Best Presentation Award

Best Presentation Award Criteria

The Best Presentation Award recognizes customers who exemplify Siemens EDA’s commitment to tackling current challenges and driving innovation for the future.

Any Siemens EDA customer that will be presenting at User2User North America or User2User Europe is eligible to participate.

Each conference attendee will have the opportunity to vote for the Best Presentation award onsite at the events. The top three highest voted presentations will be awarded in each region.*

Voting will open after the close of the last track session for 30 minutes.

Winners will be announced during the final networking event of the conference. Awards will be granted via VISA gift card. Recipients of the awards are advised to ensure that accepting the award does not violate their organizational policies.

Award denominations are as follows:

• 1st Place - $500
• 2nd Place - $250
• 3rd Place $150

A certificate will be given at the event to all winners onsite. Each awardee will receive their gift card via mail following the event to allow for accounting processes of winner information and to confirm eligibility of receipt of a cash award.

*It is the responsibility of the awardees to check with their respective organizations and comply with any relevant guidelines or restrictions. The top three highest voted presentations are selected using a formula normalizing the attendance at each session. The steering committee will review onsite if there is a tie for any of the award levels.

Previous Best Presentation Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2025 User2User North America Best Presentation award winners.

1st Place - A wealth of cloud solutions for EDA: Perspectives from two cloud customers
Dustin Williams Principal CAD Engineer, Rivos Inc.
Guntram Wolski Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence

2nd Place - Tessent SSN-based features for silicon debug and failure analysis
Rakesh Kinger Senior DFT Productization Manager, Google

3rd Place - Microsoft Untimed C++HLS – Level Up
Robert Havlik Principal Design Engineer, Microsoft

Thank you to all presenters. We look forward to 2026 conference submissions for both User2User North America and User2User Europe.