Altair CEO James R. Scapa：为何要举办solidThinking
本文摘要（由AI生成）：
本文介绍了Altair公司即将举办的solidThinking CONVERGE创新设计大会，该大会旨在聚集全球产品设计者，探索设计与工程、艺术与科学的融合。通过此次大会，Altair希望推动产品和经验创造的界限，激发与会者热情，共同创造一个更美好、更快速、更强大、更安全、更活跃和更友善的世界。该大会为技术创新和多学科融合提供了重要平台，促进全球产品和经验创造者共同推动人类进步。
写在前面：
Altair将于下月起，在全球六座城市启动solidThinking CONVERGE（www.Converge2016.com）创新设计大会，我们将聚集最具前瞻性的产品设计者，旨在探索设计与工程，艺术与科学的深度融合。
在过去的31年间，Altair迅速成长并在工程仿真领域为众多客户熟知。谈及为何要举办solidThinking CONVERGE，Altair CEO James R. Scapa先生有他独到的见解。今天小编就跟大家分享Scapa先生写在blog上的一段话。如果您是一位“product and experience creators”，我们期待您的加入！
“Why We Are Doing solidThinking CONVERGE 2016”
James R. Scapa on April 4, 2016
We have a great software and consulting business, a globalclientele, and a track record of putting on very impactful technicalconferences. It would be easy for us to continue on our regular techno-centricconference path….but we aren’t. We are doing solidThinking CONVERGE because webelieve the best days of technology-driven product and experience creation areahead of us.
我们目前拥有非常棒的软件技术、咨询业务、分布全球的客户，以及已经颇具品牌影响力的Altair技术大会（ATC）。继续举办这样的以常规技术为焦点的大会，对我们来说是轻车熟路… 但我们没有这样做。今年，我们举办solidThinking CONVERGE大会是因为我们相信，以技术驱动产品及经验创造的最佳时机到了。
My first job in product development was at the Ford MotorCompany in 1978. We founded Altair in 1985, and in all those years I have neverbeen as excited and optimistic about the ability of product and experiencecreators to have a positive impact on humanity as I am today. Notice the use ofthe words “product and experience creators” instead of engineers, designers,architects, or any other subset describing people looking at how we use thingsto our mutual benefit. The technologies and methods exist, and the compressedtimescales of progress demand that the disciplines come together in aconvergence for the greater good.
我的第一份产品开发工作是1978年在福特汽车公司。1985年，我们成立了Altair公司。这些年来，我从未像今天这样，为产品设计和经验的创造者能够给人类带来积极的影响而感到兴奋和乐观。请注意我使用的是“产品和经验的创造者”，并没有用工程师、设计师、建筑师这样细分领域中的职业称谓来描述。技术和方法并存，压缩研发周期，这些都对多学科融合有着更高的要求，只有不同领域的整合才能获得更好的产品。
At a certain moment in life and career, one begins to reflectback on the great people with whom it has been a privilege to work. The trulymagnificent ones transcended definition and organizational structures. Theywere the engineers who somehow got their truck chassis components launchedbelow target cost and weight, the software designers who changed the way peoplework and play, the product designers who created long lines of consumerswanting to pay a premium for elegantly useful things, and the executives wholed teams with the vision for a new class of passenger jet. They were theinnovators of products, businesses, and experiences who would have been successfulmoving things forward whether their tools were stones and chisels or the latestsimulation software and additive manufacturing machinery.
在生活和事业中的某个时刻，反映在伟大人物身上的一点是工作的权威性。真正伟大的人能够超越概念和组织结构。他们是工程师，发布了低于目标成本和重量的卡车底盘组件；他们是软件设计师，改变了人们工作和娱乐的方式；他们是产品设计师，创造了消费者希望购买的珍贵、精致而实用的东西；他们是管理者，领导了团队实现新的客运喷气机的愿景。当他们是产品、业务和经验的创新者时，无论他们的工具是石头还是凿子，或是最新的仿真软件和增材制造机器，都将会成功推动产品的前进。
Altair’s culture has always sought to bring together multipledisciplines of engineering and creative processes. Inside our company we innovateconstantly in the way we design, the products we create and the business modelswe experiment with. We aggressively employ our software tools and productdevelopment methods, so that outside our company we can play an enabling rolein the great things our clients are accomplishing. We believe strongly thatbringing simulation software and rapid manufacturing technology forward in thedesign process can be a source of inspiration along with a winning response toaccelerated product lifecycles.
Altair的文化一直试图把多学科的工程和创新流程结合起来。在我们的公司，我们在所设计的方式上不断创新，在我们创造的产品和开发的商业模式上更是如此。我们积极地使用我们的软件工具和产品开发方法，因此我们可以在公司之外扮演重要的角色，帮助我们的客户实现成功。我们坚信，将仿真软件和快速制造技术应用在设计过程中将是灵感的源泉，同时可以加速产品的生命周期。
With solidThinking CONVERGE we want to push the boundariesof product and experience creation. We want attendees to be stimulated, andleave with a sense of purpose and confidence to help make the world a better,faster, stronger, safer, more invigorating, and kinder place. We are seekingways to accelerate the beautiful things that happen when right brain, leftbrain, art, science, form, function, design, engineering, and manufacturing arepropelling upward in concert.
举办solidThinking CONVERGE大会，我们想要突破产品和经验的壁垒。我们希望与会者受到启发，从而能够有目的和自信地帮助实现一个更好、更快、更强、更安全、更活跃和更友善的世界。当右脑、左脑、艺术、科学、形式、功能、设计、工程和制造等和谐地向上推进的时候，我们正在寻求方法来加速美好事物的诞生！
