Cyon Research Announces COFES Institute

Cyon Research Corp. announced the formation of COFES Institute, a non-profit think-tank that holds an annual, invitation-only event for the design and engineering software industry. After 18 years, Cyon Research Corp. is donating the rights to COFES, paving the way for the new COFES Institute. The COFES Institute, governed by a board of industry luminaries, will continue the tradition of holding an annual event for leading keynote visionaries who provide perspectives on the future of the industry. The 18th annual COFES began yesterday in Arizona at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort and runs through April 9.

Cyon Research has donated COFES to the COFES Institute so that the Institute may serve the COFES community for the next generation. 

COFES will now be managed by the COFES Institute which is a non-profit lead by Executive Director and President, Vincent Caprio. Caprio has a 30-year track-record of applying technology to solving problems in fields of science and engineering and is one of America’s leading advocates for research & development spending. 

The Board of Directors is made up of the following members:

• Vincent Caprio – Executive Director and President
• Becca Yeh – COFES Event Director 
• Jason Preston, Co-Founder of Dent
• Jim Brown, President/Tech-Clarity
• Jim Doxey, Product Configuration Manager, Oculus (division of Facebook)
• Nathanael Miller, Aerospace Engineer/NASA Langley Research Center 
• Pete Wells, CEO, Smart2Market 

COFES had its genesis in the late 1990s and was the brainchild of Dr. Joel Orr, Brad Holtz, and Evan Yares. COFES was unique, founded on the idea that one-on-one interaction and the building of community are the most valuable functions of an industry forum. 

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