3D/DC: 3D Printing Comes to the Nation’s Capital

Public Knowledge
April 28, 2011
1:15 pm
http://www.publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-brings-3d-printing-washi...

Public Knowledge is sponsoring a half-day conference April 28 on one of the newest emerging technologies – 3D printing, which allows “printers” to create objects much as traditional printers produce documents.

Agenda

1:15 p.m. -1:25 Introduction

1:25 –2:40 Panel 1: Meet the Makers

• 3D Systems - Cathy Lewis, VP of Global Marketing
• ExOne -Dave Burns, President and COO
• Fab@Home - Hod Lipson, Co-Founder
• Makerbot - Bre Pettis, Co-Founder
• Makergear - Rick Pollack, Founder
• Shapeways – speaker TBD

2:40 — 3:30 Panel 2: How a Promising Technology Might Get Shelved

• Melba Kurman, Triple Helix Innovation, co-author of Factory@Home: The Emerging Economy of Personal Fabrication
• Michael Weinberg, PK staff attorney, author of report on 3D printing

3:30-5:30 - Hands-on Demonstration Area (Rayburn Foyer)

3D Systems
The Association for Manufacturing Technology
Autodesk
Bathsheba Sculpture LLC
CloudFab
ExOne
Fab@Home
Interactive Fabrication/Computational Design Lab
Makerbot
Makergear
Materialise
Metrix Create:Space
Open 3DP, University of Washington
Ponoko
Rael San Fratello Architects
RepRap
Research Technology Enterprise Initiative/Funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Reverse Space
Shapeways
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Z Corp.