Speakers
Tracy Albert
Managing Director, Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC
Tracy Albert is a Managing Director with Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC (DCF). Prior to joining DCF, Tracy served as head of McColl Partners’ Los Angeles office. His experience includes advising middle-market companies on strategic alternatives. His industry experience includes telecommunications, consumer products, and a broad range of industrial businesses. Prior to McColl Partners, Tracy was a Managing Director at nationally recognized investment bank in Los Angeles. There, he formed and managed the Wealth Management Alliances Program, a partnership with the largest wealth management firms in the United States. Tracy also developed and managed a business-to-business network operating in over 30 domestic markets. Additionally, he co-founded a middle-market investment banking firm that specialized in mergers and acquisitions for privately held companies.
Assa Ashuach
Founder, Assa Ashuach Studio
Assa Ashuach was born in Israel in 1969. Completed his BA at the Betzalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and and his MA at the Royal College of Art in Ron Arad’s Design Products department in 2003. Assa Ashuach studio was established in London, focusing on Research and Consultancy within the progressive design and manufacturing. Assa has exhibited in different galleries and museums around the world; his work is included in permanent exhibitions and public collections. Some of his early work was bought by The Contemporary Art Society for the ‘Special Collection Scheme’ in London 2003. Assa’s OMI light for Materialse mgx is one of the first 3D printed products to be distributed to a mass market in 2004. Assa was invited to show at London’s Design Museum Tank and Atrium over the London design festival and Frieze art fair in 2005, he received the Design Museum and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Award. Assa introduced the Osteon chair, the first chair to be designed using a combination of 3D tools and artificial intelligence, produced by EOS SLS the chair met all of the mechanical requirements while only using 1/3 of the anticipated material. Assa has co-founded Digital Forming ltd and UCODO ltd (User Co Design Objects), awarded government funding to develop his vision of embedded ‘open 3D products’ featuring the technology with a collection of 3D shape modifiable products at London’s Science Museum’s 100 years anniversary in 2009.
Carl Bass
President and Chief Executive Officer, Autodesk
Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, the leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. Previously he held several executive positions at Autodesk, including CTO and COO. Bass co-founded Ithaca Software, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993. He serves on the Board of Directors of Autodesk, E2open, the Art Center College of Design, and the Rocky Mountain Institute. He is also a member of the Executive Advisory Boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science and the UC Berkeley School of Information. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University.
Dr. David L. Bourell
Temple Foundation Professor, The University of Texas at Austin and Director, Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication
Dr. David L. Bourell is the Temple Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Director of the Laboratory for Freeform Fabrication. Dr. Bourell's areas of research include particulate processing with emphasis on sintering kinetics and densification, and materials issues associated with Laser Sintering (LS). He holds 9 primary patents dealing with materials innovations in LS dating back to 1990 and has published over 200 papers in journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Dr. Bourell is a Fellow of ASM International and TMS, and he is also a lifetime member of TMS. In 2009, he received the TMS Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award. He has received two major conference career awards in additive manufacturing: the SFF Symposium FAME Award and the Portuguese VRAP Career Educator Award. Professor Bourell is a leading expert in advanced materials for Laser Sintering, having worked in this area since 1988. Dave was the lead author on the original materials patent for LS technology. Issuing in 1990, this patent has been cited by 150 other patents, and it represents the original intellectual property for mixed and coated powders for LS, including binders.
S. Scott Crump
Chairman of the Board and Chief Innovation Officer, Stratasys Ltd.
Scott Crump is the inventor of the 3D Printer. It uses Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology. Scott, along with his wife, Lisa H. Crump, are co-founders of Stratasys Inc. Scott has served as the Chairman of the Board since Stratasys' inception in 1988. He continues as full-time Chairman and Head of Innovation for Stratasys Ltd. He has also held the position of company CEO and President from 1988 to 2012. He was also Chief Financial Officer from February 1990 to May 1997. From 1982 to 1988, Crump was co-founder and Vice President of Sales at IDEA, Inc., a public company, which later changed its name to SI Technologies, Inc. Mr. Crump is a mechanical engineer. He completed the Entrepreneurial Executive Management Program at UCLA’s Graduate School of Management.
Joris Debo
Creative Director, .MGX by Materialise
Joris Debo is the Creative Director of .MGX by Materialise, the consumer goods division of the Materialise group. The .MGX line of design products is currently exported to over 20 countries worldwide; has received many awards, including Good Design and Red Dot Design Awards; is featured in numerous international museums, including the MoMA and Metropolitan museum of arts in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and regularly appears in top design and decor publications such as: Icon, Surface Magazine, Elle Decor and Vogue Living. Over the course of the years Joris has build up a unique knowledge of 3D Printing for the art, design and fashion world and has worked closely with a number of leading artists and designers, helping them bring their visions successfully to life. As such, he has been at the forefront of many innovations in this industry. Joris holds a Masters degree in design sciences and has shared his passion for 3D Printing by speaking at Pratt Institute, Harvard, Parsons, Columbia university,….
Carl Deckard
Polymer Scientist, Structured Polymers
At the age of seven Carl Deckard set his sites on invention. He saw the need for 3D Printing while working a summer job at a manufacturing facility during the summer after his freshmen year (1981) in Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin. Deckard developed the concept for Selective Laser Sintering over the next two and a half years. Deckard developed Selective Laser Sintering at UT while earning a Masters (1986) and Ph.D (1988). Deckard co-founded DTM in 1987 and continued developing Selective Laser Sintering culminating in the launch of the SinterStation 2000 in 1993. Deckard was Assistant Professor at Clemson from 1993 to 1996. Deckard is currently a principal at Structured Polymers, a material development and manufacturing company.
Geoffrey Doyle
CEO, Zip-Bit
Geoffrey joined Zip-Bit in 2013 after moving to Silicon Valley from London to promote and accelerate 3D printing innovation in Silicon Valley. Geoffrey has over 10 years of experience as a venture capitalist at Percipient Capital in the UK where he activated over $50M of funding for technology businesses in software, IT and high-tech engineering. Since arriving in Silicon Valley, Geoffrey has set up SV Forum’s 3D Printing and Scanning Group, a monthly networking forum and is a regular speaker on 3D printing related technologies in and around Silicon Valley. Geoffrey has a degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as an MBA from the University of Manchester in the UK. Also trained as an Officer in Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, British Army where he served in the UK and Germany and completed an operational tour under SFOR in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Brian Evans
Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Brian Evans is an artist working in electronic media and Assistant Professor of Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He is the author of Practical 3D Printers, 2012, and Beginning Arduino Programming, 2011, both with Apress Media. His work has been shown at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach. In 2009, Evans was a resident and contributor to the Grounding Open Source Hardware residency and summit at the Banff New Media Institute in Alberta, Canada. He received an MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2008, and a BFA from Arizona State University in 2005.
Andrew Filo
Inventor
Andrew Filo has been an inventor based in Silicon Valley for the past 25 years, busily licensing his intellectual property to corporations for mass market sale. With education in engineering and medicine, Andy has focused his talents on the conceptualization and manufacture of several families of products for entertainment, oral care, and the toy industry with multi-million unit volumes. In recent years he begun applying consumer design thinking toward a variety of applications including jetpacks and other aerospace applications. He well-known across Silicon Valley and the Maker community for routinely using 3D printing for design, prototype, and final product applications.
Dave Flynn
Senior Business Development Manager, Materialise
Dave Flynn is the Senior Business Development Manager for Materialise. He has been in the additive manufacturing business for 26 years, and in that time has co-founded two large AM service bureaus which he operated for more than 20 years. Before joining Materialise, Dave was Director of On-Demand Parts Manufacturing at 3D Systems Corporation, focusing on process improvement and organizational consolidation of acquired businesses. Dave spent the first 6 years of his career at Baxter Healthcare Corporation, doing software development and systems integration in medical device manufacturing. Dave’s first experience with AM was at Baxter, leading the beta testing of stereolithography, the first commercially available AM technology. His continuous search for innovative applications of AM technologies has included consumer and commercial product prototyping and orthopedic implant and aerospace pattern production.
Mark Ganter
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington
Mark A. Ganter, PhD graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1985. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a co-director of the Solheim Rapid Prototyping Lab which hosts the blog Open3DP. Mark is a co-advisor of the 3D printing student group --WOOF (Washington Open Object Fabricators). Professor Ganter’s research interests lie in the broad areas of applied computational geometry, solid modeling, and rapid prototyping. His main research activities focus on application of computational techniques to art, architecture, and engineering design/manufacturing problems. His current work focuses on 3D volume (voxel) space representations, object segmentation (including biological), wavelets representations of volume data as well as the development of new materials and processes for 3D printing and 3D printing systems (including ceramic, and glass printing materials).
John Hornick
Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
John Hornick is an IP litigator and counselor of broad experience. During his more than 30 years with Finnegan, Mr. Hornick has litigated close to 100 IP cases in more than 30 U.S. federal courts in 18 states; five U.S. circuit courts of appeals; the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); and others. He has appeared before more than 100 judges, arbitrators, and mediators and has tried cases in all IP areas. He has successfully avoided litigation for clients in hundreds of other disputes. He is recognized as a leading trade secret and copyright litigator by The Legal 500 U.S. Mr. Hornick also focuses on the IP issues of 3D printing. He is a frequent lecturer and writer, having presented or published hundreds of speeches and articles on a broad range of IP topics. He is a principal editor and author of the U.S. section of International Intellectual Property Litigation (FT Law & Tax).
Chuck Hull
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, 3D Systems
Dr. Charles W. Hull is a founder of 3D Systems Corp. and has been its Chief Technical Officer since April 1997 and Executive Vice President since May 2000. Mr. Hull served as an Interim Chief Executive Officer of 3D Systems Corp. since August 11, 2003 and was also a Member of the Office of the Chief Executive Officer. From August 1993 to April 1997, Mr. Hull served as the Chief Operating Officer and President of 3D Systems Corp. From March 1986 to October 1999 he served as President of 3D Inc. He served as Vice President of UVP, Inc. from January 1980 to March 1986. Mr. Hull developed 3D Systems Corp.’s stereolithography technology while employed by UVP, Inc. He retired briefly from 3 D Systems Corp. during 1999, at which time he served as Vice Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors as well as a Consultant. Mr. Hull has been a Director of 3D Systems Corp. since 1993.
Isaac Katz
Electronic Art Boutique
Isaac Katz was born in Mexico City where he remained for most of his early schooling. After a year of traveling abroad he graduated from the celebrated University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts with a degree in Animation and Digital Arts. After graduation Isaac pursued a different path, working in finance at a hedge fund in New York City for a couple of years. After that he decided to pursue his true passion and calling; bringing the medium of electronically created art and design to new heights with a new line of jewelry, sculpture and art. Blending technically sophisticated computation with the intuitive eye of an artist, he now has a retail store in Mexico City with plans to expand internationally by the end of the year. Isaac is a pioneer in simulation-based design and in its application to create physical products via 3D printing technology. Isaac has exhibited internationally, most notably in New York City at ArtExpo, at the Cleveland Ingenuity Fest and in his own gallery in Mexico City. He has collectors from the USA, Mexico and Israel.
Behrokh Khoshnevis
Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering,
Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
Behrokh Khoshnevis is a professor of engineering and is the Director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) at the University of Southern California. He has developed several Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) processes for fabrication at various scales and with polymeric, metallic, ceramic and composite materials. Contour Crafting was selected as one of the top 25 out of more than 4000 candidate inventions by the History Channel Modern Marvels program and the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame; and has been identified as one of the major disruptive technologies of our time.
Melba Kurman
Author and Technology Analyst
Melba Kurman is a technology writer, analyst and popular blogger. She became interested in additive manufacturing and emerging design software when she noticed that the same manufacturing machine could print custom dental crowns, coffee tables and heavy-duty, end use metal machine parts. Her passion is explaining the value of innovative technologies in vivid, everyday language. She helped Cornell University, Microsoft and other organizations bring new technologies to market. Melba is a graduate of Cornell University, the University of Illinois and the U.S. Peace Corps.
Ulf Lindhe
Business Development Manager, netfabb
Ulf Lindhe is an Engineer and Business Developer with a passion for growing technology companies from zero to success. Ulf received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineer and Naval Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and have an extensive background from offshore, aerospace and ship design before coming to the 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing industry in early 2002. Ulf was head of sales and marketing at Arcam AB in its early years of fast growth building an international market for its Electron Beam Melting Additive Manufacturing machines for orthopaedic implants and aerospace components in titanium. Ulf joined the FIT Group of companies in 2008 and acts as Business Development manager for netfabb. netfabb provides innovative software solutions that reduces production costs and increases efficiency in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. netfabb is a spin-off from the manufacturing at FIT and the netfabb software bridge the gap between content and machines. Software solutions from netfabb ranges from file fixing and direct communication with 3D printers to professional solutions for production and digital materials.
Hod Lipson
Associate Professor, Cornell University
Hod Lipson is the program chair for Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Machines Lab at Cornell University. He coauthored the book, Fabricated: The World of 3D Printing, which was published February 4 by John Wiley & Sons.
Dr. Conor MacCormack
Co-founder & CEO, Mcor Technologies Ltd
As former site manager for a 5th Framework European project with Airbus, principal investigator with SPS Technologies in the US in the aerospace sector, and with a PhD in mechanical engineering, Dr. MacCormack co-founded Mcor Technologies with his brother, Fintan, in 2005. Their vision was to democratize innovation by creating a set of accessible tools based on paper-based Selective Deposition Lamination (SDL) technology that would provide the freedom to innovate in an unlimited way. Dr. MacCormack has served as Mcor CEO since 2007, during which time the company has run a very lean operation, launched industry-changing products, won national competitions and industry awards and generated worldwide recognition and demand. Previously, Dr. MacCormack worked as a consultant with such notable companies as Boston Scientific, ABS Pumps, Aisle Master, Mantis Cranes, Tanco Autowrap, Keenan Systems and Dromone Engineering.
Christopher O’Dea
Contributing Editor, Korn Ferry Institute’s Briefings on Talent & Leadership
Chris is Contributing Editor of Korn Ferry Institute’s Briefings on Talent & Leadership, concentrating on manufacturing, technology and innovation. He serves on the Dean’s International Council of The University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, which encompasses the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and The Harris Energy Policy Institute, a collaborative research initiative with Argonne National Laboratory.
Ronald Rael
CEO, Emerging Objects
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley and Co-Founder and CEO, Emerging Objects
Ronald Rael is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley and the co-founder and CEO of Emerging Objects—a pioneering design and research company that specializes in 3D printed materials and objects for the built environment.
Avi Reichental
President and CEO, 3D Systems
Avi Reichental has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of 3D Systems NYSE: DDD since September 2003. Under Avi’s leadership, 3D Systems’ emerged as a global 3D content-to-print leader that is redefining and shaping how we design, produce, consume and live our lives. Through his passion to democratize the ideation-to-production process, the company has evolved and expanded its business model from a supplier of 3D printers to a provider of end-to-end solutions that are transforming entire industries by empowering professionals and consumer worldwide to create and make. Prior to joining 3D Systems, for more than twenty-two years, Avi served in various senior executive positions with Sealed Air Corporation NYSE:SEE a leading provider of food safety and security, facility hygiene, and product protection solutions worldwide, most recently as Corporate Officer, Vice President and General Manager of Sealed Air’s Shrink Packaging business. Avi is a passionate maker and community service leader. He is the recipient of the regional 2011 E&Y entrepreneur of the year award, two Innovator Awards and holds 25 U.S. patents. His activities include several non-profit board memberships including NCOHF: America’s ToothFairy, frequent speaking engagements in various entrepreneurship organizations and participation in several Harvard Business School Case Studies. Avi currently serves as faculty co-chair of the Additive Manufacturing Program at Singularity University.
Matthew F. Reyes
Founder, Exploration Solutions, Inc.
Matthew F. Reyes is the founder of Exploration Solutions, Inc and serves as a Space Technology Strategist at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. Among his many responsibilities as a NASA contractor, Matthew is the key instigator of the NASA Ames SpaceShop; an advanced manufacturing and rapid prototyping makerspace built for the NASA workforce. Matthew serves as an evangelist for how to NASA and the Federal government may engage and leverage the Maker Movement for both technology inward acquisition and outward commercialization.
Lane Roney
Co-Founder, AdditiveHabitat LLC
Lane Roney is currently a senior at the University of South Florida. After being introduced to 3D printing by a friend, the technology became a hobby and a passion. When not working or studying, he spends his time making things with friends and introducing new users to the technology. After realizing how important this local collaboration was, Robert Menke and Mr. Roney cofounded AdditiveHabitat, an online ecosystem for 3D printing. Currently in the beta stages of development, AddHab will provide resources to connect any and all users of additive manufacturing. Roney's involvement with the maker community provides him unique insight into the places that local collaboration and connectivity will take 3D printing.
Andrew Snow
Director, EOS of North America, Inc.
Andrew Snow, Director, EOS of North America, Inc. has extensive experience in additive manufacturing (am) technologies for aerospace, automotive, medical, rapid prototyping and design-driven manufacturing applications. Andrew joined EOS in 2003 and today builds on 20 years international experience in new business development, strategic planning, P&L management and negotiation. His current responsibilities include the sales and strategic planning of Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) and plastic laser-sintering systems produced by EOS, enabling service providers, OEM’s, and partners to concurrently envision, design and manufacture high quality products. Mr. Snow holds a B.S. in management from Lesley University of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cydni Tetro
Founder, 3DPlusMe and Consultant, Disney
Cydni Tetro consults with Disney on technology commercialization including 3D print projects such as D-TechMe. Over the course of her career she has helped dozens of startups successfully build, launch, sell and market new products and services. She has served as CEO of a media company, was COO for FamilyLink.com, a social network for families with over 80 Million users, which was the fastest growing website in the country during her time. Prior to that she was CMO/co-founder for NextPage where she directed the strategy and execution of NextPage’s product and marketing initiatives. She has been recognized as a v100 Top Venture Entrepreneur, in the Utah Business 30 Women to Watch and was a Finalist in the Stevie Awards for Top Women Entrepreneur. She has her MBA and BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
Mike Vasquez
Additive Manufacturing Technology and Material Specialist
Dr. Mike Vasquez is an Additive Manufacturing specialist experienced in pushing the boundaries of advanced 3D printing technology. He has worked side-by-side with some of the top machine manufacturers, material producers and end users in the industry, consulting with them to identify novel applications, test new materials, and develop frameworks to maximize R&D efficiency and boost ROI. During his career, Mike has worked with companies including 3M, Burton Snowboards, New Balance and Easton. He has published several technical papers and articles on 3D printing and has spoken extensively on the subject. Currently, Mike advises companies on how to best approach, integrate, and expand the technology to meet their business objectives. Mike completed his PhD at Loughborough University in the UK specializing in Additive Manufacturing and Sports Technology. He received his BS/M.Eng from MIT in Materials Science and Engineering.
Janos Veres
Program Manager, Printed Electronics, PARC
Janos Veres manages the Printed Electronics team at PARC, a Xerox company. His current interests are in combining disruptive material, process, and device technologies – for printed, flexible circuits; sensor and memory arrays; batteries and display devices – all with a focus on partnerships for early commercialization opportunities. Before joining PARC, Janos was CTO at PolyPhotonix, developing novel OLED devices. Prior to that, he worked at Eastman Kodak as Program Manager of Printed Electronics. He also played a key role in developing novel electronic materials at Merck Chemicals and Avecia as a Business Research Associate. An author on over 20 patents and 40 publications, Dr. Veres holds a Ph.D. in Solid State Electronics from Imperial College in London.
Turlif Vilbrandt
Founder & CTO, Uformia
With the rest of the team at Uformia, Turlif currently spends his waking hours building a new class of holistic and responsive 3D modeling applications and frameworks targeting massive design complexity and additive manufacturing. Turlif is a founder and CTO of Uformia, a 3D software startup in Norway that is dedicated to developing and evangelizing volumetric and constructive approaches to design, manufacturing and simulation. For over two decades, he has researched and developed computational methods and design processes that can exactly describe the physical complexity and quality of natural and real objects. Turlif has proposed a "physical Turing Test", where human made objects converge and even become indistinguishable from natural ones. This unique approach has taken Turlif across diverse projects, multiple disciplines and around the globe. In addition to Uformia, Turlif manages and contributes to several open source and international standards organizations including HyperFun.org, the ISO and ASTM Committee on Additive Manufacturing Technologies, and the co-authoring of an ethical copyright license, CGPL.org, aimed at addressing the unique issues surrounding "bit to it" technologies, such as 3D printing (recently illustrated by the controversy surrounding 3D printed weapons).
Andre Wegner
Co-founder and CEO, Authentise
Andre Wegner is co-founder and CEO of Authentise (www.authentise.com), which enables the one-off print of CAD files on 3D printers anytime, worldwide. Through its secure transfer, remote production monitoring and steganography technologies it enables access to a broader range of authentic designs on demand for desktop printers and printer bureau's alike. Prior to founding Authentise, Andre worked as consultant and venture capital investor in India and Nigeria. He holds Masters degrees in International Relations, History and Business from St. Andrews, Scotland, and ESSEC, Paris.
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Inside 3D printing conference and expo explores the business applications of 3d printing (additive manufacturing), from industrial scale to innovative start-ups, in various industries.
September 17 – 18 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Jose, 2050 Gateway Pl, San Jose, CA
