Is the 3D printing industry progressing fast enough? Is AI going to take the place of engineers and designers? Such questions were answered in Inside 3D Printing San Diego 2017. Although a smaller event compared to last year, it was the panel track and the attendees that pulled the event together and made the trip worth taking. Product designers and business owners from Idaho, Colorado and even Guatemala came in to learn what they need to explore and how they can expand in terms of software, … [Read more...]
500th Podcast Episode: 3D Print Predictions & Lessons Learned
Not knowing if there will be enough topics to talk about and interesting guests to interview is every podcaster’s worry during their early stages. Tom and Tracy Hazzard asked the same questions in April 2015 and got their answer 500 episodes later. As designers and developers, making 3D print predictions is both exciting and frustrating since a lot of companies have come and gone, but there are new disruptors that even they never saw coming. Listen to their stories of how they look for hidden … [Read more...]
Closing The 3D Print Gender Gap with Nora Toure and Barbara Hanna
We’re speaking with Barbara Hanna, the founder of Cyant, and Nora Toure, who we’ve spoken to many times before and who I adore, of Sculpteo. Barbara is a technologist and entrepreneur, passionate about fostering technology and especially committed to empowering women and girls in 3D printing. They founded together Women in 3D Printing #3DTalks. They are working on making sure that there are talks all around the world, not just the country, making sure that they can involve, inspire women and … [Read more...]
Women in 3D Printing & Cyant’s # 3DTalk Meetup
Today, Tom is going to ask Tracy questions about the # 3DTalk meetup, that she attended virtually. Tracy will talk about the things that she learned and realized in this meetup, like the role of tech in jobs, how everything comes back to art and design and how companies in the industry need to have a little more end user empathy focus. Listen to the podcast here: # 3DTalk Meetup Hi, everyone. This is Tom and Tracy on the WTFFF 3D Printing Podcast. Today, we've got a little bit of … [Read more...]
Women in 3D Printing with Nora Toure
On some level, the mass conception of the tech industry is run almost exclusively by men, which wouldn't be wrong, but that also completely takes women out of the equation. In the 3D printing industry, in particular, more and more women are finding success, and now, they're coming together, too. Nora Toure is the Sales Manager and Business Development Manager at Sculpteo, and on top of that, she's also the founder of a collective called Women In 3D Printing. Nora tells her story about … [Read more...]