Registration Open for BE Conference 2007
Annual user meeting April 29-May 3 in Los Angeles
 EXTON,
Pennsylvania, March 14, 2007 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced
that registration is open at www.be.org for
BE Conference 2007, being held April 29-May 3 at the Los Angeles Convention
Center in California. Those registering by March 23 will receive an early
bird discount that reduces the Learning Program fee by $200 – from $995 to
$795.
The BE Conference, which consistently scores a 99 percent attendee
satisfaction rating, is a once-a-year learning opportunity for Bentley user
organizations. It offers:
- Keynotes by Bentley executives on future technology and business
trends;
- Hundreds of courses and thousands of hours of accredited learning;
- Best practices sessions from experienced peers and technology
experts;
- Hundreds of technology updates across all industries and
disciplines;
- An exhibition featuring the latest products and services to help
support infrastructure projects;
- A variety of networking opportunities, including the BE Awards of
Excellence, the most prestigious awards program dedicated to
infrastructure design and management;
- The first BE Executive Symposium – a thought leadership event that
brings together executives and researchers to discuss the challenges of
global infrastructure.
“Once again, it’s time for learning – on a scale unequaled by any other
single learning event in the infrastructure community,” said Maureen
Pomeroy, director, Bentley Institute. “Our BE Conference 2007 program
features comprehensive, discipline-specific, professional training for
Bentley users in the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals of the
architecture, engineering, construction, and operations market. Bentley
Institute will provide more than 600 courses representing close to 1500
learning units of training to help attendees stay current on technology and
best practices and advance their careers.”
Continued Pomeroy, “Equally important, attendees can carry back this
valuable learning to their organizations to increase productivity, enhance
project quality, maximize the return on their investments in software, and
help them become more globally competitive. Indeed, BE is a value-packed
learning event.”
BE Executive Symposium
The BE Executive Symposium is an invitation-only event that connects
industry executives with researchers to discuss and address key challenges
to improving the world’s infrastructure. The inaugural 2007 symposium will
focus on sustaining infrastructure in the face of today’s critical shortage
of engineering resources.
New technology updates
BE Conference 2007 attendees will be updated on the following
technologies:
- Innovations by MicroStation – including PDF for architecture,
engineering, and construction (AEC), CAD standards configuration and
management, collaboration across teams, and the ability to link project
information across file formats – that deliver significant business
advantage to multidiscipline teams requiring interoperability, power,
and accessibility in their software portfolio;
- ProjectWise – a scalable collaboration system used for
connecting people and information across distributed enterprises that
includes: ProjectWise Navigator, a visual collaboration client for
project review and analysis; ProjectWise StartPoint, which provides
entry-level collaboration using Microsoft SharePoint; and ProjectWise
Integration Server, which enables projectwide collaboration and content
management for distributed teams sharing distributed content and
includes servers to accelerate content access, automate the creation of
intelligent, portable deliverables, and to facilitate integration with
Microsoft Office SharePoint;
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions – including
automated design and production processes with Bentley Architecture;
integrated analysis, design, documentation and fabrication of structural
systems with Bentley Structural, RAM, STAAD, and ProSteel; building
services design and documentation with Bentley Building Mechanical
Systems and Bentley Building Electrical Systems; advanced associative
parametric computational design with GenerativeComponents; and effective
operational management of space and assets with Bentley Facilities;
- DigitalPlant solutions – including AutoPLANT XM Edition;
PlantSpace XM Edition; ProjectWise Navigator; AutoPLANT Structural;
Bentley’s approach to workflow challenges during front-end engineering;
rules-based P&IDs; Lifecycle Server interoperability with 2D and 3D
design tools; ProjectWise V8 XM Edition; and Bentley’s newly acquired
Design Power PlantWise, an automatic pipe routing and plant layout tool
used by EPCs during the initial phases of a project for a quick visual
of the plant and early cost estimate;
- Civil Project Lifecycle – including details on advancing to a
more complete road lifecycle; leveraging data into construction; site
development and design technology; roadway design technology; surveying;
and water resources technology;
- Geospatial solutions – including Bentley Map and XML feature
modeling; cadastral applications via Bentley Cadastre; Geospatial
Server; building public Web sites with Geo Web Publisher; technology
solutions for municipal government; communication industry solutions for
planning, engineering, and operations; utility solutions for
distribution and power delivery with Bentley Electric and Bentley Expert
Designer Electric; and water and wastewater engineering, modeling, and
management.
For more details on BE Conference 2007 sessions, visit
www.be.org.
BE Awards of Excellence
The BE Awards of Excellence are always a high point of the BE Conference.
The BE Awards, which are judged by an independent panel of industry experts
and presented at an evening ceremony, honor the extraordinary work of
Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. These projects set
benchmarks for their industries and showcase the imagination and technical
mastery of the organizations that created them.
BE Conference attendees
BE Conference attendees will come from AE firms; architecture firms;
design-build firms; engineering consulting firms; facility owner-operators;
departments of transportation (DOTs); rail companies; site engineering
firms; communications and utilities firms; federal government and associated
contractors; local governments; public works agencies; plant engineering,
procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors; and plant owner-operators.
They will include users of Bentley’s MicroStation, ProjectWise, AutoPLANT,
Haestad Methods, STAAD, and RAM solutions, among others.
Exhibits
The BE Conference experience includes an extensive exhibition of
software, hardware, and services designed to support users’ infrastructure
project needs. On display will be offerings from not only Bentley, but also
from a broad range of other organizations serving the infrastructure
community.
For more information or to register for BE Conference 2007, being held
April 29-May 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California, go to
www.be.org. Those registering by March 23
will receive an early bird discount that reduces the Learning Program fee by
$200 – from $995 to $795.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the
world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the
building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture,
engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing
$400 million annually, and more than 2400 colleagues globally, Bentley is
the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top
Design Firms and major owner-operators, and was named the world’s No. 2
provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research
study.
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