{"id":4538,"date":"2022-10-21T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2022-10-24T09:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:40:47","slug":"3dexperience-world-2023-delmiaworks-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/3dexperience-world-2023-delmiaworks-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 3DEXPERIENCE World 2023 Should Earn a Spot on the 2023 Calendar of DELMIAWorks Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DELMIAWorks<\/p>\n

With the recent registration opening for the DELMIAWorks (IQMS) user conference, 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE World 2023<\/a>, customers and prospects are evaluating what value\u2019s in it for them. 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE World 2023 will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, February 12-15, 2023, and is our first large-scale in-person event in three years. So we are incredibly excited to invite our customers and industry colleagues to World 2023 and experience more training, networking, and interaction in three days than you would in a year.<\/p>\n

Beyond 3D<\/strong>EXPERIENCE World 2023, my message is broader \u2013the pervasive value of attending industry conferences as a matter of professional and personal development.<\/p>\n

Realizing Just How Much More There is to Learn<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As I write this, I am sitting in an airport on the way home from a marketing conference. It was, and like so many conferences before, outstanding because of the immersion in a topic essential to my work and the sheer number of other marketing people I was able to interact with and learn from. We think we know something pretty well, and we usually do. But then you learn what another three dozen people know and realize how much more there is to learn and the many different ways to approach and execute a job. It\u2019s empowering and a highly leveraged investment– one trip, three days, and more learning than I could pack into a year in the office.<\/p>\n

The week before this, I was at an industry conference in Indianapolis. 550 manufacturing people were in attendance, about half of them customers. 100 prospect encounters and 100 customer conversations later, it was hard for me to even imagine not attending. No way I pick up that much knowledge, gain that much insight, and get to meet that many people from my desk at work. Again highly leveraged. The trip cost around $2,000, but the cost per pound of learning was about a dime.<\/p>\n

Like most conferences, these two events were based on several key principles:<\/p>\n