Ok, first and foremost, contrary to what Josh may have said via Twitter, I was not taking shots every time ‘Cloud’ was mentioned. I just want to get that out of the way.
Now for the good stuff…
5000+ attendees at SolidWorks world this year. That is an awesome number! A surprising one, too. Given the economy, one wouldn’t have thought that SWW attendance would exceed last year’s. Very impressive.
Jeff Ray started things off, as usual. He then introduced Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systemes’ CEO, who talked about Dassault, how the acquired SolidWorks and where the company is going. If his vision comes true, life for designers will be very different come 2021.
Jeff then brought up Jeremy Luchini and the guy from Prototype this (my note taking abilities suck). They built an electric 1933 roadster! It is, in a word, awesome! I’m going to try to lay out some bribes to take it for a spin around the convention center. How many electric cars do you know of that can bust out tire burning donuts? Awesome!
It was time for a sneak peek into the future and what did we see? Well, what I saw was my presentation being obsoleted right before my eyes. Here I am, nervous as hell to do this presentation on how to maintain your hardware and drivers, and SolidWorks is looking at moving to the cloud. That’s right, the cloud. That means any computer, any OS. It’s years away, but it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. Right now, I see bandwidth being a huge issue.
The session ended with James McLurkin, roboticist extraordinaire. This guy, like me, makes being a geek cool. He’s one of the top robot guys in the world and is doing some amazing stuff with them. He did allay the fears of robots ever taking over the world. Not sure if that’s good or bad.
It’s actually Tuesday right now. I had nothing but problems getting this post done yesterday. Today I have two presentations. Frankly, I’m nervous as hell. Depending on how they go, I may be quite hungover tomorrow.
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