Dr. Justus Bobke

Chairman Verband 3DDruck, Berlin

Since 2016 Dr. Justus Bobke works in the association, founded as a political start up to promote the additive manufacturing in Germany. Besides this engagement he is expert for developing brands and communication.

Diana Drewes

Haute Innovation, Berlin

Diana Drewes is a cabinet maker by trade and has studied product design at the Weissensee School of Art in Berlin. Besides the management of all design projects of the agency she proves herself by her consolidated expert knowledge by making inquiries on market trends and giving lectures. Her thematic main focus is the close linking of technology and biology. She speaks of "biologized production and design processes" and understands the far-reaching success of future innovations at this interface. In her lectures she is presenting the latest material innovations on the basis of natural resources and explaining production processes by exploiting biological growth processes.

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Materials in Progress: Innovations for Designers and Architects

Stephan Eelman

BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH, Business Director Service Solutions & Metal Systems

Stephan Eelman is Business Director Services Solutions & Metal Systems at BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH, which was founded on September 1st, 2017. Before transitioning into the new company, he had started leading the Application Technology Center (ATC) for 3D Printing in Heidelberg in 2016 that was run through BASF’s daughter company Deutsche Nanoschicht GmbH. While being responsible to grow the ATC as well as to ensure application innovation with external and internal customers, Stephan is now in charge of both Services related to all printing processes and metals 3D Printing solutions, especially the Ultrafuse metal filaments. He is part of the leadership team at BASF 3DPS.

Before this position Stephan worked for Boeing Research and Technology Europe since 2009 and managed R&T for The Boeing Company in Germany, where Additive Manufacturing related activities were a significant part of the portfolio both in the metals and polymers field.

Stephan has studied Aerospace Engineering and worked for 7 years at the Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Technical University of Munich (Germany) focusing on strategic scenario and technology planning.

Sarah Goehrke

Additive Integrity LLC

Sarah Goehrke is the owner of Additive Integrity LLC, an editorial services company dedicated to the additive manufacturing industry. Through a partnership with Additive Integrity, Sarah is the Managing Editor of Fabbaloo. She is also on the Board of Directors of Women in 3D Printing, for which she authors the quarterly Diversity for Additive Manufacturing reports detailing the shape of employment structure in 3D printing. Sarah is a regular contributor to additive-focused publications including 3DPB and All3DP, as well as for editorial needs for industry participants. Prior to these ventures, Sarah was the Editor-in-Chief of 3DPrint.com (2015-2018). She has been named to lists of the Most Influential Women in 3D Printing. Sarah studied English, Theatre, and Spanish, and has a background in industry analysis and forecasting.

Arno Held

Chief Venture Officer AM Ventures

Arno Held studied Industrial Engineering and Business in Karlsruhe, Shanghai and St. Gallen. With more than of 15 years of experience in industrial laser applications and Additive Manufacturing, Arno spent 7 years working in strategy and business development for EOS, the world-leading provider of industrial Additive Manufacturing technology. Arno has been supporting startup companies in successfully entering the world of 3D Printing since 2009 and is today in charge of the Investment Group at AM Ventures Holding, sister company of EOS and also the world-leading strategic investor focusing on industrial 3D Printing. The team manages a portfolio of 18 companies in 7 countries. AM Ventures provides a globally unique access to funding, technology and world-leading expertise in Additive Manufacturing hardware, software, materials and applications.

Andrej Kupetz

CEO German Design Council

Andrej Kupetz (*1968) has been CEO of the German Design Council in Frankfurt/ Main since 1999-2020. He studied industrial design, philosophy and marketing in Berlin, London and Paris. In 1997, after various positions in design management and university liaison, Andrej Kupetz joined German Railways (Deutsche Bahn AG) where he was responsible for brand management in the DB Group and for the implementation of various branding projects. Kupetz is member of the advisory board of the Design Management Institute Boston. Since 2011 Kupetz has been a member of the higher education council of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/Main. That same year the European Commission appointed him to the European Design Leadership Board. In 2016 the Creative Industries federation (GB) appointed him to the international advisory council. Andrej Kupetz is married and has three sons.

Ross Lovegrove

Lovegrove studio

Ross Lovegrove is a designer and visionary who’s work is considered to be at the very apex of stimulating a profound change in the physicality of our three dimensional world.

Inspired by the logic and beauty of nature his designs possess a trinity between technology, materials science and intelligent organic form, creating what many industrial leaders see as the new aesthetic expression for the 21st Century.

Winner of numerous international awards his work has been extensively published and exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York als well as for example the Pompidou Centre, Paris.

Lovegrove ist born in Wales 1968, Graduated from Manchester Polytechnic with 1st Class BA Hons Industrial Design in 1980. Master of Design of Royal College of Art, London in 1983.

In the early 80’s worked as a designer for Frog Design in Germany on projects such as Walkmans for Sony, Computers for Apple Computers, later moved to Paris as a consultant to Knoll International.
He was invited to join the Atelier de Nimes along with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark, consulting to amongst others Cacharel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dupont.

Returning to London he has completed projects for amongst others Airbus Industries, Kartell, Peugeot, Vitra, Motorola, Tag Heuer, Herman Miller, Renault, Artemide, Japan Airlines and Toyo Ito Architects in Japan.

As host of the CNN “Just Imagine” documentary he is presenting a visione of the world in 2020.

With his projects he is also a pioneer in the visionary world of 3D printed design.

Silvia Olp

Management aed e.V., Society for Advancement of Architecture, Engineering, Design

Silvia Olp is the vice management of the aed, e.V., aed Society for Advancement of Architecture, Engineering, Design Stuttgart. She initiated the aed neuland, which is an award for young designer and she is head of communication for Phoenix Design Stuttgart/Munich.
Her interest regarding technology and design is the aim to popularize it.
Newcomers are close to her heart.

Gilles Retsin

Architect and designer and Program Director (AD) at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London

Gilles Retsin is a London based architect and designer investigating new architectural models that engage with the potential of increased computational power and fabrication to generate buildings and objects with a previously unseen structure, detail and materiality. His work is interested in the impact of computation on the core principles of architecture – the bones rather than the skin. The practice has developed numerous provocative proposals for international competitions, and is currently working on a a range of schemes, among them a 10000 m2 museum in China. His work is exhibited internationally in museums such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil-am-Rhein, Design Exchange Toronto and the Zaha Hadid Gallery in London. He has been invited professor at the Texas A&M University, and has lectured and acted as guest critic in numerous universities internationally. He is Program Director of the B.Pro Architectural Design (AD) at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

Gilles Retsin studied in Belgium, Chile and the UK, where he obtained a masters from the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab in London. Prior to founding his own practice, he worked in Switzerland as a project architect with Christian Kerez, and in London with Kokkugia.

Patrik Schumacher

Zaha Hadid Architects

Patrik Schumacher is leading the firm since Zaha Hadid’s passing in March 2016. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988 and was seminal in developing Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 strong global architecture and design brand.
Patrik Schumacher studied philosophy, mathematics and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London. He received his Diploma in architecture in 1990. He has been a partner since 2003 and a co-author on all projects. In 2010 Patrik Schumacher won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture together with Zaha Hadid, for MAXXI, the National Italian Museum for Art and Architecture of the 21st century in Rome. He is an academician of the Berlin Academy of Arts.
In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association in London where he continues to teach. In 1999 he completed his PHD at the Institute for Cultural Science, Klagenfurt University.Patrik Schumacher is lecturing worldwide and is currently a guest professor at Harvard’s GSD. Over the last 20 years he has contributed over 100 articles to architectural journals and anthologies. In 2008 he coined the phrase Parametricism and has since published a series of manifestos promoting Parametricism as the new epochal style for the 21st century. In 2010/2012 he published his two-volume theoretical opus magnum “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”. Patrik Schumacher is widely recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders within the fields of architecture, urbanism and design.

Vanessa Sigurdson

Manufacturing Industry Engagement Manager, at Autodesk Technology Centers

Vanessa is taking care of the cooperation between 3D Pioneers Challenge and Autodesk regarding the "Special Mention by Autodesk"

Autodesk awards an opportunity to join their highly regarded Autodesk Technology Centers Residency program in N. America at one of the locations - San Francisco, Boston, or Toronto.
The Autodesk Technology Centers in Boston, San Francisco, and Toronto offer a Residency Program that provides open workspaces for teams from industry, academic, and startup communities doing forward-looking work in the areas of construction, manufacturing, and emerging technologies.
Winners of this prize are provided with dedicated project areas in a technology center, access to advanced fabrication machinery, training, and connections to industry experts and the technology center community. The program can be tailored to meet individual goals and availability.
The Autodesk Technology Centers exist to create a shared vision of the future of making with a community of innovators and thought leaders, and the Residency Program is a vital part of bringing that vision to life.

Dr. Dirk Simon

FARSOON Europe GmbH

Dirk Simon is director of the FARSOON Europe GmbH since April 2018 and therefore part of the global management team of the holding company in China.
He is responsible for the business in Europe regarding machines for laser sintering of plastics and metal powder as well as technical services. He supports the approach of Farsoon “Open For Industry" for a wider industrial use of additive manufacturing.

Before he worked in BASF for almost 6 years, and pushed the topic "3D-Printing at BASF". In 2012 starting with leading the New Business Incubation, he finally was responsible for the Business Development of BASF 3D-P solutions, including 3D-P application technology – as Global Business Director.
He holds a PhD-degree in Polymer Science and has 23 years working experiences in Applications of Plastics, Marketing & Sales, and Purchasing in various chemical companies.

Joachim Stumpp

raumPROBE Managing director

Joachim Stumpp is architect and director of the raumPROBE Stuttgart.
raumPROBE is the agency for consulting and research in the field of materials for architecture and design.
Therefore his interests regarding technology and design are always focused on material innovations.

Wolf Udo Wagner

Wagner:Design

Wolf U. Wagner, Industrial Designer; Founder of Studio Wagner:Design; Director Industry of German Designer Club (DDC); Creative Director of several international brands, awarded in 42 awards, member of different juries, has been working with generative processes for prototyping for the last 18 years and recently also for serial production.
Wolfs credo as designer: I create the space between the things.

Studio Wagner:Design is a creative agency based in Frankfurt/Main for product development, UX design and strategic planning. Work areas are in the fields of electronics & entertainment, IoT, sports equipment and others. The company operates according to its own methodology of design thinking and strategic planning. 3D printing (external and in-house) belongs to the performance of the studio from the beginning, turning from rapid prototyping to generative manufacturing.

The German Design Club (DDC) was founded in 1989. DDC is an initiative that combines "good design" as well as "good designers" from design, architecture, media and those who are committed to this. Wolf Wagner is Director of the German Design Club. His aim is to promote the dialogue between creative developers and representatives from engineering, industry, trade.

Andreas Velten

IFA3D Medical Solutions GmbH

Specialized in individual respiratory breathingmasks, medical demo-models, individual bone- and titanium- implants, special medical solutions, special orthopedic devices and prototyping in additive manufacturing.

Christoph Völcker

Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co KG Team leader Innovation Lab for additive Manufacturing.

Since almost 20 years he combines design with new technologies like the additive manufacturing. He links this passion in his design as well as in his work as consultant. His interest lays in the conceptual direction and the opportunities that result from 3d printing. Now he pushes forward the Würth Electronik "Innovation Lab _ Additive Manufacturing".

Anouk Wipprecht

FashionTech Designer

Dutch FashionTech Designer Anouk Wipprecht engineers fashion ahead of her time, combining the latest in science and technology to make fashion an experience that transcends mere appearances. She wants her garments to facilitate and augment the interactions we have with ourselves and our surroundings. Her Spider Dress is a perfect example of this aesthetic, where sensors and moveable arms on the dress help to create a more defined boundary of personal space while employing a fierce style. Partnering up with companies such as Intel, AutoDesk, Audi, Samsung, and jewellery company Swarovski she researches how our future would look as we continue to embed technology into what we wear.