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On September 19, 2024, we held our first-ever Aras Virtual Tech Summit. Our Tech Summit is something we’ve done at our annual Aras Community Event (ACE) conference for many years. It’s an incredible opportunity to chat with members of our technical community; you can read about my experience at ACE 2024 here. This week’s virtual summit was designed to be similar to our in-person event while being accessible to those who are unable to travel to our annual ACE conference.
Summit Snapshot
We had over 50 attendees from across the globe who joined us for our roughly 2-hour session. We started by sharing demonstrations by myself, other Aras employees, and even our partner Essig PLM. The demonstrations varied from Configurable Web Services demonstrations to Digital Twin Core extensions. Essig’s solution showed the ability to build a CAD representation of a product based on a Variant Management structure. It’s always incredible to see what people in our community are doing with Aras Innovator® daily. Seeing and discussing these solutions is my highlight of these events. Even if the solutions aren’t relevant to my work, I’m always inspired by how creative people can be.
The final half hour of the day was an open discussion. Anyone could join, and we heard from folks across different partners and customers. Some customers wanted to see if any other customers were facing issues similar to their own, while others had suggestions on ways Aras Labs and Aras as a whole could better serve our community.
Community Call to Action
Part of my demonstration provided an overview of our community resources. The three that I highlighted were my ACE 2024 blog, our Aras Labs GitHub page, and our Community forums. We’re going to put more effort into new Community Projects and be more active on the forums. Labs is a small team, and we need all the help we can get. We would love to have more active community members on the Forums and make more external projects available to our community members.
What Next?
Although we experienced some technical hiccups, overall, it the event was a great opportunity to reconnect with members of our community. In the coming weeks, we’ll make the recording of the demonstration portion of the event public for people who couldn’t make the event. We’ll take a look at the feedback and make sure that our next event is even more targeted to topics that are top of mind. A huge thank you to Eli Donahue and Erica Schumann, who put our event together very quickly. I’d also like to thank everyone who attended and participated. This kind of event is really dependent on participation, and many of you stepped up to make your voices heard.
Stay tuned for future announcements of similar events, both virtual and in person. Don’t forget to save the date for ACE 2025, coming to Boston, March 31 – April 3.
