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Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity From COFES

Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity From COFES

Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity presented at COFES on the results of an annual survey of industry decision makers. Survey responders noted their strategic priorities included new products and hiring. 67 pe…

Augmented Reality From COFES

Augmented Reality From COFES

At an event like COFES, there is a lot of thought leadership in the air. It makes you wonder what big ideas will stick and what they will look like when they’re implemented. One presentation on pract…

The Future of Innovation From COFES

The Future of Innovation From COFES

I mentioned in my previous post – Reporting From COFES – that Brad Holtz connects new event attendees with veterans. My COFES mentor was Christian de Neef of Fast Track Consulting. Christian spoke on…

Reporting From COFES

Reporting From COFES

The sun sets on COFES 2011 I spent the last few days at the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software (COFES). The agenda promised an interesting mix of thought leadership and discussion by b…

COFES, Blogs, Business Social Media, and Gamification

COFES, Blogs, Business Social Media, and Gamification

I’m sitting at the Sky Harbor airport right now on the way home from COFES.  Delta canceled my flight so I get an extra 14 hours of bonus airport time.  Luckily, Sky Harbor has free Wifi (t…

Going “Social” at the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software

Going “Social” at the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software

Picture courtesy of Deelip Mendes. Click to go to his post. As you may see from my Tweets, I’m at the “Congress On the Future of Engineering Software” this week.  You pretty much can’t tal…

BYOB (Build your own Bicycle)

BYOB (Build your own Bicycle)

Unfortunately I am not on my way to COFES today. Even more unfortunately this makes the second year in a row that I won’t be there.  It is one of the (un)conferences that I most look forward to …

Edison2, 100 MPG Car, Keynotes the Solid Edge ST4 Event

Edison2, 100 MPG Car, Keynotes the Solid Edge ST4 Event

We’re extremely please to announce the keynote speakers for the Solid Edge ST4 Global Launch Event June 15-16, 2011 in Huntsville, Al – Winners of the $5 Million Progressive Automotive X Prize – &nbs…

Hannover Messe Recap

Hannover Messe Recap

Photo courtesy of our Siemens PLM Germany team via Flickr If you were like me last week, you weren’t physically at Hannover Messe. But thanks to modern technology, aka social media, you could foll…