Dassault Systèmes has unveiled 3DEXPERIENCE World 2024, a flagship annual event focused on the 3DEXPERIENCE Works and SOLIDWORKS communities. Set to take place in Dallas from February 11-14, 2024, the event promises to be an exceptional opportunity for over 5,000 attendees, including users, industry leaders, innovators, and students, to come together and celebrate the 25th anniversary of this leading global platform. Join us to explore the latest technologies, trends, and insights that are defining the landscape of product design and manufacturing.

Four days of panels, breakout sessions, presentations, learning, and networking with thought leaders, industry experts, and customers will delve into some of the hottest topics touching design and manufacturing today – from artificial intelligence and digital transformation to collaborative innovation and virtual twins. This year’s 3DEXPERIENCE World will feature a particular focus on innovations that are advancing the global push for sustainability, and how 3DEXPERIENCE Works can help imagine and redesign products, processes, and business models to improve the world people want to live in.

Highlights of 3DEXPERIENCE World 2024 include:

• Keynote speakers Lonnie Johnson – inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur; Aneesa Muthana – CEO and owner of Pioneer Service and expert in production machining environments; and Paddy Lowe – founder and CEO of the fossil-free synthetic fuel company Zero, and former Formula 1 engineer and executive;
• Visionary insights on the impacts of global trends, from Bernard Charlès, Chairman, Dassault Systèmes, and Pascal Daloz, CEO, Dassault Systèmes;
• SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works updates from Manish Kumar, CEO, SOLIDWORKS, Dassault Systèmes, and Gian Paolo Bassi, Senior Vice President 3DEXPERIENCE Works, Dassault Systèmes;
• Customer stories from Arthur Bus, B&S, Endiatx, eSki, Flowerserve Corp, GlüxKind, Neurolutions, Light a Sky, Nagano Automation, Proteus Motion, Qargos, Tessy, Tigoona, and Viscon;
• Annual “Top 10 List” of user-requested SOLIDWORKS features and enhancements;
• Breakout sessions dedicated to design, simulation, manufacturing, data management, and community;
• 295 workshops and technical training sessions;
• Free certification opportunities to strengthen and sharpen skills;
• “AI and Hardware Innovation Showcase” startup contest;
• 3DEXPERIENCE Playground featuring robotics and CNC machines defining the future of manufacturing on the shop floor;
• An immersive virtual reality city experience in the “EDU Zone” alongside model race cars, rockets, and planes designed by university teams with SOLIDWORKS.

“For 25 years, our ‘World’ events have provided opportunities to celebrate attendees and facilitate community engagement while imagining all we can achieve in the future, together,” said Gian Paolo Bassi, Senior Vice President, 3DEXPERIENCE Works, Dassault Systèmes. “3DEXPERIENCE World 2024 builds on this story of innovation, thought leadership, customer success, products, and experiences. Now more than ever, we are connected in a world where the virtual makes it possible to push the limits of the imagination. We will continue to empower this global community to imagine the possibilities ahead, with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform.”

Dassault Systèmes today revealed the trends that are highlighting opportunities for startups and small and mid-sized businesses to leapfrog larger companies bound by more established processes and existing corporate structures.

Untapped artificial intelligence capabilities, IT and cybersecurity skillsets, and the ease of digital platforms are some of the topics emerging from a survey of 1,000 employees across the technology sector in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany, and Italy on trends in AI, the skills gaps, and digital transformation. The trends survey was conducted by independent market research firm CITE Research.

Respondents were polled on their perception of AI tools in the workplace, their concerns with cybersecurity issues and the consequences of weak IT and cybersecurity skills, their levels of digital transformation, and more. Key findings include:

• AI is going to radically transform industry and society, but missed opportunities and early misunderstandings of its full benefits will give startups and small and mid-sized businesses a head start, with the help of key compute capabilities;
• 84% of businesses allow the use of AI and 68% have used chatbots, but other, more impactful capabilities, such as machine-aided design, integrations, and machine learning, are poised to catapult users’ efficiency;
• 64% of respondents agree it is increasingly difficult to find employees that have the skills needed to compete. 73% are concerned about cybersecurity issues, but only 40% have employees with the right cybersecurity skills to address them;
• Consequences of the cybersecurity skills gap include higher costs of products and services, safety issues, slower time to market, and lower revenues, revealing areas of improvement for smaller businesses through the right skillsets;
• 87% of organizations have room to grow their digital transformation. More than one-third of large companies see implementation costs and management skills of digital transformation as barriers to adoption, revealing an opportunity for smaller businesses to seize key opportunities with digital platforms.

“We wanted to explore timely topics that are impacting our SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE Works community. The trends that emerged from this survey highlight the unique advantages that smaller businesses gain by becoming more agile, innovative, empowered, and collaborative,” said Gian Paolo Bassi, Senior Vice President, 3DEXPERIENCE Works, Dassault Systèmes. “Our SOLIDWORKS applications, part of the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, enable this community to harness the power of virtual twins to achieve these and succeed in all aspects of their business.”

The findings of the survey are being reflected in four days of discussions, networking, and workshops at 3DEXPERIENCE World, Dassault Systèmes’ annual event dedicated to the 3DEXPERIENCE Works and SOLIDWORKS community, in Dallas from February 11-14.

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About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE® Company, is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, our customers can redefine the creation, production and life-cycle-management processes of their offer and thus have a meaningful impact to make the world more sustainable. The beauty of the Experience Economy is that it is a human-centered economy for the benefit of all – consumers, patients and citizens. Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 300,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 150 countries.

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