STAR American Conference 2005 a great success!

Two more highly successful STAR Conferences took place on May 17 & 18 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,
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.

Keynote speakers

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.

Special thanks

We would especially 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

Celebrating 25 years

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. A few lucky participants from both conferences took home prizes, which
STAR American Conference 2005 a great success!

included Paddock Club Passes to the Renault F1 Suite, a weekend in Las Vegas, a digital camera and printer, AMEX gift cards and other 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 the conference luncheons.

Training sessions

A new format was introduced on the second day of the Detroit conference. 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 sponsoring partners of CD-adapco. Overall, the feedback about this new type of session within the conference has been very positive.

See you next year!

We would 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, but if you did not
attend and would like to receive one, please contact
loretta.yeager@us.cd-adapco.com.