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.

Lauren Slowik  is the Design Evangelist for Education at Shapeways and one of the founding members of the Lady Tech Guild, a group for connecting and inspiring women working in the 3D industries. She is occasionally a part-time professor at Parsons the New School for Design where she also received her MFA in Design+Technology. She has contributed her design and technology expertise to organizations such as Apple, MoMA, the Ms. Foundation, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, the Museum of Arts and Design and Etsy.com. Her research is focused on 3D design and 3D printing and the future of creativity in education with a focus on user experience design, storytelling, and interaction design. She lives in Brooklyn, New York City.

Lutz Dobrowohl started getting in touch with simulation in general as a participant in a Formula Student team where vehicle dynamics simulation was introduced as a tool to gain knowledge about vehicle behavior before building it, Master’s Thesis at Altair about a complete vehicle dynamics model of a sports car from a certain southern German sports car manufacturer, then joined Altair as an application engineer, main focus is early concept simulation and optimization tools as well as additive manufacturing.

Felix Schumacher has a Bachelors degree in Product Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany. Masters degree in Strategic Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany. Working experience as a Product Design Intern in Stuttgart, Germany and Auckland, New Zealand.  Product Designer at DQBD GmbH in Schorndorf, Germany.

Stephan Ziegler has studied industrial engineering and mechanical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen. He obtained his diploma degree in 2015 and is pursuing his PhD in the field of Additive Manufacturing at the Chair for Laser Technology of the RWTH Aachen University since then. His main research focus is on the design for Additive Manufacturing, with the focus on Selective Laser Melting (SLM). 

Jaap Bulsink has a master degree in Mechanical Engineering and came for the first time in touch with additive manufacturing at Addlab, the first 3D printing pilot factory for the production of industrial metal parts in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.  He works since 7 years as an R&D engineer at the Kaak Group, world leader in producing equipment and production lines for the bakery industry. In July the MetalFAB1 Beta machine was installed at Kaak Terborg. Jaap is responsible for the whole process from design to end product.

Scott Summit seeks to connect complex human needs with design and technology solutions. To this end, he founded Bespoke Innovations in 2010, based on 20 years of experience and research in design and additive fabrication.  From 2013-2016, he served as the Design Director for 3D Systems, leading a focused team of designers to explore the boundaries of 3D printing.  Their projects challenge expectations in design and fabrication, often exploring new approaches to problem solving and how we address human need.  Summit has held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford University, and currently lectures at Singularity University.  He holds over 60 design and utility patents in areas from mobile technology, medicine, sports, and consumer products. He now works to educate and enlighten a new generation of designers about the opportunities presented by the rich new set of technologies available to us all.