United States: Aspen Technology, Inc. a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, has announced its global conference, OPTIMIZE 2011, will be held in Washington, D.C. in May 2011. OPTIMIZE 2011 will showcase how the world’s leading process industry companies use process optimization to achieve superior financial and operating results. The 2011 conference will also commemorate AspenTech’s 30 years of leadership and innovation in the process industries.

AspenTech has re-named the conference “OPTIMIZE” to highlight the company’s core customer value – optimizing engineering, manufacturing and supply chain processes to help customers achieve superior financial and operating results.

OPTIMIZE 2011 is expected to draw upwards of 1,000 attendees from more than 40 countries, and will feature dozens of customer stories on process optimization best practices for engineering, manufacturing and supply chain professionals across energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, engineering and construction, and other process industries.

Conference tracks – under the themes Optimize Engineering, Optimize Manufacturing, Optimize Supply Chain, Optimize IT and Energy Optimization – will highlight how process manufacturers from around the world use aspenONE software to support their key business processes and people, while improving return on capital by integrating engineering, manufacturing and supply chain operations.

OPTIMIZE 2011 will be held at the Gaylord National Hotel and Conference Center, on the banks of the Potomac River, from May 23-25, 2011. AspenTech customers can register now at http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=921668.