"I've attended the last two 3D Collaboration and Interoperability Congresses and found them to be extremely valuable, mostly for the opportunity to discuss interoperability requirements with major customers and end-users.

We believe the Collaboration and Interoperability Congress provides great value for us at Northrop Grumman.  It hits critical timely issues, and it's vendor/product neutral, so it gives us an unbiased perspective of current technologies that may address challenges we deal with every day. And the networking opportunity is excellent, as a result of the venue, the limited attendance and the high level of executive attendees.  Northrop Grumman has been well represented, and we intend to continue a strong presence there.

Jotne is pleased to be a continuing sponsor of the 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress. The agenda brings together a unique collection of the leading vendors, standard organizations and users for 2 days of knowledge exchange and interaction, in a way that cannot be found in any other single event.

CIC provides an open forum for constructive discussion of issues.  The non-commercial focus of the event is a significant plus.  Attendees in the spirit of improvement tend to be more open to discuss both positives and negatives than you would get at a more commercial venue.   Real world experiences are shared, an invaluable resource for CAE managers who would otherwise have to rely on generally biased commercial benchmarking or conduct their own industry benchmark exercises.   The CIC event allows CAE managers to network, creating opportunities for assisting each other and sharing ideas.

"Content running in two tracks was beneficial, provided choices and variety to delivering more consistent value for the time spent."

"The CIC clearly drew company leaders looking for solutions to their needs.  They knew where they wanted to go, didn't want a lot of marketing hype and were willing to share their processes and future goals.  The size of the conference promoted more interaction between people with similar interests and needs, resulting in truly meaningful contacts and ideas."

"Longview's Conference on Collaboration and Interoperability has earned its place on the calendar. It’s the place senior management of large design and engineering organizations go to share best practices in getting people to collaborate more effectively, and secrets on a major costly problem: Interoperability. It’s a truly effective forum with an incredibly rich mix of knowledgeable vendors and extremely savvy customers. I go out of my way to be there."

"We found the Collaboration and Interoperability Conference to be a very valuable experience, providing informative and focused presentations in many areas that are critical to us ... especially data interoperability. Data Interoperability is the church key to data longevity. Data longevity is the certification requirement. There can be no certification without interoperability. "If you can't get your data out of an application, you can't have it"

"Thank you and the others for pulling this event together. I think it is a worthwhile conference and data interoperability is definitely a big issue that many of us are facing today. I felt it was a good conference and worth the trip."

"Thank you for arranging such a wonderful conference. This is a very unique opportunity for all CAD data translation parties, including vendors and consumers, to meet and discuss all challenging issues we are facing daily."