Presentations

Talks & presentations

Conference talks on Collective System Design™ and Axiomatic Design. Each deck runs in the browser — use the arrow keys or on-screen controls, present full-screen, or download the PDF.

Title slide of the ICAD 2026 presentation
ICAD 2026 · MIT

Axiomatic Design Foundations for AI-Driven Collective System Design

Dr. David S. Cochran — International Conference on Axiomatic Design (ICAD 2026), MIT

How Collective System Design and Axiomatic Design provide the structure for trustworthy AI in engineering education — from the Flame Model and the CSD 12-Step process to the AI-augmented Requirements Ledger that audits a design without ever authoring it.

Title slide of the Flame AI presentation
ICAD 2026 · MIT

Flame AI — Collective System Design in Healthcare

Clement Tan Yong Wei & Dr. David S. Cochran — International Conference on Axiomatic Design (ICAD 2026), MIT

Can AI reduce the time it takes to scale Collective System Design across a large enterprise? Flame AI runs the CSD 12-Step method as XML-gated viewpoints over an LLM — walked end-to-end through a hospital med-surg supply problem, from root-cause and functional requirements to an axiomatic decomposition the tool automatically decouples.

More presentations to come.