Thomas Hofman-Bang is CEO of the Danish Industry Foundation whose purpose is to support and enhance the competitiveness of Danish industry. Thomas Hofman-Bang heads the Foundation’s effort to support projects that generate application-oriented knowledge, new competences and innovation, benefiting industry. Every year, the Foundation aims to fund projects of up to 30 million Euros. The Foundation also develops its own strategic initiatives within areas that contribute to an overall strengthening of industry and business communities, e.g. within areas such as additive manufacturing, cyber security and blockchain.

Thomas Hofman-Bang has more than 30 years’ global experience as senior executive (CEO, CFO, CoB, non-executive director, auditor and corporate advisor) in companies such as Superfos, NKT Group and most recently KPMG Denmark. Thomas Hofman-Bang has a proven track record of leading large industrial companies with global reach and has extensive experience with developing and executing ambitious growth strategies. Thomas Hofman-Bang holds an M.Sc. in Business Administration, Accounting and Auditing from Copenhagen Business School.

Tommy Ahlers is Member of Parliament in Denmark. From 2018-2019 he was Minister of Education and Research. Prior to his appointment as Minister on May 2, 2018, he was best known for social networking and his mobile backup site ZYB, launched in 2005 by two entrepreneurs from Copenhagen, Morten Lund and Ole Højriis Kristensen and sold to Vodafone Europe BV for almost $ 50 million in May 2008.

He is also known to be one of the lions in DR Television Entrepreneur program ‘Løvens Hule’. Before being the CEO of ZYB, Ahlers worked six years in strategy and management, partly in the mobile industry. Previously he worked as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, working mostly with mobile operators to shape their strategies.

Tommy Ahlers has master’s degree in law from the University of Copenhagen. On May 2, 2018, Tommy Ahlers was appointed Minister of Education and Research

For 13 years Frank has been working with innovation, technology and strategy for both Danish and international companies and authorities. He has done this through employment in consultancy firms such as PA Consulting Group and Deloitte Consulting and has also led innovation projects funded by the EU Commission. As CEO in Danish AM Hub his role is to strengthen innovation and SME competitiveness through the use of AM.

Espen Sivertsen is founder & CEO of Ivaldi Group. Ivaldi Group works with leading partners across maritime, offshore & construction to collect and organize the worlds spare parts data and to leverage on-demand manufacturing in reducing inventory, warehousing, delivery times and cost of logistics by sending files, not parts.
Espen is also Director of BAAM – a coalition of 3D technology companies under one roof at The Gate in San Leandro, California. Drawing on it’s BAAM partners, BAAM is able to provide an entire ecosystem of 3D products and services, propelling customers from initial idea to full volume production.

From 2013-2016, Espen served as CEO of Type A Machines, a manufacturer of 3D printers and printing solutions. Espen co-founded the company in January 2012 and supervised double digit growth throughout his time there. Type A Machines is most known for its award winning Series 1 Pro 3D printers & Print Pod solutions, revolutionizing the industry through cost effective, massively parallel and scalable production.

With a background in business and psychology, Espen served as Team Leader with the KaosPilots, a Scandinavian school of entrepreneurship described by Fast Company as the “new curriculum for managing change”. Prior to this, Espen’s work was oriented around trend spotting as Head of Demolab at iLab, an international knowledge center for new technologies and trends. Together with a former co worker, he created MemeMaker.com – the first retailer in Denmark focusing on the Arduino prototyping platform. Born and raised in Norway, Espen is an avid traveller and has lived in England, Denmark, Singapore, China, Mexico and most currently with his wife and daughter in Livermore, California.

Bastian Schaefer is the aptly titled Innovation Manager at Airbus, the aircraft manufacturer, in Hamburg, Germany. His mission: Find new ways to make jetliners more efficient and comfortable.

For some passengers, “comfortable” means the freedom to use technology to work, play, and collaborate. For others, it’s greater accessibility, more privacy, or just more room. “Our challenge is to address all of these things in a flexible, dynamic way,” he says.

As part of the team that developed the Airbus Concept Plane—a vision of the jetliner of 2050—Schaefer’s insights are shaping how passengers will travel in the future. For example, they’ll be offered customized flight experiences based on their desired activities. Flights will also be more eco-friendly. The plane of the future will be designed to be much lighter, to use less fuel, and to leave a smaller carbon footprint. “Light is good, but we can’t lose strength or safety,” Schaefer says.

This complex vision relies on a cutting-edge technology inspired by nature: generative design.

Thea Wulff Olesen joined Particle3D in the beginning of 2019. For more than 15 years Thea has served in leadership roles in multiple companies, primarily within life science. From 2005 – 2013 she  was CEO of BioPorto, where she took the company from being a small early stage, development company with a couple of employees to a listed company selling diagnostic products worldwide.

Prior to the current position, she worked as a Management Consultant where she helped to improve companies’ performance, primarily through the analysis of existing administrative, organizational, financial or other problems as well as laying out and executing plans for optimization, efficiency and growth.

Thea has a Master degree in law, LL.M. from the University of Copenhagen, and the first part of HD, business economics. Thea has throughout the years served on the boards of several companies from different industries, both as Chairman and as ordinary board member.

Ronen has a PhD in product design and innovation and master’s degree in Innovation & Business Engineering from the University of Southern Denmark. Previously, Ronen founded DCore, which he also co-owned. A company that produced software for automated guided vehicles (AVGs). For almost a decade Ronen has worked for The Lego Group, initially as a Senior Manager Specialist at The LEGO Group’s Front-end Technology InnovationCenter, he was in charge of scouting, assessing, and prototyping new technology concepts and ideas. Thereafter he worked as a Senior Manager  at the LEGO Group’s front-end technology development. Among other things he managed a test facility to have hands-on experience with new technologies. Forming and developing relationships with partners, research centers, universities, and suppliers. As of January 2018 he is the Head of Additive Manufacturing at LEGO Group.

Arno Held serves as the Chief Venture Officer at AM Ventures Holding GmbH. Prior to this position he served a Director of Business Development at Am Ventures.

David Benjamin is Founding Principal of The Living, an Autodesk Studio. He and the studio have won awards for their innovative approach to design from the Architectural League, the American Institute of Architects, Architizer, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fast Company, and Holcim. Recent projects have included Project Discover (generative design for architecture, the Airbus Bionic Partition (bionic algorithms and generative design for manufacturing), and Hy-FI (New bio materials for architecture). David has lectured about his work in many parts of the world, and he currently teaches at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Before receiving a Master of Architecture from Columbia, he received a Bachelors of Arts from Harvard.

BMW is a frontrunner in using 3D technology for actual functional car parts and has recently established an Additive Manufacturing Campus to support future development within this area. By being project lead in R&D, Martin possess an in-depth knowledge of how BMW utilizes the technology to explore future business opportunities and maintain its position in the ever-changing market for new AM technology.

Jesper Damvig is the co-owner of Damvig A/S 3D printed solutions. He has been working with 3D print since 1995 and has a huge knowledge of every corner of 3D printing and associated technologies.

Peter is a trained professional in respect of production techniques, such as setup of large-scale pilot production, acute customer solutions, development of new technology, meet current regulations, cost efficiency, environmental aspects among other things.
Peter has worked at FORCE Technology for more than a decade, and currently acts as the Head of Department. The department consist of highly skilled professionals covering a fusion of R&D, experiencebased best practice and production in order to obtain best possible solutions, where thefinancial aspects and functionality are the drivers.

Karsten is the CEO of NEXTTECH, a renowned knowledge center for 3D printing. Prior to this position he worked as the Technical Project Manager at LEGO group. Karsten has previously worked at Chief Technical Officer at NEXTTECH prior to his current position. Karsten works to ensure that Danish companies can acquire knowledge and competences about the use and manufacture of subjects with 3D print technology.

In addition to a background as a PhD student at Grundfos in physics, Jeppe has worked almost a decade at the Technological Institute, where he currently acts as the Vice Director of Additive Manufacturing.

Bahare has solid experience from working with SMEs and sustainable innovation. She has developed and operated several larger projects for the Danish Business Authority, UNDP, SDG Business Booster and UNLEASH. She focuses on how to use SDGs as a lever for innovation and business development.

Henrik has both an engineer and commercial background. 25 years of professional experience comes from among other places FF-Luft in Bjerringbro, JSP Machinery in Hammel and 14 years at DTI in Århus, Copenhagen and internationally. His job has in all of these positions been consulting, development, innovation, networking and entrepreneurship – with production companies as his focal point. Currently he acts as the CEO of Center for Industry with more than 22 years of experience within 3D and additive manufacturing.

Lasse Staal, co-founder of Danish start-up AddiFab, is a passionate believer in the transformative potential of Additive Manufacturing (AM). He is equally passionate about addressing the key limitations that slow AM adoption as a cornerstone of global manufacturing.  The AddiFab key focus – to integrate AM in conventional industrial process chains to fix the flaws in Economies of Scale – reflects this passion.

Peter has worked with product development, production and management in Europe, Africa and the USA for the past 16 years. Today, he works with plastic production and freeform injection molding in his own company J.Krebs og Co. in Denmark.

Christian is a project manager and has insight into the intersection between strategy, innovation and sustainability. Throughout the last 8 years Christian has focused on innovation and has been a key part of Deloitte’s innovation programmes SDG Accelerator, SDG Business Booster and UNLEASH. Moreover, Christian is part of Deloitte’s European Life Sciences and MedTech practice and has extensive experience with commercial excellence.

Devon Hagedorn-Hansen was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Engineering in 2016, he focused on Manufacturing Systems and Processes lecturing from the experience he gained  from his family engineering businesses. In 2013, he obtained his BEng Mechanical degree from the University of Johannesburg and completed his MEng in Industrial Engineering at the end of 2016 at Stellenbosch University. He hopes to complete his PhD in 2020. He was promoted to General Manager of the Stellenbosch Technology Centre in 2018 and is directly responsible for the Additive Manufacturing and Reverse Engineering sections. He has served on several organising and management committees over the years and is currently representing the Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa.   Devon has 9 years of experience in the 3D printing/Additive Manufacturing Field. He is also a managing member of Sika Manufacturing Solutions which specialises in the sale of cutting tools for the manufacturing industry.

Christian started as tech engineer in the Injection Molding Industrie before joining Tartler GmbH as Project Leader and Sales of mixing – and dispensing machinery. Changed to Dopag working with wind and aerospace. As an always enthusiastic person, watching out for new markets and new industries and what impressed him the most Christian joined Carbon 3D, with their groundbreaking technology.

Greta is a multidisciplinary engineer with 8+ years of experience in Additive Manufacturing. Since her first encounter with a 3D printer in 2010, she has collaborated with several designers, got a PhD in AM in 2016, trained hundreds of engineers and helped numerous companies developing AM related strategies. Over the years, she has built more 3D printers than she can count, including a food printer for molecular cooking in collaboration with MIT.

 She works now as Head of Technology at AMEXCI, a small Swedish company focusing on AM, where she is leading the research efforts with a goal of making the technology more accessible for everyone.

Asif is all about great design and innovation, especially when they in combination create exciting new products and businesses. Asif will share some real-world examples of organisations, who are adopting bionic design, metal print and additive as part of their mainstream work, using it to drive competitive separation.

Ian is an expert at leveraging technology to advance strategy and achieve results. As the Lead for the World Economic Forum’s Accelerating Sustainable Production and Advanced Manufacturing Hubs projects, Ian manages the Forum’s efforts to advance the implementation of 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies to not only optimize organizational and regional competitiveness, but also to maximize positive impact on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Casper is a thriving development engineer, focusing on technology-based innovation and business development. By utilizing digital solutions and and the Internet of Things, together with co-creation and close collaboration with customers, Hydac develop new business models.

La MIAM Factory exploits the great opportunities of 3D printing by customizing and personalizing chocolate for its customers in an amazing manner. The company from Belgium is incubated by Smart Gastronomy Lab and is appropriately named as “miam” is French for “yum”.

Allan has transformed his eyeglass firm from the edge of bankruptcy to a well-managed agile corporation, where 3D printed products has an enormous influence on innovation, product sortiment and the entire value chain. Hear Allan talk about his learnings and experiences from the exciting journey.

AMFG provides workflow automation software for additive manufacturing. Victoria leads AMFG’s marketing and branding strategies, helping to drive demand for the company’s AM workflow software solutions globally. Prior to joining AMFG, Victoria worked at the Daimler AG headquarters in Stuttgart.

Franziska is responsible for the Additive Manufacturing division of Procter&Gamble Service GmbH. She recieved her Mechanical Engineering and Polymer Technology Degree from University Aalen. With her passion for disruptive technologies, Franziska is curious to discover how AM can improve products, processes and how it can change the life of consumers.

Preben is working with product development using, 3D printing for prototyping and fixtures in production. Preben is certified mechanical engineer and have experience with all aspects of developing medical devices from early concept to finish product.