Develop3D Live promises streaming CAD fireworks
The Takeaway
How would you like to watch Carl Bass, Jon Hirschtick, and Gian Paolo Bassi go head-to-head-to-head on stage?
The Details
This year’s edition of Develop3D Live, March 26 in Warwick, UK, is shaping up to be quite an event if you follow the CAD industry. Video of key meetings will be streamed over the Web, including the Autodesk, Onshape, SolidWorks three-way mentioned above.
Organizer Martyn Day says D3D Live will broadcast main stage presentations free over the web, both live (GMT) and with delays for US East Coast (EDT, GMT +5) and US West Coast (PDT, GMT +8) audiences. The registration site [UPDATED INFO] is now live at the following link: REGISTER HERE
Day is rightfully excited about this year’s event: “Got a pretty cool line up of CAD CEOs and VPs, the whole Bass [Autodesk CEO], Hirschtick [Onshape Chairman/Founder] and Gian Paolo [Bassi, SolidWorks CEO] dust-off, with PTC and Siemens watching…. We have the head of HP’s 3D printer division plus some great designers working on stuff like America’s Cup Yachts, Space Rockets and phone/shoe-based navigation.”
The mainstage presentations will end with a final panel discussion with Bassi, Hirschtick, and representatives from Mainframe2, Schneider, and Kenesto CEO Mike Payne to discuss next-generation CAD, collaboration, and the cloud, “which could get a bit boisterous,” notes Day. “Might be worth getting some popcorn.”
Other speakers scheduled:
- Artist/Inventor/Designer Dominic Wilcox
- Reaction Engines technical director Richard Varvill
- Ben Ainslie Racing technical director Andy Claughton
- Vertu head of design Hutch Hutchison
- MMD VFX supervisor Jörn Großhans
- HP 3D printing business director J. Scott Schiller
- RML Group director of motorsport Ron Hartvelt
- Riutbag designer Sarah Gilbin
- Mainframe2 founder/CEO Nikola Bozinovic
- PTC VP Brian Thompson
- Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre Technical Manager Frank Cooper
- Autodesk Business Development Manager for Spark Hilde Sevens
- MakersCAFE founder/CEO Soner Ozenc
- 3D Engineers founder Stuart Brown
- Grainger and Worrall senior engineer Antony Middleton
- Inition technical consultant Jay Short
- Strategic Simulation director Laurence Marks
- Renishaw technical marketing director David Ewing
- University of Leeds director of Institute of Engineering Systems Dr. Robert Richardson
- Ape design studio principal Mark Shayler
- Mylor Ventures director Rob Misslebrook
- AMD Firepro guy Rob Jamieson
- The Foundry head of design David Atkinson
- Made With Mischief chief of mischief Chris Cheung
- Lightworks pre-sales guy Ben Widdowson
- 3DIMPact environmental scanning expert Mona Hess
- MAS Design principal Mark Sanders
- Autodesk emerging products manager Kevin Schneider
- Siemens PLM VP Dan Staples

