Configura 2012 CET Designer User Conference brochure

†5th annual

CET Designer

User Conference

Oct 24-25, 2012

it happens in vegas!

Presenters

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ayse Birsel Design the Life You Love If we, as interior designers, can design anything and everything, why not design and Simplify our lives? Discover how to design the life you love with our keynote speaker, Ayse Birsel. Ayse’s presentation will be based on her popular workshop Design the Life You Love, which addresses the issues that many people face when juggling a career, family and other obligations. From everyday objects to fashion to packaging and graphics, “design” solves problems and strives to make the world a better place. Ayse will show us how to use design principles to shape better lives for ourselves!

Ayse Birsel is a founder of Birsel + Seck. Her design studio has created products for Herman Miller, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett Packard, OfficeMax and Target. She uses a strategy of Deconstruction and Reconstruction™ throughout the design process.

Her websites are dereconstruction.com and birselplusseck.com.

Presenters

POWER PEERS Aidan Chopra

Cate Sword

Using SketchUp

Return on Investment with CET Designer

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Aidan Chopra, the SketchUp guru and author of Google SketchUp™ for Dummies, was the keynote speaker at the 2011 CET Designer User Conference. As SketchUp’s designated world ambassador, he enjoys sharing his passion for software and design. He is enthusiastic about the collaboration that Configura has created with the CET Designer SketchUp™ Extension. Based in Colorado, Aidan presents globally on architecture and design. ™

Amanda Gallery Creative Presentations with CET Designer Amanda Gallery has been using CET Designer for more than four years. Originally from Michigan, she is now a designer at Tangram Interiors in Southern California. Amanda works entirely on bids and mock-ups. She’ll share her expertise in this area by demonstrating the innovative ways that Tangram uses CET Designer to communicate design ideas and creative solutions that win business. Participating in Amanda’s presentation are Kathy Shiu and Ashley Redieck, also avid CET Designer users at Tangram.

Cate Sword, IIDA, has provided architects, interior designers and furniture dealership design centers with quality software training since 1989. A certified trainer for CET Designer, AutoCAD, 20-20 and Project Matrix, Cate focuses on reducing both the learning curves and the time it takes to produce first-class results while showing clients how to achieve high returns on their software investments.

Jason Lund Hardware, Network Optimization with CET Designer Jason Lund is the director of information technology for Target Commercial Interiors (TCI) based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His team is respons­ible for the operation of TCI’s enterprise technology portfolio including a data center, nine office locations in the U.S. and India, and numerous home-office users. His team has supported the early adoption of many leading-edge technologies for their dealership including private cloud computing, HD video webcasting and Configura’s CET Designer. Jason continues to research and promote standardized, costeffective end-user hardware options that benefit his designers and their clients.

Schedule Tuesday Oct 23 6:00-8:00

Evening Reception

Wednesday Oct 24

Restaurant Charlie, Palazzo

Room #

Presenter

7:30-8:00

Registration

8:00-8:15

Welcome and Introduction

3303-3305

Johan Lyreborn

8:15-8:45

Configura and CET Designer Update – What’s New and Upcoming

3303-3305

Nicklas Dagersten

8:45-9:00

Break and Rotate into Breakout Sessions

9:00-9:50

POWER PEER BREAKOUT SESSIONS

10:00-10:50

Attendees rotate through small-group sessions and choose three.

11:00-11:50

Sessions offered three times each unless noted.

Creative Presentations with CET Designer

3204

Amanda Gallery

Using CET Designer as a Sales Tool

3205

Tammy Christopherson

Design Checks and Process Change

3206

Cate Sword

Q&A with Configura Developers – Give Feedback, Learn What’s New

3301

Johan Lindholm & Tim Deemter

Management Roundtable Discussion (offered once 10:00-10:50)

3302

Steve Schwartz & Peter Brandinger

Hardware, Network Optimization with CET Designer (offered once 11:00-11:50)

3302

Jason Lund & Nicklas Dagersten

12:00-1:00

Lunch

3201-3203

1:00-1:20

Return on Investment with CET Designer

3303-3305

Cate Sword

1:20-1:45

The Art of Rendering with CET Designer

3303-3305

Lars Lanhed

1:45-3:15

Keynote Presentation: Design the Life you Love

3303-3305

Ayse Birsel

3:15-3:30

Break

3:30-4:15

CET Designer Top Ten List

3303-3305

Paul Riches

4:15-5:00

Best of CET Designer Awards Program and Voting

3303-3305

Tracy Lanning

5:00

Day’s Recap and Evening Agenda

3303-3305

Johan Lyreborn

6:30-7:30

Tricks and Treats Halloween Cocktail Reception

Dos Caminos, Palazzo

7:30

Tricks and Treats Halloween Dinner

Dos Caminos, Palazzo

Thursday Oct 25

Room #

Presenter

MyConfigura

3204

Kendra Steinhaus

Reconfiguration Tool

3205

Tracy Lanning

Photo Lab and Rendering

3206

Lars Lanhed

Edit Graphics

3301

Amy Edington

ProjectSymbols

3302

Joe Danzer

SketchUp

3306

Aidan Chopra

11:00-11:30

Training and Marketing Update

3303-3305

Tracy Lanning

11:30-12:00

Contest Awards and Closing of CET Designer User Conference

3303-3305

Johan Lyreborn

12:00-4:00

Manufacturers’ BreakOut Sessions

8:30-9:10

EXTENSION / TOOLS TRAINING SESSIONS

9:20-10:00

Attendees rotate through small-group sessions and choose three.

10:10-10:50

Sessions offered three times each.

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(Lunch served during sessions) Lunch Pickup

3201-3202

Steelcase

3203-3204

Haworth

3205-3206

Teknion

3306

Presenters

POWER PEERS Joe Danzer

Steve Schwartz

ProjectSymbols for CET Designer

Management Roundtable Discussion

Joe Danzer is the product alliance manager at Project­ Matrix in Cincinnati, Ohio. He'll be presenting tips, tricks and best practices when using CET Designer’s ProjectSymbols Extension. He’ll also discuss current and future enhancements for the software and conclude with a Q&A session.

Steve Schwartz is the chief operating officer of the Canfield Companies located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is a marketing and strategy development executive with expertise in the commercial real estate, construction, contracting and office interior fields. He speaks extensively on topics such as sustainability, modular construction methods and underfloor air distribution. He is a BIFMA and Haworth CEU Faculty member.

Lars Lanhed The Art of Rendering with CET Designer With more than 20 years of experience, Lars Lanhed is the genius designer behind much of Configura’s branding and some of our renderings. Lars is a photographer, designer and an inspiring speaker based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He will share his knowledge about image composition, rendering and lighting in CET Designer. Lars is also an Adobe Certified Expert.

Paul Riches

Tammy Christopherson Using CET Designer as a Sales Tool Tammy Christopherson is a designer at Canfield Business Interiors in South Dakota.

She uses CET Designer daily in her work – it’s changed the way her company does business.

Her presentation shares some of the techniques that her dealership has incorporated to improve the sales process.

CET Designer Top Ten List Paul Riches has been a CET Designer “Power Peer” user for more than five years. As a CET Designer beta tester, he’s provided innovative and invaluable feedback to the Configura team to continually help the program improve and evolve. Paul works at Heritage Office Furnishings in Vancouver, BC.

Presenters

THE CONFIGURA TEAM Welcome to the 5th annual CET Designer User Conference!

Together, we’re on a journey to simplify the way office products are specified and sold. The collaboration and knowledge-sharing that occurs at this conference helps us to continually improve the CET Designer solution. You – our users – are our inspiration.

We could not do it without you. Thank you for joining us!

Johan Lyreborn, CEO, Configura

Johan Lyreborn

Peter Brandinger

CEO

Vice President Business Development

Nicklas Dagersten

Tracy Lanning

Chief Product Officer

Support & Training Manager

Amy Edington

Johan Lindholm

Support & Training Specialist Interior Designer

Solution Manager

Kendra Steinhaus

Tim Deemter

Support & Training Specialist Interior Designer

Senior Application Consultant Project Manager

Contacts During the conference, please feel free to contact any one of us from Configura to discuss concerns or questions you may have. If you have an immediate need, please contact:

Hotel contact information: The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas, NV 89109 Hotel: 702.414.1000 The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino 3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas, NV 89109 Hotel: 702.607.7777

Tracy Lanning Peter Brandinger Cell: 616.481.4514 Cell: 616.516.3601

For any follow-up communication after the conference, please contact:

Configura

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Johan Lyreborn CEO Configura Sverige AB johan.lyreborn@configura.com

Jesse Lamberg General Manager jesse.lamberg@ki.com

Peter Brandinger Vice President, Business Development Configura Inc. peter.brandinger@configura.com

Carvajal Javier G. ValdĂŠs Strategic Technology Analyst javier.valdes@carvajal.com

Tracy Lanning Support & Training Manager Configura Inc. tracy.lanning@configura.com

ProjectMatrix

Haworth

Steelcase

Larry Bertsch Vice President, Business Development larry.bertsch@projectmatrix.com

Kathy Kim e-Marketing Manager kathy.kim@haworth.com

Steven Eriksson Manager of B2B Platforms seriksson@steelcase.com

Inscape

Teknion

Phillip Damianidis Director, Information Technology pdamianidis@inscapesolutions.com

Vince Guagliano Director, Business Technology vince.guagliano@teknion.com

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