Andre Wegner is founder and CEO of Authentise (www.authentise.com), a leader in data-driven process automation software for additive manufacturing. He is also the Chair of Digital Manufacturing at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. Andre is a frequent speaker on 3D Printing, the digital thread in manufacturing and opportunities for distributed manufacturing at events such as WIRED, Rapid, Open Innovations, CES and more. He has been quoted in publications such as BBC News, MIT Tech Review, Chicago Tribune, and Bloomberg. Prior to Authentise, Andre helped to create Nigeria’s first equity and debt funds focused on financial inclusion, a $300m gas distribution business for West Africa, and supported capital raises in India. Andre is a graduate of St. Andrews University (M.A. – UK), ESSEC (M.Sc. – France) and Singularity University (California).

Brent Stucker, Ph.D. is Director of Additive Manufacturing (AM) at ANSYS. He is the co-founder and former CEO of 3DSIM, acquired by ANSYS in November, 2017. Dr. Stucker has been a leading researcher and industry expert in additive manufacturing for 25 years.

Dr. Stucker was the first chairman for ASTM International Committee F42 on Additive
Manufacturing Technologies, and was elected to the ASTM International Board of Directors in 2015. He has received numerous AM awards, including the 2016 International Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence Award; the 2015 Additive World Conference Industrial Impact Award; the 2012 Industry Achievement Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the 2010 Robert J. Painter Memorial Award from ASTM/SES and the Dinosaur award from the Additive Manufacturing Users Group. He has co-authored a leading textbook, Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping and Direct Digital Manufacturing.

Dr. Stucker holds numerous patents, has authored and co-authored over 200 technical publications on AM, and has presented over 250 technical talks. He was a professor from 1997-2015, with various appointments at the University of Louisville, Utah State University, the University of Rhode Island and VTT Technical Research Center, Finland. Dr. Stucker has worked with the National Science Foundation, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and others to develop research priorities and funding roadmaps for the AM industry. Dr. Stucker received his B.S. from the University of Idaho and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, both in Mechanical Engineering.

Gregor Reischle is the Head of Additive Manufacturing in TÜV SÜD since 2017. In this role, he is responsible for the global activities within this segment. His vision for TÜV SÜD being the industrial AM readiness enabler, exceeds the current limits of the AM ecosystem. Therefore, Gregor formed the iAM Team of 16 employees. The industrial AM Team is working with passion and focusing on the vision to enable safe, high quality and industry conform manufacturing solutions. The specific services are enabling the serial production readiness of all stakeholders within the AM ecosystem.

Gregor has more than 10 years of experience in the field of additive manufacturing. He achieved his first professional AM success in 2008, as the Head of Production in the additive manufacturing field of medical and dental in Hamburg, Germany. Since then, he has trained and consulted more than 80 additive manufacturing centres worldwide. Being seven years together with EOS GmbH, Gregor was one of the founding members of the Additive Minds consulting unit, where he co-developed and managed four EOS GmbH Dental Process Chains and wrote four patents within this field. As the project manager for the EOS Quality program, he discovered fundamental skills Gap for Quality assurance within the Additive Manufacturing field. So he decided to continue the market enablement activities with TÜV SÜD. As an executive MBA student at TUM school of Management, he is focusing on innovation and business creation and continuously improving the services based at the market requirements and customer pain points. Always with the vision in mind, that the industrial success of additive manufacturing solutions, will provide huge benefits to the humanity.

Gregor has Dipl. Ing. (FH) with focus on Applied Materials Science from Osnabrück University in Germany, and in process of finishing his EMBA in innovation and business creation at TUM school of Management, in Munich Germany.

Dr. Guglielmo Vastola, PMP®, is a Scientist and Project Manager at the A*STAR Institute of High-Performance Computing in Singapore. Guglielmo’s experience focuses on modeling and simulations of additive manufacturing, with particular emphasis on selective laser melting, electron beam melting, and selective laser sintering processes for both metallic and plastic industrial components. With an international experience in both private as well as public agency sectors, Guglielmo is combining scientific and project management skills to deliver IHPC’s vision of an advanced simulation software for additive manufacturing, what we call a “Digital Twin”.
Guglielmo’s background spans years in modeling and simulation of materials and manufacturing processes. He has also worked on advanced strained-gate transistors and high-efficiency solar cells. A physicist and materials scientist by training, he is a fellow of Collegio Borromeo in Italy, a top university college which is among the oldest in the world.

Dr. Herman van Bolhuis is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on Technology Assessment and Innovation Strategies. He is also an inspirational speaker and leader with focus on future technologies and disruptive developments for people, organisations and society. Key areas in his work are Innovation, New Tech, Speed and co-creation for 3D printing / Additive Manufacturing, Innovation Strategies, Digital Supply Chain, Blockchain Deployment, Digital Twinning, Technology Convergence business cases.

Herman is the founder of the Smart Industry Fieldlab – 3D Makers Zone (Assembl3d group) focusing on industrial 3D printing and on the board of the largest industrial company organisation in the Netherlands including companies like Siemens, IBM, GKN, ASML, VDL and Philips. At the same time, he is also the founder of CIONET which is active in 20 countries and is a trusted global community for CIO’s and IT decision makers (7000+ members).

Chaw Sing is the co-founding Managing Director of NAMIC (National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster), a Singapore government initiative to catalyse innovation and scale industrial adoption of additive manufacturing technologies. By focusing on industrial applications and translational R&D, together with commercial strategies to co-create innovative products and services, the national initiative aims to position Singapore as one of the leading digital manufacturing hubs in the era of digitalization and smart factories. Since its inception two years ago, NAMIC has raised several millions in public-private funding to support various AM initiatives across industry verticals.

Before NAMIC, he was Head of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at HP Singapore, Printing and Personal Systems Group, where he oversaw technology partner relationships, IP strategy, and strategic innovation initiatives for the Supplies Business. Prior to this, he was the global head for Consumer Inkjet Supplies Business operations, overseeing manufacturing supply chain operations and product innovation in HP. Chaw Sing started his career in the semiconductor industry with Chartered Semiconductor and Globalfoundries, where he undertook various leadership and customer-facing roles in technology development and engineering operations.

Chaw Sing holds a doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Bachelor’s (honours) degree in Electrical Engineering majoring in Microelectronics from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an avid inventor with several US/international patents. An advocate for 3D Printing and its role in the new economy, he has spoken in several global forums and workshops. He mentors a number of start-ups in the digital and healthcare space. He sits on a number of advisory and expert committees and is an appointed mentor under the GE Digital ASEAN Startup and Partner Program. He is personally interested in nurturing deep tech start-ups, as well as advancing STEM education and engineering as a profession.

John Barnes is the Founder of Metal Powder Works and The Barnes Group Advisors the leading independent consultancy and training provider in additive manufacturing. Previously, he was Vice President of Advanced Manufacturing & Strategy at Arconic where he helped shape the R&D budget and activities across manufacturing operations and influenced future business. There he worked with Airbus to qualify the first Titanium additively manufactured parts for series production on the A350. Prior to Arconic, he was Director of the High Performance Metals Program for the CSIRO, the national science agency for Australia where he oversaw the R&D and Commercialization activities and investments in the program’s two principal areas: Metal Production and Additive Manufacturing.

His aerospace background includes lengthy positions at Honeywell Engines where he supported gas turbine Advanced Technology and was Program Manager of Marine Engines programs and as Senior Manager for Manufacturing Exploration and Development at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. At Lockheed Martin, he was responsible for developments in advanced polymers, composites, carbon nano tubes, novel titanium production and processing, additive manufacturing of both polymer and metallic systems and low observable manufacturing methods. Primarily, John has a background in materials performance and processing relationships, but has led groups to develop low emission combustors, advanced polymers and low observable technology.

John has 3 US patents, 5 International patents pending, has given numerous invited presentations is published internationally. In 2014, he was awarded Purdue University’s Outstanding Materials Engineer of the Year and was given an Adjunct professorship at RMIT. In 2015, he became an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. In the 2017, the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University appointed him an Adjunct Professor of Materials Engineering. John holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering and an M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Purdue University.

Dr. Heuser has been with Siemens for nearly 20 years in various management positions within Siemens businesses including Corporate Technology, OSRAM, Energy and is now the VP of Additive Manufacturing in Siemens Digital Industries. Dr. Heuser has a Ph.D. in solid state physics from the University Augsburg as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Management from ESMT.

Kelvin Wee is the Sales Director for the APAC (excluding China and Japan) region in the Materialise Malaysia office. It also serves as the Asia Pacific regional office. He leads a high performing team comprising of sales managers, account managers, marketers, project engineers and application engineers who provide 3D printing software solutions In the South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Korea and India markets.

He has over 17 years of sales experience in various industries at a regional level. Equipped with a degree of electronic engineering and MBA, this enables him to carry out his vision to connect 3D Printing technologies to different applications and industries, which will eventually realise a better and healthier world.

Dr. Kristin L. Wood is the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, a Professor of Engineering and Product Development (EPD, epd.sutd.edu.sg), founding EPD Head of Pillar, and Co-Director of the SUTD-MIT International Design Center (IDC, idc.sutd.edu.sg) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD, sutd.edu.sg). Dr. Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in September 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing, in addition to a teaching laboratory for prototyping, reverse engineering measurements, and testing. During the 1997-98 academic year, Dr. Wood was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy. Through 2011, Dr. Wood was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Design & Manufacturing Division at The University of Texas at Austin. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Director of the Manufacturing and Design Laboratory (MaDLab) and MORPH Laboratory. Dr. Wood has published more than 450 refereed articles and books, has received more than 90 national and international awards in design, research, and education, consulted with more than 100 companies (MNCs, SMEs, and startups) and government organizations on Design Innovation and Design Thinking, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Lin Kayser is a German technology entrepreneur, investor and thinker. He is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperganic, a software company pioneering AI-driven design for the future of manufaturing.

Through his foundation, the Kayser Forum for Sustainability, Lin raises awareness for environmental issues.

Lin’s entrepreneurial journey stretches more than 25 years. He started his first company at the beginning of the 1990s. In 1993 he joined startup ARADEX to disrupt the world of industrial control systems with PC technology.

In 2000 Lin created his next company, IRIDAS. For a decade, IRIDAS helped transform the film industry from analog to digital before it was acquired by Adobe in 2011. For three years, Lin held the position of Director of Engineering at Adobe. In 2014 Lin left Adobe to focus on his own ventures.

Lin is a frequent speaker at international conferences on the topics of bold entrepreneurship, sustainability and the future of humanity. He is considered a pioneer in the field of design for Additive Manufacturing and Synthetic Biology.

Lin lives in Munich, Germany with his wife and his five children.

Lior is a co-founder and CEO of Assembrix Ltd. Lior co-founded Assembrix after gaining 15 years in hands-on experience of technology management.

He managed high-performing teams in enterprise software, e-commerce and cyber security industries, ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations. Prior to co-founding Assembrix, Lior was a director of marketing and business development at the cyber and intelligence division of NICE Systems. Before that, Lior held marketing and product management positions at OpenTV UK. He holds BA in economics and business administration from Bar Ilan University and an MBA from INSEAD, France. Lior is a global keynote speaker in the areas of factory 4.0 and additive manufacturing.

Simon brings with him more than 20 years of engineering software industry experience; 16 years of which have been spent at Autodesk Malaysia, Singapore and Japan, where he held various technical, industry marketing and sales management positions from 1999 to 2013. He left on a 2.5 years hiatus to lead Lexmark Malaysia and rejoined Autodesk family in his current role in early 2016.

An engineer by training, Simon started his career at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) after graduating from the University of Malaya and trained in Manufacturing Engineering under Association of Overseas Technical Scholarship in Yokohama Kenshu Center, Japan. He also holds a Masters in International Management from RMIT University in Australia. He speaks English, Chinese, Malay and Japanese.

Yathiraj Kasal is an Additive Technology evangelist in Asia Pacific region. He has more than 21 years of industry experience in Aviation & Automotive and 5 years in Additive Manufacturing. He has led many projects for additive parts productionization, new material development, parameter optimization, prototyping and tooling. He currently leads GE Additive AddWorks for Asia-Pacific Region and he is responsible to accelerate additive adoption for GE’s customers in APAC region, which encompasses additive design, materials, industrialization consulting, low rate production, production qualification, part qualification and prototyping