Ep 22 – More Perspectives on the Shift-Left and the Comprehensive Digital Twin with Mike Crist and Scot Morrison – Part 3
Season 2 of the Industry Forward Podcast continues with another three-part series on the intricacies of shifting left with the comprehensive digital twin. Today, we are back with the final part of our conversation with Mike Crist, Industry Strategist for Aerospace, Defense, and Transportation at Siemens Digital Industries Software, and, returning, Scot Morrison, Vice President of Shift-Left Software Product Management in the Hardware Assisted Verification Group at Siemens EDA.
In this final part of the discussion, we’ll talk about:
- How organizations are expanding AI to turn institutional experience into active assistance for developers, engineers, and other users.
- Why companies are rethinking legacy business models in the face of complexity and rapid change.
- And how a hybrid approach to shift left testing paired with cross, disciplined collaboration can accelerate validation and drive customer-focused transformations.
Thanks for listening!
Scot Morrison – Vice President of Shift Left Software Product Management – Hardware Assisted Verification
As Vice President of Shift-Left Software Product Management, Scot is responsible for the product management team overseeing virtual platform simulation products, embedded software, system of systems digital twins, SoC architectural analysis, and related tools. Scot has worked in embedded software, system modeling, and controls for more than 30 years. Scot holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, and a Masters of Aerospace Control Systems from MIT.
Mike Crist – Industry Strategist for Aerospace, Defense, and Transport at Siemens Digital Industries Software
Mike looks for trends in the aerospace, defense, and transportation industries. His current focus includes digital engineering, model based engineering, digital thread technologies and digital twin technologies.
Dale Tutt – Vice President of Industry Strategy, Siemens Digital Industries Software
Dale Tutt is Vice President of Industry Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Dale leads a team of experts to develop and execute industry-specific product and marketing strategies in collaboration with the global product, sales, and business development teams. With over 5 years of experience in this role combined with extensive experience in the aerospace and defense industry, Dale has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing companies as they embark on their digital transformation journeys.
Conor Peick – Moderator
Conor Peick is a Marketing Professional helping to create forward-looking content for the Thought Leadership team at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Conor collaborates with seasoned industry experts and executives to produce podcasts, articles, blogs, and other forms of content focused on the trends and challenges companies face in the future, and the technologies that may provide solutions.
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Join industry experts to explore the key trends, transformative technologies and real-world innovations that are reshaping fields from aerospace, industrial machinery and semiconductors to pharmaceuticals and beyond. Each episode delivers an in-depth discussion on the dynamic challenges industries are facing and how digitalization driven by AI, software and the comprehensive digital twin is meeting those challenges today and redefining the global industry of tomorrow.


