About This Webinar
What's neXt for CAD in DWG?

The Graebert neXt online event is a free 3-hour online event for 2D/3D CAD users and fanatics, CAD Managers, Engineers and IT Executives, including ARES® users, and users of other CAD software such as AutoCAD®.

Learn and get inspired with the latest innovations for 2D/3D CAD in DWG. Free online event with one general session, followed by a workshop for developers.

Join us to hear about Graebert's top new features for CAD, BIM Drawings Automation, AI, Cloud CAD and Mobile CAD.
Agenda
  • CEO Welcome Speech & Agenda
  • General Session (100 min): What's neXt for CAD in DWG - New features for CAD, AI, BIM, Cloud & Mobile
  • Workshop for Developers (75 min): How Cloud and Drawing Automation are transforming the CAD industry?
Presenters
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    Robert Graebert Ph.D.
    Chief Technical Officer - Graebert
    Robert has been leading Graebert’s Research & Development team for the past 20 years. His passion for CAD and forward-thinking ideas inspired Graebert’s innovations in Cloud, Mobile and BIM.

    Robert graduated from the Imperial College in London with a Master of Engineering in Computer Science, before obtaining a PhD from Stanford University in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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    Wilfried Graebert
    Chief Executive Officer - Graebert
    Wilfried Graebert founded Gräbert GmbH (aka “Graebert”) in 1977. In the early years of the CAD industry, Wilfried established Graebert as a market leader in Germany. The company further expanded at a global scale building one of the greatest stories in the CAD history with multiple industry-firsts.

    learn more about Graebert’s four-decade history: https://www.graebert.com/company/
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    Cédric Desbordes
    Business Dev. & Marketing Director - Graebert
    Cédric joined Graebert in 2013 and is leading Graebert’s business development and marketing activities.

    Prior joining Graebert, Cédric co-founded a CAD software company in France and served as Chairman of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium. Cédric obtained a Master in International Trade and Cross-Cultural Negotiation from the Paris X University in 2001. In his free time, Cédric enjoys cooking, photography and scuba diving.
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    Andre Neumann
    Core Development Supervisor - Graebert
    Andre is leading the development team working on ARES Commander, Graebert’s 2D/3D CAD software for Windows, macOS and Linux.

    Before joining Graebert, Andre studied at the University of Potsdam. He has been working for Graebert since 2008. Therefore he has many years of experience in CAD development.
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    Niknaz Aftahi
    Architect, CEO & Founder - aec+tech
    Niknaz has been practicing architecture in the bay area, California, both as a design professional as well as the design technology director for the past six years, after graduating from UC Berkeley M.arch program.

    She has experience in designing a wide range of buildings from residential to commercial & healthcare, from concept to construction, and as the design technologist, she has brought new AEC tools (including XR, visualization & energy modeling technologies) into the design workflow.
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    Anthony Frausto-Robledo
    Architect and Editor-in-Chief - Architosh
    Anthony Frausto-Robledo, AIA, LEED AP, is an architect with over 30-years of experience in practice in the US and abroad. He is an Associate Principal at Boston metro architecture firm Morehouse MacDonald and Associates, Inc. He is also the founder and editor of Architosh.
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    Martyn Day
    Director & Co-Founder - AEC Magazine
    Martyn Day is AEC Magazine’s co-founder and consulting editor and has been writing about design and the business of CAD for close to 30 years. Everyone knows Martyn. He’s always the one asking the CAD software company CEOs the difficult questions. And the one carrying 17 different tech devices in his backpack.
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    Altaf Ganihar
    CEO & Founder - Snaptrude
    Altaf has 7+ years of experience at the intersection of Architecture, Construction & Technology and built numerous tools/plugins to improve efficiency for design-construction workflows. Equipped with a strong research background in computer graphics & geometry processing, Altaf holds over ten international publications & multiple patents in the domain of computer graphics, geometry & computer vision.
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    Greg Schleusner, AIA
    Principal/Director of Design Technology - HOK
    Greg Schleusner AIA, is a Principal/Director of Design Technology at HOK. In this role he is responsible for managing the firm’s software development efforts, implementing new technology solutions and partnering with collaboratively minded companies to solve ongoing challenges in AEC.

    Greg leads technical efforts within buildingSMART International as a co-chair of the Technical Room. He is currently working to organize AEC member firms to help develop new solutions, both open source and via commercial technologies. Greg has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Iowa State University and a Master’s in Technology Management from Columbia.
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    Hartmut Friedemann
    Manager Business Development & Facility Cloud - Arlanis Replay
    With a master's degree in computer science from the renowned KIT Karlsruhe and over 30 years of experience in CAD and Facility Management, Hartmut has successfully implemented numerous medium-sized and large projects. His recipe for success: a holistic approach - from strategic consulting and conception to the integration of leading CRM and ERP systems to training and operational support for large customers from administration, industry and trade.

    As Manager Business Development & Facility Cloud at Arlanis Reply GmbH, Hartmut is driving the implementation of one of the most modern CAFM systems - with one of the few complete Salesforce integrations that harnesses the potential of the world's leading CRM platform for facility management.

    He is passionate about optimizing digital processes and the seamless integration of CAD into enterprise systems. In order to drive innovation and offer customers real added value, he is involved as a speaker at trade fairs, webinars and expert panels and, as a member of the Cyberforum Karlsruhe, always has his finger on the pulse of current trends such as cloud technologies, cybersecurity and AI agents.
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