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Sep 30, 2009

COADE User Conference held at Houston with Keynote by Thomas J. Van Laan

HOUSTON: The 2009 COADE User Conference was conducted in Houston with a record number of countries and companies represented and with 60 classes scheduled on the use and application of COADE software products for plant design and engineering analysis, including COADE CADWorx, CAESAR II, PV Elite and TANK.

Held at the Woodlands Waterway Marriott in The Woodlands north of the city, the conference featured a golf tournament on Sunday and keynotes today by Thomas J. Van Laan, P.E., the president of COADE, and special guest performer Mike Rayburn, an award-winner speaker and entertainer known as the World’s Funniest Guitar Virtuoso.

In additional to the 60 educational classes, the conference included roundtable discussions on plant design, networking socials and product-specific technical support discussions with members of the COADE product development team.