AeroDef Manufacturing 2023 | SME | 7 November 2023 | Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, 300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802, USA

SME appreciates the commitment of the manufacturing community, and your health and safety at our events is important to us. As we have since the outset of the pandemic, SME is following and will continue to follow all CDC guidance and venue, municipal, state or federal mandates regarding health and safety.

This is an aerospace manufacturing and defense manufacturing conference and trade show for the aerospace and defense manufacturing industry. Produced by SME, in partnership with industry OEMs, our mission is to foster innovation across the extended enterprise to reduce costs, expedite production times and maintain manufacturing competitiveness in the global economy.

It showcases the industry’s most advanced technologies across an innovative floor plan designed to facilitate interaction and business relationships between exhibitors and buyers looking for integrated solutions. Our keynote speakers and panelists come from the highest levels of government and industry. They participate to share their vision of the potential of technology, collaboration and public policy to transform manufacturing – concepts that attendees will experience on the exposition floor and in the in-depth conference technical sessions. It’s the one event that brings together high-concept, advanced solutions and real-world applications.

Why you should attend:
Get easy access to the smart technologies and intelligent people propelling aerospace and defense manufacturing at this events. See what’s coming — and what leading companies are doing to stay competitive — at the industry’s premier conference and exposition, where you’ll find integrated technology solutions from aerospace and defense manufacturing suppliers, including aerospace manufacturing, defense manufacturing, composite manufacturing, and more. You’ll also find innovative manufacturing processes and high-end educational conference sessions that can help make your business vision a reality.

2023 Speakers

COMMITTEE:

Dean Bartles, PhD, FSME, FASME
Chief Executive Officer & President, MTDG - Manufacturing Technology Deployment Group

Avner Ben-Bassat
President & CEO, Plataine Inc.

Bill Bigot
Sr. Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Ascent Aerospace

Jason Bither
Manager, Advanced Manufacturing & Technology, Aerospace System Sector, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Dianne Chong, PhD
VP of Assembly, Factory and Support Technologies, Engineering, Operations & Technology, The Boeing Company (retired)

Matthew Clark
Security & Manufacturing Support Manager, Safety Department, Airbus Group

Leslie Cohen, PhD
HITCO Carbon Composites (retired)

Kelly Dodds
Advanced Manufacturing Tech Director, Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RIS)

Dean Hilgenberg
Director, Manufacturing Engineering & Tooling Operations, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

Andrew “Drew” Mallow
Executive Director, National Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Louisiana State University

Michael “Mick” Maher
President, Maher & Associates LLC

Nicholas Melillo
Technical Director, Composites Manufacturing Technology Center, Advanced Technology International

Jeffrey Miller, PhD
Senior Technical Fellow, Production Engineering Commercial Airplanes, The Boeing Company

Ryan Nagle
Senior Manager Supply Chain Management, SpaceX

Paul Oldroyd
Technical Fellow, Manufacturing & Engineering Process Development, Bell Flight

Ralph Resnick, FSME
NCDMM Fellow and Founding Director, America Makes – the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining

John D. Russell, D.Sc., FSME
Chief, Structures Technology Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory

Bill Saathoff
Director, Advanced Manufacturing Technology & Development, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Mike Spears
Vice President, Industry and FAL, Airbus Helicopters Inc

Todd Szallay
Director, Advanced Manufacturing & Technology, Aerospace System Sector, Northrop Grumman Corporation

John Vickers
Principal Technologist, Space Technology Mission Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

2023 Sponsors

FEATURING:
• Composites Manufacturing

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
• AFRI
• Airbus
• ATI
• Bell
• Boeing
• JR Automation
• Lockheed Martin
• Maher & Associates
• MTDG
• NCDMM
• Northrop Grumman
• Plataine
• Raytheon Technologies
• SpaceX