Dr Wei Min Huang is currently an Associate Professor (tenured) at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. With over 25 years of experience on various shape memory materials (alloy, polymer, composite and hybrid), he has published over 200 papers in journals, such as Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Materials Today, and has been invited to review manuscripts from over 300 international journals (including Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials, etc), project proposals from American Chemical Society, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, etc, and book proposals from Springer, Elsevier and CRC. He has published two books (Thin film shape memory alloys – fundamentals and device applications, Polyurethane shape memory polymers) and is currently on the editorial board of over three dozen of journals.

Dr. Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Thorsten Pretsch has received his doctorate in Chemistry from the Free University of Berlin in 2004 and has been conducting research for more than 15 years in the field of shape memory polymers. Currently, he is responsible at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP for the division Synthesis and Polymer Technology and the working group Shape Memory Polymers. Since 2019 he is also deputy scientific coordinator at Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable Materials CPM. Thorsten Pretsch has published 33 research articles in SCI(E) journals and is involved as inventor in more than 25 patent applications.

Mr. Jordi Tura - Xkelet CEO & founder of Xkelet, more than 15 years in 3D design, printing and software development. More than 20 years of experience in the field of web / app and 3D software development. Advised by professionals in the orthopedic & prosthetic products sector, surgeons, traumatologists and physiotherapists with more than 40 years of experience.

Ingi Karlsson is the owner and CEO of Spot-Nordic, Iceland. Ingi worked as a litho Printer and prepress worker for close to 20 years before entering into sales along with R&D that began in 2003 and lead to the launch of the Spot Matching System in December 2018. Ingi was the first Ugra Certified Expert (PSO) in 2007. Ingi represents the Icelandic Standards Organization in the TC130 group of ISO and has written several articles on colour and colour consistency.

Geoffrey Mitchell is Professor and Coordinator Researcher at the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at the Polytechnic of Leiria in Portugal. He is Adjunct Professor at the Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering in Mysore India and Visiting Medical Physicist Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford UK. Geoffrey Mitchell carried out his doctoral work at the University of Cambridge in the UK and subsequently held a post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge and a JSPS Fellowship at Hokkaido University in Japan. Prior to his current position he was Professor of Polymer Physics at the University of Reading, UK and from 2005, the founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Microscopy at Reading. His research work bridges physics, biology, chemistry and technology and he is passionate about the opportunities afforded by Additive Manufacturing. He has pioneered the use of in-situ x-ray and neutron scattering in the study of polymer processing and has most recently extended this concept to injection moulding. He has published over 400 scientific books and papers. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and a Member of the Institute for Physics and Engineering of Medicine.

Pekka Ketola has completed his PhD (2002) from the Department of Human-Technology Interaction, University of Tampere, Finland. He has been working at Nokia corporation in various user experience and innovation management roles during 17 years. Since 2012 Pekka has been building innovation, light electric mobility and 3D printing industries as entrepreneur, founder and innovator. He is frequent speaker for innovation and industrial 3D printing related topics. Pekka’s favorite question is ”What would Leonardo da Vinci do?”