NIWeek 2018

Keynote Sessions

Tuesday Morning General Keynote: Future Faster (Tuesday, May 22^nd, 2018)

Speakers (Order of Appearance):

Solving the Big Challenges of Today (video)

• Eric Strakloff, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, NI

A Team Is Needed to Solve Big Problems (video)

• Shelley Gretlein, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, NI
• Luke Schreier, Director of Automated Test Product Marketing in Test Systems, NI

Innovation in Vehicle Infotainment Test With Mazda (video)

• Tomohiko Adachi, Senior Principle Engineer, Mazda Motor Corporation

The Power of Standardization at Honeywell Aerospace (video)

• Mark Keith, Honeywell Aerospace

Ushering in the Smart, Secure, and Connected World of 5G With NXP (video)

• David Read, VP, Technology and Operation, NXP
• Eric Westberg, Portfolio Manager at RF Power, NXP

NI's Mission and Commitment to Our Customers and Community (video)

• Alex Davern, President and CEO, NI

Tuesday Afternoon General Keynote: You Are Defining the Future With Software (Tuesday, May 22^nd, 2018)

Speakers (Order of Appearance):

The Future is Coming (video)

• Shelley Gretlein, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, NI
• Omid Sojoodi, Vice President of R&D, Application and Embedded Software, NI

Prognostic Health Management for CRRC High Speed Trains (video)

• Zhiqiang Zhang, Director of Testing Department, CRRC Sifang Co. Ltd
• Zongchang Liu, Chief Technical Officer, CyberInsight

Test System Management and Remote Software Deployment With Cirrus Logic (video)

• Rob Kratsas, Director, Audio Product Marketing, Cirrus Logic
• Dan Kimmitt, Validation Manager, Cirrus Logic
• Chris Cilino, LabVIEW Framework Architect, Cirrus Logic

Driving Efficiency in the Test of a New Electric Flying Vehicle With Joby Aviation (video)

• Santiago Morales, Lead Engineer, Joby Aviation

How an Industry Collaboration Between TI, Texas A&M, and NI Is Enhancing Engineering Education (video)

• Kyle Flessner, VP, Technology and Manufacturing, Texas Instruments
• Miroslav Begovic, Department Head, ECE, Texas A&M University

Accelerating Innovation With Investment in the NI Software Platform (video)

• Jenifer Loy, Section Manager, Software User Experience, National Instruments
• Kunal Patel, National Instruments
• Josh Prewitt, Senior Group Manager, National Instruments
• Kelsey Johnson, National Instruments

The Future of the NI Software Platform (video)

• Duncan Hudson, Chief Platform Officer, National Instruments

Wednesday Morning General Keynote: Using a Platform to Create Systems That Deliver the Future Faster (Wednesday, May 23^rd, 2018)

Speakers (Order of Appearance):

The Big Picture (video)

• Jeff Kodosky, NI Fellow, National Instruments

Investment in Innovation to Meet Your Future Needs (video)

• Shelley Gretlein, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, NI
• Scott Rust, Senior Vice President, R&D, NI

Customer Defined Systems Using the NI Platform (video)

• Chad Chesney, National Instruments

Dream Chaser® Spacecraft Pressure Test System by Sierra Nevada Corporation (video)

• Stefan Kienle, Principal Test Engineer, Sierra Nevada Corporation

Smart Factory Test System by G Systems (video)

• Dave Baker, Senior Vice President, G Systems
• James Duvall, Senior Project Engineer, G Systems

Power System HIL Simulator by Cummins and Wineman Technologies (video)

• Amy Sinkhorn, Embedded Software Validation Test Manager and Functional Excellence Leader, Cummins
• Todd VanGlider, Vice President of Sales, Wineman Technologies Incorporated

Semiconductor Production Test System by ON Semiconductor (video)

• Warren Latter, ON Semiconductor
• Mike Watts, Product Manager - DMMs, Switches, and Rack Power Supplies, National Instruments

Technical Sessions

Software Engineering Processes, Architectures, and Design (SEPAD) Track

All SEPAD Videos are available from Tecnova's LabVIEW Video site, with the credentials Username: LabVIEW_Videos, Password: LabVIEW. With summaries available on the LabVIEW Center of Excellence site.

• Tuesday, May 22
  • AF: Efficient Actor Framework Development: Structure, Messaging, and Workflow by Allen Smith, Allen Smith Consulting Software Architect
  • Life Punishes the Latecomer: A Product Migration to LabVIEW NXG by Josef Eiswirt, General Sales Manager, measX GmbH & Co. KG
  • Lone Wolf to Dream Team: A Journey Into Team-Based Development by Paul Morris, Dr, Precision Acoustics Ltd
  • AF: Mediated Viewable Actors: Observer, Meet Model-View-ViewModel by Ethan Stern, Managing Partner, Composed Systems
  • Don't Wait for LabVIEW R&D, Implement Your Own LabVIEW Features by Darren Nattinger, Principal Engineer, National Instruments
  • Organize Your Code Well or You'll Screw Up Your Project by Chris Cilino, LabVIEW Framework Architect, Cirrus Logic; Deborah Burke, Senior Software Product Manager, NI; and Sumedha Ganjoo, Product Owner, NI
  • AF: Understanding the Decoupling of Messaging in Actor Framework by Casey Lamers, Senior Controls Engineer, Phoenix Nuclear Labs LLC
  • The Cloud Is Transforming Your Industry by Mark Black, Product Owner, National Instruments; Michael Watson, Chief Architect, National Instruments; and Daren Wilson, Principal Software Engineer, National Instruments
  • VI Analyzer: Lessons From a Large Project and New Features in 2018 by Kosta Ilic, Principal Software Architect, National Instruments; and Darren Nattinger, Principal Engineer, National Instruments
• Wednesday, May 23
  • An Experienced Tech Lead's Recipe for Success by Tai Ly, Principal Software Engineer, National Instruments; and Stephen Loftus-Mercer, Principal Software Architect, National Instruments
  • Evolving From Quick Coding to Good Architecture and Clean Code by Oliver Wachno, Dipl.-Ing.(FH), Ingenieurbro Oliver Wachno; and Christian Butcher, Technician, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
  • Streamline Your Error Handling With the Error Process Framework by Brandon Jones, Platform Architect, Wineman Technology Inc
  • Clean Code: Under the Hood of a Sophisticated Messaging Framework for a Complex Application by Mark Yedinak, Advanced Engineer, FW/SW Development, Zebra Technologies Corporation; and Yinhui Chen, Software Validation Engineer, Zebra Technologies
  • SW Test: Test Strategies for Project Success: From DQMH to AF and Beyond by Samuel Taggart, Owner, System Automation Solutions LLC
  • Tuning and Detailing LabVIEW Code for Efficiency and Beauty by Christian Altenbach, Research Ophthalmologist, UCLA
  • Improve Your QMH With Principles From the Model View Controller by Rob Humfeld, Chief Software Architect, JET Engineering
  • OO: Case Study in Object-Oriented Design and Implementation: Building a Flexible INI File Library by Wiebe Walstra, Ing., Carya
  • SW Test: Using Assertions in LabVIEW to Enable Faster Debugging and Integration Testing by Peter Horn, AES, National Instruments
  • OO: LLAMA: Leveraging Object-Oriented Programming for Designing a Logging Framework by Jesse Batsche, Project Manager, DMC Inc.; and Christian Owen, Systems Engineer, DMC Inc.
  • Reuse More Code: The Increasing Power of Malleable VIs by Stephen Loftus-Mercer, Principal Software Architect, National Instruments
  • SW Test: Lessons Learned From Hardware Design Applied to Software and Test-Driven Development by Fabiola De la Cueva, Certified LabVIEW Architect, Founder, Delacor; and Luis Orozco, Senior Hardware Engineer, Delacor
  • OO: SOLID Actor Programming by Dmitry Sagatelyan, CEO, Arktur Technologies LLC
  • SW Test: All the Latest on Your Favorite Topic: Unit Test by Peter Bokor, Dr, IncQuery Labs; and Jon McBee, Founder, Composed Systems
• Thursday, May 24
  • CI and Deployment: Deploying a TestStand System With NI Package Manager by Sam Roundy, Chief Automation Architect, L3 Technologies
  • DQMH: Tips and Tricks for a Successful DQMH-Based Project by Fabiola De la Cueva, Certified LabVIEW Architect, Founder, Delacor
  • Effective Project Management of LabVIEW Projects by Paul Herrmann, SVP - General Manager, CertTech LLC; and Ryan Smith, Sr. Staff Engineer, CertTech LLC
  • UI: Developing LabVIEW User Interfaces That Don't Look Like LabVIEW by Derek Trepanier, System Engineer, Moore Good Ideas Inc
  • CI and Deployment: Road to Continuous Delivery by Sumedha Ganjoo, Product Owner, NI
  • DQMH: Getting XControl Functionality With Dynamically Configured Views and DQMH by Andy Fenley, Senior Test Engineer, Qorvo
  • Enrich (or Maybe Create) Your Team Onboarding Plan by Lorenz Casper, Senior Field Marketing Engineer, National Instruments; and Wolfgang Rominger, Verification & Validation Engineer, NXP Semiconductor Austria
  • UI: Extensible and Modular UIs: Extend the VI Server With Object-Oriented Techniques by Quentin Alldredge, Software Engineer, Q Software Innovations
  • CI and Deployment: Zero to Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins Pipelines and Blue Ocean by Sreejith Sreenivasan, Systems Architect, Multics Ltd; and Vikas Koujalagi, Solutions Architect, Multics
  • HAL/MAL: Designing a Real-World Hardware Abstraction Layer That Lasts by Daniel Coons, Sr. Test Engineer, Technology Service Corporation
  • Practical Techniques: Gathering and Managing System Requirements by Becky Linton, Senior Software Engineer, Konrad Technologies; and Jarobit Pina Saez, Senior Engineer, ULMA Embedded Solutions
  • UI: Leveraging the Windows API to Extend LabVIEW GUI Capabilities by Jeremy Marquis, Engineering Technical Lead, G Systems Inc; and George Zou, Project Engineer, G Systems Inc.
  • CI and Deployment: Save Time by Building Your Source With Build Abstraction Layers by Chris Cilino, LabVIEW Framework Architect, Cirrus Logic
  • DCAF: Distributed Control and Automation Framework (DCAF) Under the Hood by Benjamin Celis, National Instruments; and Matthew Pollock, Senior Software Engineer, Integrated Engineering Services, National Instruments
  • HAL/MAL: Bloomy's EFT Helps Bose BEAT Down the Cost of Test Development: A HAL/MAL Case Study Success by Grant Gothing, Chief Technology Officer, Bloomy; and James Kostinden, Lead Software Test Engineer/Manager, Bose Corporation
  • Styling and Customizing WebVIs by Mark Black, Product Owner, National Instruments; and Milan Raj, Software Engineer, National Instruments
  • CI and Deployment: Continuous Integration: The Rest of the Story by Derek Trepanier, System Engineer, Moore Good Ideas Inc
  • DCAF: Integrating Complex High-Channel-Count Systems With LabVIEW DCAF by Ian Knox, Software Developer, Data Ahead GmbH
  • HAL/MAL: NI Test Engineering Presents: How We Built Our HAL/MAL and What We Learned by Robert Feldman, Senior RF Test Engineer, National Instruments; and Ryan Friedman, Principal Software Architect, National Instruments