Evan Yares Wins CAD Society's Joe Greco Community Award
 DENVER,
CO, Apr 2, 2008 - The CAD Society, the industry association of CAD users,
today announced Evan Yares, former president of the Open Design Alliance, as
the winner of its 2008 Joe Greco Community Award.
Yares’ distinguished career as a consultant, writer, developer, and
reseller in the CAD industry was recognized by the Society, particularly for
his long advocacy for greater CAD interoperability. During his eight-year
tenure at the Open Design Alliance (ODA), Yares pursued strategies that
emphasized cooperation between users as well as between software vendors.
Often outspoken, Yares campaigned against monopolistic corporate practices
and sought to realize a CAD industry based on shared interests.
The Open Design Alliance (ODA) is a non-profit consortium of software
companies, developers, and users committed to promoting the open exchange of
CAD data. The OpenDWG format that the ODA developed, and which Yares
advanced, attempted to keep design data free of propriety restrictions,
which not only aided interoperability, but also served to secure data for
archival preservation.
Yares was also co-founder Cyon Research Corporation and acted as Chief
Technology Officer for the consultancy which explored the business issues of
CAD and 3D software for leading companies in the fields of engineering and
software.
In 2000, Yares was one of the three founding members of the Congress of
the Future of Engineering Software (COFES), a 3-day event that brings
together the top software developers, engineering end users, and analysts
for intelligent conversation and debate about the engineering automation
industry.
The CAD Society's Joe Greco Community Award is awarded each year to one
individual who has distinguished themselves by improving communication and
developing community within the CAD industry. The award has been renamed in
memory of industry analyst and editor, Joe Greco, who passed away three
years ago. At the time, Greco was President of the CAD Society.
“For many years, Evan has been a singular figure in our community;” says
CAD Society President Michael McGrath, “an insightful and determined
visionary who has worked to bridge the technological divides that cannot be
achieved through competition alone.”
Yares served as the CAD Society as President between 1999 and 2002.
Yares began his career engineering industrial and process controllers.
His experience with the business side of CAD software started with in his
position at CADD Source, one of the first AutoCAD resellers. From 1986 to
1996, Yares was Principal Consultant at Design Automation Systems, which
pioneered the first 3D CAD solutions. Yares founded his own independent
consultancy, the Yares Organization, in 1998.
About The CAD Society
The CAD Society is a not-for-profit industry association with the goal of
fostering community and encouraging open communication among those who make
their living within the CAD industry including AEC, mechanical,
manufacturing, and GIS. The CAD Society is dedicated to creating an
informative community and improving the tools its members employ in order to
get their jobs done. This is achieved by providing an open forum of
communication, which helps to illuminate the practices of industry vendors.
It has been a leader in creating interoperability guidelines that encourage
software vendors to develop applications that can openly share data.
For more information, visit
www.cadsociety.org
About COFES
The ninth annual Congress on the Future of Engineering Software (COFES),
meets at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort, Scottsdale, Ariz., April 10-13, 2008.
COFES, a mainstay event of the engineering software industry, provides an
intensive conference atmosphere where private and public discussions are
held. Attendees are executives, end users, CAD and PLM vendors, analysts,
and members of the press who work together to define the newest business
issues of engineering technologies.
COFES is an invitation-only event. To find out more information and to
request an invitation, please visit
www.cofes.com.
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