With just a few days until 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025, the DriveWorks team is excited to be heading out to Houston. If you’re attending 3DEXPERIENCE World, it’s a great opportunity to meet some of the DriveWorks team and find out more about DriveWorks solutions and how they can enable your business to reduce repetitive tasks, eliminate errors, increase sales, and deliver custom products in record time. Alongside the DriveWorks booth, members of the DriveWorks team will be hosting masterclass sessions where they’ll share their insight on achieving efficiencies.
Here’s our guide to getting the most out of 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025.
Build your agenda
There are hundreds of different sessions to attend, and this year’s agenda is designed to help you grow and thrive, featuring technical training sessions, networking sessions, women in tech events, expanded roundtables, and much more.
Whether you’re looking to expand your skills through technical training sessions, connect with like-minded peers in meet-ups, or discover new ways to advance your career, it’s worth taking the time to browse the extensive agenda and reserve your place at sessions you don’t want to miss.
General sessions and keynote speakers
Each day at 3DEXPERIENCE World starts with a general session focusing on new technologies and strategies that can power innovation and growth. You’ll hear from Dassault Systèmes and SOLIDWORKS leadership and inspiring engineers and innovators. This year’s keynote speakers include Marc Raibert, Executive Director of the AI Institute and Founder of Boston Dynamics, and Karim Rashid, celebrated Industrial Designer.
The Playground – the epicenter of 3DEXPERIENCE World
At the epicenter of 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025, you’ll find the Playground. It’s a hub of innovation where attendees can meet SOLIDWORKS experts, sponsors & partners to learn more about the latest in design and manufacturing technologies. It’s where you’ll find the Dassault Systèmes booth, the Shop Floor, the Hive, the EDU Zone, the Maker Zone, and the one place you’ll not want to miss, the DriveWorks booth!
Visit Booth #834 to meet the DriveWorks team and learn more about design automation, CPQ for Manufacturing, and how manufacturers are transforming their processes and improving customer experience. You’ll also have the opportunity to get hands-on with DriveWorks configurator examples.
With comfortable furniture and an informal atmosphere, the Hive area of the Playground creates the perfect setting for networking and exploring new technologies. The Hive is a dedicated space where you can connect with like-minded individuals, potential collaborators, and industry influencers.
The Shop Floor area of the Playground provides an immersive manufacturing experience showcasing cutting-edge technologies for businesses of all sizes. Visit the Shop Floor to see and experience the latest in manufacturing technology, with live demonstrations and interactive exhibits.
Learn from the DriveWorks experts
Throughout 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025, members of the DriveWorks team will be hosting masterclass sessions where they’ll be sharing their insight on achieving efficiencies with DriveWorks technology.
Hear how manufacturers around the world use DriveWorks to get from design stage, to finished product in the shortest possible time – giving their clients the best delivery program and distinguishing their performance from their competitors.
Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to check out our custom-made flight cases, designed in SOLIDWORKS and DriveWorks, providing ultimate protection for the equipment we’ve shipped to 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025.
Join DriveWorks Product Manager for Integration, Adam Baker, to learn how you can benefit from using DriveWorks CPQ for Manufacturing with DELMIAWorks Manufacturing ERP.
Configure, price, and quote custom products and automatically create sales and manufacturing data inside DELMIAWorks Manufacturing ERP with DriveWorks CPQ for Manufacturing.
This session will also run on Tuesday February 25th at 11am.
Join DriveWorks Technical Manager, Dave Meecham to find out how organizations are using DriveWorks design automation and product configurator software to automate their custom same-but-different designs.
This session will cover built-in (free!) automation tools inside SOLIDWORKS, an overview of DriveWorks software, and a technical guide on modeling for automation. Dave will also share how companies are achieving their automation goals and explain how you can too.
During this session, DriveWorks Head of Technical Engagement, Oliver Basma-Lord, will share the latest development in DriveWorks technology – an integration with 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS. Oliver will take you through the integration between DriveWorks and 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS. We will cover what the integration is, how the integration works, and the functionality it offers – giving DriveWorks design automation users, brand-new and existing, a robust and reliable solution as part of their journey to the cloud.
No need to miss out if you’re not attending
There’s no need to miss out if you’re not going to be in Houston. You can watch the 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025 live stream on live.solidworks.com and the SOLIDWORKS YouTube channel.
The live stream will include the General Sessions and Keynotes, interviews with executives, speakers, and guests, and glimpses into many other aspects of the conference. The full agenda for the live stream will be posted to the event website before the conference starts, and all of the live stream sessions will be available to watch back after the event.
Follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date
We’ll be sharing lots of news about our time at 3DEXPERIENCE World on our LinkedIn page. Follow the page to stay up to date with all of the action and check in with the team in Houston.