WEBINAR: Time to First Article - NASA, Airbus & Agentic AI

September 29, 2026
2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT

Getting from concept to working hardware has been aerospace's slowest, costliest step. This session shows how agentic AI for engineering is compressing that timeline, freeing engineers to build the best design, not just a workable one. NASA Goddard's Ryan McClelland shares how his team scaled from a handful of design variants to over one hundred in an hour, still meeting every requirement. Airbus's Patrick Kunert shows how automated design-to-cost workflows compress prototyping timelines into days. Synera's Wallace Scott unpacks what slows down concept-to-hardware at major aerospace primes, and what changes when AI agents take over the routine work.

Attend this webinar and learn:

How NASA compressed spacecraft design from a handful of variants to over 100 in an hour, without missing a single requirement.
How Airbus turned a multi-week design-to-cost review cycle into a single day by automating design, stress, and cost checks together.
When to leverage hard-coded API connectors vs MCP in your automations and AI agents.
Where agentic AI can take over routine parts of engineering work, and where a human still needs to finish the job.

Speakers:

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Ryan McClelland
AI Infusion Lead, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center