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NAFEMS is an independent not-for-profit company, with the mission to provide knowledge, international collaboration and educational opportunities for the use and validation of engineering simulation. NAFEMS is widely held to be the leading independent source of information and training for engineering analysts and designers at all levels. On the 15th and 16th of October, will take place the NAFEMS European Conference: Simulation-Based Optimisation in London.

Neural Concept has been invited to hold a presentation there on the 15th of October. Pierre Baqué, our CEO, will speak about 3D Deep-learning Based Surrogate Modeling and Optimisation, its applications and advantages in today’s industrial world. It will be followed by a Q&A session, so do not hesitate to come and discuss with us about the current and upcoming challenges in simulation !

Member of our board, Dr. François Fleuret, currently Senior Scientist at Idiap and head of the machine learning group, has been appointed Adjunct Professor at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). Congratulations François for this achievement!

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/nominations-of-epfl-professors-132/

More than one year ago, we started to collaborate with the IUT Annecy to compete for The World Human Powered Speed Challenge. This is a competition involving bicycles designed by teams of university students, and the goal is, of course, to be the fastest. During the Challenge, the pilot will have to ride down a 200-meter stretch of straight, flat road as fast as possible, after a run-up of 8 km in the Nevada desert.

We used our software, Neural Concept Shape, to optimize the aerodynamic performances of the bike, making sure Fabien Canal and Ilona Peltier, the two pilots, could make the most out of the bike. After a first year where the team beat the french record in the male category , they were back this year. And guess what, the competition is not yet finished and they have already beaten two world records ! Here is the video of their amazing adventure : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ67PdsEPgQ&feature=youtu.be

In the men category, Fabien managed to reach a top speed of 136.74 km/h, new French and European record, but also the new world university record !
At 30 years old, Fabien is now the second fastest man in the world, behind the Canadian Todd RICHERT (144.17 km/h).

In the women category, Ilona reached a top speed of 124.05 km/h, new world record across all categories !
At 19 years old, Ilona is now the world’s fastest woman !

Neural Concept would like to congratulate the whole team from IUT Annecy for this great achievement, we are very proud to have contributed by designing Altaïr, a bike designed exclusively and entirely by Neural Concept Shape, without any human intervention.

We are very excited to announce that the team from the University of Annecy is back to Battle Mountain, Arizona, with the goal of breaking the Human Powered Speed world record! Last year, they broke the french record with a bicycle design that was optimized with the help of Neural Concept Shape. This year, the design remains the same, but major additional features make it a good candidate to go much faster.

• Very low rolling resistance Michelin Tires
• Bearing in ceramic in the transmission
• Camera vision instead of periscope
• Improvement of pilote’s breath
• New frame, new fork, therefore new geometry

Their objective is to reach the academic record of 133,78km/h and beat the absolute word record of 144,17km/h!

We have collaborated with this great team in 2018 to optimize the shape of the bike’s shell. We wish them good luck and all the best for their new project!

Follow their adventures on Youtube:

We recently took part in DSM Additive Manufacturing event in Eindhoven. During two days, Pierre Baqué (CEO) played the game of speed dating with DSM and other industry experts. In addition, this event was such a good opportunity to network and share with the other participating startups.
Edit : We have been selected with four other start-up to join the accelerator program of DSM additive manufacturing ! Looking forward to bring our contribution to the additive manufacturing industry.

We have been invited to an event co-organised by Nvidia – AWS and HTGF. It took place in the new offices of Amazon in Munich, where we also had the opportunity to participate to a pitch competition with other invited start-ups. It was a great moment to discuss and exchange experiences.

We are looking forward to more events like this one. Moreover, we managed to win the pitch competition !