Product Design and Manufacturing Keynote

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  Marti Deans

  Marti has been working at Autodesk for over 7 years, first developing training and adoption strategies for Fusion 360 users with a focus in manufacturing, then driving awareness for Fusion 360 and its manufacturing capabilities on the Technical Marketing team. Now she works on the Fusion Manufacturing product management team on the Tool Library, engaging with customers, industry partners, and internal stakeholders to make Fusion even better! Marti graduated from University of California, Berkeley where she earned her B.S. Mechanical Engineering and explored manual and CNC manufacturing processes in the Berkeley Student Machine Shop using Mastercam, HSMWorks, and InventorHSM.
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  Britta Ritter-Armour

  Britta Ritter-Armour is an AutoCAD senior product manager focusing on data, platform strategy, and machine learning. Britta's background is in AEC - she has her Masters of Architecture from Columbia University and spent the first years of her career as a BIM Manager. Always interested in data and technology, Britta joined Autodesk 3 years ago, over the course of which she's worked across both the AEC and Manufacturing organizations, always focusing on how to leverage data and platform technologies to improve design and make workflows.
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  Derrek Cooper

  As the Vice President of the Product Design Group, Derrek is responsible for managing the product strategy and delivery of the Product Design portfolio. These products include the Inventor and Vault product lines, as well as the Product Design and Manufacturing Collection. Over the last 20 years, Derrek has been focused on leading and inspiring globally distributed teams to build amazing products. He has taken a hands-on approach connecting with customers and obsessively delivering value through innovation. His passion lies in connecting customer needs, market demands and delivering a predictable and robust product strategy that exceeds all expectations. Before joining Autodesk, Derrek was head of product at Blue Ridge Numerics. The company’s flagship product, CFdesign, pioneered a category of upfront CFD. The technology was rebranded Autodesk CFD when Autodesk acquired the company in 2011. Derrek holds a M.S.E and B.S.E in Mechanical Engineering from Temple University.
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  Srinath Jonnalagadda

  A business savvy, technology savvy professional with experience in a variety of functional areas ranging from product development, Business Planning and Business Development .
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  Stephen Hooper

  Stephen Hooper is Vice President of Design & Manufacturing software development. Stephen has over 26 years of industry experience working for companies ranging from suppliers of industrial machinery to a software vendor of market leading solutions. Stephen started his career as a mechanical design engineer working in the UK and later relocating to the US to work for Autodesk. Experienced at every stage of the product development, marketing and sales process, from end user, through to software vendor, Stephen relishes the challenge of working in a fast moving, growth orientated environment, targeted at servicing the needs of high profile customers and partners.