Achieving Value in Weeks: Accelerating Process Adoption with Frameworks

This presentation will describe how well‑defined process frameworks, built collaboratively with customers and consultants, enables organizations to not only define strong processes but also ensure they are used effectively in projects to improve project process and product quality.

The session will cover:

• Collaborative Development: How customer and consultant engagement drives the creation of practical, standards‑compliant, and ready‑to‑use process framework content
• What’s New in Automotive Process Framework (APF) V8.0.0: Key updates and new content released
• Frameworks roadmap: Using the APF to develop frameworks for new industries, beginning with Defense Vehicles & Systems and Industrial Systems development, including support for the EU Cyber Resilience Act
• Value in action: How process frameworks accelerate definition and real project adoption of processes using Stages, enabling measurable improvements in both process and product quality

About the Speaker

Steven Beard

I lead UL Solutions’ SIS Content Products portfolio, including the Automotive Process Framework (APF), development of adjacent industry process frameworks, and reference models for Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, and Industrial sectors. With nearly 30 years of experience in regulated industries, I specialize in unifying complex and overlapping engineering standards into cohesive, well architected usable processes that accelerate compliance and adoption. Through close collaboration with customers and consultants, I deliver content products that reduce effort, shorten time‑to‑value, and improve both process and product quality. Above all, I am an engineer at heart, committed to helping organizations strengthen their capabilities and achieve meaningful, measurable improvements.