At Bentley Systems, we’re all about infrastructure. But we’re also about people—from the individual following a groundbreaking hunch to teams strengthening how they work together. Throughout 2025, Bentley held events that gathered infrastructure professionals to collaborate, accelerate innovation, and inspire the next generation of engineers. Here are stories about three of those events.
1. Inside the First Cesium Developer Conference
The inaugural Cesium Developer Conference landed in Philadelphia this summer, bringing together a global crowd of developers, climate scientists, engineers, game designers, and space technologists. Over three days, these professionals explored how open 3D geospatial technology is transforming the way we understand and interact with the world—from city streets to outer space, and even inside the infamous Alcatraz prison. Hosted by Cesium, which became part of Bentley in 2024, the conference featured nearly 90 sessions, with speakers from NASA, Google, NVIDIA, Epic Games, and the Open Geospatial Consortium.
Watch the highlights, see Cesium in action, and read about the innovations.
2. Berlin Hosts Bentley Systems’ Biggest Tech Summit Yet
Bentley’s Andy Rahden called it “one of the most collaborative moments of our year.” The Bentley Tech Summit 2025 gathered over 500 infrastructure professionals in the German capital of Berlin in December. Over three days, teams dug into how Bentley’s software tools connect to each other, how real infrastructure projects flow, and how engineers apply the software in the field. The summit provided a way for Bentley to learn from itself and from its users. Rahden, Bentley’s vice president of solution engineering and services and the event’s host, called it “a place to create an ecosystem of knowledge that we can build on to improve global infrastructure.” Missed the summit? Take our 3D tour of Berlin’s iconic landmarks, powered by Cesium.
3. Training Tomorrow’s Digital Twin Experts
Digital twin technology took center stage in New Orleans in late February, with the first digital twin symposium at Louisiana State University. The event drew an A-list crowd of guests and presenters to the Baton Rouge campus, including NASA’s principal technologist John Vickers, who helped coin the phrase “digital twin.” The driving force behind the symposium were LSU business professor James Scott Fargason and his former student Russell J. “Joey” Coco Jr., now an acclaimed infrastructure engineer. Their aim with the symposium, which was sponsored by Bentley Systems, was to spur more interest in engineering, especially in digital twins. “A key part of what we’re trying to do with the symposium is educate students, inform them about the opportunities with digital twins, but also propel the industry forward,” Coco says.
Bonus: In December, LSU just launched the Digital Twin Design and Production Certificate. The certificate is the result of a collaboration between LSU’s College of Engineering, LSU Online, the Baton Rouge consultancy DigiTwin Global, and Bentley. Hear more about the project in our podcast.
