​​​​​​​Every year SOLIDWORKS Users converge on 3DEXPERIENCE World. For those who have not attended before, it is a global celebration of design, innovation, and passion powered by Dassault Systèmes and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

3DEXPERIENCE World is more than a user conference, it is a gathering of like-minded engineers, designers, makers, students and decision-makers all keen to learn about the latest tools, techniques, and technologies to accelerate and improve the way they design. It is three days full of general sessions, technical training, networking, fun and much more!  In February of this year's all-virtual event, we had over 25K people attend this very successful event and we reached Users from across 145 countries.

Recap:

Day One

3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 Day One kicked off with a very memorable general session with big announcements. Every year there is a theme for 3DEXPERIENCE World and this year's theme was IMAGINE and over three days, it was demonstrated how SOLIDWORKS and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform can help imagine all we can achieve, together.

The theme of day one’s general session was “From Things to Sustainable Life | Strategy & Direction.” Former SOLIDWORKS CEO @GB kicked things off by sharing our collective objective for this event: to share the technologies and trends that we believe will shape the future of engineering, the way we work, and what will help innovators all over the world invent and reinvent the things we need and want to live our lives.

Next, Gian Paolo BASSI introduced @MK who will be stepping into the role of SOLIDWORKS CEO. Gian Paolo explained that his new role at Dassault Systèmes will be to lead the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio as Executive Vice President of 3DEXPERIENCE Works.

Then, @BC, Dassault Systèmes CEO and Vice Chairman, talked about factories of experience and spoke about how VirtualTwin technologies can help you rethink your products, processes and even business models to realize radically new sustainable innovation.

After Day One's general session, the 3DEXPERIENCE Playground opened. The playground is a huge is techno fair in our LIVE events and we were able to create a similar experience for our virtual attendees. This year, we had 147 virtual exhibitors, all excited to show their solutions to visitors. Attendees would able to visit Dassault Systèmes Hub, 3DEXPERIENCE LAB, Partners Zones, Shop Floor, Model Mania, Makers Zone, EDU Zone to discover endless stories and learn more.

One of the biggest attractions at all 3DEXPERIENCE World events is the 3DEXPERIENCE Playground  - the Dassault Systèmes hub where all the Dassault Systèmes brands collaborate and show how we help clients solve their problems and turn their dreams into reality on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform! Attendees were able to see all the solutions through customer stories and videos.

This year, a hotspot of interest and activity was the Virtual Shop Floor with various videos and demos from @MB and the team who brought a manufacturing facility to life for our attendees. Attendees also had the opportunity to take in a live experience into what it takes to produce aftermarket automotive components for Factory Five. 

More than 200 Breakout and more than 35 MeetUps sessions started right after the general sessions as well. Attendees were able to join them and if they had any question, they could easily ask in a dedicated 3DSwym community that quickly became a hub for our attendees' questions.

We all know how important to networking for our Users with the peers, discuss similar challenges, and learn how they have been solved with 3DEXPERIENCE Works solutions. So we organized MeetUps sessions for our attendees then they can ask questions of SOLIDWORKS experts and executives, thought leaders, makers, and influencers. Attendees enjoyed a number of different panel discussions, including customer guests, covering industrial design, simulation, manufacturing, DELMIAWorks sessions and more. We had fireside chats with executives, Tony Fadell, start-ups, and makers. Also special MeetUps for students and educators. We organized country based MeetUps this years.

Day Two

Day Two’s general session was all about technology. @FH introduced an R&D team roundtable featuring experts in design, simulation, and collaboration. The R&D team was joined by 3DEXPERIENCE Works Users NASKA robotics, Exovolar, and Smartflyer to discuss their experiences with connected SOLIDWORKS tools.

The DELMIAWorks team worked very hard to give the best at this year's event and did not disappoint. DELIMIAWORKS Users had a chance to hear directly from the DELMIAWorks leadership team about the brand’s industry, product, services and strategic vision. DELMIAWorks Users had special Keynote sessions, Training Sessions, Business & Product Updates, Networking Opportunities during the three days so they made this event “a can’t miss event” for the Users.

All the meetup sessions were popular however, day 2 we had special fireside chat with Tony Fadell in conversation with @FV, Head of Innovation at Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Lab. Tony Fadell talked about how he led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.

We also had our first Virtual Hands-On session on Day Two. This virtual hands-on session guided attendees through the use of several apps in the SOLIDWORKS Cloud Offer, (xDesign, xShape, and more). Attendees learned how to effectively collaborate using the tools provided by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

And one of the most popular parts of the event was: SOLIDWORKS Live, which ran daily on our event platform as well as YouTube throughout each day. You can revisit the whole stream here.

Day Three

Day Three's general session, “From Connections to Relationships / Community” focused on just that: our talented community of Users.  @SJ, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at SOLIDWORKS, spoke of the rapidly growing SOLIDWORKS ecosystem, 6 million + designers, engineers, students, entrepreneurs, makers — all designing and making many of the things we see around us. SOLIDWORKS truly is everywhere.

Wrap-Up

We thank everyone joined, participated and spoke at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 and hope you enjoyed as much as we did. We are looking forward to next year's event - scheduled to happen in Nashville, Tennessee USA​​​​​​​ - and we are planning for an in-person event so we look forward to seeing your face-to-face in 2023!

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