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Training at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 brings you nearly 400 training sessions, including hands-on workshops, demos, product briefings, panel discussions, and roundtables on a wide variety of topics, taught by industry experts. Take a look at the DriveWorks technical sessions that will be happening during both the in-person and the virtual event, and join us to see why now is the time to automate.

We hope you have a happy and healthy festive season and we wish you all the best for the new year! Another year over and what a year it’s been! Although once again it has been an unusual year with the pandemic, we have always made the most of situations out of our hands and embraced this time as an opportunity to improve, create and innovate.

During the Business Exchange Conference, we had the chance to meet Stand Out Socks. A Warrington based company that is leading the way in raising social awareness. Inspired by Co-Founder Ross, a young man with Down Syndrome, a man not scared to stand out in a crowd, and together with the help of his big brother Christian, Stand Out Socks was created. After hearing about the inspiring message Ross and Christian are spreading, we wanted to get involved to show our support.

We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Philip Stears as Chief Technology Officer. Philip’s passion for technology and his willingness to train, develop and inspire teams, combined with his vast knowledge of DriveWorks, make him the ideal CTO for DriveWorks.

On Thursday, December 9th we hosted the One-Year Anniversary meeting of DriveWorks Drivers. In this meeting, we rounded up the first year of DriveWorks Drivers. We welcomed members of the DriveWorks team to join us, we saw many different ways people are using DriveWorks outside of their day to day work and we even had an exciting announcement.

DriveWorks 19.2 is now available to download from the DriveWorks Community. This latest release delivers new features and enhancements and supports SOLIDWORKS 2022. Download DriveWorks 19.2 now to take advantage of the latest updates.

The High Sheriff’s Awards for Enterprise are the county’s most prestigious awards for business performance, recognising outstanding achievements by enterprises in Cheshire, Halton and Warrington. This year we are proud to be sponsoring the High Sheriffs Award for Digital Innovation. Digital innovation is something we’re extremely passionate about. We’re keen to see what other businesses across Cheshire and Warrington are achieving through digital innovation.

We love being a part of the SOLIDWORKS Community. With the support of our resellers, customers and partners, we have attended SWUG meetings, sponsored meetings and helped group leaders to find presenters with interesting presentations since 2015. Although these past 18 months have been very different, we have still had the chance to connect with the SWUG Community through many online meetings and during virtual 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021.

3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 will be held as a hybrid event on February 6-9, 2022, with the in-person event being held at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We are excited to be attending 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022. We’re a silver sponsor and will be exhibiting, presenting, learning and networking.

Smart Factory Expo is industry’s biggest digital manufacturing show. As part of Digital Manufacturing Week, this annual event welcomes expertise, ideas and opportunity for digital manufacturing. For the sixth year running Smart Factory Expo delivered an exciting and engaging event of which we were pleased to be a part of! Here a round-up of what happened at Smart Factory Expo 2021!

This Week We’re Exhibiting and Presenting at Smart Factory Expo 2021. DriveWorks CEO, Glen Smith Presenting on CPQ for Manufacturing – Everything you Need to Sell and Manufacture Digitally. In this presentation, DriveWorks CEO, Glen Smith will share how companies around the world are using automation to do more with less. Use digital technologies to successfully sell your products at home and around the world. Work smarter – be inspired for yourself, and for your company.

Recently, we had a chance to catch up with Sean O’Neill, Dassault Systems as the Senior Strategy and Community Manager. In this second part, we will be talking to Sean about how the pandemic has impacted the SOLIDWORKS Community and reminiscing on previous world events.

We’re excited to be involved at this year’s Smart Factory Expo 2021 event in Liverpool on the 10th and 11th November 2021! Smart Factory Expo is where manufacturers explore digital transformation technology and hardware that will give you a competitive advantage. Smart Factory Expo brings together expertise, ideas and opportunity – the manufacturing industry’s showcase for digital manufacturing.

Last month, we launched a new series of DriveWorks technical discussion sessions. We’ve had lots of great conversations so far and we’re looking forward to continuing to host these sessions every Thursday at 4pm (BST). Sign up for upcoming sessions and tell us what you would like to chat about.

Planning for 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 is underway. Next year, 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 will be held as a hybrid event on February 6-9, 2022, with the in-person event being held at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We caught up with Simge Walsh, Senior Strategy and Program Manager at Dassault Systèmes for a sneak preview of what we can look forward to at this event!