Upgrade Your PLM, Accelerate Your Innovation: Arena in Action
Dan Climent, Panelists: Charles Vernor, Penny Dalton, Jeff Nichols
kHUB post date: December 10, 2025
Watch time: 60 minutes
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As legacy PLM systems reach the end of their lifecycle, organizations face a critical question: how do you migrate with minimal disruption while unlocking future-ready capabilities?
Hear how organizations successfully migrated from their legacy systems to Arena, with insights from a partner who specializes in system migrations. Learn practical strategies and actionable tips to help your teams embrace a modern, scalable platform that supports faster, smarter product development.
Following the panel, see Arena in action with a short demo highlighting how the platform unifies product information, connects teams across engineering, quality, and supply chain, and helps maintain compliance—all while enabling faster, smarter, and more scalable product development.
Key Takeaways:
- How to plan a low-risk, successful PLM migration.
- Strategies to avoid common pitfalls during system transitions.
- Lessons learned from organizations that have successfully transitioned from legacy solutions like Agile to Arena
- How Arena enables faster, smarter, and more scalable product development
About the Presenters
Dan Climent
Dan Climent is an accomplished leader in sales consulting and product lifecycle management. As Vice President of Enterprise Growth at Arena by PTC, he specializes in helping organizations streamline business processes and drive enterprise growth. Dan holds a B.S. in Industrial Technology from Cal Poly and brings extensive expertise in enterprise software, supply chain management, and business process optimization.
Additional members of our speaker panel:
- Penny Dalton - Associate Director, Quality Affairs Configuration Management and Document Control, at Galvanize Therapeutics Inc
- Jeff Nichols - Vice President - Professional Services at Domain Systems, Inc
- Charles Vernor – Solution Architect at Arena by PTC
Penny Dalton
Penny Dalton is Associate Director of Quality Affairs, Configuration Management, and Document Control at Galvanize Therapeutics. She has extensive experience in quality systems, regulatory compliance, and product lifecycle management for medical devices and healthcare technology. Her background includes leadership roles at Amazon Web Services, EMulate Therapeutics, and Natus Medical, with deep expertise in FDA and ISO standards and driving operational excellence.
Jeff Nichols
Jeff Nichols, VP of Professional Services at Domain Systems, has over 20 years of experience helping companies modernize product development with PLM solutions. He specializes in guiding organizations through cloud transitions, improving collaboration, and accelerating time-to-market.
Charles Vernor
Charles Vernor, a Solution Architect at Arena Solutions, a PTC Company, with over 10 years of experience implementing PLM solutions for medical device enterprises to meet FDA, EU, and global compliance requirements. Charles also specializes in BOM design, change management, and PLM-to-ERP integrations for High Tech and Aerospace & Defense organizations.