{"id":33850,"date":"2015-01-16T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2017-08-25T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T11:46:04","slug":"solidworks-world-special-events-are-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2015\/01\/solidworks-world-special-events-are-special.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS World Special Events are&#8230;Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People will tell you that they attend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sww\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SOLIDWORKS World<\/a> for the technical content, the networking, the chance to meet with SOLIDWORKS employees, and\u00a0to research the latest technologies in the Partner Pavilion.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let that fool you, they also attend for the Tuesday night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sww\/special-event-2015.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Special Event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had some really good events over the past 16 years &#8211; Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Universal Studios, The Gaslamp Quarter, and Cowboys Dancehall are a couple of examples.\u00a0 The food is always great, there are usually plenty of activities to keep you entertained, and 80&#8217;s rock is typically the music of choice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1537\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1537 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/CrowdShot-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CrowdShot\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Austin band LC Rocks in San Antonio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Someone asked me once &#8220;Why would they schedule an 80&#8217;s rock band for a bunch of engineers?&#8221;.\u00a0 The picture above is exactly the reason.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event looks very promising, perhaps reminiscent of our San Antonio event in 2011.\u00a0 Cowboys, bulls, pig races, and margarita&#8217;s are just a\u00a0few\u00a0of the activities you&#8217;ll enjoy Tuesday evening.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be tempted to miss this event in favor of some extra sleep.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t be surprised to find an &#8220;after party&#8221; later in the evening<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1543\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/Party-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Party-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People will tell you that they attend SOLIDWORKS World for the technical content, the networking, the chance to meet with SOLIDWORKS employees, and\u00a0to research the latest technologies in the Partner Pavilion.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let that fool you, they also attend for<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2015\/01\/solidworks-world-special-events-are-special.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":35213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}