Category: SolidWorks World

New head at SolidWorks Corp

Bertrand SicotToday, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp accounced that executive vice president of sales, Bertrand Sicot, is now the new CEO.  Former CEO, Jeff Ray, was promoted into a leadership role at Dassault Systèmes based in Vélizy, France.  Sicot started his career at DS SolidWorks in 1997 as the regional sales manager for Western Europe and Scandinavia. SolidWorks Corp stated that ” Sicot has consistently improved worldwide distribution performance, revenue, profit, and global market share.”

Ray is moving to DS corporate HQ in France as Executive Vice President of Geographic Operations and “will oversee the company’s 12 geographies to enable local DS teams to better address the specific local challenges facing customers and partners.”

Sicot brings his own brand of excitement and interest.  In his first public message as CEO, he declares, “one of the first things I ever designed and built at the age of 13—a remote-control boat with full wood hull and electric drive—still works.”  He also talks about the excitement he has for “technology [SolidWorks is] building with our next-generation platform” and for the SolidWorks company and its customers.

Both Sicot and Ray will attend at SolidWorks World 2011.

SolidWorks World 2011 Twitter feed

I tried to have a twitter feed on SolidWorks Legion for SolidWorks World 2010 back in 2009.   That didn’t turn out well for various reasons.  Well, I’m going it a try again.  I’ve copied the twitter feed (Yahoo! Pipes) that appears at SolidWorks World Connent.  It’s modified to include both hashtags #SWW11 and #SolidWorks.  It is currently up and running on the right side menu.  If all goes well, I’ll have this twitter feed up until after SolidWorks World 2011 next year.

SolidWorks World 2011 Connect Tweets

I mentioned SolidWorks World 2011 Connect website a couple days ago.  I guess it was a little ironic that my tweet about the Connect website was the first tweet to appear on the Connect website.   I guess even more ironic is that this article (the one that you are reading right now) will likely be the second tweet to appear.  🙂  No, no, I take that back.  I’ve purposefully left off the #sww11 hatchtag to avoid just that.

1st SolidWorks World 2011 Connect Tweet

SolidWorks World 2011 Connect

SolidWorks World 2011 Connect

Even though SolidWorks World 2011 is quite a number of months away, SolidWorks Corp wishes to keep everyone in-the-know.  SolidWorks World 2011 Connect is on the SolidWorks website.  The new webpage features feeds from Twitter hashtag #SWW11, many SolidWorks blogs, and the SolidWorks World forum.

Even for the casual reader, this aggregation webpage may be a good one-stop location to see whats going in the realm of SolidWorks World 2011.  There is content that will be relatable for most types of SolidWorks users.

  • The Twitter feeds tend to be live and very lively.
  • The blogs are usually in depth with a lot of helpful information.
  • The forums are a good place to interact with the online SolidWorks community for questions and answers.

Hotels on KAYAK for San Antonio, TX SolidWorks World 2011

There’s a funny commercial from Priceline.com where William Shatner plays his own evil twin who tries to talk someone into booking through a website that is offering a sale by declaring, “it’s a sa-ell; nothing beats a sa-ell.”

This is a sly reference to a Star Trek episode where Kirk did indeed have an evil twin.

As far as getting good prices for rooms and flights for SolidWorks World 2011, be sure to shop around.  If bidding on rooms and flights isn’t your thing, then check out KAYAK.  It provides alerts via email when deals that fit your criteria become available from almost any other travel site.

Also, be aware that business travel is more complex in these times of airline baggage fees, carry on bag fees, handling fees, overweight fees, Groundhog Day fees, unleavened bread fees, etc.  Many travel agencies simply will not handle baggage and other particular fees, which leaves the traveller to pay when they arrive at the airport.   Reimbursement for these on-the-spot fees from your company can be a serious pain.  Have you ever tried collecting credit card interest from an employer?  It’s next to impossible.

So, travellers should be cautious and frugal.  Plan ahead for any trips.  It’s hard to believe that SolidWorks World 2011 is so near.  Didn’t we just get done with 2010?