STAR European Conference 2008 Wrap Story

London April 23, 2008

 

After two days, forty presentations, four live demos and copious amounts of food, wine and social “integration”, the curtain fell on the 2008 STAR European Conference. Held a short distance from CD-adapco’s London Headquarters in Hammersmith, the conference was the most successful ever: attracting over 320 attendees, drawn from all sections of industry and from every discipline in the CAE world.

The central theme of the conference was “the Power of Integration”. Led by excellent keynote presentations from Ford of Europe and Prospect Flow Solutions, a succession of CD-adapco clients presented the tangible benefits that can be gained from adopting an integration philosophy in industrial CAE, in the process demonstrating cutting edge application of CFD Technology.

CD-adapco Marketing Communications Manager Stephen Ferguson was quick to declare the 2007 Conference the most successful ever: “Not only did we attract the largest ever number of attendees to a CD-adapco conference, but they came from the widest range of industrial backgrounds. This was reflected in some of the best conference presentations that we have ever seen, covering everything from falling lifeboats, Formula 1 Racing cars to the latest CAE driven developments in gas turbine technology.”

CD-adapco presented live demonstrations of new capabilities in both STAR-CCM+ and STAR-CD, including: Surface Wrapping; Fluid Structure Interaction; Advanced Meshing Hints and Tips and Free Surface Tank Sloshing.

Conference delegates were also able to network with a wide range of exhibitors, including gold sponsor Microsoft, Silver sponsors SGI, Sun and IBM, as well as Bull, Engineous, DARS, Genias Graphics, HP, ICON, LMS, modeFRONTIER, MpCCI (Fraunhofer-Institut), Panasas, QLogic, Sharc, Streamline Computing and SIMULIA.

There will be further opportunities to experience “The Power of Integration” at STAR Conferences around the world. The next CD-adapco Conference will be the STAR American Conference, held on June 23 - 25 in Dearbourne MI. Click here to register.

We will also be holding conferences in Korea, China, Japan, India and France.

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