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On August 9, 2018 (Thursday), Altair Engineering Inc. will hold the "ATCx Shipbuilding Technology Seminar." This year's "ATCx Shipbuilding Technology Seminar" will feature advanced case studies presented by the Japan Maritime Association, Namura Shipbuilding Co., Sanoyasu Shipbuilding Co., Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co., and Nagasaki University of Science and Technology. Additionally, Altair will broadly introduce new features of HyperWorks, optimization functions, international case studies, and applications beyond strength evaluation. A networking event will be held after the seminar. Please use this opportunity for information exchange and networking among those involved in domestic ship design. Throughout the day, we will strive to provide useful information and networking opportunities for everyone in the "Shipbuilding CAE Cluster," including shipyards, design companies, and marine equipment manufacturers, so we hope you will join us. Date: August 9, 2018 (Thursday) 10:00-17:00 Venue: Acros Fukuoka Target Participants: Altair product users, prospective customers, media representatives Organizer: Altair Engineering Inc. Participation Fee: Free

On Friday, June 29, 2018, Altair Engineering Inc. will hold the "ATCx Electrical Products Solution (Osaka)." Altair offers solutions that address various types of physical phenomena, and the content evolves year by year. This seminar will focus on areas with high demand in the electrical industry, showcasing case studies and solutions. Date: Friday, June 29, 2018, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Venue: Tsuruya Hall Main Building, Conference Room 1 (TSURUYA Hall 8F) Address: 3-3-5 Honmachi, Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture 541-0053, TSURUYA Hall 8F Target Audience: Altair product users, prospective customers, media representatives Organizer: Altair Engineering Inc. Participation Fee: Free (Pre-registration required) *It will also be held in Tokyo on Friday, July 6, 2018. For more details, visit https://altairatc.com/EventHome.aspx?event_id=1147

On Friday, June 22, 2018, Altair Engineering Inc. will hold the "ATCx CAE Cloud - Making Cloud Usage More Accessible." Customers who participate in this seminar will receive a free trial of GPU usage on Azure, provided by Microsoft and NVIDIA. Please request this through the application form. Note that the number of free slots is limited. We may not be able to accommodate all requests, so please understand in advance. Date and Time: June 22, 2018 (Friday) 13:30-17:00 Venue: Garden City PREMIUM Kyobashi Hall 22D Address: 2-2-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031, Kyobashi Edogrand 22F Target Audience: Users of Altair products, CAE users, IT administrators, those considering the use of hybrid cloud, and members of the press Organizer: Altair Engineering Inc. Cooperation: Microsoft, NVIDIA Participation Fee: Free For more details, visit https://altairatc.com/EventHome.aspx?event_id=1153

On Friday, June 22, 2018, Altair Engineering Inc. will hold the "ATCx Control and 1D/3D System Simulation" seminar. This seminar is structured to provide solutions centered around applications (case studies) so that participants can understand the specific benefits. We invite customers interested in control and 1D/3D system simulation to join us. Date and Time: June 22, 2018 (Friday) 13:00-17:00 Venue: Garden City PREMIUM Kyobashi Hall 22B Address: 2-2-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027, Kyobashi Edogrand 22F Target Audience: Altair product users, prospective customers, media representatives Organizer: Altair Engineering Inc. Participation Fee: Free For more details, please visit https://altairatc.com/EventHome.aspx?event_id=1145

Troy, Michigan – May 3, 2018 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has acquired all intellectual property of CANDI Controls, Inc. (headquartered in California, USA) to expand its Carriots solution portfolio and has integrated the company's skilled software and technology team into Altair's IoT division. Founded in 2009 and achieving significant success as a startup, CANDI developed a modern platform that supports multiple protocols for edge gateway computers and countless IoT devices to communicate. Additionally, it has built relationships with major companies in the IoT market, including Google, Microsoft, and Intel. For more details, visit http://www.altairjp.co.jp/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11485&news_country=ja-JP

Troy, Michigan – May 10, 2018 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has acquired FluiDyna, a leading developer of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and numerical simulation technology that has been utilizing NVIDIA's CUDA and GPUs since Altair began investing in the company in 2015 (headquartered in Germany). FluiDyna's simulation software, ultraFluidX and nanoFluidX, has been provided through the Altair Partner Alliance and standard licensing. Following the acquisition, we will not only continue to enhance and develop FluiDyna's products but also collaborate with both companies' technical teams to accelerate the expansion of Altair's CFD solutions. For more details, visit http://www.altairjp.co.jp/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11490&news_country=ja-JP

Troy, Michigan – May 2, 2018 – PART Engineering's S-Life FKM has been added to the Altair Partner Alliance (APA). S-Life FKM is a static strength and fatigue strength evaluation software that assesses FEA results based on the German FKM guidelines. By using S-Life FKM as a post-processor, users can process calculated stresses with just one click and evaluate static strength and fatigue strength according to the FKM guidelines. After the evaluation process, the static strength and fatigue life consumption rates are displayed in a contour plot. S-Life FKM can be utilized in various industries, including companies developing steel, cast iron, and aluminum metal parts that have mechanical strength requirements. For more details, please visit http://www.altairjp.co.jp/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11481&news_country=ja-JP.

Troy, Michigan – April 25, 2018 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has released PBS Works 2018, once again responding to the needs of HPC users. The new PBS Works, centered around the PBS Professional job scheduling software for HPC workload management, has made it even easier to utilize and manage on-premises/cloud HPC resources within organizations. Additionally, a new intuitive portal environment for HPC users, PBS Access, and the essential solution for managing and optimizing HPC infrastructure, PBS Control, have been added. PBS Control also features seamless cloud bursting capabilities. For more details, please visit https://pbsgridworks.jp/.

Troy, Michigan – February 21, 2018 – Altair (ALTR), headquartered in Michigan, USA, which develops the HyperWorks suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software products used across various industries, has acquired assets including technology and intellectual property (IP) from TES International. TES, founded in 1994 with the aim of developing thermal management solutions for electronics, provides cross-industry software solutions suitable for thermal design and packaging, custom programming, general heat transfer, stress and vibration analysis, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Its flagship CFD software, ElectroFlo, can analyze cooling mechanisms for electronics in high power density applications. ElectroFlo is an efficient thermal analysis software. With powerful thermal-electrical coupled analysis and an easy-to-use GUI, it leads to solutions for complex problems. It enables simulation of entire electronic systems, not just individual components or printed circuit boards, and is particularly useful in the design of electronics that handle high currents.

All 12 Sessions of the Optimization-driven Design Webinar Series - The Design Process Guided by Inspire's Optimization Session 5: Streamlining Design Methods to Enhance Automotive Engine Efficiency May 31, 2018 (Thursday) - 13:30 for approximately 30 minutes We will demonstrate how to streamline automotive engine design using the Optimization Driven Design approach, achieving weight reduction and performance improvement that lead to enhanced engine efficiency. Several case studies will be presented to illustrate this method. ************************* This 12-session webinar series will introduce the techniques of Optimization-driven Design by theme. During the live webinar, we will answer your questions on the spot, and a recording will be made available a few days later. Customers who register via the application form will be informed about how to participate in the live webinar and how to view the recording. ************************* For more details, visit http://web2.altairhyperworks.com/inspire2018webinar

FieldView Express is an APA product based on FieldView from Intelligent Light, a U.S. company. FieldView is a CFD post-processor that has been used in a wide range of industries and fields in Japan, including automotive, aerospace, and heavy industry, since the 1980s. This webinar will introduce how FieldView Express can be utilized in CFD development and design, presented by Vainus Co., Ltd., which has exclusively conducted total sales and support for FieldView in Japan for over 20 years. We will also demonstrate the differences between FieldView Express and the standard version of FieldView using an automotive aerodynamic analysis model. Customers interested in the CFD post-processor, FieldView Express, are encouraged to participate. *****Overview***** Date: April 25, 2018 (Wednesday) 13:30 - 14:00 Cost: Free Organizer: Altair Engineering, Inc. Cooperation: Vainus Co., Ltd. *Please note that the content may change due to circumstances.

Altair Engineering will exhibit as a gold sponsor at the Japanese Modelica Conference 2018, held in Tokyo from May 17 (Thursday) to May 18 (Friday). Altair Engineering's Activate allows for the simulation and verification of control system and plant models solely through its rich toolbox for control and signal processing. *****Japanese Modelica Conference 2018***** Date: May 17 (Thursday) - May 18 (Friday), 2018 Venue: Bellesalle Jimbocho URL: https://modelica.org/events/modelica2018japan Lecture: Simulation of high-index DAEs and ODEs with constraints in FMI Date and Time: May 18 (Friday) 15:15-16:30 (Session 6a: FMI, Simulation Technologies 1)

Altair will be exhibiting at Techno Frontier 2018. The admission fee for this exhibition is 3,000 yen. Those who bring an invitation or have pre-registered via the website and bring their registration certificate will be admitted free of charge. Pre-registration is available here: https://jmacv.herokuapp.com/tf2018/visitors/confirmmail?exhibitors=86345&language=ja *Please print your pre-registration certificate and bring it to the registration desk at the venue entrance. We look forward to your visit. ************************* Techno Frontier 2018 Dates: April 18 (Wednesday) - 20 (Friday), 2018, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Venue: Makuhari Messe Admission Fee: 3,000 yen on the day; free for those with an invitation or registration certificate URL: https://www.jma.or.jp/tf/

3D Printer Utilization in the Casting Process Seminar We will introduce the simulation of casting models using solidThinking's casting analysis software, Click2Cast. ▼ Seminar Content 1. Introduction to Click2Cast 2. Presentation of Click2Cast case studies 3. Click2Cast hands-on training Participants will actually operate the creation of mesh for sand casting models, parameter settings, and calculations. Since there are actual measurement data available, you will be able to compare and verify the analysis results. Instructor | Eijiro Hirota (Altair Engineering, Inc.) ▼ Overview Date and Time: April 19, 2018 (Thursday) 13:30-16:00 Location: Kyobashi Edogrand 14th Floor Altair Engineering, Inc. Training Room Participation Fee: Free Capacity: 12 people *Please apply here http://web2.altairhyperworks.com/3dpseminar0419

Training & Seminar on Utilizing 3D Printers You will have the opportunity to experience the operation of solidThinking's 3D modeling and rendering software Evolve, as well as the shape generation and analysis tool Inspire equipped with simulation technology. We will also introduce key points for selecting and utilizing 3D printers. ▼ Overview Date: March 22, 2018 (Thursday) ■ Session 1 10:00-12:00 | Design Consideration for 3D Models (Evolve Hands-on Seminar) ■ Session 2 13:00-15:30 | Topology Optimization (Inspire Hands-on Seminar) ■ Session 3 15:40-16:30 | Techniques for Utilizing 3D Printers (Seminar) Location: Kyobashi Edogrand 14th Floor Altair Engineering Inc. Training Room Participation Fee: Free Capacity: 12 people * You can choose and participate in the sessions you wish to attend. * Details: http://web2.altairhyperworks.com/3dpseminar0322

All 12 Sessions of the Optimization-driven Design Webinar Series - The Design Process Guided by Inspire Optimization Session 4: Applying Optimization Techniques to Construction Sites April 27, 2018 (Friday) - 13:30 - Approximately 30 minutes We will showcase the future of architectural design by applying optimization techniques to every structural design process in architecture, from the conceptual structure of buildings to the design of fixed flanges for columns. ************************* In this 12-session webinar series, we will introduce the methods of Optimization-driven Design by theme. During the live webinar, we will answer your questions on the spot, and a recording will be made available a few days later. Customers who register through the application form will be notified of how to participate in the live webinar and how to view the recording. ************************* For more details, visit http://web2.altairhyperworks.com/inspire2018webinar

Altair will give a presentation at the March Food Packaging Technology Seminar (second half) organized by the Japan Food Packaging Association. 【About the Presentation】 Date: March 20, 2018 (Tuesday) 15:40-16:40 Title: "Introduction of Simulation Use Cases in Packaging Container Development and a New Design Process Incorporating Optimization Calculations" Presenter: Daiki Abe Executive Officer, Head of HyperWorks Technology Division Altair Engineering Inc. In this presentation, we will introduce use cases of simulation in packaging container development and present verification results focused on cosmetic containers regarding a new design process that incorporates topology optimization in the early stages of design. ***March Food Packaging Technology Seminar (Second Half)*** Date: March 20, 2018 (Tuesday) 13:20-16:45 (Registration starts at 13:00) Venue: Kitaku Oji, Kitopia 7th Floor, Training Room 1 Participation Fee: General 10,000 yen, Members 6,000 yen Deadline: March 12, 2018 (Monday) http://shokuhou.jp/news/eve3nt/seminar/detail/2443/

Pune, India, January 30, 2018 - Altair Engineering Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTR), based in the United States, announced a collaboration with its Indian partner DesignTech Systems and the support of the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology (DST) to promote the Indian government's "Skill India" program. This skill enhancement program aims to provide many young people in the country with practical product design skill training opportunities, leading to an improvement in their standard of living. The agreement to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) focused on research, innovation, and capacity development is expected to bring significant benefits to a large number of students, as well as to the development of academic research institutions and the manufacturing industry as a whole. For more details, visit: http://www.altairjp.co.jp/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11452&news_country=ja-JP

January 31, 2018 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) will sell the simulation-driven design software Inspire 2018 through its solidThinking channel partner network, and it will also be offered directly to HyperWorks users. Inspire 2018 is Altair's next-generation solution leading the generative design, optimization, and simulation industries. Starting February 9, we plan to hold a series of 12 webinars in Japanese titled "Optimization-driven Design - The Design Process Guided by Inspire's Optimization." For more details, visit http://www.altairjp.co.jp/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11453&news_country=ja-JP

In 2017, 12 new products were added to the Altair Partner Alliance (APA) of Altair Engineering Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTR). We aim for further expansion of the APA in 2018. As of the end of 2017, the number of partner companies reached 52, and the number of engineering software solutions in the APA reached 72. HyperWorks users can utilize various complementary software from the APA without paying additional fees, as long as it is within their HyperWorks Units. Partner applications can be downloaded and used on demand, just like HyperWorks products. The expanding APA portfolio with newly added products broadens the scope of analysis and enables the development of better products more quickly. For details on the newly added products, visit here: http://www.altairjp.co.jp/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11449&news_country=ja-JP

Troy, Michigan – January 3, 2018 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) and the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in the United States have begun accepting entries for the 2018 Enlighten Award. This award program recognizes achievements in vehicle lightweighting within the automotive industry and contributes to the promotion of innovations in lightweighting technologies. The award ceremony will take place on July 30, 2018, during the 53rd CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS) in Traverse City, Michigan, USA. For more details, visit http://www.altairjp.co.jp/newsdetail.aspx?news_id=11447&news_country=ja-JP

How far can optimization be useful in the design of heavy machinery? March 28, 2018 (Wednesday) - 13:30 to approximately 30 minutes We will explain what can be achieved by applying optimization to design challenges such as weight balance, strength, vibration, and other issues in the design of heavy machinery. ************************* 【Optimization-driven Design】 ~ Utilizing optimization and analysis throughout the entire design process ~ Optimization-driven Design is a new design process that utilizes optimization and analysis throughout all stages of the design process. In this 12-part webinar series, we will introduce the methods of Optimization-driven Design by theme. During the live webinar, we will answer your questions on the spot, and a recording will be made available a few days later. We will inform customers who registered via the application form about how to participate in the live webinar and how to view the recording as needed.

Design Issues of Portable Products February 26, 2018 (Monday) - 13:30 to about 30 minutes We will introduce methods to solve design issues related to weight reduction and strength in portable products using optimization. These methods can also be widely applied in product design. ************************* 【Optimization-driven Design】 ～Utilizing Optimization and Analysis Throughout the Entire Design Process～ Optimization-driven Design is a new design process that utilizes optimization and analysis throughout all stages of the design process. In this 12-part webinar series, we will introduce the methods of Optimization-driven Design by theme. During the live webinar, we will answer your questions on the spot, and the recording will be made available a few days later. We will inform customers who registered via the application form about how to participate in the live webinar and how to view the recording.

Automotive Seat Design – Concept Design to Detailed Design (Webinar) February 9, 2018 (Friday) - 13:30 for approximately 30 minutes This webinar will introduce the flow of design in automotive seat development, from the concept of the frame to the arrangement of welding, utilizing optimization. ************************* 【Optimization-driven Design】 – Utilizing optimization and analysis throughout the entire design process – Optimization-driven Design is a new design process that utilizes optimization and analysis throughout all stages of the design process. In this 12-part webinar series, we will introduce the methods of Optimization-driven Design by theme. During the live webinar, we will answer your questions on the spot, and a recording will be made available a few days later. We will inform customers who registered via the application form about how to participate in the live webinar and how to view the recording.

Altair Engineering, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTR) and solidThinking will unveil the preview version of Click2Cast 2018 at EUROGUSS, held in Nuremberg, Germany, from January 16 to 18, 2018. With the newly added powerful geometry creation and editing features, the design and optimization of the entire casting process can be completed in a single environment. This is the industry's first feature that allows upstream component designers and downstream analysts to exchange data within the same user environment. This environment also includes various tools for component editing, evaluation of shrinkage, modification of risers, sleeves, and cooling lines, as well as for reviewing and optimizing processes aimed at improving quality.

The Fukui Prefectural Industrial Technology Center will introduce Altair Engineering's CAE software HyperWorks to implement seamless support projects from the discovery of needs of companies in Fukui Prefecture to research and development, practical application, productization, and commercialization in the fields of aerospace, life sciences, and robotics. In March of this year, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), and Fukui Prefecture signed a tripartite collaboration agreement. Based on this agreement, we will develop a robotics development facility within the Fukui Prefectural Industrial Technology Center, support the introduction of robotics technology for local companies, and conduct pioneering robotics development combining IoT and AI technologies. HyperWorks is a CAE software package capable of analysis in complex areas such as structural analysis, thermal fluid analysis, multi-body dynamics, and dynamic optimization calculations. It is widely used in the development of industrial robots and machine tools in Japan, and in the aerospace industry, it is utilized worldwide as optimization calculation software to achieve the development and weight reduction of cutting-edge composite products.

Altair Engineering Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the addition of Tech-X's VSim to the Altair Partner Alliance (APA) software products. VSim is a numerical analysis application that can simulate the electromagnetic fields in spaces where complex structures and charged particle motion exist. It supports ultra-parallel computing using tens of thousands of processor cores, allowing for the modeling of complex shapes and various physical phenomena, and obtaining computational results within practical timeframes. Professor Jim Browning from Boise State University, who currently uses VSim, stated, "The FDTD-PIC simulation of VSim not only has powerful parallel computing capabilities but is also designed to be user-friendly for researchers who are not familiar with advanced simulation setups, which has been beneficial for magnetron research."

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced that the winner of the 2017 FEKO Student Competition is Mr. Ke Li, a first-year PhD student at Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology (China). The FEKO Student Competition is an international contest held annually to support engineering education and outstanding academic content. This year, marking its 14th edition, it attracted global attention with entries from South Africa, China, India, and the United States. The competition targets students interested in fields such as antennas, microwave devices, bioelectromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, and other high-frequency electromagnetic-related areas, providing an excellent opportunity to present results using FEKO, Altair HyperWorks' high-frequency electromagnetic solver.

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), based in the United States, has announced a collaboration with BMS College of Engineering in Bangalore. This initiative aims to establish an innovation center on the university campus as a research hub to support students studying information science and computing technology. It will enable the mastery of the entire modeling approach process from 1D to 3D using Altair's advanced software solutions. In addition to using software such as solidThinking Activate and solidThinking Embed, the initiative will leverage the IoT platform Carriots IoT/Analytics to build a digital twin as a 3D system using tools from the HyperWorks software products. This is Altair Engineering's first collaboration with an educational institution in India.

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has announced the launch of its streaming platform WEYV, which allows users to access music, magazines, podcasts, books, movies, and TV shows. WEYV is an ad-free subscription-based app that lets users enjoy music, magazines, and viewing content. It is available to iOS and Android users in the United States on their devices and through a web player. WEYV is available with a 14-day free trial and can be downloaded from the App Store, Google Play, and the WEYV website.