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Coverage of AltiumLive 2017 in Munich, Germany
October 26, 2017 | I-Connect007Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
Altium recently conducted its first-ever European users conference, AltiumLive 2017: Annual PCB Design Summit, at the Westin Grand Munich. Speakers included Lee Ritchey of Speeding Edge, Simon Payne of Cambridge Technology Group / XJTAG, Thomas Wischnack of Porsche Engineering Services, and Andreas Doering of IBM Research Laboratory.
This conference drew big crowds of PCB designers. But if you couldn’t make it, don’t worry. We shot a variety of photos.
To go directly to the AltiumLive photo gallery, click here. Danke!
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