Marie Planchard is Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS. She is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the SOLIDWORKS products across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and entrepreneurship. Marie is creator of the SOLIDWORKS STEM Teacher blog http://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher/.

Marie Planchard is Director of Education & Early Engagement, SOLIDWORKS, DASSAULT SYSTEMES. She is responsible for global development of content and social outreach for the SOLIDWORKS platform across all levels of learning including educational institutions, Fab Labs, and start-up companies. Marie is responsible for the SOLIDWORKS Certification Academic program, providing highly qualified graduates to commercial engineering and design companies. She also manages the SOLIDWORKS Entrepreneur Program that helps young start-up companies design innovative products. As creator/author of the STEM Teacher Blog, Marie shares stories about students, teachers, entrepreneurs, and fabbers that design and make great things happen. For the past year, Marie has concentrated her efforts to promote young start-up companies through SOLIDWORKS education social channels and supports fabbers as a board of director member of the Fab Foundation, that promotes education, entrepreneurship and community. @marieplanchard1