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WHO: Cadence Design Systems, Inc. to announce third quarter 2014 financial results via webcast. WHAT: You are invited to attend the third quarter 2014 financial results audio webcast. Participating on the webcast will be Lip-Bu Tan, president and chief executive officer, and Geoff Ribar, senior vice president and chief financial officer.  WHEN: The webcast will begin Monday, Oct. 20, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET. An archive of the webcast will be available from 5:00 p.m. PT, on Oct. 20 until 5:00 p.m. PT, on Dec. 19.  WHERE: The webcast will be available online at: www.cadence.com/cadence/investor_relations

At the 2014 Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX) (previously SAMPE), October 13-16 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., Collier Research Corporation will demonstrate a key software program used to lightweight the heat shield of NASA’s Orion Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle—HyperSizer®. NASA’s Orion team utilized information gathered from HyperSizer analyses to inform discussions that led to a 23 percent reduction of the final weight of the baseline design, which means hundreds of pounds of unnecessary weight were eliminated. The un-crewed test flight of the vehicle, Exploration Flight Test-1, is currently slated for December 2014. The final HyperSizer-designed heat shield will be used on later, manned flights. For those interested in learning more about this project at CAMX, James Ainsworth, aerospace stress engineer at Collier Research, will present a paper during the Thursday morning session that will give an in-depth look at the design and analysis process, as well as the

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., invites professionals and students from any design discipline to attend The Business of Creativity, an online, interactive panel discussion that will connect the dots between vision and reality. The event will take place on October 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. EDT through a Google+ Hangout on Air. “Great design begins with ideas that run against the grain, shake the status quo and lead to unexpected and inspiring solutions,” said Steve Alden, AIA, architect at Nemetschek Vectorworks. “But it takes a keen awareness of emerging market trends and an ability to steer one’s creative workflows and perspectives in just the right way to improve and transform the world. The Business of Creativity will address these topics and more, sharing what some of today’s award-winning designers and industry professionals think about the future of technology and design, as well as how they stay ahead of the competition.” Panelists include Todd McCurdy,

AVEVA announced additional speaker, sponsor and agenda details for this year’s AVEVA World Summit. The global event is being held in Berlin, Germany, from 14-16 October. AVEVA customers from across the world’s process, plant, power and marine industries are invited to the Summit to share their experiences and business challenges. Industry giants AMEC and RasGas will open the customer presentations, describing how AVEVA technologies are enabling them to lead the way in the creation and management of complex digital assets.  These will be followed by 16 additional case study presentations from leading EPCs, OOs and shipbuilders, including Jacobs, Worley Parsons, Foster Wheeler, Toyo, AREVA, ADMA OPCO, Atkins, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Namura.  Customer speakers will share real-life scenarios that cover a wide variety of projects and asset operations from around the world. A key theme of the event is advances in visualisation technology and how these are changing the way

Accenture will host a live audiocast of its Investor & Analyst Conference on Tuesday, Oct. 7 in New York City. The audiocast will feature remarks by Chairman and CEO Pierre Nanterme, Chief Financial Officer David Rowland and other members of the executive leadership team, and will include a review of Accenture’s fiscal 2014 performance and fiscal 2015 business outlook, which were discussed on the company’s recent fourth-quarter fiscal year 2014 earnings conference call.  The conference will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m. EDT and will run until approximately 12 noon EDT. Accenture invites investors to listen to the live audiocast and to view slides from the event via the Investor Relations section of the Accenture website at www.accenture.com. A replay of the audiocast and slides will be available on the company's website later in the day.

Simpleware are pleased to announce the appointment of Theo Verbruggen as Director of Global Sales, where he will be responsible for providing leadership for the overall strategy of the company's commercial activities. He will be reporting directly to Simpleware Managing Director and CEO Dr. Philippe Young. Verbruggen comes to Simpleware from twelve years at Dassault Systèmes, where he most recently acted as Director of Technical Sales for Simulia Benelux and GEO Leader for Dassault Systèmes Benelux. At Dassault Systèmes, Verbruggen was responsible for leading the company's Benelux operations, including the SIMULIA Benelux Centre of Simulation Excellence. He managed sales of Simulia software products, the sale of engineering consulting and training services, and customer advocacy. He has over twenty years of B2B sales and marketing experience, and is an expert in developing business solutions for software. Dr. Philippe Young commented on the appointment: "I am very pleased that Theo has joined our team. This

GRAITEC Romania expands its distribution network in Bulgaria by signing a strategic partnership with KANISCO Ltd, one of the most acknowledged Autodesk resellers in the region. KANISCO will promote, distribute and provide technical support for all software products distributed by GRAITEC, such as GRAITEC Advance Design, Autodesk Advance Steel or Autodesk Advance Concrete. Established in 1991, KANISCO is one of the most acknowledged partners and distributors of Autodesk software, providing software solutions and services for the CAD / AEC / GIS / CAM / FEM field. For further details, visit their official website. By signing this partnership, they aim to expand their market share in the region by creating a network of distributors, through which they will be able to sell software directly and, at the same time, to be closer to customers and provide full support in localizing their products. The common objective of GRAITEC and KANISCO is to provide their customers with integrated advanced solutions, designed to increase

Autodesk, Inc. announced R. Scott Herren will join the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective November 1, 2014. Herren, who is currently serving as senior vice president of finance at Citrix, will bring 30 years of financial, strategic and operational experience to Autodesk. He will be based in San Francisco and report to Autodesk President and Chief Executive Officer Carl Bass. “I am excited Scott has agreed to join Autodesk and look forward to having him on the team,” said Bass. “Scott’s broad mix of financial, sales and product management experience will be a fantastic addition to Autodesk. His leadership at Citrix, which like us, is tapping into cloud and mobile computing to help customers work better, will benefit Autodesk in our transition to a more recurring, subscription-based business model over the coming years.” Herren has spent the past 14 years at Citrix, a leader in mobile workspaces, virtualization,

AKKA Technologies and Dassault Systèmes, two international companies that are pioneers and trailblazers in their respective markets, today announced a long-term partnership aimed at promoting innovation in the self-driving connected vehicle market. Aware that two leading organizations together, such as AKKA and Dassault Systèmes, can be a powerful driver for industry innovation and growth, Maurice Ricci, CEO of the AKKA Technologies Group and Bernard Charlès, President and CEO of Dassault Systèmes, have decided to join together to address the challenges of the quickly advancing connected mobility market. With this partnership, AKKA and Dassault Systèmes will offer high-end engineering services and solutions to help the global automotive industry. The topic of driverless and connected vehicles is critical and one of the 34 projects of the “New Face of the Industry” promoted by the French government. Both companies share the same drive to answer the market’s demand for ever more connectivity, the challenge of

Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions, announced the launch of the Infosys Transaction Reconciliation Solution (ITRS). ITRS is a unified solution that helps banks automate and centralize their reconciliation across multiple channels, reduces costs by offering simple, easy-to-use tool for bank employees to perform reconciliation tasks and functions. With automation and optimization, the solution helps reduce the need for manual interaction and increases performance through auto-matching & straight through processing. In a dynamically changing regulatory environment, with acts such as Dodd Frank, EMIR and Basel III, the need for a simple solution to meet changing reconciliation and reporting needs is accelerating. With global spend on reconciliation expected to reach $1.27 billion by 20171, banks are increasingly looking for automated solutions. A unified reconciliation solution such as ITRS helps banks efficiently while meeting the regulatory needs. Solution highlights: Easy to operate and supports 14 different types of data-feed formats including