Cyon's Brad Holtz to Keynote at CPDA PLM Road Map
 RIVERSIDE,
CT, July 27, 2010 - Collaborative Product Development Associates (CPDA), a
provider of critical analyses for PLM decisions, announces that leading
industry analyst and commentator Brad Holtz will make a keynote presentation
at
PLM Road Map 2010 which takes place at The Inn at St. John's, outside of
Detroit, Michigan on September 28 and 29. Other keynote speakers include:
Penske Corporation’s Stephen J. Pickett; Ford Motor Company’s Christopher
Davey; Targeted Convergence Corporation’s Michael Kennedy; MathWorks’ Jim
Tung; HP’s Christian Verstraete; and IBM Rational’s Bruce Powel Douglass.
Brad’s presentation, Accelerating Changes in CAD/CAE - An Updated View of
CAD/CAE Use, will review trends in CAD/CAE based on two surveys, with over five
hundred worldwide users participating in each. Brad will share current research
and observations on how interoperability, complexity, and customer thinking on
industry software trends are rapidly evolving. He will also share previously
unpublished results from a recent survey undertaken by Cyon Research on the
CAD/PLM market.
About W. Bradley Holtz, President & CEO, Cyon
Research
As a trusted analyst and industry commentator in engineering software today,
Brad Holtz’s incisive views on CAD and related applications are based on a keen
understanding of new technologies and years of careful observation of their
impact on design, engineering, architecture, and manufacturing. As the lead
analyst for Cyon Research, Brad's opinions about the future of engineering
software have appeared in all the major engineering software industry
publications, and he has been a featured speaker at industry events on four
continents. His customers have included: Adobe, Autodesk, Bentley Systems,
Boeing, Dewberry, EDS, Gensler, Hewlett-Packard, Intergraph, Kaiser Aerospace,
Lockheed Martin, Mobil Oil, Océ-USA, PTC, SolidWorks, Tekla, Siemens PLM, and
Xerox.
In 1999, Brad melded WBH Associates with Orr Associates and The Yares
Organization to form Cyon Research. He has led Cyon Research since its
inception. As CEO of Cyon Research Corporation, Brad was the driving force in
developing COFES: The Congress on The Future of Engineering Software. Now an
annual 3-day conversation among major engineering software vendors and users,
COFES has become the leading event of its kind. He is also the founder of
the DaS Symposium, and is spearheading its Green Keystone Alliance, which is
focused on decreasing the viscosity of transactions of design.
Brad is author of The CAD Rating Guide, published in five editions between
1987 and 1997. He has written many articles about engineering software. He has
also provided the editorial direction of two major newsletters serving the
CAD/CAM industry - Engineering Automation Report and Computer Aided Design
Report - which Cyon Research acquired and published until they were spun out in
2007
About PLM Road Map 2010
PLM Road Map 2010 is a strategic conference focusing on the transformation of
product development approaches to serve a new value proposition involving the
detailed reconciliation of data and processes across global engineering
functions. Join leading analysts from CPDA and key industry players as they
share their experiences in making technology work by driving efforts up front
early in design, and continuously incorporating cross-disciplinary knowledge and
feedback. PLM Road Map 2010 will challenge attendees to shift their current
thinking to a new level in a series of presentations focusing on the global
transformation of product development and innovation processes.
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