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3DEXPERIENCE® World 2024

3DEXPERIENCE® World 2024 is taking place in Dallas, TX, February 11 – 14, 2024.

3DEXPERIENCE® World brings together a vibrant community of engineers, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and industry leaders to learn, engage, share knowledge, and drive innovation.

Attendees will discover how SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE® Works portfolio offers the next generation of best-in-class tools for all disciplines involved in the complete process of designing and manufacturing of products.

DriveWorks At 3DEXPERIENCE® World 2024

It will be our 19th year attending and our planning for the event is already well underway.

We’re a Silver Sponsor and will be exhibiting, presenting, learning and networking.

We’ll have a team of DriveWorks experts available at our exhibition stand which will once again be a hub of innovation for the future of design automation.

We will showcase the latest version of our software and talk about all things Design Automation, CPQ for Manufacturing and Digital Transformation.

Come and find us during the meetups and social activities too!

Image shows the DriveWorks team at their stand at the 2023 3DEXPERIENCE World event

Why Should I Attend?

3DEXPERIENCE® World 2024 promises to be an event filled with keynote presentations, educational breakout sessions, and lots of opportunities to network.

Learn: Develop, hone, and expand your skills

Innovate: Get inspired from industry leaders and ground-breaking thinkers

Network: Connect with your peers and technology partners

Celebrate: Fuel your passion with unforgettable experiences

Keep Up To Date On 3DEXPERIENCE® World 2024 News

Get the latest news and updates about 3DEXPERIENCE® World as they are happening here.

Don’t miss out on your Early Bird Discount

The Early Bird Discount for 3DEXPERIENCE® World 2024 ends on November 25th.

Don’t miss out on your chance to register early and take advantage of the discounted rate today.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Final DriveWorks Drivers Meeting of the Year

Registration is now open! 

Celebrate One Year of DriveWorks Drivers with us on Thursday 9th December.

We can’t believe DriveWorks Drivers has been running for one year! We hosted the first meeting on December 10th 2020. Since then we’ve held 8 separate meetings and been joined by a total of 402 attendees.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us for DriveWorks Drivers and shared their story of using DriveWorks over the past year. It’s been great to network and learn from all members of our community.

On December 9th, we will be holding our one-year anniversary and the final DriveWorks Drivers meeting of the year. During this meeting, we’ll be rounding up the first year of DriveWorks Drivers and of course, have our usual knowledge sharing and networking.

What to Expect

Here’s what you can expect from DriveWorks Drivers meetings

Knowledge Sharing

Guest Presentations

Technical Discussions

Quiz

Registration is Now Open!

DriveWorks Drivers is held at two different times to suit most time zones – 3:00 pm (GMT) and 9:00 pm (GMT).

This is a virtual networking event so you can join from anywhere.

The meeting will be held via Microsoft Teams and will last around 90 minutes.

Follow the links below to register through the DriveWorks Community – you will need a MyDriveWorks account.

Once you’ve signed up you’ll receive a confirmation email with a calendar invitation. Add the event to your calendar and we’ll email you a link to join us on Microsoft Teams on the day.

Join us for the 3pm (GMT) Meeting 

Join us for the 9pm (GMT) Meeting

Share Your Fun Project

As this is the one-year anniversary meeting we wanted to make it a fun celebration of all things DriveWorks.

We’re inviting you to share your story about how you’ve used DriveWorks in a unique way.

For example, have you created your own game using DriveWorks, or do you have a fun sandbox environment?

If you have created a fun project like this and you would like to share it with the group, please email events@driveworks.co.uk and include the following information:

  • Company name
  • Contact email address
  • For what product/products have you implemented DriveWorks?
  • How are you using DriveWorks in your daily workflows?
  • The fun/alternative game/sandbox item that you want to share with the group
  • What DriveWorks technology have you used to create this?

Don’t worry if you haven’t implemented DriveWorks in this way, just sit back and enjoy the meeting.

Registration is Now Open

Registration is now open for the one-year anniversary meeting.

You will need to use your new MyDriveWorks account to register, if you don’t have an account yet, it’s quick and easy to create one.

Last week we were excited to host the first-ever DriveWorks Drivers virtual meeting! 

Connecting DriveWorks Users

On Thursday 10th December, we were excited to host the first-ever DriveWorks Drivers virtual networking meeting.

DriveWorks Drivers is an opportunity for DriveWorks users from around the world to connect, share ideas and talk DriveWorks!

Sharing technical know-how and practical experience informally with each other is something we know many people using DriveWorks like to do.

However as DriveWorks World is only once a year, we decided to use technology to set up a new digital event to help DriveWorks users connect more often and without the need to travel.

DriveWorks Drivers is a value add for people using DriveWorks Solo or Pro software with an active subscription. We also invite authorized Applications Engineers from our VARs with a DriveWorks focus, who can contribute to the conversations too.

DriveWorks Drivers First Ever Virtual Meeting 

Split into two Microsoft Teams meetings, the first DriveWorks Drivers networking event took place at 3pm GMT and the second took place at 9pm GMT. 

During the 3pm GMT meeting, we were excited to be joined by 57 DriveWorks users and 33 DriveWorks users in the 9pm GMT meeting.

It was great to welcome so many enthusiastic DriveWorks users to share and connect.

Here’s just some of them!

3pm (GMT)

9pm (GMT)

Introductions

Attendees were first welcomed by Heather and Bridie from the DriveWorks team.

With Bridie set up at DriveWorks HQ in our Thelwall offices and Heather joining us from her home office in the US, the meeting began.

After some initial introductions and some tips for the meeting, Bridie and Heather welcomed DriveWorks CEO, Glen Smith and DriveWorks VP and Co-Founder, Maria Sarkar.

Technical Updates, Networking and Much More

The aim of DriveWorks Drivers is to create a space for DriveWorks users to share DriveWorks knowledge, ideas and connect with each other.

Whilst all DriveWorks Drivers meetings will be user-led, for the first meeting Glen started the meeting with an update from the DriveWorks team.

Glen gave an update on our latest release, one that we are all extremely proud of – DriveWorks 18.1!

Glen was then joined by DriveWorks Applications Engineer, Ollie to discuss all of the hard work the DriveWorks team has put into this latest release.

It was a great opportunity for attendees to get involved and learn more about our technical team, including their favourite parts of DriveWorks 18.1.

During the meeting, we were also joined by the newest member of the DriveWorks team, Adam. Adam shared his experience with DriveWorks and what he achieved in his previous role working at a company implementing DriveWorks.

As well as lots of exciting conversations taking place, we also tested our customer’s and reseller’s DriveWorks knowledge with a special DriveWorks quiz!

Guest Presenters 

We know how important it is for DriveWorks users to share ideas and tips with each other.

Customer presentations will be a big part of all DriveWorks Drivers meetings. We were extremely excited to welcome our first DriveWors Drivers guest presenters.

Robert Allen – Dolphin Solutions 

During the 3pm meeting, we were joined by Robert Allen, ‎Product Design Engineer at UK based DriveWorks customer, Dolphin Solutions.

Dolphin Solutions have implemented a DriveWorks configurator that anyone can use, from members of the sales team all the way to architects from all over the world.

Robert shared how since using DriveWorks, Dolphin Solutions have been able to cut their design time down from a matter of days to weeks to minutes and hours.

Drawings that used to have to be created manually are now automatically created by SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks working together.

Ismael Lopez – VanAire

During the 9pm GMT meeting, we were joined by Ismael Lopez, CAD Administrator at VanAire, based in Michigan.

Ismael has attended DriveWorks World for many years, events both in the US and the UK.

During his presentation, Ismael spoke about how VanAire has used DriveWorks to create their configurator for some of their parts.

It was a great opportunity to hear about the history of VanAire and how they have adapted DriveWorks into their designs.

What’s Next?

We were delighted to welcome so many DriveWorks users to the first DriveWorks Drivers virtual networking meeting.

It was great to see everyone interacting and talking all things DriveWorks.

We will be hosting four DriveWorks Drivers events each year, with the next one scheduled for March 2021.

If you would like to register your interest for the next event, please get in touch with us.