Together with Sigasi’s CEO Philippe Faes, I will be attending the Design Automation Conference (DAC) next month (June 13-15) in Anaheim. This conference is announced as:

"DAC is the world’s leading technical conference and tradeshow, covering the latest trends in electronic design and design automation. DAC is where the IC Design and EDA ecosystem learns, networks, and does business — where critical industry issues are faced and solutions presented."

This is something we just have to experience first hand. We hope it is different than what we experienced on the Design, Automation & Test Europe last year:

Hubspot Tradeshow Cartoon

We hope to meet a lot of interesting people face-to-face (and finally see the people behind the Twitter-accounts). We already have meetings planed with some EDA peers but we count on meeting many new contacts. We expect some deep discussions and valuable feedback on our ideas and vision.

If DAC results in a productive trip, we consider having our own booth at the exibition next year.

After DAC we travel to Silicon Valley for a three day visit. We expect more interesting discussions there. I also look forward to meeting an old friend and possibly a day of site-seeing in San Francisco.

If you are at DAC or around San Jose (June 16-18) and like to meet us, let me know (@heeckhau or @sigasi) so we can further improve our schedule.

Just hope we are not blocked by volcanic ash clouds.

Hendrik.

P.S.: DAC's Twitter hashtag is #47DAC