The examples are purposefully meant to be on the simpler side and more... "classical", the type you'd find in a college textbook or so. One of (the main, really) the intended audiences for this are electrical engineers who don't use Mathcad today and don't have a lot, or any, exposure to it. Civil engineering and mechanical engineering's webinars were also "beginner level" so electrical engineering is going to get its time to shine. Future events may be more complex to build off this beginner knowledge, but we need that foundational event first! It's not intended to show the maximum advanced power of the software, but to generate people's interest in it and spark people's imaginations on how it's useful, and then if they want to know more they can schedule private and personalised demos with our team.
Our speaker uses Mathcad for much more complicated things at his actual job, but, naturally, he can't show off his company IP or anything at this event, especially because we're making his worksheets available to download after the event. It's more like... a proof of concept. And, yes, it's only an hour long event (and some of that time is reserved for non-demo material like Q&A) so the demos need to be concise and digestible.
As for PTC's skill with Mathcad when marketing it, the public demos we make are, again, meant to be very approachable. But, yeah, we always want to make more demos. But it's a big time commitment and we don't have people working full-time just making demos, not for Mathcad anyway. (The application engineer team spends a lot of time behind the scenes helping customers with their problems that we can't share to the public because they're private data.) Nor do we have our own engineering IP or anything.
I'd say a lot of what PTC has publicly shown with Advanced Controls in Prime 10 is proof that we have skill with our own product, since a lot of people aren't incorporating them into their projects yet and they'd benefit so much from it.
When I ask for feedback in webinars with the surveys, we get far more people asking for foundational / basics Mathcad content than people who ask for advanced Mathcad content... with the exception of the people asking for stuff using the Mathcad API. At the risk of oversharing, marketing the API with cool examples is something I've wanted to address for years, but... that's an area where PTC's team legitimately has knowledge gaps that we're trying to work on. With the exception of the guy who actually develops it in R&D. We've been trying to get his time to make marketing content for that, but that's naturally difficult to do.
Edit: Feel free to say I don't have skill with the product if you want. I don't have an engineering / math / science background, I'm just some marketing guy with a business degree, so I don't know what I'm doing most of the time and I'm just using Mathcad for fun and because I like knowing stuff about the products I'm in charge of marketing. (Though I think I've done some very cool, inventive stuff with Mathcad, like with the Game Gallery.) But the people I work with on Team Mathcad are very bright and very talented with actual math / engineering backgrounds.
I manage the Creo and PTC Mathcad YouTube channels for PTC, as well as all PTC Mathcad marketing in general.
