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Reserve Your Housing and Register Today for COE’s Spring Events

Rooms are going quickly at the Walt Disney World® Dolphin. A limited number of rooms are available (for $189 per night) for the nights of Sunday, April 27, Monday, April 28 and Tuesday, April 29 during the COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair and COE 2008 Workshop - Develop & Deploy. Rooms at the Dolphin are currently sold out on the following nights:

  • Thursday, April 24 
  • Friday, April 25
  • Wednesday, April 30
  • Thursday, May 1

To make reservations, contact the Walt Disney World® Dolphin directly at 888.828.8850.

Additional Housing at the Nearby Buena Vista Palace
COE has reserved rooms at the Buena Vista Palace for $189 per night. Buena Vista Palace is approximately a 10-minute drive from the Walt Disney World® Swan and Dolphin. Shuttles will also be running between the Buena Vista Palace and the Walt Disney World® Swan and Dolphin during the COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair and the COE 2008 Workshop - Develop & Deploy. Contact the Buena Vista Palace directly at 866.397.6516 to make your reservation. Be sure to mention you are participating in a COE event to receive the discounted rate.
 
Please note: If you are not able to secure a room at the Walt Disney World® Dolphin, many hotels within walking distance are also selling out quickly, therefore it is recommended you contact that Buena Vista Palace.

Register Today!
Register for the COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair and COE 2008 Workshop - Develop & Deploy and save 10% off the cost of both events!

Make Your Travel Arrangements with Apollo
COE has chosen Apollo as the preferred travel agency for the COE 2008 spring events. Contact Apollo today and receive COE's negotiated discounts on air and car rates. For more information, visit www.coe.org.


Reminder: Submit Your COE Open Forum Question Before April 1st

The COE Open Forum is considered, by a large majority of our attendees, to be a significant benefit of attending the COE Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair. Attendees have the opportunity to address questions and issues not addressed in other sessions in an open discussion.

If you have particular questions or concerns that you would like the panel of experts to address, submit your question in advance of the conference. Providing questions in advance of the conference gives COE the opportunity to correlate the questions to better assure a more meaningful and accurate answer.

Please have your questions submitted on or before April 1, 2008. We look forward to hearing from you!


Don’t Forget to Nominate Your Favorite Discussion Forum User

Every day, users are posting helpful messages in the various discussion areas of the COE Discussion Forum. COE would like to recognize the favorite forum contributors by establishing a nomination campaign. If you have found one or more contributors who have been helpful or are your favorite contributors, submit your nominations, with a brief explanation, in an e-mail to coe@coe.org.

You may nominate one contributor or many. The COE Web Committee will compile the nominations and recognize the Top 10 contributors in an upcoming issue of NewsNet and at the COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair in Florida this April. Please submit your nomination on or before April 1 to coe@coe.org.


Register for COE University Hands-on Training Sessions

Register for COE University Hands-on Training Sessions when you register for the COE 2008 Workshop - Develop & Deploy!

The COE 2008 Workshop - Develop & Deploy, May 1-2 at the Walt Disney World® Swan and Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, features more targeted education, more information and more Dassault Systèmes V5 developers and deployers to build your best practices network.

COE University sessions provide workshop attendees with hands-on training and relevant, detailed product information on the latest Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions through live demonstrations and training sessions. Ten training and educational sessions, utilizing thirty workstations provided by IBM Corporation, will be available throughout the conference. Register today and get the education and training you need to stay ahead of the competition.

Below are just a few of the many COE University Hands-on Training sessions available:

TR-1: An Introduction to Working with Legacy Data in SmarTeam
Brett Ade, TechniGraphics
TR-4: Configuring and Deploying ENOVIA MatrixOne on IBM POWER 6 Technology
Jean-Paul Vassoux, IBM Corporation
TR-10: Integrating PowerCopies, PKTs, and UDFs with Visual Basic Applications in CATIA V5
Joe Konecny, RAND Worldwide

View the entire lineup of COE University Hands-on Training Sessions

Whether or not you have registered for the COE 2008 Workshop - Develop & Deploy, view the registration instructions here.

Note: Twenty seats are available for advance COE University registration and ten seats will remain open for onsite registration. All seats for COE University sessions, whether online or onsite, seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Additionally, lecture-style seats will be available in the back of the training room for those who would like to attend but do not have a work station.


COE Insta-poll Results and Next Question

We want your feedback! Each month COE would like your opinion on topics concerning your Dassault Systèmes software installation or your experiences as a COE member. Following are the results from the past issue’s poll and this month’s new poll.

Results of the February Poll:

The COE 2008 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair and COE 2008 Workshop – Develop & Deploy are just around the corner. Are you:

- Planning on attending the annual conference only: 28.1%
- Planning on attending the workshop only: 2%
- Planning on attending both and saving 10%: 7.9%
- Not planning on attending either event: 5.3%

Please be sure to provide your input on our March poll:

What Dassault Systèmes software is currently installed in your organization?

  • CATIA
  • ENOVIA VPLM
  • ENOVIA MatrixOne
  • DELMIA
  • ENOVIA SmarTeam
  • Simulia
  • Virtools
  • Solidworks

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