There is a new SolidWorks World 2010 resource that which attendees may take advantage. It is the SolidWorks World 2010 mapyourshow.com website. It allows you to view the facilities, plan your booth visitations, search and contact exhibitors, and plan attendance for events. The only major drawback is that it doesn’t seem to link events with MS Outlook. However, the maps of the convention center are worth the price of admission to the website (free). 🙂
Tag: Anaheim
SWW09: Wednesday General Session (Part 3: Jeff Ray makes announcements)
First, the fun fact. SolidWorks World 2010 will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Southern California. I think this is good for many of us left coasters, but also for those from the Asian Pacific areas and Central America; it means visitors from the East Coast and Europe will have to do more planning.
In a pre-announcement of sorts, Ray spoke about a new program that will start later this year called Engineering Stimulus Package. This program is designed to support engineers who have lost their job through no fault of their own in the current difficult economic environment. A free personal version of SolidWorks will be given to such individuals, along with contact with their local VAR. In a news conference later today, Jeff Ray added that this program is similar to another program implemented by SolidWorks Corp during the last economic downturn. The key difference this time is that this new program will have the goal to help the participicants to achieve a CSWA, which will give them an advantage by providing certification of their skillset related to SolidWorks. He also added that the roll out of this program will be in different stages around the world, but that it will be global (not North American centric). A forecoming official press release will have more details later this year.
Ray announced that there is a new program in Ireland where 18,000 seats will be placed in over 900 schools around the country, giving 16 to 18 year-olds the opportunity to use 3D CAD software earlier in their schooling. Currently, there are over a 1 million students using SolidWorks worldwide.
He made several other announcements that I may cover via other articles.