Dr. Eujin Pei is the Director for Postgraduate Research and Programme Director for the BSc Product Design and BSc Product Design Engineering programmes at Brunel University London. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Technological Product Designer (CTPD) with the Institution of Engineering Designers. He is the Convenor of the International Organization for Standardization ISO/TC261/WG4 committee that is responsible for Data Transfer and Design Standards for Additive Manufacturing; and Chair for the British Standards Institute BSI/AMT/008 for Additive Manufacturing. His research interest centres on Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing and 4D Printing.

Deon started his career at UCOR (Now NECSA) in 1979 and joined the Technikon Free State (TFS) in 1997, where he held several positions. During his tenure at the TFS/CUT, he spent a sabbatical at MATTEK, CSIR in 1995, to start a research project on Rapid Prototyping, to assess industry perceptions and needs through focussing on the role of Rapid Prototyping to support Concurrent Engineering in South Africa, under the leadership of the late Dr Neville Comins and Prof Willie du Preez. Involvement in Rapid Prototyping/Additive Manufacturing R&D changed his future, and led to various other opportunities at the CUT, VUT, and NWU, before returning to CUT in 2018, in addition to be involved in new national initiatives and networks locally and internationally. Deon believes in empowering others while maintaining personal excellence and leading by example. One of his personal objectives is continuous promotion and education of AM and its innovation and commercialisation in SA and beyond.

Jenny Chen, MD, is the Founder and CEO of 3DHEALS, a company focusing on education, communication, and investments in the space of bioprinting, regenerative medicine, healthcare applications using 3D printing since 2015. She is trained as a neuroradiologist, Dr. Chen holds degrees in both medicine and radiology from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed a neuroradiology fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She served as Adjunct Clinical Faculty in neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center for more than seven years until recently to focus more on works with 3DHEALS. She serves as a mentor and an advisor to startups in the space. Her interests lie in the applications of 3D printing and bioprinting in healthcare, automated biology, and has a vision of a decentralized and personalized healthcare delivery system for our near future.

Dr. Fergani is a heading the digital manufacturing division at Atotech. A leading technology provider for the electronic and semiconductor manufacturing. His team is researching, developing and deploying industry 4.0 solutions based on AI and IoT. Additionally, he is leading the additive manufacturing unit focusing on implementing a decentralized manufacturing approach enabling spare parts on demand as well as a digital inventory. Before joining Atotech he was an R&D director at Siemens in charge of digital manufacturing technologies. He is a lecturer in multiple universities and board member of multiple technology start-ups. Dr. Fergani is a holder of a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech and NTNU. He was also awarded the outstanding young manufacturing engineer by SME.

Working for TRUMPF over 11 years in several positions. Starting as apprentice for industrial mechanic at TRUMPF and now for the last 4 years in the sales department of additive manufacturing, responsible for western Europe and American markets. Academic background is in business administration and engineering – international management for the bachelor’s degree and business consulting and digital management for master’s degree. Spend 7 months in the US for TRUMPF.

Terry Wohlers is president of Wohlers Associates, Inc., an independent consulting firm he founded 32 years ago. He has authored more than 421 books, articles, and technical papers on product development and manufacturing and has given 155 keynote presentations on five continents. In 2004, Wohlers received an Honorary Doctoral Degree of Mechanical Engineering from Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein, South Africa. In 2005, he became a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

In 2016, he became an adjunct professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. For 24 years, Wohlers has been a principal author of the Wohlers Report, an annual worldwide publication focused on additive manufacturing and 3D printing.