As part of IIoT World’s 2023 Energy Day, Kevin O’Donovan brought together a panel to talk about the role of digital twins in the energy transition:

• Peter Terwilliger from Dassault Systèmes

• Brad Johnson from Bentley Systems

• Scott Hamilton from Unity

• Guy Gueritz from NVIDIA

Topics of discussion included: 

• Accelerating infrastructure design

• Simulation for scenario planning

• Optimizing operations and maintenance

• Collaboration and knowledge sharing

• The next generation of digital twins 

• Digitalization is hard

• But it’s not just for the big players anymore

• Costs, investment, and returns

And here are a few snippets from the panelists.

“This is not new, but it's different ... We need to understand what we have; modeling our existing infrastructure, know what it is, know what it does, know its limitations. And we're going to need to grab and collate and gather and analyze reams of existing data from all over the place, all different systems, all different challenges, everything else.”

- Peter Terwilliger from Dassault Systèmes

“So all of this digital twin stuff is now possible to model. Everything that can be built starts off in the virtual world.”

- Guy Gueritz from NVIDIA

“We have to leverage these new emerging usage patterns for digital twins to enable us to keep up with the work that the quality of life of our communities depend on.”

- Brad Johnson from Bentley Systems

“It's about building a twin infrastructure that can manage this content that's being created in a new way…you get a variety of live systems that are out there that need to integrate into the digital twin in order to work.”

- Scott Hamilton from Unity

Watch the full on-demand session.

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