NEWS 1 October 2026

Knowledge day: “AI & (mechanical) Design”

Learn how AI in Engineering develops at ASML, Sioux and TU/e


On november 5th DSPE organizes a knowledge day to intend to inform the DSPE members about the (im-) possibilities of applying AI in mechanical- and system design, from three different views and a number of practical use cases. Intended audience: precision engineers and system engineers.  

Date: November 5th 2026

Format: 3 lectures of 30- 40 minutes and an open and interactive discussion with the audience of some 45 minutes.

Location:  Fontys Lecture Hall 4th floor, Fontys Engineering building NEXUS, TU/e Campus Groene Loper.

Program: 13:00u Walk in, 13:15u Start lectures, 17:15u drinks afterwards

Speaker 1: Prof. dr.  Theo Hofman, TU/e

Title: AUTOMATING INNOVATION; Automation-in-design through computational synthesis

Speaker 2: Mark van den Broek, Technology Manager Machine Learning at Sioux Technologies

“Cases and AI applications at Sioux”

Speakers 3: Julien Mailfert and Arnaud Hubaux ASML: Theme: “AI helping Engineering”

Julien Mailfert; AI Product Manager Arnaud Hubaux ; Head of AI Strategy

Interactive Open discussion: All the speakers on stage, Discussion based on questions from the audience.

Please register your attendance by sending an email to info@dspe.nl.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Organisation committee: Koen Salden (KTO), Erik Puijk (Fontys) and Julie van Stiphout (DSPE)


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