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Engineering Leaders Series

The Breakout Year for Agentic Engineering: How Leaders are Escaping AI Pilot Purgatory

March 24, 2026

7:00 p.m. CET / 2:00 p.m. ET

The Breakout Year for Agentic Engineering: How Leaders are Escaping AI Pilot Purgatory

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While 2025 was the year of AI exploration, 2026 is the year of the breakout. New global data from 350 senior engineering leaders reveals a widening gulf between those stalled in “pilot purgatory” and a new “Productivity Elite” who have successfully tripled their Engineering AI deployments year-on-year.

Watch this webinar as SimScale and guest speakers unveil the first look at the 2026 State of Engineering AI report. We will deep-dive into the five critical enablers that allow top-velocity teams to evaluate 100x more design variants and accelerate timelines from pilot to production. We’ll also confront the “uncomfortable truth” of data chaos, exploring why data preparation remains a key blocker for many, and how to solve it.

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Meet your presenters

Vlad Larichev

Industrial AI Lead

Vlad Larichevis Accenture’s Industrial AI Lead for the Siemens Business Group, building the industrial AI ecosystem across Europe. He held senior AI leadership roles at AWS, umlaut, and ACT Translations, where he launched an enterprise LLM platform from the ground up. Vlad brings both strategic vision and hands-on delivery to Industrial AI. A founding member of AI², he is on a mission to turn Industrial AI from hype into real, global impact.

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David Heiny

SimScale Co-founder and CEO

SimScale

David Heiny is committed to empowering every engineer to innovate faster by making high-fidelity engineering simulation truly accessible. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and CSE from Georgia Tech and Technical University Munich.

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    “If there is an architect that comes to you with a geometry in the morning, you can get the building ready for simulation in one or two hours, get the results after lunch and have time to go through a process of changes, according to the results. So in one day, we are able to optimize. The results we get from SimScale help us quickly understand how a building is going to behave and what kind of impact the building geometry will have on the surrounding space.”

    Carlos Bausa Martinez

    Sustainability Team Lead

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    “ITW is a world leader in plastic components for the automotive industry and we are successfully using SimScale in order to understand the insertion/holding force of our fasteners, and perform vibration and fatigue stress to our brackets and different components. Since I am not a dedicated FEA engineer, I need something fairly intuitive and fast that points me in the right direction and SimScale is perfect for this with a very well-designed interface. I get good results for quite complicated plastic parts that have a lot of deformation. Plus, if I run into trouble, I can always rely on the very helpful and proactive SimScale support team.”

    Massimo Savi

    Project Manager

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About SimScale

SimScale is the world’s first cloud-native SaaS engineering simulation platform, giving engineers and designers immediate access to digital prototyping early in the design stage, throughout the entire R&D cycle, and across the entire enterprise. By providing instant access to a single fluid, thermal, and structural simulation tool built on the latest cloud computing technology, SimScale has moved high-fidelity physics simulation technology from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application to a user-friendly web application, accessible to any designer and engineer in the world.