Wingquist Laboratory 25th Annual Seminar on Digital Product Realization

Speakers

Johan Norberg, Author, Speaker and Historian of Ideas

Navigating a stormy world

Johan Norberg is a historian of ideas and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He has written several bestselling and award-winning books on economics, politics, and history, translated into more than 30 languages. His latest book, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages, was one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2025.

Jens Holtinger, Executive Vice President Trucks Technology & Industrial Division, Chief Technology Officer Volvo Group

Engineering sustainable transformation: Turning challenges into customer value

As Head of Trucks Technology & Industrial Division at Volvo Group, Jens Holtinger holds the end-to-end responsibility for procurement, development, and production of trucks globally. As Chief Technology Officer, he is responsible for shaping Volvo Group's technology strategy across its full portfolio of products and services, with an emphasis on advanced transport solutions in electromobility, connectivity, and autonomy.

Agenda

08:30–09:00 Registration and coffee 

09:00–09:15 Welcome – Professor Rikard Söderberg, Director Wingquist Laboratory 

09:15–10:15 Keynote speaker – Johan Norberg, Author, Speaker and Historian of Ideas

10:15–10:45 Coffee  

10:45–11:45 Keynote speaker – Jens Holtinger, Executive Vice President Trucks Technology & Industrial Division, Chief Technology Officer Volvo Group

11:45–12:45 Lunch

12:45–13:30 Geometry Assurance & Robust Design – Professor Rikard Söderberg and his research team 

• Introduction to Geometry Assurance Research (Rikard Söderberg)
• Geometry Assurance of Megacasting (Kristina Wärmefjord)
• Including Residual stress in Variation Simulation (Marx Raghu Raja)
• Shimming Reduction in Composite Assemblies (Diogo Jundi Toyoda)
• Augmented Geometry Assurance Digital Twin (Roham Sadeghi Tabar)

13:30–14:15 Systems Engineering Design – Professor Ola Isaksson and his research team 

• Introduction to systems engineering design research (Ola Isaksson)
• Enabling competitiveness in engineering processes with agentic LLM’s (Alejandro Pradas Gómez)
• Industrial adoption of new design methods and tools (Adam Mallalieu)
• Towards the realization of sustainable aerospace products (Pauline Léonard)
• Toolifying uncertainty analysis to improve design decisions (Arindam Brahma)
• Visual analytics in engineering design – results from UK projects (Timoleon Kipouros)
• Summary and outlook (Ola Isaksson)

14:15–14:45 Coffee 

14:45–15:30 Automation – Professor Knut Åkesson and his research team 

• Introduction to Automation Research (Knut Åkesson)
• Plan First, Learn Smart: A Scalable Approach to Complex Robot Tasks (Emmanuel Dean)
• Composing Robot Skills: Reusing Demonstrations to Generate New Behaviors (Kilian Freitag)
• Closing the Loop: Learning, Optimization, and Validation for System Verification (Lasse Kötz)

15:30–16:15 Geometry and Motion Planning – Dr. Johan Carlson and his research team 

• Introduction to Geometry and Motion Planning (Johan S. Carlson)
• Layout planning and Assembly Line balancing (Raad Salman)
• Assembly Time and Velocity Tuning in Digital Human Modelling (Peter Mårdberg)
• CyberCAx - A Digital Infrastructure for Geometry and Motion Planning (Domenico Spensieri, Edvin Åblad, Staffan Björkenstam)
• AUTOPAINT - AI-Boosted Automated Painting (Fredrik Edelvik)

16:15–17:00 Mingle & Meet the Research Groups

Directions

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