A Who's-Who of the engineering software community (CAD/CAE/CAM/PDM/PLM/BIM/GIS) are expected to participate in COFES 2012, including (as of April 4, 2012):
- Abe Reichental, CEO, 3D Systems
- Alan Baljeu, President, Cornerstone Intelligent Software
- Alan Kay, President, Viewpoints Research Institute
- Alan Stacklin, CTO, Akoya
- Alex Bausk, Lead Structural Engineer, PSACEA
- Alex Kelley, Director, Imagination Technologies
- Alexey Ershov, CEO, LEDAS
- Allan Behrens, Managing Director, Taxal
- Allan Naim, Senior Architect - Azure, Microsoft
- Allen Bourgoyne, Director, AMD Professional Graphics ISV Alliances, AMD
- Allen Chung, OEM Manager, Tableau Software
- Alper Bozkurt, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
- Amy Rowell, Founder and Principal Analyst, Four Winds Research
- Andreas Vlahinos, Principal, Advanced Engineering Solutions
- Anne Isaacs, Managing Partner, Satory Global
- Antoine Reymond, Senior Strategic Alliances Manager, Professional Graphics, AMD
- Antonio Pascucci, Vice-President, Products, 3Dconnexion
- Beth Ambaruch, Director, Corporate Communications, PTC
- Bill Barnes, General Manager, Lattice Technology
- Bill Carrelli, Vice-President, Strategic Marketing & Business Development, Siemens PLM
- BJ Anderson, Co-Founder, Computer Graphics Pioneers
- Blake Courter, Co-Founder and Director, Customer Development, SpaceClaim
- Bob Bean, Consultant, Kubotek USA
- Bob Courtland, President, Robert D. Courtland, Chtd.
- Bob Deragisch, Manager, Enterprise Systems, Parker Hannifin
- Bob McNeel, President, Robert McNeel & Associates
- Brad Holtz, President & CEO, Cyon Research
- Brenda Discher, Vice-President Industry Marketing, Autodesk
- Brian Seitz, Enterprise Architect, Cyon Research
- Brian Williams, Business Development, Tableau Software
- Bruce Jenkins, CEO, Ora Research
- Bruce McCallum, National Design Technology Manager, DIALOG
- Carol Popovich, Microchip FIRST Community Relations Manager, Microchip Technology
- Carolyn Castillo, Business Operations Specialist, Boeing
- Chad Jackson, Industry Analyst, Lifecycle Insights
- Chris De Neef, Owner, Fast Track Consulting
- Chris Garcia, Executive Vice-President, Anark
- Chris McLennan, CEO, Ilesfay Technology Group
- Chris Randles, President & CEO, SpaceClaim
- Chris Williams, CEO, Vuuch
- Chris Wood, Vice-President, Santa Fe Institute
- Christine Easterfield, Principal Consultant, Cambashi
- Clive Davies, Busines Development Director, Lightwork Design
- Clive Longbottom, Service Director, Quocirca
- Corey Salka, Advisor, BI & Analytics, Panoramic Power
- Craig Trudgeon, Chief Technical Officer, Tetra 4D
- Cristiano Sacchi, CEO, Novedge
- Cyrena Respini-Irwin, Senior Editor, Cadalyst, Longitude Media
- Dallas Beddingfield, Product Strategist, Evolution Computing
- Dan Meyer, President & CEO, Comet Solutions
- Dan Raker, President & Founder, ConnectPress
- Darren Young, Systems Integration Manager, Southland Industries
- Dave Burdick, President, Collaborative Visions
- Dave Corcoran, President, LC Design
- Dave Forrester, Chief Executive Officer, Lightwork Design Limited
- Dave Hutchinson, COO, Lightwork Design
- Dave Labuskes, Vice-President, RTKL
- Dave Ullman, Chief Scientist, Robust Decisions
- Dave Weisberg, Chief Industry Strategist, Cyon Research
- David Hammond, COO, The Center for Understanding Change
- David Heller, President, IBSystems
- David Opsahl, Executive Director, 3D PDF Consortium
- David Prawel, President, LongView Advisors
- David Segal, Director, Mechatronics Design Domain Leader, Dassault Systemes ENOVIA
- David ten Have, CEO, Ponoko
- David Thomas, Senior Project Leader, The Aerospace Corporation
- Dean Keith, President, Datura
- Debankan Chattopadhyay, Manager - ISV Accounts, CCE
- Deelip Menezes, General Manager, Sycode, 3D Systems
- Deke Smith, Senior Analyst, Cyon Research
- Dick Morley, Senior Consultant, Cyon Research
- Dmitri Kondakov, Owner, CTO, IRISOFT
- Doc Hall, Chairman, The Compression Institute
- Doug Cochran, CTO, IMSI/Design
- Ed Caracappa, Director, Worldwide Sales and Business Development, AMD
- Ed Maghboul, President, x-Spatial
- Eric Doubell, President, Razorleaf
- Eric Snow, Vice-President, Corporate Communications, PTC
- Evan Yares, Senior Editor & Analyst, WTHW Media
- Fabien Chauviré, Vice-President of Sales, Redway3D
- Fielder Hiss, Vice-President, Product Management, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- Franco Folini, President, Novedge
- Geoff Butlin, CEO, TranscenData Europe
- George Wong, Senior Principal Engineer, Boeing
- Gian Paolo Bassi, Vice-President, R&D, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- Glen Smith, CEO and Co-Founder, DriveWorks
- Glenn Kennedy, 3D Channel Manager, Roland DGA
- Hans Ehrnrooth, President, Tekla
- Hap Hoffman, Senior Director, Oracle
- Hod Lipson, Associate Professor, Cornell University
- Igal Kaptsan, Vice-President, Product Definition, PTC
- Igor Khanin, CEO, Nanosoft
- Igor Tsinman, CTO, AMC Bridge
- Jack Ring, Senior Analyst, Cyon Research
- James Podgorski, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
- Jami Shah, Professor, Arizona State University
- Janos Barbero, Co-creator, Foldit, University of Washington
- Jason Cooper, Senior Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Jason McVay, Director of Operations, Compression Institute
- Jay Vleeschhouwer, Managing Director, Griffin Securities
- Jean-Marc Guillard, COO, Dassault Systemes Spatial
- Jeff Jaje, Marketing and Business Development Manager, Sescoi USA
- Jeff Mottle, CEO, CGarchitect Digital Media
- Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist, Kaggle
- Jerry Laiserin, Principal Analyst, The LaiserinLetter
- Jesse Devitte, Managing Director, Borealis Ventures
- Jim Balding, Founder, The ANT Group
- Jim Brown, President, Tech-Clarity
- Jim Gordon, Vice-President of Development, Kubotek USA
- Jim Wick, Consulting Director, Software, 3Dconnexion
- Joe Walsh, CEO/Founder, IntrinSIM
- Joel Hurt, Director, Global Business Development, Leica Geosystems
- Joel Orr, Chief Visionary, Emeritus, Cyon Research
- John Alpine, Vice-President of R&D, Geomagic
- John Bacus, Product Manager, SketchUp, Google
- John Cummings, Chief Scientist, The Center for Understanding Change
- John Fox, Vice President, Marketing, Siemens PLM
- John Kizior, Global Director, Delivery Technologies, AECOM
- John Lynch, Partner, Ascentage Group
- John MacKrell, Vice-President, CIMdata
- John Miller, Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer, The Durbin Group
- Jon Jarrett, Director, ATK Aerospace Systems
- Joseph Juhnke, Owner, NovemberKiloEcho
- Joshua Fisher, Tech Lead, Cyon Research
- Judy Veatch, Director of Project Systems, Black & Veatch
- Karen Caswelch, CEO, Akoya
- Karlheinz Peters, Director, International Business Development, IntrinSIM
- Karsten Newbury, Senior Vice-President, General Manager Velocity Series, Siemens PLM
- Kate Dramstad, Intern, Olin College of Engineering
- Keith Meintjes, Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis, CIMdata
- Ken Anderson, Co-Founder, Computer Graphics Pioneers
- Ken Hall, Director, Sustainable Design Systems, Gensler
- Ken Wong, Editor, Desktop Engineering
- Les Elby, Vice-President, Business Strategy, AVEVA
- Leslie Gordon, Senior Editor, Machine Design, Penton Media
- Leslie Minasian, Manager, Business Development, Kenesto
- Linda Lokay, Vice-President, Marketing & Business Development, Dassault Systemes Spatial
- Liz Chodosh, Director of Strategic BIM Management, BIM Specialist, Cannon Design
- Lori Parrott, Manager, Policy and Decision Analytics, Sandia National Laboratories
- Lynn Allen, Evangelist, Autodesk
- Malcolm Panthaki, CTO, Comet Solutions
- Manu Parpia, Managing Director & CEO, Geometric
- Marc Halpern, Vice-President of Research, Gartner
- Marc Lind, Senior Vice-President, Global Marketing, Aras
- Maria Sarkar, Vice-President and Co-Founder, DriveWorks
- Marilyn Adan, Business Development, Synopsys
- Mark Driscoll, Senior Sales Director, 3Dconnexion
- Mark Guthrie, Director PLM Business Development, Smart2Market
- Mark Kiker, Executive Director, AUGI
- Mark Vorwaller, President, ZWCAD Software America
- Martha Russell, Executive Director, Media X at Stanford University
- Martin Fischer, Director, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
- Martin van der Roest, President, The vdR Group, Inc.
- Maryam Khorshidi, Graduate Student, Arizona State University
- Matt Klassen, Director, ALM Solutions, PTC
- Matt Loew, Chief Engineer, P&H Mining Equipment
- Maxim Bogdanov, CEO, ASCON
- Michael Facello, Director of R&D, Geomagic
- Michael Gorden, Strategic Planning Director, The Capitol Group
- Michael Kaplan, Director for Product Management, Imagination Technologies, Inc.
- Michelle Boucher, Senior Research Analyst, Aberdeen Group
- Mike Coleman, Vice-President, Business Development, GoEngineer
- Mike Payne, CEO, Kenesto
- Mike Peery, President & CEO, Tecplot
- Mike Riddle, CEO, Evolution Computing
- Miriam Heller, Director, Data & Model Integrity, The Center for Understanding Change
- Mohsen Rezayat, Chief Solutions Architect, Siemens PLM
- Monica Schnitger, President, Schnitger Corporation
- Nancy Johnson, Editor-in-Chief, Cadalyst Magazine, Longitude Media
- Naotake Kakishita, President & CEO, Kubotek USA
- Nathanael Miller, Mechanical Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center
- Naury Birnbaum, Chief Strategy Officer, ESI Group
- Neil Mackenzie, Windows Azure Lead, Satory Global
- Neil Peterson, CTO, Open Design Alliance
- Nicholas Phelps, CEO, e-on software
- Nick Nisbet, Director, AEC3
- Nitin Rao, President & Co-Founder, Sunglass.io
- Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO, Inforbix
- Oleg Zykov, Innovation Project Manager, ASCON
- Owen Allen, Vice-President, Solutions, Pingar
- Pam Kilpatrick, Customer Program Specialist, Autodesk
- Paul Stallings, Vice-President of Research & Development, Kubotek USA
- Pete Wells, President, Smart2Market
- Peter Schroer, CEO, Aras
- Phares Noel, Senior Analyst, Cyon Research
- Phil Spreier, Translator Solutions Product Manager, Tech Soft 3D
- Ragnar Wessman, Chief Product Strategist, Tekla
- Rajesh Bhartiya, President and Founder, ProtoTech Solutions and Services
- Randall Newton, Contributing Analyst, Jon Peddie Research
- Renaud Deparis, CTO, Redway3D
- Ric Jackson, CEO, The Center for Understanding Change
- Richard Doyle, User Community Manager, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- Richard Riff, Ford Technical Fellow, retired, Ford Motor Company
- Rick Chin, Director of Product Innovation, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- Rick Rundell, Senior Director, AEC Strategic Technology, Autodesk
- Rick Stavanja, Editor-in-Chief, CADwire.net
- Rohit Nagpal, Analyst, The Citadel Group
- Ron Close, Chief Marketing Officer, Nuage
- Ron Fritz, CEO, Tech Soft 3D
- Roopinder Tara, CEO, TenLinks
- Sam Abu-Hamdan, President, Alcove 9
- Sam Miller, Electrical Engineer, NASA Langley
- Scott Brinks, COO, TransTrade
- Scott Lamond, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, Synergis Software
- Scott Leemans, Composite Structures Analysis Software Development, Advatech Pacific
- Serge Neuman, Bioclimatic Façade Initiatives Program Director, SOMFY
- Shaun Ennis, Director of Analyst Relations, Siemens Industry Automation
- Shyamal Roy, Senior Consultant, Cyon Research
- Sidney Anderson, International Service Manager, Océ Reprographic Technologies
- Silvana Nani, Senior Management Consultant, SNMC
- Simon Floyd, Director, Innovation Solutions, Microsoft
- Stefan Jockusch, Vice-President of Product Development, Siemens PLM Software
- Steve Bodnar, Vice-President, Manufacturing and PLM Thought Leadership, Autodesk
- Steve Coy, President, Timelike Systems
- Steve Johnson, User Interaction Manager, Nemetschek Vectorworks
- Steve Robbins, CEO, Desktop Engineering Magazine
- Steve Wolfe, Research Director, Cyon Research
- Ted Blacker, Department Manager, Sandia National Laboratories
- Terry Swack, CEO & Founder, Sustainable Minds
- Terry Wohlers, President, Wohlers Associates
- Tetsuo Kubo, President & CEO, Kubotek
- Tim Thomas, CEO, PARTsolutions, LLC
- Todd Cummings, Vice-President, Research & Development, Synergis Software
- Todd Geiser, Product Manager, Synergis Software
- Todd Reade, CEO, TransMagic
- Tom Conlon, Publisher, Desktop Engineering Magazine
- Tom Pennino, President, TP Technologies
- Tom Salomone, MDA Segment Manager - Worldwide, HP
- Tom Sisler, Engineering Services, Knoll
- Tom Stegmann, Vice-President, Business Development, CyDesign
- Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Ovum
- Tyler Miller, Engineering Manager, Google
- Uli Sendler, Consultant & Analyst, Sendler\Circle
- Venkatesh Jagannath, Senior Vice-President, Strategy and Innovation, Geometric
- Vic Sanchez, COO, Inforbix
- Vinay Wagle, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, CCE
- Vladimir Panchenko, R&D Team Leader, ASCON
- Wendy Li, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
- Wes Shimanek, Senior Manager, Workstations, Intel
- Xiuzi Ye, Chairman and CEO, New Dimension Systems
- Yanick Fluhmann, Co-Founder and Vice-President, Tech Soft 3D