    NAFEMS World Congress 2025, May 2025
  6. Panel
    Math to Product
    Dirk Hartmann and Francisco Chinesta
    Math to Product Conference (M2P2025), Jun 2025
  7. Guest Lecture
    Digital Twin - Integrating Digital and Physical Worlds
    Dirk Hartmann
    Gemba Executive Teaching: Leading Intelligent Engineering VR in Industry, Jun 2025
  8. Conference
    AI in Computer Aided Engineering – Beyond the Hype
    Dirk Hartmann
    Relize Live - Aimcenter AI Track, Jul 2025
  9. Keynote
    Digital Twins - A Key Technology for Sustainability
    Dirk Hartmann
    Siemens-TU Berlin Conference, Jul 2025
  10. Panel
    Challenges and Opportunities in Reduced Order and Surrogate Modeling for Digital Twins
    Dirk Hartmann
    Reduced Order and Surrogate Modeling for Digital Twins - Institut for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, Nov 2025
  11. Workshop
    Scalable Reduced Order Modelling For Digital Twins – Hype or Reality
    Dirk Hartmann
    Reduced Order and Surrogate Modeling for Digital Twins - Institut for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, Nov 2025
  12. Panel
    How far does GenAI take us in Design of products?
    Dirk Hartmann
    AI STAR 2025 @ ESA (European Space Agency), Dec 2025
  13. Keynote
    AI in CAE: Hype, Hope, and Realities
    Dirk Hartmann
    AI STAR 2025 @ ESA (European Space Agency), Dec 2025
  14. Poster
    Hybridized Data Driven Flux-Conservative Solvers: Towards Foundation Models for PDE-Solving
    Dirk Hartmann
    EurIPS 2025 - Workshop Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning, Dec 2025
  15. Poster
    Hybrid solver with local correction using Lagrangian latent memory
    Gwendal Jouan, Matthias Schulz, Daniel Berger, and 2 more authors
    EurIPS 2025 - Workshop Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning, Dec 2025
  16. Panel
    System approaches in SciML — key to real-world impact or intractable complexity?
    Dirk Hartmann
    EurIPS 2025 - Workshop Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning, Dec 2025

2024

  1. Guest Lecture
    Towards foundational CAE models
    Dirk Hartmann and Friedrich Menhorn
    TU Munich: BGCE Project Course, Dec 2024
  2. Invited Talk
    The Future of Industrial Simulation
    Dirk Hartmann
    TU Munich, SIAM Student Chapter, Jan 2024
  3. Invited Talk
    Executable Digital Twin - Reimagining industrial operations through Scientific Machine Learning
    Dirk Hartmann
    Danish Technical University - Mathematics of Data Science Seminar, Feb 2024
  4. Invited Talk
    Scientific Machine Learning - Opportunities and Challenges from an Industrial Perspective
    Dirk Hartmann
    University of Cambridge - Department of Engineering, Feb 2024
  5. Guest Lecture
    Industrial Scientific Machine Learning
    Dirk Hartmann
    International Conference on Computational Science Summer School, Feb 2024
  6. Keynote
    Executable Digital Twin - Skalierbare Bausteine für (Energie-) Effizienz
    Dirk Hartmann
    Digitale Zwillinge und energieeffiziente Komponenten - E+E Diskurs, TU Darmstadt, Mar 2024
  7. Workshop
    Boosting Decision Making by integrating Simulation and Machine Learning technologies
    Dirk Hartmann
    Accelerating Decades of Engineering Discipline, May 2024
  8. Guest Lecture
    Digital Twins - Integrating the digital & real world
    Dirk Hartmann
    University of Oxford: Lecture Enhancing Model-Based Design with AR, VR and MR, Jun 2024
  9. Organizer
    Minisymposium: Scientific Machine Learning - A catalyst for algorithmic performance in industrial computer aided engineering
    Dirk Hartmann
    ECCOMAS 2024, Jun 2024
  10. Workshop
    Making the Digital Twin real Mathematical and Algorithmic perspectives
    Dirk Hartmann
    AIAA Workshop - Gaps in the Digital Thread and Digital Twin Integration, Jul 2024
  11. Keynote
    Zero Prototyping - How AI is already changing the innovation process
    Dirk Hartmann
    3M InnovAction Leadership Summit, Sep 2024
  12. Guest Lecture
    Digital Twin - Integrating Digital and Physical Worlds
    Dirk Hartmann
    Gemba Executive Teaching: Leading Intelligent Engineering VR in Industry, Oct 2024
  13. Organizer
    Workshop: Advancing Scientific Machine Learning
    Dirk Hartmann
    TU Munich, Institute of Advanced Study, Oct 2024
  14. Career Event
    Career Event of the EPFL SIAM Student Chapter
    Dirk Hartmann
    EPFL, SIAM Student Chapter, Oct 2024
  15. Workshop
    Machine Learning in Design and Engineering - Challenges & Opportunities
    Dirk Hartmann
    Siemens RIE Aachen Arc Conference, Oct 2024
  16. Keynote
    Digital Twins Reimagined - The Impact of AI and ML on Simulation
    Dirk Hartmann
    Dutch Computational Science Day 2024, Nov 2024
  17. Career Event
    Fireside Chat with Doctoral Students
    Dirk Hartmann
    University of Münster, Nov 2024

2023

  1. Organizer
    SIAM Hackathon 2023: Applied Mathematics to change the Everyday
    Dirk Hartmann
    SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), Feb 2023
  2. Conference
    Mathematics to Transform the Everyday – Applied Mathematics in Industry
    Dirk Hartmann
    SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), Feb 2023
  3. Organizer
    SIAM Conference: Computational Science and Engineering 2023 (Co-chair)
    Dirk Hartmann
    SIAM CSE 23, Feb 2023
  4. Guest Lecture
    Digital Twin - Integrating Digital and Physical Worlds
    Dirk Hartmann
    Gemba Executive Teaching: Leading Intelligent Engineering VR in Industry, Mar 2023
  5. Keynote
    Executable Digital Twins - Integrating the digital and real world
    Dirk Hartmann
    ECMI 2023 - European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, Jun 2023
  6. Keynote
    Executable Digital Twins - Integrating the digital and real world
    Dirk Hartmann
    GACM 2023 - German Association for Computational Mechanics, Sep 2023
  7. Workshop
    Executable Digital Twins - Harnessing MOR to integrate the digital & real world
    Dirk Hartmann
    Excalibur-SysGenX Workshop - Scientific ML and MOR for PDEs, Sep 2023
  8. Invited Talk
    Digital Twin - Harnessing MOR to integrate the digital & real world
    Dirk Hartmann
    SFB/TRR 339: Digitaler Zwilling Strasse, Oct 2023
  9. Guest Lecture
    Digital Twins - Integrating the digital & real world
    Dirk Hartmann
    University of Oxford: Lecture Enhancing Model-Based Design with AR, VR and MR, Oct 2023
  10. Guest Lecture
    Digital Twin
    Dirk Hartmann
    TU Munich: Ringvorlesung Digital Twins in Engineering and Design, Nov 2023
  11. Guest Lecture
    Scientific Machine Learning in the Context of the Digital Twin - An Industrial Poit of View
    Dirk Hartmann
    CWI Program on Scientific Machine Learning, Dec 2023

2022

  1. Guest Lecture
    Energy++ — An Intuitive System for Improving Building Efficiency
    Dirk Hartmann, Felix Sievers, and Friedrich Menhorn
    TU Munich: BGCE Project Course, Dec 2022
  2. Keynote
    Enabling the impossible by Digital Twins
    Dirk Hartmann
    Acatech @ Siemens HQ, Jul 2022
  3. Invited Talk
    Digital, Precise, Flexible - Simulation-based innovations enabled by innovation in Simulation
    Dirk Hartmann
    VPP Exchange - German IP Community Event, Jul 2022
  4. Invited Talk
    Machine Learning and Physics-based Simulations - Yin and Yang of Industrial Digital Twins
    Dirk Hartmann
    Data-Driven Physical Simulations (DDPS) seminars - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Seminar, Jul 2022
  5. Workshop
    AI-powered Product Design
    Dirk Hartmann
    Siemens AI with Purpose Summit 2022, Jul 2022
  6. Guest Lecture
    Digital Twin - Integrating Digital and Physical Worlds
    Dirk Hartmann
    Gemba Executive Teaching: Leading Intelligent Engineering VR in Industry, Nov 2022
  7. Invited Talk
    Digital Twin - Integrating Digital and Physical World
    Dirk Hartmann
    Atlas Copco Group Executive Seminar, Oct 2022
  8. Guest Lecture
    Masterclass: The Executable Digital Twin
    Dirk Hartmann
    Web Summit 2023, Nov 2022

2021

  1. Conference
    Precise, Digital, Flexible - Precision Robotic Milling with NX CAM and SINUMERIK Run MyRobot /Direct Control
    Dirk Hartmann
    Siemens Customer Conference RealizeLIVE 2021, Apr 2021
  2. Invited Talk
    Real Time Performance Digital Twins
    Dirk Hartmann
    Applied Materials - Digital Twin Seminar (Internal), Apr 2021
  3. Keynote
    Hybrid Digital Twin - Simulation meets ML
    Dirk Hartmann
    German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA), Jun 2021
  4. Keynote
    AI Ockham - How to economically build predictive engineering models?
    Dirk Hartmann
    IACM conference on Mechanicstic MAchine Learnign and Digital Twins for Computational Science and Engineering, Sep 2021
  5. Invited Talk
    Digital Twins - The golden age of computational science and engineering in industry
    Dirk Hartmann
    Annual Retreat of HGS MathComp, Sep 2021
  6. Workshop
    The role of Scientific ML for Digital Twins in industrial applications
    Dirk Hartmann
    Lorentz Center - Computational Mathematics and Machine Learning, Nov 2021
  7. Invited Talk
    Digital Twins - A key technology for the Industrial Internet of Things
    Dirk Hartmann
    AMD Tech Talk Series, Dec 2021

2020

  1. Invited Talk
    Executable Digital Twins - Neue Paradigmen für den Betrieb komplexer Systeme
    Dirk Hartmann
    VDE Tec Summit 2020, Feb 2020
  2. Invited Talk
    Computer Aided Innovation - Siemens Corporate Technology
    Dirk Hartmann and Theo Papadopoulos
    RWTH Business School (Prof. Frank Piller), May 2020
  3. Podcast
    Dirk Hartmann - Living in a Simulation
    Dirk Hartmann
    Siemens Podcast: Human & AI – Mind, Machines, and the Gradient Descent, Aug 2020
  4. Invited Talk
    Mass Customization and Industry 4.0 - Mathematical challenges for real-time manufacturing process simulation
    Dirk Hartmann
    ECMI Webinar “Math for Industry 4.0 – Models, Methods and Big Data”, Dec 2020

2019

  1. Keynote
    Digital Twins
    Dirk Hartmann
    KOMSO Digital Twin Workshop, May 2019
  2. Keynote
    Mathematics a key enabler for Digital Twins
    Dirk Hartmann
    Industry Day at ICIAM 2019 - International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Jul 2019
  3. Keynote
    Design Concept in VR – Democratizing Simulation World
    Theo Papadopoulos and Dirk Hartmann
    AWE EU 2019, Oct 2019

2018

  1. Guest Lecture
    Machine Learning and Simulation for Grid Optimization
    Dirk Hartmann, Andres Botero Halblaub, and Friedrich Menhorn
    TU Munich: BGCE Project Course, Oct 2018
  2. Organizer
    Workshop: Merging Machine Learning and Simulation
    Dirk Hartmann
    Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, Jan 2018

2017

  1. Conference
    Disrupting Computer Aided Engineering - Key Building Blocks of Accurate Interactive Engineering Simulations
    Dirk Hartmann
    NVIDIA GTC Europe 2017, Oct 2017