ASME to Offer Two 3D Printing Conferences This Year

Over the past several years, ASME has developed a number of initiatives promoting advanced manufacturing, including the Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum program conducted in in Buffalo, N.Y., and the recent Advanced Manufacturing Fellowship at America Makes. This year, the Society continues this commitment by offering two conferences on the subject: the Additive Manufacturing + 3D Printing–India Conference & Exposition, to be held in April in India, and the North American Additive Manufacturing + 3D Printing (AM3D) Conference and Exposition in Boston this August.

The first event, the Additive Manufacturing + 3D Printing-India Conference & Expo (AM3D India) on April 20 and 21 at the Hyatt Regency in Pune, India, will feature industry leaders and additive manufacturing (AM) experts from around the world discussing best practices, trends, and the state-of-the-art 3D printing technology advances taking place in India and throughout the rest of the world.

AM3D India will encompass two entire days of technical tracks exploring developments in a range of AM-related fields, including 3D printing materials; medical and health care; aerospace; automotive; consumer goods and retail; and education, research and development.

The conference's keynote session will feature Prabhot Singh, PhD, of GE Global Research, who will speak on the topic of "Industrialization Challenges in Additive Manufacturing." Dr. Singh, the manager of the GE Global Research Additive Manufacturing Lab in Niskayuna, N.Y., has an extensive background in additive manufacturing process development and the computational aspects of AM process planning.

Also, the ASME Innovation Showcase (IShow), a competition for hardware-led social innovation, will host its inaugural India showcase at the AM3D event in Pune. Ten innovators will pitch their products and demo their solutions for a chance to win a share of $500,000 in prizes. In addition to seed capital grants, innovators are competing to receive a design and engineering review from industry and technical experts. Entrepreneurs with a hardware-led social innovation can get more information and apply at http://go.asme.org/ishow. Applications close March 15, 2015. The individual who submits the best video application for the IShow before Feb. 1 will win an Ultimaker Original+ 3D printer.

For more information on AM3D India, visit https://www.asme.org/events/am3d-india. To learn more about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at the conference, contact Raj Manchanda, director, ASME Emerging Technologies, at (212) 591-7789 or by e-mail at manchandar@asme.org.

The second Additive Manufacturing + 3D Printing conference, the North American AM3D Conference and Expo, will be offered from Aug. 2 to 5 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, in conjunction with ASME's established and successful International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers & Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE).

The conference in Boston will consist of four days of technical presentations, panel sessions and an exhibition demonstrating the latest additive manufacturing technologies. The meeting's technical sessions will address a variety of issues, including designing for additive manufacturing; topology optimization; process monitoring technologies; material selection; post production processing; standards development; and the future of AM and distributed manufacturing.

The poster committee for the AM3D conference in Boston is currently accepting poster abstracts from individuals who are interested in sharing their advanced manufacturing research and innovations by presenting a poster at the event. All poster presenters will be eligible for a best poster prize, which will be awarded during the conference. The deadline for abstract submissions is April 1. To submit an abstract, visit https://www.asme.org/events/am3d/call-for-poster-presentations. For additional details on the poster program at the AM3D conference in Boston, contact Israr Kabir, program manager at (212) 591-8372 or by e-mail at kabiri@asme.org.

To engage in timely discussions and learn new information about additive manufacturing, be sure to visit ASME's participant-created Additive Manufacturing Group Page at https://community.asme.org/additive_manufacturing/default.aspx.