on Software for Innovation and Sustainable Design
for Engineering, Manufacturing, Construction, and Industry
December 16, 2010; Hilton Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv, Israel
Participants from around the world will converge on Tel Aviv in December next year to participate in the COFES Israel Forum. This by-invitation-only, landmark event will shine a light on how the world’s engineering software community can accelerate the execution of innovation and sustainable design to meet global demand.
The COFES Israel Forum focuses on Israel's role as a world leader in innovation. The event is modeled after our annual spring COFES in Arizona, but with a slightly different format and focus. In addition to presentations by Cyon Research and other leading analysts, the program will include presentations and Q&A from senior industry leaders of the design software industry to discuss their vision and thoughts on future directions. The idea is to shine a light on areas where there is a significant opportunity for innovation, particularly with respect to design and with respect to sustainability.
The COFES Israel Forum represents the kick-off of a collaborative examination and a refinement of issues in an effort to build a community to leverage innovation within Israel.
Hosted Model
The event is built around a “hosted networking” model which is quite unique. Each attendee is assigned to a senior analyst, member of the press, or speaker, who will act as a host to several attendees. It is the host’s role to contact each their wards prior to the event and get a better understanding of their interests. During the event, the host will make introductions and be sure that all are actively engaged in relevant discussions. Because of this, the event is very limited in scale and attendance is strictly by invitation only.
Agenda
8:00
AM |
Registration and meet your hosts |
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Attire for COFES Israel is business casual (no suits, no ties)
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8:43
AM |
Opportunities for Innovation, part 1 |
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Presentations from:
- Introduction — Brad Holtz and Joel Orr, Cyon Research (USA)
- Fostering Innovation — Eitan Yudilevich, Executive Director, BIRD Foundation (ISRAEL)
- The International Software Market — Michael Morein, Senior Consultant, Cambashi (UNITED KINGDOM)
- Innovation — Chris De Neef, Managing Director, Fast Track Consulting (BELGIUM)
- Design and Sustainability — Brad Holtz, President & CEO, Cyon Research, (USA)
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10:15
AM
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Hosted networking break |
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11:00
AM |
Opportunities for Innovation, part 2 |
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Presentations from:
- Tal Weiss, Site R&D Director, Autodesk (ISRAEL)
- Zvi Feuer, Vice-President, Industry Business Group, Siemens PLM Software (ISRAEL)
- plus presentations from two others
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12:20
PM
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Hosted networking lunch |
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1:30
PM |
Opportunities for Innovation, part 3 |
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Presentations from:
- Meg Selfe, Vice President, Rational Software, IBM (USA)
- Ping Fu, CEO, Geomagic (USA)
- plus presentations from two others
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2:50
PM
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Hosted networking break |
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3:30
PM |
Opportunities for Innovation, part 4 |
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Presentations from:
- Brian Shepherd, Executive Vice President, PTC (USA)
- Fielder Hiss, Vice President of Product Management, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks (USA)
- Jon Peddie, President, Jon Peddie Research (USA)
- Brad Holtz, President & CEO, Cyon Research (USA)
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5:00
PM
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Close |
Who Should Attend?
COFES Israel will break ground on the issues that everyone needs to discuss, argue, and solve. Attendees will include chief officers of manufacturing, engineering, architectural, and software development companies in Israel, who understand the needs that their businesses will face in the future. They will join with the technology elite from around the world who develop, market and guide the engineering software and technology that are in use today – and in the future.
Key participants will include:
- Senior executives and experts from leading providers in the field of BIM/CAD/CAE/DP/PLM
- Senior executives from Israeli manufacturing, construction, and industrial organizations
- Analysts, media, and representatives from academia and government
These key leaders are among those that will participate in the event:
- Allan Behrens, Managing Director, Taxal
- Ariel Hadar, Channel Business Development Manager, PTC
- Brad Holtz, President & CEO, Cyon Research
- Brian Shepherd, Executive Vice-President, Product Development, PTC
- Chris De Neef, Owner, Fast Track Consulting
- David Levin, CEO, LEDAS
- Eitan Yudilevich, Executive Director, BIRD Foundation
- Fielder Hiss, Vice President of Product Management, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- Joel Orr, Vice-President and Chief Visionary, Emeritus, Cyon Research
- Jon Peddie, President, Jon Peddie Research
- Meg Selfe, Vice-President, Rational Complex & Embedded Systems, IBM Software
- Michael Reitman, Vice-President, Engineering and R&D, PTC
- Miki Morein, Senior Consultant, Cambashi
- Nir Brav, Vice-President, Israeli Operations and Financial Management, PTC
- Oleg Shilovitsky, Blogger, Beyond PLM
- Ping Fu, CEO, Geomagic
- Tal Weiss, R&D Site Manager, Autodesk Israel
- Ziv Belfer, Senior Vice-President, PTC
- Zvi Feuer, Vice-President, Industry Business Group, Siemens PLM Software
Why Attend?
The COFES Israel Forum is a key meeting point between the Executives of world’s largest software developers and the top leaders of the Israeli engineering and technical community.
The purpose of the forum is to discuss the critical issues facing the engineering software industry within the specific context of Israel. The COFES Israel Forum, brings senior executives from firms in manufacturing, construction, and design together with their peers from the software community who create, develop, and support the tools necessary for design and engineering to discuss innovation in the face of the current economic situation (both globally and within Russia and the CIS), and key problems common within and among BIM/CAD/CAE/DP/ PLM, market situation and formulate forecasts for the next 5-6 years, and business opportunities advantageous both for customers and providers. Israel plays an increasingly critical role in the world technical economy and in the field of engineering particularly.
Objectives covered at COFES:
- Understand the global and local market dynamics for design and engineering software
- Explore opportunities for innovation in the context of design and engineering
- Explore the leverage for enabling sustainability by focusing on opportunities to embed sustainability into projects at the design stage
- Discuss likely scenarios for the future of the industry and explore actions to address the scenarios
- Share recent innovations in the market
What is COFES?
Cyon Research Corporation’s groundbreaking symposium, the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software -- more commonly known as COFES -- has been the most important gathering place for the engineering software industry since 2000. Each year, 275 industry leaders, users, vendors, Executives, consultants, and press meet and share their insights.
More than any lecture series or trade conference, COFES accommodates a relaxed, honest, and intelligent conversation about the future of our industry. COFES builds an invaluable commodity called community; from which both new ideas and bold actions naturally spring forth.
COFES was founded on the idea that one-on-one interaction and the building of community are the most valuable functions of an industry forum. COFES eschews the distractions of a trade show floor and the formality of executive presentations for a comfortable atmosphere of large and small group discussions with the most influential players and most innovative minds of the software world.
COFES is recognized around the world as the one place where leading thinkers and practitioners from the community of users and vendors of software for design and engineering (BIM/CAD/CAE/DP/PLM/PM/PPM, etc.) can interact in intellectually vigorous conversations, without their sales and marketing hats on.
COFES is an annual event owned by Cyon Research Corporation, a think-tank consulting group focusing on strategic issues of the software industry for design and engineering. Cyon Research has been bringing the unique vision of COFES to a select group of international venues where they believe there is a significant opportunity for the event to trigger a leap forward for the industry. This COFES Israel Forum follows in the footsteps of the 2006 COFES India Summit and the September 2010 COFES Russia Forum.
Participation in COFES Israel Forum is by invitation only. If you would like to be considered for an invitation to the event, please fill the form at http://apply.cofes.com. A detailed description of expected participation is shown below.
Presentations and recordings from the event will be made available to the attendees shortly after the event.