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Inside 3D Printing Singapore Event

Inside 3D Printing Singapore took place last week in Marina Bay Sands Hotel Conference facilities. Inside 3D Printing is a global 3D printing event series organized by US-based MediaBistro. The inaugural event was held in New York April this year and we were excited to attend it.

Marina Bay Sands

Obviously being a media partner for the events, we have been following every one of them closely, but we were really looking forward to this one. Partly as it was the first trade show for 3D printing in this region, but also because Ari Honka, my business partner from 3D Printing Industry, Ian Gibson from National University of Singapore and myself put the speaker program together for the conference and co-chaired the event.

The conference ran in two tracks, one larger room where the keynotes were also held. I was MC’ing track 2 in the smaller room, while Ari and Ian took care of the track 1. It was pleasing to see that everything we had planned program wise worked fantastically, all the speakers were on time, none of them failed to show up, and they delivered exactly what we hoped.

My personal highlight of the show was to see Phil Reeves from UK-based Econolyst lay out his incredibly high level of knowledge on 3D printing and this time focusing on medical and healthcare sector.

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3 Misconceptions of 3D Printing

3d printing misconceptions

Lately I have been running into more and more discussions about 3D printing with my friends. The ones who have followed the development longer know quite a lot and the conversations are more of what’s happening now and what are the next steps. The ones who first of all understand the difference between 3D movies and 3D printing, and have just discovered technology, are so biased thanks to the mainstream media that it almost annoying to even have the conversation. I thought I’d list the 3 biggest misconceptions based on these conversations.

Misconception #1: 3D printers can print anything

No! No, no, no! We are not living in Star Trek world. It is not possible to print a fully functional iPhone. At least not today, not even tomorrow. Maybe, maybe in several years of time, when the technology evolves. Where we are today, is that we can create any shape of an object with the materials we have available. I am not saying that the technology isn’t incredible and what it can do already today isn’t amazing, such as the bioprinting human tissue etc. Heck, I am the one getting my daily kicks out of it. But, no, not everything can be 3D printed today.

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