ir. Daan A.J. Kersten In 2012 Daan founded, together with Jonas Wintermans, Additive Industries, a high tech company industrialising 3D printing for functional parts in various metals. The ambition of Additive Industries is to bring additive manufacturing and 3D printing from lab to fab and allow the high tech manufacturing industry to capitalise on the opportunities additive manufacturing has to offer in creating lighter, compact, integrated, more complex products & parts with better thermal performance/ characteristics. Daan has been at the helm of several companies, some of them from the start. His heart beats for the high tech manufacturing industry and open innovation in the supply chain. In the evening hours, Daan is a board member and initiator of NextOEM, an accelerator program for young high tech companies.

Sophie Jones Sophie Jones is a senior consultant at Stratasys Strategic Consulting Division (previously Econolyst) that helps people and organisations around the world understand the strategic economic, social, and environmental benefits of 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. Econolyst has worked with some of the world’s most influential companies helping them to maximize the use of AM technologies, including Adobe, BMW, Stratasys, IBM, Fedex and GE. Sophie gained her masters in Manufacturing Engineering from Loughborough University and now specialises in developing roadmaps for AM/3DP and strategies to incorporate the technology into supply chains.​