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Speakers - 3D Printing: Threat or Opportunity?

		Louise Jones, KTN Louise has a background in the chemical and manufacturing industries and then spent 8 years in academia managing commercial collaborative projects within photonics. She then joined the Knowledge Transfer Network in 2013 with a focus on Photonics leading on activity in solar energy, lasers and lighting and supporting the North Wales region. Louise then moved to the manufacturing team in KTN in 2015 and leads on Additive manufacturing/3D printing (AM) activities. She sits on the steering group developing the UK national strategy in additive manufacturing. Her role is to support and enhance uptake of AM in the UK by helping multiple sectors to explore the opportunities of AM by connecting them to other businesses, technology facilities, the supply chain, and to academic expertise. She has recently been awarded additional funding to establish a special interest group (SIG) in Additive Manufacturing. The SIG will provide the mechanism to deliver multiple and cross sector awareness and community building focused on helping industry to identify the UK’s shareable IP and impartially facilitating knowledge development and transfer within the existing and future AM stakeholder community.

		Tim Kay, FilaPrint Tim commenced his working career after leaving school in the Army Catering Corps. After 7 years service he worked at various catering establishments around the UK. Became Catering Manager at Olympus Keymed Ltd for 6 years then became a Director at the Waterfront Place Chelmsford in Essex. The business was sold after 5 years. Tim then moved out of the catering business and retrained in IT, he took several MCP’s and secured an IT engineers position at Seetec, one of the UK’s leading welfare to work providers. Following the early progress of the Reprap community and Makerbots own consumer styled 3D printer he first became interested in 3D printing. Having acquired his first 3D desktop printer 4 years ago, due to the lack of filaments available in the UK he decided to set up 3D FilaPrint. Believing that the market was going to rapidly change in terms of the material availability they focused their business to ensure that they became one of the leading UK suppliers of specialty filaments from around the world, in terms of availability and support

		Rik Knoopers, Promolding Studied Precision Engineering in Hilversum (NL) and graduated in the area of Mechatronics. After graduation (1986) he started working at TNO Institute of Industrial Technology. Worked as an engineer in the area of product development. In 1994 he started working on the introduction of “new” technologies in the machine shop of TNO Institute of Industrial Technology. In 1996 he formed and became the manager of a new department: “ TNO Science an Industy “. After the build-up and establishment of this department, Rik changed activities and became Senior Innovation Technologist and Technology Manager of TNO Industrial Technology. In this function he was responsible for the technology development of the department. In 2006 Rik started working at Promolding BV as Senior Innovation technologist. In this period, he has been responsible for the development of a number of new polymer products: hi-tech medical systems, fiber optic sensors and consumer products.

		Candice Majewski, University of Sheffield Candice is a Mechanical Engineering lecturer with over 15 years’ experience in the field of Additive Manufacturing. She is a founding member of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Advanced Additive Manufacturing (AdAM), an inter-disciplinary research group comprising members from across the University, and manages the Centre’s Advanced Polymer Sintering Laboratory. During her career to date she has built up a large network of academic and industrial collaborators, focussing much of her research towards improving 3D printing materials and processes in order to increase their potential for widespread industrial usage. In 2011 she was awarded the International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award for her contributions in this field.

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