Annual Report 2008 - (Page 36) BE COMMUNITIES Bentley constantly and enthusiastically engages with infrastructure practitioners and academia throughout the world to help shape technologies and advance best practices. Through technology and innovation, Bentley empowers individuals and organizations to improve their skills and their communities. BE Communities website is a new destination for the world’s infrastructure practitioners to connect, communicate, and learn from each other. The website includes: Forums — for exchanging ideas and discussing a wide range of technical subjects, Wiki — a free-form resource for creating and maintaining reference content, Blogs and a Resource Gallery — a repository to share photos, videos, and other files. BE Careers Network brings software-supported infrastructure curricula into academic institutions through tailored programs and partnerships, to help produce career-ready engineers and architects. Bentley Institute Press books deliver the insight, background, and right amount of theory that enable AEC professionals to master their use of Bentley applications. BE Conference is the annual user gathering and provides decision-makers and serious practitioners with an inclusive and engaging environment to share and learn best practices and participate with Bentley in presenting and discussing technology innovations. BE User Group is the official global program for independent user groups dedicated to sharing their ideas and building their knowledge about Bentley products. FUTURE CITY COMPETITIONS Bentley sponsors the Future City Competition in the U.S. and Future Cities India 2020. These competitions challenge students to design a city of the future so that young people experience first-hand the excitement and gratification of planning and creating infrastructure. Each team works with a teacher and a volunteer mentor engineer and is judged by a panel of experts from the infrastructure community. 37
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