Yet another highly successful STAR Conference!

New York, June 15, 2005

The US STAR Conferences took place on May 17 & 18, 2005 in Novi, Michigan and May 19, 2005 in La Jolla, California.

As always, the STAR Conference featured presentations about the latest features and developments of CD-adapco's CFD products and services with special focus this year on STAR-CCM+, CD-adapco's next generation CFD product and the STAR-CAD Series, a set of design-centric CAD-embedded tools that bring CFD to the very earliest stages of the design process.

CD-adapco's President Steve MacDonald kicked off the day by welcoming a full audience to the day’s events. Riaz Sanatian, Director of Project Management, gave a presentation explaining the Product Roadmap and the future strategy of CD-adapco. Dennis Nagy, Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning, then talked about Virtual Product Development and how CD-adapco supports this process.

The morning was capped off with two keynote presentations: Monica Schnitger, Senior Vice President of Market Analysis from Daratech, Inc. who presented “Leveraging Analysis for Competitive Advantage”, followed by Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, Managing Director of Grid Computing and Networking Services, MCNC who presented “CFD and Grid Computing: A New Opportunity for Research and Business”. The keynote speeches were extremely well received by all attendees and we thank Monica and Wolfgang for taking the time to present at our Conference in Michigan.

We would also like to extend special thanks to all our presenters who made both STAR Conferences such a triumph. These include:

• David Weber from Argonne National Labs
• François McKenty from Brais, Malouin & Associates
• Stefan Kern from Institute of Computational Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• Chris Zhou, Wright State University
• Buvana Jayaraman, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
• Ramu Ramamurthy, Eaton Corporation
• Idil Papila, ISP Chemicals
• Tom Gielda, Whirlpool Corporation
• Norbert Moritz, B&B Agema
• Hany Hakhla, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
• Mohamed Hassan, University of Kentucky
• Nadir Yilmaz, New Mexico State University
• Isabelle Lavedrine from ARUP
• Jiang Luo from Solar Turbines
• Hengchu Cao from Edwards Lifesciences
• Alan Diner from MSC Software

On the evening of May 17th, CD-adapco invited all attendees to help us celebrate 25 years in the industry, at a highly enjoyable Casino night. Great food and fun was had by all. There were a significant number who stayed for the evening event and lots of happy faces at the end of the evening. A few lucky participants from both conferences took home prizes, which included Paddock Club Passes to the Renault F1 Suite, a weekend in Las Vegas, a digital camera and printer, AMEX gift cards and other nice gifts. We are very grateful to HP, IBM and SGI for sponsoring our Casino night, as well as providing computers for our Training Sessions on the second day. A special thank-you also to AMD and Linux Networx for sponsoring conference luncheons.

A new format was introduced on the second day of the Detroit conference, one that was well accepted and appreciated. Several in-depth, hands-on training sessions were held instead of additional client presentations. Some sessions were for CD-adapco products and some were given by our sponsoring partners. Overall, the feedback has been very positive.

We would also like to recognize and thank all of our sponsoring partners who participated at both locations. Your support is appreciated and we hope to see our partnerships increase over the next year.

The conferences overall, according to the attendees, exceeded their expectations. We are delighted to hear this and we feel this is representative of all the hard work that the team at CD-adapco put in to organize the conferences. Again, thanks to all involved: attendees, presenters, exhibiting partners and CD-adapco team alike. A CD will be available shortly, of the conference presentations. All attendees will automatically receive a copy.

As the conference continues to grow, we look forward to providing a forum for sharing your success stories. Continue to visit our website, www.cd-adapco.com for updates, and make plans to attend our STAR American Conference next year.
Coming soon is the German STAR Conference, which will take place on the 7 & 8 November 2005 in Munich. More details to follow.