Calgary Hosts Annual Intergraph® PP&M Canadian User Conference

Intergraph® Process, Power and Marine (PP&M), part of Hexagon and the world’s leading global provider of enterprise engineering software, will hold its annual Intergraph PP&M Canada User Conference (ICAN 2015) on Tuesday, October 20 at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary, Alberta.

Continuing the successful theme of “Learn, Grow, Connect,” ICAN 2015 will provide owner operators, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies, fabricators andconstruction companies with the opportunity to attend educational sessions, learn about new technological innovations and hear best practices from leading engineering and design companies.

Some of the featured sessions scheduled forICAN 2015 include:

• Keynotes presentations from Intergraph PP&M executives, which will explore how innovation is changing the industry, and from Intergraph PP&M Executive Vice President of Development and Chief Technology Officer Charles Evans on the market challenges facing owner operators and EPC contractors.
• Educational sessions by leading organizations in North America already using Intergraph PP&M’s innovative solutions to increase productivity, data quality and operational efficiency on projects of all sizes.
• Hands-on product demonstrations and over 20 sessions in four tracks covering topics such as information management; 3D & visualization; engineering and schematics; procurement, fabrication and construction and information management.

More than 150 industry professionals from engineering companies, owner operators and suppliers are expected to attend the conferencein Canada. ICAN 2015 is the fourth local event in the Intergraph PP&M Americas conference series, with previous events held in Caracas, Venezuela, Mexico City and Houston.

"The current conditions has made it more important than ever to focus on improvements in capital projects and operations,” said Sven Gebhardt, vice president of Intergraph PP&M Canada. “This conference brings together Intergraph’s resources to tell users where our solutions are today and where they will be going in the future. This is also a unique opportunity that brings together industry colleagues who can share their valuable experience for all of our customers.”

The conferences are hosted by Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, which has more than 30 years’ experience in providing local expertise and services to support engineering, procurement and construction companies and owner-operators executing projects and operating facilities globally, delivering enhanced safety, quality, interoperability and productivity. More than two-thirds of the plants built worldwide are designed using Intergraph software.

Intergraph Technical User Forum (TUF) LinkedIn groups provide an online discussion forum for year-round networking between users. To learn more about Intergraph solutions and network with other Intergraph users, visit ppm.intergraph.com/technical-user-forums.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph as the No. 1 overall worldwide provider of engineering solutions for plant design (process, power and marine), according to its “Engineering Design Tools for Plants and Infrastructure Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2019.”