3Degrees Discussions

Ellen Lee is the Technical Leader for Additive Manufacturing Research at the Ford Motor Company where she focuses on polymer applications. She is responsible for developing AM strategy and technical roadmaps for materials and processes to enable automotive uses cases of Additive Manufacturing. She joins the show today to talk about the process of evaluating emerging technology and the end to end p...

Greg Nemecek is the Additive Manufacturing Manager at Action Mold and Machine. He joins the show today with his colleague Matt Duffey. Action Mold and Machining specializes in quick turn repair and engineering changes for molds. They are veteran owned business based in Grand Rapids since 1997 and have been on the forefront of adopting metal additive manufacturing in recent years. Greg and Matt dis...

This was a podcast crossover with the team from 3DPod and 3dprint.com - Maxwell Bogue and Joris Peels. Previously published on March 1st, 2021 ================================================ After studying at Loughborough and MIT he worked on making snowboard components for Burton, Mike Vasquez started 3Degrees. There, he’s not only a 3D printing consultant but also has his own podcast. So, as a...

Zac Holcomb is the CEO and Co-Founder of Additive America based in North Carolina. Additive America offers a number of 3D Printing services including Multi-jet Fusion and design expertise. Zac spent a number of years in the AM industry building his skillset around machine operation and DfAM before starting up his own venture in 2019. He joins the show today to talk about that journey and we spend...

Luis Folgar is the Executive VP of Technology at AMT Post Pro. AMT is one of the industry leaders for automating 3D Printing post processing. Luis has a wealth of experience in the Additive Manufacturing sector working previously at Nike and Paramount Industries where he applied his materials science expertise to the world of 3D Printing. He joins the show today to talk about one of the most under...

Annie Wang is the President of Senvol, a global leader in data for additive manufacturing. At Senvol, Annie has overseen the creation of Senvol ML, which is data-driven machine learning software for additive manufacturing. Annie’s area of focus is on analyzing the correlation among material properties, process parameters and feedstock properties. Annie is actively involved in activities across the...

SK is the founder of Adiguru. Adiguru is an artificial intelligence based real-time monitoring solution that aims to significantly improve the defect detection rate for additive manufacturing parts. He has significant experience in product management, strategic planning, product launches and working with cross-functional teams. He joins the show today to speak about in-situ monitoring for 3D Print...

Joel Neidig is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience integrating manufacturing technology and developing software. He cofounded Atlas 3D which was a later acquired by Siemens after licensing technology developed in collaboration with America Makes, Johnson and Johnson, the University of Notre Dame, and ITAMCO. His most recent startup, Simba chain is brining blockchain technology to the...

Paul DeWys is a self-described sales guy trapped in the body of an engineer who ended up in marketing, hence, his role as a Sales Engineer. He works with companies and customers to help educate them about what is possible when you combine 3D laser scanning to capture a part, apply mechanical engineering expertise to modify it, and use additive manufacturing equipment to help prototype or produce e...

Tim Simpson is the Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design & Manufacturing, Director of the world’s first Additive Manufacturing & Design Graduate Program, and Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D) at Penn State. He specializes in Design for Additive Manufacturing, and he has helped educate and train nearly 800 industry practi...

SJ Jones is an Additive Manufacturing Application Engineer at Siemens Energy where she focuses on helping to bring metal additive manufacturing solutions the problem of climate change. SJ has a wide array of experience working in the metal 3D Printing first at a small company supporting the aerospace sector and she continued on there as the company was acquired by Aerojet Rocketdyne We talk today...

Since 2015 Adam Penna from All Digital Additive Manufacturing has been focused on Additive Manufacturing consulting sales, marketing strategy, customer experience, and exploring technologies like Laser Powder Bed Fusion. He spent a number of years at EOS helping them build a regional brand, managing channel partners, and developing an inside sales team Adam now has a video podcast where he connect...

Greg Paulsen leads Xometry’s application engineering team. Xometry is an AI driven manufacturing as a service marketplace platform. Greg started his career running polymer laser sintering systems and now is responsible for a number of different printing technologies within Xometry’s portfolio. He joins the show to talk more about the company and his experiences being both a user and customer of 3D...

Juan Mario Gomez is the CEO of Xact Metal. Xact Metal is a startup out of Penn State University developing a lower cost direct metal additive manufacturing system. As opposed to traditional direct metal systems that can cost upwards of a million dollars, the Xact platform is a fraction of that cost with the aim to lower both the financial and risk burden typically required to invest in these types...

Simon Pun is a Materials Engineering leader at Divergent 3D. Divergent replaces conventional vehicle architecture, tooling and related factory assets with a proprietary, patented, end-to-end system for vehicle design and volume manufacturing. Their mission, enabled by additive manufacturing aims to produce significantly lighter, higher performance, safer, and lower cost vehicle structures. Simon j...

Alex Kingsbury's career in additive manufacturing (AM) spans both industry and R&D specializing in bringing new technologies to market. She has successfully co-created solutions and partnerships in the sectors of: aerospace, defense, biomedical, and resources. Alex is currently an Additive Manufacturing Industry Fellow at RMIT University working to enhance links between industry and the university...

Stephen Anderson is the Vice President of Business Development at the Dyndrite Corporation. Dyndrite has built the world’s first GPU powered hybrid AM kernel, capable of reading native CAD. Previous to his role at Dyndrite, Stephen was the Additive Manufacturing Business Development Manager at Renishaw leading the 3D Metal printing business for the company in the USA. He joins the show today to ta...

Maddie Frank is about to complete her undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has been heavily involved in the 3D Printing industry during her time in school having spent time working at Carbon, Divergent 3D, GSC, and Women in 3D Printing. She joins the show to talk about her path to the Additive Manufacturing industry and chronicle...

Michelle Bockman is the CEO of 3D Printer OS. Previous to her current role, she was the General Manager and Global Head of 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing at HP. She has also worked at GE and has a background in mechanical engineering from University of Missouri-Rolla. She joins the show to compare and contrast her experience working in a large organization entering the 3D printing market ve...

Al McGovern has engineered products and built strong mechanical engineering teams in 6 different industries at 7 different companies in 6 states over the past 40 years. During that time, he’s used many subtractive and, since 1991, additive prototyping methods in both Research and in Development efforts. In additive, he’s used equipment from 3D Systems, Stratasys, EOS (metal), DTM, Z-Corp, Carbon,...

Byron Kennedy is the cofounder and CEO of SPEE3D, a high-speed, metal 3D printing company. He is a serial entrepreneur, having cofounded the first spin-off company from Charles Darwin University before exiting to NYSE listed company Regal Beloit (Fasco). His current company, SPEE3D has developed a new 3D printing process for metals - supersonic 3D deposition (SP3D). Targeting commercial and indust...

Tyler LeBrun is an independent Additive Manufacturing consultant at Protingent. Prior to his current role, he spent several years in the aerospace sector at both Blue Origin and Aerojet Rocketdyne. Tyler is actively engaged in industry volunteerism with the drafting and review of standards pertaining to all aspects of additive manufacturing. He’s a committee member of ASTM and ISO. He’s also a Reg...

Laura Ely is the leader of ADDvisor Services for the Barnes Global Advisors. Prior to this, she was responsible for the build out of a new team focused on the maturation of laser/wire deposition for Titanium aerostructures at GKN Aerospace. She joins the show to talk about her journey in the Additive Manufacturing industry and we focus on how to build diverse and highly functional teams within the...

Nora is the Director of Sales and Service Factory Operations at Fast Radius. She also founded the non-profit Women in 3D Printing in 2014 to promote women leaders in the additive manufacturing industry. In addition to managing the organization, which involves community engagement, partners & sponsors recruitment and overall technology watching, Nora leads a global team of over 80 volunteers, actin...

Dr. Candice Majewski is a senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Sheffield, with a teaching and research focus on Additive Manufacturing. Much of her work centers around understanding and optimizing the interactions between materials and processes in AM involving powdered plastics. She joins the show today to talk about developments in powder-based polymer printing processe...