Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that registration is
open at www.bentley.com/BEconference/registration for BE Conference
2008 - BEst Practices for Sustaining Infrastructure, being held May
28-30 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md. During this
two-and-a-half-day event, decision makers and senior practitioners
from infrastructure organizations around the globe, including
owner-operators and AEC firms, will share innovative best practices
using Bentley solutions. Conference sessions will address the needs of
executives, managers, architects, engineers, designers, builders, and
other infrastructure professionals and include user-led content and
programs dedicated to 10 "solutions communities": BIM and Beyond
Bridge Information Modeling (BrIM), Cadastre and Land Development
Communications, Oil and Gas, Mining and Metals, Electric and Gas
Utilities and Power Generation, Rail and Transit, Roads, and Water and
Wastewater. The BE Conference 2008 keynote presentation will be made
by Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and co-author of
the best-seller "Green to Gold."
Other presentations will be made by renowned thought leaders from
some of the world´s most preeminent organizations, highlighted by:
-- Walker Lee Evey, president and CEO
Design-Build Institute of America
"Trends and Challenges to Integrated Project Delivery"
-- Rebecca L. Flora, AICP, LEED AP - U.S. Green Building Council
USGBC executive committee chair
executive director, Green Building Alliance
"Beyond Green Buildings: A Road Map for Transforming Our Built
Environment"
-- Mark Reichardt, president and CEO
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
"The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Vision"
-- Tom Warne, president and founder, Tom Warne & Associates
"Meeting the Challenges of Modern and Aging Transportation
Systems"
-- John Young, COO, American Water
"The Sustainability Mandate - Challenges, Opportunities, and
Responsibilities Facing the Water and Wastewater Industry"
-- Ankush Krishan, managing director, IRCON, Indian Railways
"Delivering Sustainable Rail Infrastructure Around the World"
-- Pieter Diedericks, senior project director, Petro-Canada
Edmonton Refinery Conversion Projects
"Managing Mega Projects - an Owner-Operator Perspective"
-- Dr. Mukti Das, principal civil engineer
Bechtel Power Corporation
"Use of STAAD.Pro in Bechtel Corporation"
-- Aiden Byrne, principal lead program manager
Virtual Earth Business Unit, Microsoft
"The New Geospatial Paradigm: A Convergence of Technologies"
-- Dr. Richard H.F. Jackson, director, FIATECH
"FIATECH, Delivering ISO 15926"
-- Alan Edgar, Associate AIA, workgroup program manager
Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate
chair, NBIMS executive committee
"Surfing the BIM Transformation"
-- Dr. Bracht, Verband Deutscher Ingenieure, professor
FH Clausthal Zellerfeld
"The Digital Factory Concept"
Commenting on the upcoming conference, Bentley CMO Ed Mueller
said, "This is my first BE Conference, and I´m truly impressed with
the incredible enthusiasm and effort that is going into this event.
The entire Bentley team is working hard to guarantee a remarkable
experience for attendees - one that clearly echoes the company´s
commitment to sustaining the built and natural environments by
empowering practitioners to efficiently create infrastructure assets
that improve quality of life, consume materials and energy less
intensively, and are more impervious to catastrophe."
BE Conference is also about sustaining the infrastructure
professions, which face the difficult task of satisfying the growing
need for more infrastructure with scarcer engineering resources. At
the conference, executives, managers, and practitioners will come
together to network and share pragmatic innovations developed by the
Bentley solutions communities that will help them meet this critical
challenge.
Mueller continued, "In many ways, BE Conference 2008 will be a
first-time experience for all who attend. Its approach is fresh and
its focus unique - the extensive sharing of best practices using
Bentley solutions for specific types of infrastructure projects, along
with a host of special events highlighted by our annual BE Awards of
Excellence ceremony and celebration. I´m eager to attend this exciting
event and look forward to personally meeting with as many of our
conference participants as I can."
The highly focused agenda of BE Conference 2008 will enable
attendees to explore innovative ways to increase productivity, improve
project quality, and reduce the costs associated with sustaining
infrastructure. In short, it will provide them the opportunity to
learn how to work smarter as they face the dual challenge posed by
burgeoning demand for new and revitalized infrastructure and the need
for new entrants into the infrastructure professions.
BE Awards of Excellence
The BE Awards of Excellence are always a high point of the BE
Conference. The BE Awards, which are judged by independent panels of
industry experts and presented at an evening ceremony and celebration
honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world´s
infrastructure. These projects set benchmarks and showcase the
imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created
them.
Exhibit Hall
The BE Conference 2008 exhibit hall will have a new dynamic this
year. The exhibit floor will provide a learning and casual networking
environment that will enable attendees to meet, collaborate with, and
learn from Bentley experts in the "Solutions Areas." In addition, they
will have the opportunity to visit with representatives from companies
that help drive, extend, and provide value to Bentley´s software
including HP, Leica, McGraw-Hill, and Microsoft.
BE Conference Attendees
Attendees to BE Conference 2008 will come from AE firms;
architecture firms; design-build firms; engineering consultants;
structural engineering firms; facility owner-operators; departments of
transportation (DOTs) and transportation ministries; rail companies;
site engineering firms; communications and utilities firms; national
governments and associated contractors; local governments; cadastral
authorities; public works agencies; plant
engineering/procurement/construction (EPC) contractors; and plant
owner-operators.
To register for BE Conference 2008, taking place May 28-30 at the
Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md., visit
www.bentley.com/BEconference/registration. For more information about
the conference, visit www.bentley.com/BEconference.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle
of the world´s infrastructure. The company´s comprehensive portfolio
for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans
architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With
revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2,400
colleagues globally, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software
to the Engineering News-Record Top Design Firms and major
owner-operators, and was named the world´s No. 2 provider of
GIS/geospatial software solutions in a Daratech research study.
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