A Who's-Who of the engineering software community(CAD/CAE/CAM/PDM/PLM/BIM/GIS) is expected to participate in COFES 2008.
As of April 8, 2008, COFES 2008 attendees include:
Al Dean, Managing Editor, DEVELOP3D Magazine, X3DMedia
Aleksandra Suhanova, Publisher and Managing Director, CAD/CAM/CAE Observer, CAD/CAM Media Publishing
Allan Behrens, Director, Cambashi
Allen Razdow, President & Founder, Beehive Engineering Systems
Amy Coronato Osborn, Publisher, Cadalyst, Questex Media
Amy Stankiewicz, Editor-in-Chief, Cadalyst Magazine, Questex Media
Andreas Vlahinos, Principal, Advanced Engineering Solutions
Andrew Anagnost, Vice-President, Manufacturing CAD/CAE Products, Autodesk
Anthony Duca, COO, Bunkspeed
Anton van den Hengel, Director, Australian Center Visual Technologies
Attilio Rimoldi, Chairman, RIWEBB
Bill Barnes, General Manager, Lattice Technology
Bill Carrelli, Vice-President, Strategic Marketing & Business Development, Siemens PLM Software
Bill Floyd, Information Systems Fellow, Raytheon
Bill Kemper, CEO, Magister Operis
Bob Bean, Executive Vice-President, Kubotek USA
Bob Bennett, Vice-President of Marketing, Luxology
Bob Courtland, President, Robert D. Courtland, Chtd.
Bob Deragisch, Manager, Enterprise Systems, Parker Hannifin
Bob Konczal, CTO, CATI-InFlow Technology
Bob Mayer, COO, IMSI/Design
Bob McNeel, President, Robert McNeel & Associates
Bob Norton, Program Director, IBM PLM, IBM
Brad Holtz, President & CEO, Cyon Research
Brent Sherwood, Manager, Strategic Planning and Project Formulation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Brian Seitz, Senior Consultant, Cyon Research
Brian Vaillancourt, Publisher, Desktop Engineering
Bruce Bartolf, Vice-President & CTO, Gensler
Bruce Jenkins, President of Research, Spar Point Research
Bryan Baker, Enterprise Consultant, Xerox
Buzz Kross, Senior Vice-President, Manufacturing Solutions, Autodesk
Carl Bass, President & CEO, Autodesk
Carlos Koch, CEO, Wintel
Carol Popovich, Microchip Academic Program, Microchip Technology
Carolyn Castillo, Business Operations Specialist, Boeing
Chad Sanderson, Spatial
Charles Fodor, Director of Development, Europe, Cyon Research
Chris Brown, Manager, Analyst Relations, PTC
Chris De Neef, Partner, Biznessence
Chris Forbes, CEO, Knovel Corporation
Chris France, CIO, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting
Chris Kay, CEO, IntegWare
Chris Kelley, Vice-President, Partner & Platform Marketing, Siemens PLM Software
Chris Randles, Entrepreneur in Residence, Borealis Ventures
Chuck Eastman, Professor & Director, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chuck Paulsen, Director of Business Strategy, AMPS Technologies
Clem Meas, President, quickSTART Consulting
Dallas Beddingfield, Research Analyst, Evolution Computing
Dan Garms, CEO, The Garms Group
Dan Meyer, President, Comet Solutions
Dan Raker, President, ConnectPress
Dave Burdick, President, Collaborative Visions
Dave Cohn, Contributing Editor, CADCAMNet
Dave Kasik, Technical Fellow, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
Dave Ullman, President, Robust Decisions
Dave Weisberg, Chief Industry Strategist, Cyon Research
David Forrester, Managing Director, LightWork Design
David Heller, President, IB Systems
David Jordani, President, Jordani Consulting Group
David Prawel, President, LongView Advisors
Davis Marques, Ph.D. Candidate, Simon Fraser University
Deelip Menezes, Contributing Editor, WorldCADAccess and Blogger, Deelip.com
Deke Smith, Senior Analyst, Cyon Research
Dick Morley, Senior Analyst, Cyon Research
Dick Sowar, CEO, FreeDesign
Dirk Johnson, IS Manager, Mortenson Construction
Doc Hall, Editor-in-Chief, Target, Association for Manufacturing Excellence
Don Richardson, Director, Global Innovation and PLM Industry Strategy, Microsoft
Donald Thompson, President, I-Cubed
Donghoon Yang, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology
Elena Fernandez, Analyst Relations, IBM
Evan Caille, Manager, ME Tools, Hewlett-Packard
Evan Yares, President, Purecor
Francis Cadin, CEO, DATAKIT
Gary D'Arcy, CEO, DRCauto
Gary Vanderplaats, CEO, Vanderplaats R&D
Gavin Bridgeman, Director of Product Marketing, Tech Soft 3D
Geoff Butlin, CEO, TranscenData Europe
George Wong, Senior Principal Engineer, Boeing
Gian Paolo Bassi, CTO, RIWEBB
Glen Smith, CEO, DriveWorks
Graham Ross, Director of Research and Advanced Development, Cardinal Health
Grant Rochelle, Industry & Competitive Intellegence, Autodesk
Grant Williard, Vice-President Product Management, MFG.com
Hal Burstein, CPA, Burstein & Associates
Hannes Ahorner, CEO, B&W Software
Hans Ehrnrooth, President, Tekla
Ian Howell, CEO, Newforma
Igor Rozenberg, Design Automation Strategist, Husky Injection Molding Systems
Jack Ring, Senior Analyst, Cyon Research
Jacques Bonot, Marketing Manager, Sogitec
Jay Vleeschhouwer, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch
Jeff Drust, Consultant, Adapx
Jeff Ray, Chief Executive Officer, SolidWorks
Jerome Pirot, Developer, Sogitec
Jerry Walters, Vice-President Marketing, Spatial
Jesse Devitte, Managing Director, Borealis Ventures
Jim Brown, Vice-President, Product Innovation & Engineering Research, Aberdeen Group
Jim Culberson, Managing Director, Matrix Applied Computing
Jin-Kook Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology
Joan Kelly, Publisher, Design News
Joe Morray, President, Trinity Technologies
Joe Walsh, Vice-President Business Development, Simmetrix
Joel Orr, Vice-President & Chief Visionary, Cyon Research
John Alpine, Vice-President of Research and Development, Spatial
John Callen, Vice-President, Marketing, Gibbs & Associates
John MacKrell, Senior Analyst, CIMdata
John Manderfield, Chairman, PLM World, Design Manager, Consolidated Container
John Miller, Graduate Student, Old Dominion University
Jon Hirschtick, Group Executive, SolidWorks
Jon Jarrett, Director, PLM World and Manager, Engineering Systems, ATK Launch Systems
Jon Peddie, President, Jon Peddie Research
JP Leiva, President & COO, Vanderplaats R&D
Julie Bou, Vice-President, Business Development, Ashlar-Vellum
Karl Ulrich, Professor & Chair, Operations and Information Management Department, The Wharton School
Kathleen Maher, Senior Analyst, Jon Peddie Research
Keith Mountain, CEO, Spatial
Ken Elliott, Product Design Engineer, Freelance Engineer
Ken Hall, Manager of Sustainable Design Systems, Gensler
Ken Versprille, PLM Research Director, CPDA
Ken Welch, COO, Moldflow
Kevin Noe, Managing Director, IKnowledge Solutions
Khaled Moussa, Business Development Manager, Adobe Systems
Larry Nuttall, Partner, Ascentage
Leslie Gordon, Senior Editor, Machine Design, Penton Media
Lowell Walmsley, Vice-President, Robert McNeel & Associates
Lynn Allen, Technical Evangelist, Autodesk
Malcolm Davies, CEO, GDM
Malcolm Panthaki, CTO, Comet Solutions
Manu Parpia, Founder & Vice-Chairman, Geometric Software Services
Marc Halpern, Research Director, Design and Manufacturing, Gartner
Maria Sarkar, Vice-President and Co-Founder, DriveWorks
Mark Andersen, Vice-President, Environmental Systems Design
Mark Butler, Senior Systems Analyst, HDR Architecture
Mark Kalin, President, Kalin Associates
Mark Parent, COO, Kubotek USA
Mark Sims, President, Nanorex
Mark Vorwaller, President, VX Corporation
Mark Winnie, Vice-President of Technology and Services, I-Cubed
Martin Fischer, Director, CIFE
Marty Chader, Vice-President of Business Development, Rapidform
Martyn Day, Publisher, Develop 3D
Marv Muston, CAD Manager, The Evans Group
Mauritz Botha, CTO, IMSI/Design
Michael Lynch, CEO, Right Hemisphere
Michael McGrath, Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Michael Stothers, Director, CAE Organization, Boeing
Michael Tardif, Editorial Director, Design Byline
Mike Campbell, Senior Vice-President, Product Management, PTC
Mike Coleman, CEO, Geometric Technologies
Mike Kidder, Vice-President of Corporate Marketing, Altair Engineering
Mike Payne, CEO, SpaceClaim
Mike Rebrukh, Director, NX Product Management, Siemens PLM Software
Mike Riddle, Chief Software Architect, Evolution Computing
Mills Davis, Managing Director, Project10X
Nail Sudin, President & CTO, ShareVis
Naotake Kakishita, President & CEO, Kubotek USA
Nate Nalven, Technology Fellow, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Nathanael Miller, Mechanical Engineeer, NASA Langley Research Center
Oleg Shilovitsky, CTO, Dassault Systemes - ENOVIA SmarTeam
Paul Grayson, Chairman and Founder, Alibre
Pete Marks, Managing Director, Design Insight
Peter Lawrence, Product Manager, Océ North America
Peter Schroer, President, Aras Corporation
Phil Cohen, Executive Vice-President Research, Adapx
Philip Lunn, CEO, Bunkspeed
Ping Fu, President & CEO, Geomagic
Rachael Taggart, President, Cyon Research
Ragnar Wessman, CTO, Tekla
Rainer Gawlick, Vice-President Worldwide Marketing, SolidWorks
Ralph Hollis, Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Randall Newton, Editor-in-Chief, CADCAMNET, Ash Bridge Media
Randy Ochs, Executive Consultant, Mental Images
Randy Schwan, Manager, Engineering IT Systems, A.O. Smith
Reid Senescu, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
Richard Kubin, Principal, Vertex Consulting
Richard Buday, President, Archimage
Richard Probst, Vice-President, SAP Labs
Rick Ingram, President, License Tracker
Rick Stavanja, Editor-in-Chief, CADwire.net
Rishi Bajaj, Analyst, Silver Point Capital
Rob Bou, President, Ashlar-Vellum
Rob Glasier, Executive Vice-President, Americas, AVEVA
Rob Poor, Principal, NBT Systems
Robert Anderson, Vice-President, Integrated Products, Nemetschek North America
Robert Richards, Business Development Manager, Stottler Henke
Rod Levin, President, Inflow Technology
Roger Nagel, Wagner Professor, Lehigh University
Rolf Herken, CEO & CTO, Mental Images
Roman Walsh, Applications Engineer, SpaceClaim
Ron Vogl, Manufacturing Lead, Endeca
Rudy Lagattolla, Chairman, Scientec Italia
Sam Miller, Electrical Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center
Sandra Benson, Industry Director-Engineering and Construction, Oracle
Scott Baker, Manager, Chrysler Development System, Chrysler
Scott Brinks, Senior Vice-President, Logisitics, Agility
Scott Green, Engineering Site Director, Google
Scott Harris, Vice-President, New Product Concepts, SolidWorks
Scott Simmons, Vice-President of Research and Development, TechniGraphics
Scott Vollmar, Director of Business Development, Autodesk
Shaun Ennis, Director, Strategic Marketing, Siemens PLM Software
Shuh Liou, Senior Technical Leader & Manager, Virtual Product Creation & Innovation, Ford Motor Company
Shyamal Roy, Senior Analyst, Cyon Research
Sijin Karayil, Navigation & Search Program Manager, National Instruments
Simon Floyd, Technology Strategist, PLM, Microsoft
Stacy Doyle, PR Manager, Autodesk
Stacy Scopano, Business and Product Development Manager, Tekla
Stan Przybylinski, Manager, Market Intelligence, Dassault Systemes
Steve Pateuk, Vice-President of Global Buy-Side Operations, MFG.com
Steve Robbins, CEO, Desktop Engineering
Steve Roberts, PLM Manager, Cardinal Health
Steve Thomas, Principal Engineer, Boeing
Steve Wolfe, Senior Analyst, Cyon Research
Suchit Jain, Vice-President Strategy, SolidWorks
Susan Bird, President, Flying in Formation
Ted Chumas, Partner, Ascentage
Terry Swack, CEO, Clean Culture
Theo Omtzigt, CEO, Stillwater Supercomputing
Thomas Teger, Director of Marketing and Strategic Planning, Bunkspeed
Tim Curran, CEO, Vela Systems
Todd Reade, President & CEO, TransMagic
Tom Koulopoulos, CEO, Delphi Group
Tom Pennino, President, TPTECH
Tom Stahovich, Associage Professor, University of California Riverside
Tord Dennis, Product Marketing Manager, Siemens PLM Software
Uli Mahle, Vice-President, Product Development, CoCreate, PTC
Xiuzi Ye, Chairman and CEO, New Dimension Systems
Yanick Fluhmann, Director of Business Development, Tech Soft 3D
Yannick Wittner, Director, PLM Marketing, Dassault Systemes