{"id":663,"date":"2010-04-17T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/the-cofes-conference-scottsdale-arizona"},"modified":"2010-04-17T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T17:09:11","slug":"the-cofes-conference-scottsdale-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/04\/the-cofes-conference-scottsdale-arizona.html","title":{"rendered":"The COFES Conference, Scottsdale Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I am attending COFES &#8212; the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software. &#0160;Approximately 200 people from the CAD\/CAE software industry. &#0160;Not many customers &#8212; mostly software developers, press, and industry consultants.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>COFES draws me back year after year because of the networking. &#0160;In the modern era of Twitter, Facebook, email, GoToMeeting, etc. it is still nice to see people face to face. &#0160;At COFES I can renew my friendships and professional discussions with people like:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Peter Marks<\/div>\n<div>Joel Orr<\/div>\n<div>Brad Holz<\/div>\n<div>Steve Wolfe<\/div>\n<div>Bob McNeel<\/div>\n<div>Pete Wells<\/div>\n<div>Bob Bean<\/div>\n<div>Mike Payne<\/div>\n<div>Roopinder Tara<\/div>\n<div>Al Dean<\/div>\n<div>Martyn Day<\/div>\n<div>Deelip Menezes<\/div>\n<div>Marc Halpern<\/div>\n<div>Ping Fu<\/div>\n<div>Maria Sarkar<\/div>\n<div>Dick Sowar<\/div>\n<div>Bruce Morgan<\/div>\n<div>Shyamal Roy<\/div>\n<div>Don Brown<\/div>\n<div>Terry Swack<\/div>\n<div>David Cohn<\/div>\n<div>Evan Yares<\/div>\n<div>Chuck Paulsen<\/div>\n<div>Don Richardson<\/div>\n<div>Jay Vleeschhouwer<\/div>\n<div>and many more<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Talk about efficient. &#0160;One easy trip to Phoenix for a couple of days and I get the opportunity to talk with all these great people in a reasonably small group comfortable setting.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>New technologies, new ideas, old friends. &#0160;Hopefully some things to bring back to Dassault Systemes SolidWorks HQ that will help us do even better things for our customers.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>&#8211; Jon<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I am attending COFES &#8212; the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software. &#0160;Approximately 200 people from the CAD\/CAE software industry. &#0160;Not many customers &#8212; mostly software developers, press, and industry consultants. COFES draws me back year after<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/04\/the-cofes-conference-scottsdale-arizona.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","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\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}