solidworks all stars show up in chicago

Yesterday I had the privilege to spend the day in Naperville, IL for the Chicago SWUGN Summit.  This was the 1st SWUGN summit that I have ever had the opportunity to attend so I was a little anxious to see exactly how it stacked up to a day at SolidWorks WORLD.  Let me tell you, the lineup yesterday blew out a day at SolidWorks WORLD in my opinion.  Yes there were less presentations to choose from during each time slot but the group of presenters that were on hand in Chicago made up for the lack of options.

If you have never been to a SWUGN summit before the outline looks something like this:

• Breakfast / Registration
• Opening Remarks
• 2 breakouts
• 2 breakouts
• Lunch
• 2 breakouts
• 2 breakouts
• 2 breakouts

And the kicker in all of this, it only costs $40.  Other than SolidWorks WORLD, where can you get this kind of training?  As for yesterday, the list of presenters included SolidWorks all stars such as Ed Honda, Lenny Kikstra, Rob Jensen, Josh Altergott, Adrian Fanjoy, Greg Jankowski, and Ed Eaton.  The other presenters that were there were unbelievable as well which made for a lot of tough decisions during each breakout time slot as to where to go.  These are the type of presenters that are at all of the SWUGN summits and Richard Doyle does an unbelievable job of tying it all together to made an unforgettable day.  Chicago had about 130 users in attendance at the Holiday Inn Select in Naperville, which is just southwest of Chicago.  According to Richard this was one of the better attended SWUGN summits other than the turnout the usually comes to the Minneapolis SWUGN summit.

If you have never been to a SWUGN summit I would highly encourage you to check out the calendar of upcoming summits on the SWUGN website and see if there is one that is within driving distance for you.  I drove 3 hours to get to Chicago, and there were members of our local user group that drove over 4 hours to get there and it was well worth all of our time.

If you have any questions about attending a SWUGN summit feel free to drop me a line and I will try my best to help you out.