Schedule at a Glance
All Times are Eastern Standard • Times are Subject to Change
Wednesday, October 14, 2025
| Start | End | Title | Speaker(s) |
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| 07:40am |
08:00am |
Login and Registration |
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| 08:00am |
08:10am |
Conference Welcome and Kickoff |
Jeff Miller
President, SPCEA |
| 08:10am |
08:55am |
Keynote Session – Profit Under Pressure: Leading with Cost Intelligence in a Volatile World |
Matthew Smith
President and CEO, 3C Software
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| 08:55am |
09:00am |
Session Break |
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| 09:00am |
09:40am |
Organizing and Executing for Effective Design for Cost |
Todd Beaufort
Director - IDG COO Competitive Consulting, Lenovo
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| 09:40am |
09:45am |
Session Break |
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| 09:45am |
10:25am |
Driving Profitability Through Cost Transparency and Advanced Simulation in Early Product Development. |
Hannes Gruber
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Valuemize AG
Mehmet Bardakci
Managing Director of Costvision
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| 10:25am |
10:50am |
Conference Break
Visit EXPO Hall to view vendor booths |
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| 10:50am |
11:30am |
Agentic AI for scalable cost modeling |
Amy Fischer, Director of Partnerships, Muir AI
Peter Williams, CTO, Muir AI |
| 11:30am |
11:35am |
Session Break |
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| 11:35am |
12:15pm |
Should Costing in AI Era |
Madhusudan Rajan
Associate General Manager, HCL Technologies |
Thursday, October 15, 2025
| Start | End | Title | Speaker(s) |
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| 07:40am |
08:00am |
Login and registration |
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| 08:00am |
08:10am |
Awards Ceremony and SPCEA Updates |
Jeff Miller
President, SPCEA |
| 08:10am |
08:50am |
A Statistical Approach to Modeling Indirect Labor Costs |
Derrick Basler
Director - Global Costing Solutions, Plexus Corp |
| 08:50am |
08:55am |
Session Break |
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| 08:55am |
09:35am |
Tariff Optimization Enabled by Supplier-Collaborative Cost Models & powered by Shared Savings |
Edward Pretzel
CEO, Collaborative Supply Chains |
| 09:35am |
9:40am |
Session Break |
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| 9:40am |
10:20am |
Manufacturing Simulation Enabling Cost & Carbon Estimation |
Anubhav Shukla
Lead Cost Engineer, SLB |
| 10:40am |
10:45am |
Session Break |
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| 10:45am |
11:25am |
Human vs Robot: How to Stay Relevant in a Job Market Filled by AI |
Simona Pappalardo
President/Owner, Coaching with Simona |
| 11:25am |
11:30am |
Session Break |
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| 11:30am |
12:15pm |
Next Level PCBA Calculation Workflow |
Dr. Bao Ngoc An
Managing Director, ETIT Systems
Fritz Schaefer
Sales Consultant and Cost Engineer for Costdata GmbH
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| 12:15pm |
12:20pm |
Conference Wrap-up |
Jeff Miller
President, SPCEA |
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