TROY – Some of America’s top experts in product lifecycle management and engineering software will meet in Novi at the Rock Financial Showplace to attend the 2008 Americas HyperWorks Technology Conference, a program hosted by Altair Engineering.

The Sept. 16-17 conference, which industry professionals can attend free of charge, will feature an expert panel on The Relevance of Simulation in Today�??s Enterprise. The panel will be moderated by Anthony J. Lockwood, editor at large of Desktop Engineering magazine, a media sponsor of the conference. In addition, the panel session will offer viewpoints from such notables as:

Aberdeen Group Research & Service Director Chad Jackson

CIMdata, Inc. Director of Research Kenneth Amann

Collaborative Product Development Associates (CPDA) Chairman Donald H. Brown

Cyon Research Corporation Vice President and Chief Visionary, engineering-automation consultant and prolific author Joel Orr

The panel is one of many highlights scheduled during the first day of the conference, which begins with a welcome from Altair CEO James Scapa and a keynote address from Nand K. Kochhar, executive technical leader, Global CAE, for Ford Motor Company. Other keynoters during the conference will include Terry Swack, co-founder and CEO of Sustainable Minds, and Giovanni Greco, director of engineering for Sea Ray. The conference�??s second day will feature workshops geared towards the HyperWorks user base.

Altair Engineering�??s HyperWorks is an engineering simulation platform to support product lifecycle management processes. It ranks as one of the leading simulation-driven design solutions for product development across the world�??s top corporations in the advanced manufacturing community. The annual HyperWorks conference focuses on aspects of PLM in American business and has quickly grown into one of the premier PLM technology events for the advanced manufacturing community. The two-day conference brings together hundreds of industry professionals and technology leaders from a broad range of vertical markets and highlights industry trends in enterprise simulation and the latest on how manufacturers are enabling innovation through simulation.

For more information on Altair�??s Americas HyperWorks Technology Conference and to register, click on AltairHTC.Com

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