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

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

A Team Is Needed to Solve Big Problems

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

Tomohiko Adachi, Senior Principle Engineer, Mazda Motor Corporation

The Power of Standardization at Honeywell Aerospace

Mark Keith, Honeywell Aerospace

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

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

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

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

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

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

Santiago Morales, Lead Engineer, Joby Aviation

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

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

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

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

Jeff Kodosky, NI Fellow, National Instruments

Investment in Innovation to Meet Your Future Needs

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

Customer Defined Systems Using the NI Platform

Chad Chesney, National Instruments

Dream Chaser® Spacecraft Pressure Test System by Sierra Nevada Corporation

Stefan Kienle, Principal Test Engineer, Sierra Nevada Corporation

Smart Factory Test System by G Systems

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

Power System HIL Simulator by Cummins and Wineman Technologies

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

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 (summary|slides)
- Life Punishes the Latecomer: A Product Migration to LabVIEW NXG by Josef Eiswirt, General Sales Manager, measX GmbH & Co. KG (summary|slides)
- Lone Wolf to Dream Team: A Journey Into Team-Based Development by Paul Morris, Dr, Precision Acoustics Ltd (summary|slides)
- AF: Mediated Viewable Actors: Observer, Meet Model-View-ViewModel by Ethan Stern, Managing Partner, Composed Systems (summary|slides)
- Don't Wait for LabVIEW R&D, Implement Your Own LabVIEW Features by Darren Nattinger, Principal Engineer, National Instruments (summary|slides|forum)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- AF: Understanding the Decoupling of Messaging in Actor Framework by Casey Lamers, Senior Controls Engineer, Phoenix Nuclear Labs LLC (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
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 (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- Streamline Your Error Handling With the Error Process Framework by Brandon Jones, Platform Architect, Wineman Technology Inc (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- SW Test: Test Strategies for Project Success: From DQMH to AF and Beyond by Samuel Taggart, Owner, System Automation Solutions LLC (summary)
- Tuning and Detailing LabVIEW Code for Efficiency and Beauty by Christian Altenbach, Research Ophthalmologist, UCLA (summary|slides)
- Improve Your QMH With Principles From the Model View Controller by Rob Humfeld, Chief Software Architect, JET Engineering (summary|slides)
- OO: Case Study in Object-Oriented Design and Implementation: Building a Flexible INI File Library by Wiebe Walstra, Ing., Carya (summary|slides)
- SW Test: Using Assertions in LabVIEW to Enable Faster Debugging and Integration Testing by Peter Horn, AES, National Instruments (summary|slides)
- 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. (summary|slides)
- Reuse More Code: The Increasing Power of Malleable VIs by Stephen Loftus-Mercer, Principal Software Architect, National Instruments (summary)
- 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 (summary)
- OO: SOLID Actor Programming by Dmitry Sagatelyan, CEO, Arktur Technologies LLC (summary|slides)
- SW Test: All the Latest on Your Favorite Topic: Unit Test by Peter Bokor, Dr, IncQuery Labs; and Jon McBee, Founder, Composed Systems (summary|slides)
Thursday, May 24
- CI and Deployment: Deploying a TestStand System With NI Package Manager by Sam Roundy, Chief Automation Architect, L3 Technologies (summary|slides)
- DQMH: Tips and Tricks for a Successful DQMH-Based Project by Fabiola De la Cueva, Certified LabVIEW Architect, Founder, Delacor (summary)
- Effective Project Management of LabVIEW Projects by Paul Herrmann, SVP - General Manager, CertTech LLC; and Ryan Smith, Sr. Staff Engineer, CertTech LLC (summary|slides)
- UI: Developing LabVIEW User Interfaces That Don't Look Like LabVIEW by Derek Trepanier, System Engineer, Moore Good Ideas Inc (summary|slides)
- CI and Deployment: Road to Continuous Delivery by Sumedha Ganjoo, Product Owner, NI (summary|slides)
- DQMH: Getting XControl Functionality With Dynamically Configured Views and DQMH by Andy Fenley, Senior Test Engineer, Qorvo (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- HAL/MAL: Designing a Real-World Hardware Abstraction Layer That Lasts by Daniel Coons, Sr. Test Engineer, Technology Service Corporation (summary|slides)
- Practical Techniques: Gathering and Managing System Requirements by Becky Linton, Senior Software Engineer, Konrad Technologies; and Jarobit Pina Saez, Senior Engineer, ULMA Embedded Solutions (summary|slides)
- 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. (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- Styling and Customizing WebVIs by Mark Black, Product Owner, National Instruments; and Milan Raj, Software Engineer, National Instruments (summary|slides)
- CI and Deployment: Continuous Integration: The Rest of the Story by Derek Trepanier, System Engineer, Moore Good Ideas Inc (summary|slides)
- DCAF: Integrating Complex High-Channel-Count Systems With LabVIEW DCAF by Ian Knox, Software Developer, Data Ahead GmbH (summary|slides)
- 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 (summary|slides)
- Use PPLs To Build And Deploy Large Scalable LabVIEW Applications by Matthias Baudot, Software Architect, STUDIO BODs (summary|slides)
- Collaborative Source Control by Matthew Pollock, Senior Software Engineer, Integrated Engineering Services, National Instruments
- Solving Interprocess Communication Challenges with Channel Wires by Jeff Kodosky, Creator of LabVIEW and Founder, National Instruments and Stephen Loftus-Mercer, Principal Software Architect, National Instruments
- What is CompactRIO With NI DAQmx by Eric Myers
- What To Expect When You Are Expecting And Error by Darren Nattinger, Principal Engineer, National Instruments (summary|slides|forum)
- Community Sharing Ideas by Chris Cilino, LabVIEW Framework Architect, Cirrus Logic and Derek Trepanier, System Engineer, Moore Good Ideas Inc