Deelip Menezes and Martyn Day at LEDAS and around

25 September Deelip Menezes and Martyn Day spent in Novosibirsk: at LEDAS office and around. In his blog, Deelip describes this day (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) and says:

"Martyn Day from DEVELOP3D and I are in Novosibirsk in Siberia to visit LEDAS, a very interesting Russian software research and development company. We spent the entire day at LEDAS and learned a great deal about them, a lot of which was highly classified and not for public consumption. I intend to write more about the company, its technologies and products after I get back to India".

What I can add to Deelip's posts are a few photos and two video clips that I definitely recommend to see:).

Before the beginning of a series of seminars.

Guests listen to an overview of a LEDAS application with advanced features of direct modeling to be released in December

It was especially nice when guests began to passionately argue among themselves on how to develop business of LEDAS

On our way to Armenian restaurant "Anait", Deelip is still interested in discussing with me the LEDAS pricing policy and...

... variational direct modeling - with Dmitry Ushakov.

Deelip, just do it - number 2! (see number 1)

This does not mean that after 57% Armenian vodka Deelip could not keep his spoon: this is just Siberian hospitality.

The main hero of the two video clips below is the financial director of LEDAS, a man with a lot of talents - Evgeniy Kuznetsov.

COFES-Russia / isicad-2010 was held on 21 September

Last week my team and I were very busy with the COFES-isicad preparation and the event itself, a lot of business contacts, attendance of Moscow Autodesk Forum, close communication with Martyn Day and Deelip Menezes in Novosibirsk. Also we have a lot of responsibilities such as publication of the presentations made at the event...

On the whole, lack of time was a problem for our event. In particular, we used sandglasses (see the picture above) to indicate speakers how much time they have.

Some Russian bloggers have promptly published their interesting illustrated posts in Russian. Obviously some of you could between 18 and 25 Sept read live twittering from Deelip and Oleg as well as very rich Deelip's blogging.

As one of the defects of the event, some people reasonably indicated panel presentations that somewhat looked like vendors advertizing - very strange looking in the audience of competitors. (I cannot completely agree with this but will comment this situation in details later). One of those blaimed in advertizing was Sergey Kuraksin, founder and CEO of TopSystems who made a 10 minutes panel talk speaking about his advanced PLM system. During this speech Deelip twittered: "This is not COFES!". However the photo below demonstrates how Sergey is involved into heated discussion partially provoked by his panel. At this moment Deelip twittered: yes, now it's COFES!

Initial reports and posts about the week in Moscow and in Novosibirsk have already been published in Russian at www.isicad.ru and in my Russian blog.

Today I started trying to cover the events in my English blog. One post "How COFES-Russia and Autodesk Moscow Forum were prepared" has already been published. isicad.net will later publish in English a detailed report of the events.

30 minutes ago I was heavily thinking how can I promptly but distinctly announce that COFES-Russia has been held... Suddenly a miracle happened: Oleg has just published a post (COFES: Russian Style!) that just does my challenge. Many thanks to Oleg!

Below you can see a moment of the closing ceremony: Brad keeps a winter hat (possibly a symbol of Siberia or Russia - but not of this summer with its +40C) while I keep a cactus (considered as a symbol of COFES in Arizona)...

You can take a look at the initial portion of photoes just publihed here.

How COFES-Russia and Autodesk Moscow Forum were prepared

Lobby bar of the Borodino hotel: Vladimir Malukh, Deelip Menezes, Oleg Shilovitsky, David Levin, Brad Holtz. Reflections on the fate of the world market of CAD/PLM

Deelip really loves the Moscow subway. His post about it looks like a poem.

Brad Holtz and Oleg Shilovitsky also love the Moscow subway, at least on Sunday when it's not overcrowded

Brad Holtz explains Oleg Shilovitsky a link between A.Pushkin and engineering software.

Brad Holtz is pondering over his forthcoming presentation at the Autodesk Moscow Forum. He had just listened to the recommendations of Anastasia Morozova, Field Marketing Area Team Manager Russia and CIS

Deelip, just do it!