26 years of expertise in Product Development & End to End Virtual Product / Experience Innovation.Since December 2019, CEO of CATIA at DASSAULT SYSTEMES.
He started his career at Dassault Systèmes (3DS) in 1995 in CATIA’s Shape Design Industrialization Team. Then, he joined 3DS International Automotive Competency Center working with renowned customers like HONDA, FIAT, BMW, CHRYSLER and PSA to help them transform their design practices in the area of car body and styling. Through these experiences, he acquired deep knowledge of the automotive sector and customers’ business processes.
In 2011, he was appointed Vice President of the new defined Transportation & Mobility industry, which assists manufacturers and suppliers in developing new mobility experiences for their consumers.
As CATIA CEO, he is looking forward to empower the Community of Design Innovators to Engineer & Experience the best System of System from Concept to Experience Driven Engineering.
Technical Management Division Chief, Project Management Office, Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Ms. Michelle Gilbert has 14 years of service as an acquisition professional for the United States Army. She currently serves as the Technical Management Division Chief for the Project Management Office, Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA).
Ms. Gilbert joined the PEO AVN Future Vertical Lift (FVL) efforts in 2015 and has since held multiple positions to include the Deputy for the FLRAA Development and Production Product Management Office (DAPPMO) and the FLRAA Systems Engineering Branch Chief providing subject matter expertise on multiple tasks required during the Materiel Solutions Analysis (MSA) phase and the competitive down select. Major initiatives included leading the establishment and application of Digital Engineering and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) in the development of the FLRAA system requirements, helping shape the acquisition strategy and development of Program of Record (PoR) documentation, and overseeing execution of the Competitive Demonstration and Risk Reduction (CD&RR) efforts.
Prior to FVL efforts she supported the Project Management Office, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) in various lead roles to include interoperability initiatives and development and production of the Mobile Ground Control Station (MGCS) for the Gray Eagle Product Office. Ms. Gilbert has a Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) and a Master’s of Science in Systems Engineering from the Naval Post Graduate School (NPS). Ms. Gilbert grew up in Madison, AL where she still resides with her husband. They have one daughter (22) who is currently attending Auburn University. When not traveling, Michelle enjoys spending time with her two dogs and planning the family’s next adventure.
Galen VALENTINE is a Senior Staff Engineer and Associate Tech Fellow for Systems Engineering at Bell Textron Inc. He draws on decades of experience (and lots of grey hair) in the defense and video game industries to help translate vision into reality. Back in the old days, before UML or SysML, Galen was introduced to modeling in software design. He has journeyed from defense programs like the Multiple Launch Rocket System to a NATO Exercise, Unified Vision 2018, to the latest United States Army aviation program.
Since transitioning from software to systems engineering and earning a graduate degree from Georgia Tech in 2017, Galen dived head-first into Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) at L-3 Harris. Working with thought-leaders throughout the corporation to help bootstrap MBSE initiatives, he earned an Enterprise Collaboration Award in 2021. At Bell, Galen collaborates closely with both Bell and customer technical leadership to help make MBSE initiatives successful.