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Mind the Engineering AI Gap: Why Engineering Teams are Struggling to Realize the AI Opportunity and How to Fix It

June 18, 2025

3:00 pm CET / 9:00 am ET

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New global data reveals a stark truth: While nearly every engineering leader says AI will transform hardware design and simulation, only a small number have cracked the code.

Our latest survey of over 300 engineering leaders globally exposes a widening execution gap—where bold AI ambitions collide with aging CAE toolchains, fragmented data, and internal power struggles can negate innovation.

This webinar explores research findings to reveal why most enterprises remain stalled at AI pilot stage, and what concrete steps any team can take to close the gap—fast.

Watch it to get the first pre-publication look at the research findings and leave with an action plan to make AI a competitive weapon for your engineering teams, not just a boardroom buzzword.

Watch this webinar to learn about:

  • The “Productivity Elite” achieving major AI benefits, and what they do differently.
  • How legacy CAE stacks and data silos are keeping most teams “designing in the dark”.
  • The silent power struggle between simulation gatekeepers and design engineers.
  • A practical roadmap to move from isolated pilots to full-scale Engineering AI.

👉 Want to dig deeper into the full story? Download the complete State of Engineering AI report. It’s full of real-world insights, industry benchmarks, and lessons from teams that are already making AI work in design and simulation.

Meet your presenters

David Heiny

David Heiny

CEO & Co-founder

One of the five engineers who co-founded SimScale in a Munich flat in 2012, David has spent over a decade on a single mission: helping engineers innovate faster.

Neil Ashton

Neil Ashton

Distinguished CAE Architect

Dr. Neil Ashton is a Distinguished CAE Architect at NVIDIA, where he drives product development and adoption of NVIDIA’s platform across the CAE community. Previously, he served as the Worldwide Tech Lead for CAE at Amazon Web Services and was a Senior Researcher in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, focusing on high-fidelity CFD methods. Dr. Ashton has also worked in Formula 1 with Lotus F1 (now Alpine F1) and collaborated with Formula 1 Management and the FIA on the 2022 regulation changes. He holds an MEng and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK.

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.

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