

Next up on stage was Kishore Boyalakuntla, Vice President, Portfolio Management, Brand UX Leader at SOLIDWORKS, who introduced Ryan Kraft, an engineer from Arrivo, a company focused on the goal of eliminating traffic. The future and the present can all benefit from being certified on the tool that everyone is using to innovate. Next Mike introduced everyone to future engineer Jason Ledon, who passed his first SOLIDWORKS certification exam at the age of 15, reached expert level by 16, and wants to pass all customer-facing certification exams by the time he graduates from high school.

To mark its 20th anniversary, the CSWP exam has been redesigned with new content, new models and new challenges. Want to get schooled in additive manufacturing? There’s a new Certified Additive Manufacturing Associate exam coming in April on MySolidWorks, and there’s a new Mold Making Associate exam now available. Mike also introduced two new, industry-focused exams to the program. Bottom line: if you want to be part of the workforce of the future, get SOLIDWORKS certified. In fact, every 10 minutes another SOLIDWORKS user becomes certified. In 2017 alone, the program added over 52,000 new certified users. According to Mike the SOLIDWORKS certification program, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, initially took 16 years to reach 100,000 certified users, but over the last two years it’s doubled in size with 200,000 new users now certified.

Day three of General Sessions at SOLIDWORKS World started off with Mike Puckett, Senior Manager of the Worldwide Certification Program, who gave the audience a glimpse of the workforce of the future.
