Speakers:

John Nixon

Group Vice President

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Ravi Aglave

Director for Chemical & Process Industry

Siemens

Details:

Date : May 29, 2026
Time: 1:30 PM -  3:30 PM
Location: University of Houston, Sugarland Campus

Seminar Overview: 

It is a widely held belief that digitalization helps companies make smarter decisions while adapting quickly to change. Digital transformation fuels growth, innovation, & efficiency. Challenge arises when “how” of the transformation needs to be addressed. Siemens uses specific proven methods to help companies achieve their transformation goals. The outcome of the transformation is comprehensive Digital Twin, which allows companies to experiment with ideas digitally before implementing them in real life, real time. Core Physico-chemical behavior of processes is captured using underlying comprehensive simulation, projected on to interfaces with which engineers can interact giving rise to the executable Digital Twin. In this talk we will explore what are the key requirements of such digital transformation with plenty of examples of how it has been successfully implemented. 

About the Speakers:

John is the Global Group Vice President for Process Industries which includes Energy, Chemicals, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Life Sciences at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Prior to his current role at Siemens, John was the global industry lead for Energy, Chemicals and Infrastructure at DI SW where global industry performance grew from $7M in FY2016 revenue to over $320M in FY2025. Prior to Siemens, John has founded multiple energy and technology startups and led global business development in China, Romania, Panama, and the USA. He has developed clinical trial management systems for monoclonal antibody R&D. He has managed greenfield and brownfield projects with oil and mining companies in Canada and China and implemented pipeline asset integrity programs in the USA and Mexico. John holds patents for pipe-lining technology and serves as an executive member of the US-based Cleantech Alliance and the Program Advisory Committee for the Government of Canada National Research Council Construction Sector Digitalization and Productivity Program. He has also served on numerous boards of technology firms and university R&D associations. John graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and completed executive studies at MIT and INSEAD.

Ravi Aglave is the Director for Chemical & Process Industry. In this role, he is responsible for bringing new modeling and physics knowledge into Siemens Simcenter simulation portfolio that can be deployed in the industry to solve challenging problems.Ravi joined Siemens in 2012. Ravi’s expertise resides in engineering backed by simulation and modelling in the chemical industry.He has previously held research and engineering positions at BASF (Germany), Bechtel (Houston, USA) and Callidus Technologies Inc. (Tulsa, USA). His field of research in University has been gas-liquid flows, chemical kinetics and combustion.