The 2026 Ladies in 3D Printing Innovator Award nominations are formally open!
I at all times sit up for this time of yr. We by no means know what names are going to come back via our submissions course of, and there are at all times loads that shock us once we study their – usually unsung – work in additive manufacturing. However that is form of why this award exists.
From CEOs to metallurgists to biomedical engineers, the number of experience we get on the long-list for this award continues to genuinely encourage. Simply check out a few of the work from previous nominees and winners.
Katie Weimer co-founded GenesisTissue, a brand new 3D bioprinting firm that goes ‘past restore to true regeneration’:
The Genesis of 3D printing’s subsequent frontier?
“We will now develop the following era of implants that assist regenerate misplaced tissue and ultimately turn into ‘self’.”
Jonné Messer’s 3D printing management at Ford Motor Firm has saved the automotive firm upwards of $11 million over the past eight years:
The highway much less travelled: Inside Ford’s additive manufacturing lab
“We’ve had a few of the craziest issues come to us. You possibly can print nearly every little thing, however do you have to? No.”
Materialise CEO Brigitte de Vet-Veithen is main one of many business’s oldest corporations via new market alternatives with a long-term imaginative and prescient for AM’s potential:
#223 Materialise CEO Brigitte de Vet-Veithen: ‘Additive manufacturing continues to be a revolution’
On this episode of TCT’s Additive Perception Podcast, Materialise CEO, Brigitte de Vet-Veithen joins to debate additive manufacturing worth, its enormous potential and competitors.
This shall be TCT’s sixth yr working with Ladies in 3D Printing to ship this award. When Amanda Hull, Nora Toure and I acquired collectively in 2019 to ascertain this joint collaboration, we wished to shine a light-weight on the work being achieved by ladies inventors, researchers, adopters and advocators. With nominations now open, that is your probability to spotlight the feminine innovators who’re main the best way in our business.
Previous recipients embody: Wai Yee Yeong, Professor and Chair, College of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological College Singapore (2019); Eliana Fu, Enterprise Improvement Supervisor, Aerospace at TRUMPF (2022); Alba Gonzalez Alvarez, CEO and Founder at Xcure Surgical (2023); Brigitte de Vet, Chief Government Officer at Materialise (2024) ; and Jonné Messer, international additive manufacturing lead at Ford Motor Firm (2025).
As is now custom, I will be internet hosting a reside panel with every of our finalists early subsequent yr as a way to get to know them earlier than casting your vote.
How do I nominate somebody for the TCT Ladies in 3D Printing Innovator Award?
The TCT Ladies in 3D Printing Innovator Award nomination course of is open to anybody. We need to hear in regards to the ladies who’ve proven ardour, experience and innovation throughout the 3D printing business. For instance, this may very well be:
- Engineers creating new processes
- Researchers paving the best way for brand new know-how developments
- Customers exploring novel purposes
- Educators championing AM
You possibly can submit your nomination right here. Inform us about their work and why they need to be recognised as the following TCT WI3DP Innovator.
When do the TCT Ladies in 3D Printing Innovator Award nominations shut?
You do not have lengthy to get your entries in! The deadline for nominations is December tenth, after which all nominees shall be thought-about on particular person advantage by WI3DP and TCT who may have the troublesome activity of whittling them all the way down to a listing of finalists. The chosen finalists will then go to a public vote.
When will the winner of the TCT Ladies in 3D Printing Innovator Award be introduced?
The winner shall be introduced on the TCT Awards ceremony in Boston on 14th April 2026. It’s the first yr TCT will becoming a member of with our companions at SME to mix our awards programmes into one evening celebrating international additive manufacturing excellence.