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SOLIDWORKS 2017 Launch Event Report

SOLIDWORKS 2017 is here and our regional launch events have been a huge success. Thank you to all who attended, we hope you enjoyed them as much as we did. These events offer a unique customers to network with other customers, exhibitors, sponsors and our team. Breakout sessions allow our customers to experience not only SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD but the other products in the SOLIDWORKS portfolio.

Guest Speakers

Every year at the main launch event we invite a guest speaker to give a keynote speech. Previous speakers have included Clive Woodward, Richard Seymour, Chris Boardman MBE, Sir Ranaulph Fiennes, Richard Noble OBE, Jeff Ray former SOLIDWORKS CEO and Bertrand Sicot, previous CEO of SOLIDWORKS.

Guest Speaker - Derek Redmond


Following the extraordinary achievement of Team GB at the Rio Olympics we were delighted to be joined by Derek Redmond, a Gold Medal Olympian with a truly inspirational story of overcoming adversity.

Derek spoke about his run up to the semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics which will be remembered as an eternally inspirational moment, as his father headed onto the track to help him cross the finishing line after a serious hamstring injury mid-race.

Guest Speaker - Gian Paolo Bassi


Gian Paolo Bassi spearheads the development of SOLIDWORKS future product and tech strategies.

Formerly vice president of research and development and a mechanical engineer by trade, Gian Paolo Bassi has a real passion for design and innovation which was the subject of his presentation at the launch in Warwickshire.

Event Sponsors & PRIZE DRAW

Thank you to our event sponsors Dell and NVIDIA for partnering with Solid Solutions to provide these great launch events.

Dell

For more than 30 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust us to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they’re at home, work, school or anywhere in their world.

NVidia

Our event sponsors, Dell and NVIDIA, very generously donated a fantastic grand prize for our raffle – a Dell Precision 5510 Mobile Workstation. The prize was drawn last week and the winner was...

Johnathan Hill Davis from Technomation Ltd
Congratulations!

NVidia

NVIDIA awakened the world to computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. From our roots in visual computing, we’ve into super, mobile and cloud computing. NVIDIA’s mobile processors are used in smartphones, tablets and auto infotainment systems.

Competitions

The Model Mania and Simulation Challenges were popular competitions as always. The challenge of modelling a part as quickly and accurately as possible proved to stimulate the competitive edge in many customers. Congratulations to our winners whose pictures can be found at the bottom of this page.

Model Mania Prize

3DConnexion Space Mouse Pro

Model Mania

Southampton - Matthew Woodford (Britten-Norman Aircraft Ltd)
Bristol - Matthew Geed (Stenner)
Cambridge - Neil May (Dual2)
Manchester - Adam Romanowski (Allan J Hargreaves)
Durham - James Harkin (Marshalls Street Furniture)
Sheffield - Phil Riley (Surface Generations)
Warwickshire - Zhi Jing Tam (B Hepworth)

Simulation Challenge Prize

Parrot Minidrone (Designed in SOLIDWORKS)
Model Mania

Southampton - Richard Brummitt (ViaSat)
Bristol - Lewis Wood (Kinneir Durfort)
Cambridge - Emily Triggs (Sagentia)
Manchester - John Williams (AFS Rotel)
Durham - Craig Wilson (PFF)
Sheffield - Kevin Batty (Paragon Toolmaking)
Warwickshire - Joe Burdfield (Conquip)

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