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Autodesk Inc. to Present at Smith Barney Citigroup Software Conference

May 09, 2003

SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2003--Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced that Carl Bass, Executive Vice President, Design Solutions Group, will present a company overview at the Smith Barney Citigroup Software Conference at Le Parker Meridian in New York, Wednesday, May 14 at 1:15pm Eastern Time. A live webcast and audio archive will be available on www.autodesk.com/investor. For additional information, please call Autodesk Investor Relations at 415-507-6705.

About Autodesk

Autodesk is the world's leading design software and digital content company, offering customers progressive business solutions through powerful technology products and services. Autodesk helps customers in the building, manufacturing, infrastructure, digital media, and wireless data services fields increase the value of their digital design data and improve efficiencies across their entire project lifecycle management processes. For more information, contact any Authorized Autodesk Reseller, call Autodesk at 800-964-6432, or visit www.autodesk.com. Discreet(TM) product information is available at 800-869-3504 or via the Web at www.discreet.com.

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CONTACT: Autodesk Sue Pirri, 415/507-6467 sue.pirri@autodesk.com Misty Ohmart, 415/507-6208 misty.ohmart@autodesk.com SOURCE: Autodesk