Overview

Carlson Software values your support over the years and invites you to join them in celebrating the company’s silver anniversary — 25 years working for the civil engineering, surveying, construction and mining industries developing and supplying technologically advanced software solutions — at its first user conference. Click here for the Conference Agenda or Sign Up Now. To read a brief history of Carlson Software, click here.

On-site registration for the first Carlson Software user conference -- the Carlson Silver Anniversary User Conference -- begins at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 13, at the Lexington Convention Center, 430 West Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky, and will run through 7 p.m. that evening, and is also available 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, April 14.

Schedule-at-a-Glance

Sunday, April 13: 3 - 7 p.m., Registration Open

Monday, April 14: 7 a.m. - 1 p.m., Registration Open; 8 - 9:30 p.m., General Session; 9:30 - 9:45 p.m., Break; 9:45 - 11:15 p.m., Session 1; 11:15 a.m. -12:30 p.m., Lunch; 12:30 - 2 p.m., Session 2; 2 - 2:15 p.m., Break; 2:15 - 3:45 p.m., Session 3; 3:45 - 4 p.m., Break; 4 - 5:30 p.m., Session 4; 5:30 - 7 p.m., Reception; 7 - 9 p.m., Dinner

Tuesday, April 15: 8 - 9:30 a.m., Session 5; 9:30-9:45 a.m., Break; 9:45 - 11:15 a.m., Session 6; 11:15 a.m. -12:30 p.m., Lunch; 12:30 - 2 p.m.; Session 7; 2 - 2:15 p.m., Break; 2:15 - 3:45 p.m., Session 8; 3:45 - 4 p.m., Break; 4 - 5:30 p.m., Session 9

Agenda/Sessions

Six training "tracks" will be available: SurvCE, Survey, Civil, Mining, Construction and Dealers, plus an Elective track. Attendees may concentrate on one track or pick and choose from among the nine options. Each session is led by one of 24 expert Carlson instructors, including Carlson College staff, plus Carlson Software management and developers. For session times, dates and instructors, please go to registration.

About Carlson Software

Founded in 1983 by Bruce Carlson, Carlson Software specializes in CAD design software, field data collection, and machine control products for the surveying, civil engineering, construction, and mining industries worldwide, providing one-source technology solutions from data collection to design to construction.

Users benefit from Carlson’s 25 years of progress and continued software excellence. Just some of its wide selection of software products include:

• Carlson SurvCE 2.0 provides advanced functionality, ease-of-use, and sheer capability with a powerful and complete data collection system.
• Carlson Survey 2008 is an incredibly productive and intuitive AutoCAD-based survey solution that is available in both “Standalone” or “For AutoCAD®” versions. Combined with SurvCE, it provides the ability to magically transform field survey data into flawless maps and CAD drawings.
• The powerhouse Carlson Civil 2008 is designed to increase user productivity as it creates better designs with its hundreds of new features, which include the revolutionary LotNet for quick and easy subdivision design, the new SiteNet for automated earthworks, and the enhanced RoadNet, that streamline the steps to get even the biggest jobs done quickly and easily.
• Carlson Hydrology 2008 provides the automation designers need with full 3D road and lot design that feeds directly into flow calculations and drainage design and means the end of hand entry of runoff coefficients and manual estimates of flows over surfaces.
• Chosen by more than 90 percent of the U.S. coal mining industry, Carlson Mining is the acknowledged industry standard and available in modules that provide advanced technology, Carlson Mining includes Geology, Surface, Underground and Basic Mining.
• Carlson Takeoff 2.0, the first-ever AutoCAD®-based site-estimating solution, is the ultimate answer for fast and accurate project estimating with its 3D simulation, streamlined digitizing, automated elevating, precision calculating of volumes and material quantities, plus cut/fill color mapping.
• Carlson Grade is Carlson’s unique machine guidance product, which works on both Windows and Linux operating systems, designed to work with all equipment – dozers, loaders, excavators, compactors, graders, barges, drills, scrapers, bucketwheels, shovels, foreman trucks – in need of grade control.

Carlson Software is renowned for its strong, personal customer service, continuing to work for its customers after the sale by providing unlimited, free technical support and allowing customers to choose maintenance as needed.

Carlson Software is based in Maysville, Ky., with branch offices in Boston, Mass., Atlanta, Ga., Front Royal, Va., and Queensland, Australia. The privately owned and operated company has more than 75 employees worldwide and is praised for its ease of use combined with its state-of-the-art technological innovation.

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