{"id":441,"date":"2025-06-27T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/istfa\/keynote-sessions\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:30:25","slug":"keynote-sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/istfa-event\/learn\/keynote-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heat Treat Keynote<br \/><\/strong>Thursday, October 23\u00a0 |\u00a0 9:15 \u2013 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 |\u00a0 Exhibit Hall B - Industry Forum<\/p><p><strong>Justin Persinger<br \/><\/strong>Senior Manufacturing Engineer<br \/>Manufacturing Process Analysis<br \/>General Motors<\/p><p><strong>Solution Left: The Story of Virtual Heat Treatment Simulation at General Motors<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>Heat Treat Keynotes<\/h2><p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-819\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/istfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/Sridhar-Seetharaman.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\" \/><br \/><strong>Heat Treat Keynote<br \/><\/strong>Wednesday, October 22\u00a0 |\u00a0 9:15 \u2013 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 |\u00a0 Exhibit Hall B - Industry Forum\u00a0<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Dr. Sridhar Seetharaman<br \/><\/strong>CEO, EPIXC<br \/>Chief Science Officer, Fulton School of Engineering<br \/>Arizona State University<\/p><p><strong>Electrification of Industrial Heat<\/strong><\/p>\n\nABSTRACT &amp; BIOGRAPHY\n\nABSTRACT &amp; BIOGRAPHY\n\n<h2>ICRS Keynotes<\/h2><p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-1535\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/istfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/Furrer-240x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p><p><strong>ICRS Keynote<br \/><\/strong>Monday, October 20\u00a0 |\u00a0 3:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.\u00a0 |\u00a0 Room 141<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>David Furrer<br \/><\/strong>Principal Fellow, Discipline Lead<br \/>Pratt and Whitney<\/p><p><strong>Interdisciplinary Aspects of Residual Stress Application and Control within Engineering Workflows<\/strong><\/p>\n\nABSTRACT &amp; BIOGRAPHY\n\nABSTRACT &amp; BIOGRAPHY\n\n<h1>Keynote Sessions<\/h1>\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<h6>Tuesday, October 6, 2026 | 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Exhibit Hall - Industry Forum<\/h6>\n\n<p><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2751 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-prd-main.asm-media.cloud\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2026\/05\/jeff_rearick_2024-264x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p><h4>Jeff Rearick, AMD<\/h4><p><strong>\u00a0<br \/><\/strong><strong>Biography<\/strong>: Jeff Rearick is a Senior Fellow at AMD. He has been with AMD for 19 years and leads the DFX Strategy team, whose mission is to look just far enough into the future of test and debug and validation to keep a steady stream of innovations coming down the pipeline to intercept ever-advancing AMD products. Jeff is a member of the International Test Conference Steering Committee, served as ITC Program Chair in 2023, has served on Program Committee for the European Test Symposium, is a longstanding member of the IEEE Test Technology Standards Committee, and is currently the Editor for three IEEE working groups (IEEE 1687, P1687.1, and P1687.2). Prior to joining AMD, he did test engineering and DFT design at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies for 22 years. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from Purdue University and the University of Illinois, respectively.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":71671,"featured_media":0,"parent":443,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-441","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"bricks_content":"<p><strong>Heat Treat Keynote<br \/><\/strong>Thursday, October 23\u00a0 |\u00a0 9:15 \u2013 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 |\u00a0 Exhibit Hall B - Industry Forum<\/p><p><strong>Justin Persinger<br \/><\/strong>Senior Manufacturing Engineer<br \/>Manufacturing Process Analysis<br \/>General Motors<\/p><p><strong>Solution Left: The Story of Virtual Heat Treatment Simulation at General Motors<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>Heat Treat Keynotes<\/h2><p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-819\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/istfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/Sridhar-Seetharaman.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"152\" \/><br \/><strong>Heat Treat Keynote<br \/><\/strong>Wednesday, October 22\u00a0 |\u00a0 9:15 \u2013 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 |\u00a0 Exhibit Hall B - Industry Forum\u00a0<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Dr. Sridhar Seetharaman<br \/><\/strong>CEO, EPIXC<br \/>Chief Science Officer, Fulton School of Engineering<br \/>Arizona State University<\/p><p><strong>Electrification of Industrial Heat<\/strong><\/p>\n\nABSTRACT &amp; BIOGRAPHY\n\nABSTRACT &amp; BIOGRAPHY\n\n<h2>ICRS Keynotes<\/h2><p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-1535\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/istfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2025\/07\/Furrer-240x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p><p><strong>ICRS Keynote<br \/><\/strong>Monday, October 20\u00a0 |\u00a0 3:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.\u00a0 |\u00a0 Room 141<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>David Furrer<br \/><\/strong>Principal Fellow, Discipline Lead<br \/>Pratt and Whitney<\/p><p><strong>Interdisciplinary Aspects of Residual Stress Application and Control within Engineering Workflows<\/strong><\/p>\n\nABSTRACT &amp; BIOGRAPHY\n\nABSTRACT &amp; BIOGRAPHY\n\n<h1>Keynote Sessions<\/h1>\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<h6>Tuesday, October 6, 2026 | 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Exhibit Hall - Industry Forum<\/h6>\n\n<p><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2751 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-prd-main.asm-media.cloud\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2026\/05\/jeff_rearick_2024-264x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p><h4>Jeff Rearick, AMD<\/h4><p><strong>\u00a0<br \/><\/strong><strong>Biography<\/strong>: Jeff Rearick is a Senior Fellow at AMD. He has been with AMD for 19 years and leads the DFX Strategy team, whose mission is to look just far enough into the future of test and debug and validation to keep a steady stream of innovations coming down the pipeline to intercept ever-advancing AMD products. Jeff is a member of the International Test Conference Steering Committee, served as ITC Program Chair in 2023, has served on Program Committee for the European Test Symposium, is a longstanding member of the IEEE Test Technology Standards Committee, and is currently the Editor for three IEEE working groups (IEEE 1687, P1687.1, and P1687.2). Prior to joining AMD, he did test engineering and DFT design at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies for 22 years. 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