2007 BE Conference Videos  

BE Conference 2007 - Los Angeles

Building | Civil | Geospatial | Plant

BE Conference Europe - London

Greg Bentley - Chief Executive Officer
CEO Greg Bentley shares the latest corporate news and his insights on enterprising commercial practices within the Bentley user community.  He argued that increased economic productivity is the only way to meet the growing workload of infrastructure professionals.  BE Conference 2007 and BE Conference Europe.

Keith Bentley - Chief Technology Officer
CTO Keith Bentley explained that Bentley’s one-platform approach enables the company to expand its application reach in the marketplace, to better leverage its research and development and testing resources, and to facilitate product innovation among its developers. BE Conference 2007 and BE Conference Europe.

Malcolm Walter - Chief Operating Officer
COO Malcolm Walter noted the sustainability challenges facing the world in the coming decades and called upon the audience to use innovation to become the “greenest generation.  He then recognized four projects as the first-ever recipients of the BE Award for "best return on innovation” and presented each as a case study. BE Conference 2007 and BE Conference Europe.

Bentley Software Executives - Technology Keynote
Senior VP of Bentley Software Bhupinder Singh provided an update on increasing productivity from a product perspective. He explained that Bentley’s “one platform” consisting of MicroStation and ProjectWise allows the company’s developers to achieve faster time to market for applications, intrinsic integration of Bentley products, a common user experience, and consistent application behavior. BE Conference 2007 and BE Conference Europe part 1 and part 2.

Alton B. (Buddy) Cleveland - Senior Vice President, Bentley Software
Senior VP of Applied Research Buddy Cleveland explained that while Bentley has always invested in research, much of it was product-focused and, therefore, “subject to fairly short time horizons.” He said that the new Bentley Applied Research group will work beyond the horizon to “work the future.” BE Conference 2007 and BE Conference Europe.

Bentley Platform Product Team
See the latest “Innovations By MicroStation” and witness how distributed enterprises are getting “Connected By ProjectWise.”  Watch the video and take a sneak peak at new innovations in the next BIG product release, codenamed “Athens.” BE Conference 2007 and
BE Conference Europe

Executives from Bentley's vertical market organizations share the company's latest technology innovations in the building, civil, geospatial, and plant markets.

Bentley Building Keynote  

The building industry is at a notable point of inflection - with professional technological, and business drivers stimulating healthy change and growth in methods of practice.  Building Information Modeling (BIM), Parametric Design, Computational Design, Integrated Practice, Sustainability and Green design are all the hot topics of the day.  The video discusses these, and how Bentley is supporting our users in embracing and benefiting from these changes.  It discusses Bentley's blueprint for the building solutions and lays the foundation for the building agenda at BE conference.
Brad Workman - Vice President, Bentley Building

Bentley Civil Keynote

Senior Vice President for Bentley Civil, Gabe Norona, explores our vision for the future of our road, rail and site infrastructure solutions.
Gabe Norona - Senior Vice President, Bentley Civil

Bentley Geospatial Keynote

Styli Camateros, Vice President of Bentley’s Geospatial Vertical, and Bentley Solutions Executives discussed the latest innovations in Bentley’s geospatial technology and their application to solutions for Government, Utilities, Water and Communications industry users.  This keynote provides an overview of all Bentley Geospatial’s initiatives, including new products, recent acquisitions, and demonstrations of new V8 XM capabilities.
Styli Camateros - Vice President, Bentley Geospatial Part 1 
Styli Camateros - Vice President, Bentley Geospatial Part 2 

Bentley Plant Keynote

Rob Whitesell was joined by users to review the application of our DigitalPlant Solutions to deliver value on their projects.  Rob and the product managers presented the next steps in the DigitalPlant road map to deliver the next stage in interoperability and collaboration for owners and their contractors.  Hatch, Bechtel, CH2M Hill and Intel presented best practice in front end engineering, distributed engineering, construction management and handover to operations respectively.
Rob Whitesell - Vice President, Bentley Plant Part 1
Rob Whitesell - Vice President, Bentley Plant Part 2

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BE CONFERENCE 2007
LOS ANGELES

• Building Keynote - BIM, Integrated Practice, and Supporting Distributed Teams
• BIM Applications - Product Update
• BIM Based Integrated Practice
• BIM for Building Engineering 
• BIM in the multi-disciplinary practice
• Buckling Strength of Members 
• Deploying Bentley Facilities: Lessons Learned 
• Digital construction collaboration in Denmark 
• Fast Track Design using RAM-Salt Lake Real Soccer Stadium 
• Incorporation of OpenTAAD in Designing Dome to Cylindrical Wall Interface In Cylindrical Prestressed Concrete Tanks
• Integrated Structural Analysis, Design and Documentation
• Integrating Design and Fabrication
• Managing the I in BIM with ProjectWise and Startpoint
• New Technologies in the Structural Engineering Group
• Structural Engineering in the 21st Century - Changing Practices