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Very unusually, for me, I've completely re-written this post over the course of the week. At the beginning of the week I was feeling more than a little gloomy about the state of the world – primarily relating to politics, climate change and data privacy issues – but I'm gradually starting to feel more optimistic. […]
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Today is our last day of work for this calendar year. I spent it in our Gumligen office – Autodesk's main office now in Switzerland – where we had a workshop in the morning followed by a raclette for lunch. Many thanks to all of those involved in organising and preparing the meal: it was […]
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I couldn't visit Dublin without popping by Autodesk's new office there. So it was that after a great few days with the Kingspan team, I hopped on the Luas green line from Leopardstown and headed into the centre of Dublin. I got off on the edge of the central zone at Charlemont and headed along […]
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This week I had the chance to make a long-overdue first visit to Ireland. I flew across to Dublin for meetings with Kingspan, a large building products manufacturer. Brian Glancy, Kingspan's Head of BIM Strategy, had organised a session for the people working with BIM in the various Kingspan companies around the world. It was […]
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Yesterday I headed across to Esslingen, a town south-east from Zurich, to meet with a large Swiss customer of ours, Basler & Hofmann. They're an independent engineering, planning and consulting company with 600 employees in 4 countries (although most are based here in Switzerland). One of the reasons for meeting in Esslingen was the chance […]
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It's been a strange few days. It's the very last week anyone will be working from Autodesk's Neuchatel office. This really hit home when the Autodesk name and logo were removed from the building, last Friday. Photo credit: Estelle Ormrod I salvaged an A (the were signs on the front and back of the building, […]
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I had the pleasure of a visit from Peter Schlipf of the Forge Partner Development team, this week. Peter had come across for a number of reasons, but the first "task" was to catch up with Philippe Leefsma and wish him well for the next stage in his career. We met for an "apero" and […]
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On August 1st we celebrated my first Swiss National Day as a Swiss National. After clearing up, on the 2nd, we packed our camping gear into a couple of trailers and started cycling across Switzerland, from Neuchatel towards Appenzell. Our aim for the first day was fairly modest: to go from our home to a […]
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Today is the Swiss National Day, commemorating the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy back in 1291. It's an important one for me, as it's my first as a Swiss citizen. My kids have presented me with this fine creation: Yesterday we stopped down by the lake to watch fireworks and eat some traditional pea […]
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On Thursday we celebrated Autodesk's presence in Neuchatel together, one last time, at the official office closing party. It was held at the new bar on top of the Beaulac Hotel… a fitting venue, in some ways, as this was for many of us the first place we stayed when we first visited Neuchatel for […]