MT Magazine July/August 2023

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Head South for Summer Travel: Make Plans for Formnext Forum Austin BY PETER EELMAN CHIEF EXPERIENCE OFFICER

If there is a Silicon Valley of the South, it’s Austin. Organizations expanding their presence in this Texas tech hub include giants such as Apple, Advanced Micro Devices

Manufacturing magazine and related AM products). The event fits right in with Austin’s embracement of technology, venture capital, and attracting talent. If you want a deep dive into the latest AM innovation that can help your industrial business evolve, then your late-summer travel plans need to include three days in Austin. Meet Our Collaborators, New and Old Formnext might be a name that is new to those of us in North America, but it has more than a decade of history as an exhibition and conference dedicated to additive manufacturing and industrial 3D printing. Formnext 2023, which will be held Nov. 7-11, 2023, in Frankfurt, will feature more than 800

(AMD), Tesla, SpaceX, Oracle, and many more. This migration of tech activity now includes additive manufacturing and the first Formnext event held in the United States, Formnext Forum Austin, coming Aug. 28-30. AMT is thrilled to be part of the team of international AM industry leaders bringing this event to you, along with our partners – Mesago Messe Frankfurt (the owner of Formnext) and Gardner Business Media (GBM, the producer of Additive

FORMNEXT FORUM AUSTIN FEATURES:

• Technical sessions, with 12 sessions for production, 12 sessions on design for AM (DFAM), and 20 sessions on AM equipment and application technology. • Keynote sessions from Gregory Hayes, senior vice president, applied technology, at EOS, and Matthew Sermon, executive director at PEO Strategic Submarines for the U.S. Navy. • Facility tours of EOS and Cumberland Additive. • The Cool Parts Showcase, presented by Additive Manufacturing magazine and GBM. • Tabletop exhibits from more than 60 AM tech and service suppliers. • And of course, plenty of networking opportunities, including receptions on Monday and Tuesday night.