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Axiom's Mike Arroyo delivers MicroStation
conspiracy keynote at 2005 IDDEA conference.
AMES, IOWA, USA — Is MicroStation
V8 XM Edition the work of high-tech extraterrestrial super-beings
or just the most intuitive CAD application ever developed?
During the keynote presentation at the Iowa Digital Design
and Engineering Applications (IDDEA) conference in Ames, Iowa,
Axiom's Product Manager and MicroStation veteran Mike Arroyo
suggested that it might have been a little of both.
Employing a creative combination of historical and fictitious
events, Arroyo became the first person ever to link the alleged
Roswell spaceship crash landing to a CAD platform - specifically
to the high-tech look and feel of Bentley's latest MicroStation
release, V8 XM Edition, an application touted by MicroStation
Today as the "most powerful software platform for
AEC industry."
Arroyo, who entitled the keynote the "The XM Conspiracy",
drew from pop-culture television shows like "The X files"
and from historical references, including the creation of
the DOS operating system and the Kennedy assassination, to
add levity to his one-hour speech on the benefits of XM.
"One person even came up to me and asked me about my
sources. He really thought I was on to something there,"
stated Arroyo after the keynote. "The truth is that XM
is poised to be the version of MicroStation that totally changes
the design process and allows users to more productively express
their design intent. I wanted everyone there to understand
and feel my excitement."
The keynote was Arroyo's fourth for the IDDEA conference.
IDDEA chair Steve Norton commented that this one was his "best
ever".
Arroyo is no stranger to crowds and keynotes. In the late
90's, while he worked for Bentley, he was known as the "MicroStation
Evangelist" for his zealous speeches about the benefits
of using MicroStation.
The IDDEA conference, held on 5-7 October at the Scheman
Building at the Iowa State University campus, focused on enlightening
MicroStation users in Iowa, Minnesota and other neighboring
states about the latest enhancements to MicroStation. The
conference is held once every year. For more information on
IDDEA, visit www.iddea.org.
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