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Learning Hub Webinars Modernizing Engineering Workflows: Altium Designer 25 and the Future of Concurrent Design

Modernizing Engineering Workflows: Altium Designer 25 and the Future of Concurrent Design

In today’s electronics industry, not using tools that promote seamless collaboration across engineering domains can lead to costly delays, errors, and missed opportunities. Without the right solution, teams working in different engineering domains can struggle to stay aligned.

Are you ready to improve your team’s workflow? Altium Designer 25 offers the collaboration tools you need. With integrated ECAD, MCAD, harness, multi-board, simulation, and PCB design functionalities, Altium Designer 25 helps you boost productivity and reduce errors.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:

  • Collaboration-focused functionalities: MCAD CoDesigner, Power Analyzer, Signal Integrity Analyzer, Ansys CoDesigner, and PCB CoDesign.
  • Product design: Multi-board and Harness Design tools for a complete electronic product design flow.
  • Additional features: Improved Constraint Manager, enhanced performance for large designs, new Wire Bonding and Single Layer PCB features, and routing improvements.

By attending this webinar, you'll gain valuable insights into how to leverage the latest tools in Altium Designer 25 to streamline your team's workflow across multiple domains.

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In today’s electronics industry, not using tools that promote seamless collaboration across engineering domains can lead to costly delays, errors, and missed opportunities. Without the right solution, teams working in different engineering domains can struggle to stay aligned.

Are you ready to improve your team’s workflow? Altium Designer 25 offers the collaboration tools you need. With integrated ECAD, MCAD, harness, multi-board, simulation, and PCB design functionalities, Altium Designer 25 helps you boost productivity and reduce errors.

In this webinar recording, you’ll learn about:

  • Collaboration-focused functionalities: MCAD CoDesigner, Power Analyzer, Signal Integrity Analyzer, Ansys CoDesigner, and PCB CoDesign.
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By watching this webinar recording, you'll gain valuable insights into how to leverage the latest tools in Altium Designer 25 to streamline your team's workflow across multiple domains.

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Alex has a background in electrical engineering and a strong passion for technical marketing. Graduating with a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Clemson University in 2018, he has since excelled in various roles within the technology sector. Starting his career at Kyocera AVX, Alex served as an RF Field Applications Engineer, establishing strong client relationships and designing passive bandpass filters and antenna systems. He then transitioned to TDK as an Account Executive, where he provided sales and technical support, leading a dynamic sales team and offering design assistance to customers. Currently, Alex is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Altium, leveraging his technical expertise to develop marketing materials.
 

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Jan Grooten is an Electronics Design Engineer who graduated (MScEE) in Asic design at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Besides Altium, Jan’s work experience includes Ericcsson, Sony and Plantronics where he served as Electronic System Engineer with focus on product development for Bluetooth headsets, with specialisation in small Li-ion batteries and Power management IC's. Jan started his career at Altium in 2017 as Field Application Engineer and is a Certified Interconnect Designer by IPC Council.
 

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With a Master's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, specialising in Microwave and RF Engineering, Amit brings a wealth of technical expertise to the table. He embarked on his journey with Altium in 2020 as a Field Application Engineer. In this role, he is entrusted with driving business growth by supporting new logo acquisitions, renewals, and add-on opportunities.

Before his tenure at Altium, Amit honed his skills as a Sales Application Engineer, where he provided comprehensive support for PCB and IC-package design solutions, alongside adept analysis of signal and power integrity. His experience extends across diverse clientele, ranging from local and global accounts to multi-site enterprises, channel partners, and esteemed government R&D centers.

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Aida works as a Technical Sales Engineer at Altium and is based in the Sydney, Australia office. Aida studied Electrical/Electronic Engineering and completed Master of Engineering (MEng) Field of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Aida also completed certificates in Microcontroller Programming, Project Management Principles and Practices Specialization from the university of UC Irvine California. Aida has experience as an Electrical Engineer, Business Development Manager, Project Manager, Operations Manager, most recently in the last 10 years prior to joining Altium working in Engineering Process improvement. The most important thing that she always focuses on in her career is communication and trust. Aida strongly believes that communication is the solvent of all problems, when the trust accountability is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

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Nourhene is an Electronic Engineer specializing in PCB Design and FPGA Programming, holding a Master’s degree in RFID technologies. Since joining Altium in 2019, she has partnered closely with the sales team to support both prospects and existing customers through technical sales and marketing initiatives across Altium’s portfolio.

Before Altium, Nourhene designed complex PCBs for Automotive and Aerospace applications at large international companies, where she also managed comprehensive testing processes. She has extensive experience collaborating with PCB manufacturers across Europe and Asia. Nourhene holds CID certification and is a certified Altium Designer Trainer.

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Martin Malenica has a masters in electronic and computer engineering at the University of Zagreb. His previous experience consists of multiple embedded systems positions at robotics start-ups (Gideon with USD 35m in Seed and Series-A funding) and SMEs. His engineering strengths lie in system architecture, PCB design and embedded programming. Aside from engineering, Martin has spent the last 1.5 years working at a leading European management consulting firm, where he focused on strategies to support large OEMs and Tier-1s regarding the current semiconductor shortage across the whole EMEA region. Martin has practical experience within AD, but also a good understanding of competitor tools, especially on the procurement and supply chain side, like Everstream, Resilinc, Silicon Expert, Z2Data etc. Martin Joined Altium in 2023 as part of the Technical Sales team in Germany.
 

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Daniel joined Altium in 2019 as an Application engineer and moved into the Technical Sales role in the same year. Daniel provides technical assistance for sales, third party distributors, and customers in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) and is based in the Altium Tokyo, Japan office. Daniel has experience with PCB,  FPGA, and ASIC design in telecommunication and Information industries. 
 

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Victor is a Field Applications Engineer (FAE) at Altium, where he combines technical expertise with a customer-centric approach. With over 10 years of developing electronics for the automotive and railway industry and two years of experience as a dedicated 3D-Electronics application engineer, establishing strong client relations within the EMEA and North American market. His primary focus is to ensure customer satisfaction by providing simple solutions to the customer's complex problems.

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Aiden은 대학에서 전자공학을 전공하였으며 PCB 설계 분야의 R&D로 7년 이상의 경험을 가지고 있습니다. 그는 전자 제품을 위한 SMPS, 인버터, 컨버터 설계 경험이 있습니다. 제품 프로젝트를 이끌었으며 설계, 관리, 인증 제품 테스트와 같은 모든 작업을 경험했습니다. 그리고 한국 리셀러(Hancom Intelligence) 팀에서 4년 이상 Altium Designer 사용자들을 위한 기술 지원 및 교육을 제공했습니다. Concord Pro와 Altium 365를 사용하여 PLM 요구 사항에 대한 컨설팅 및 지원을 했습니다. 또한 Altium Designer에 대한 수십 차례의 교육 및 웨비나를 경험했습니다.
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