The 2026 Ladies in 3D Printing Innovator Award nominations are formally open!
I at all times stay up for this time of 12 months. We by no means know what names are going to return by way of our submissions course of, and there are at all times lots that shock us once we study their – usually unsung – work in additive manufacturing. However that is sort 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 among 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 are able to now develop the subsequent era of implants that assist regenerate misplaced tissue and ultimately develop into ‘self’.”
Jonné Messer’s 3D printing management at Ford Motor Firm has saved the automotive firm upwards of $11 million during the last eight years:
The highway much less travelled: Inside Ford’s additive manufacturing lab
“We’ve had among the craziest issues come to us. You possibly can print nearly all the pieces, however must you? No.”
Materialise CEO Brigitte de Vet-Veithen is main one of many business’s oldest firms by way of new market alternatives with a long-term imaginative and prescient for AM’s potential:
#223 Materialise CEO Brigitte de Vet-Veithen: ‘Additive manufacturing remains 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 big potential and competitors.
This shall be TCT’s sixth 12 months working with Ladies in 3D Printing to ship this award. When Amanda Hull, Nora Toure and I received collectively in 2019 to determine this joint collaboration, we needed to shine a light-weight on the work being accomplished by girls inventors, researchers, adopters and advocators. With nominations now open, that is your likelihood to spotlight the feminine innovators who’re main the best way in our business.
Previous recipients embrace: Wai Yee Yeong, Professor and Chair, Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological College Singapore (2019); Eliana Fu, Enterprise Growth 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, world additive manufacturing lead at Ford Motor Firm (2025).
As is now custom, I will be internet hosting a stay panel with every of our finalists early subsequent 12 months in an effort 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 wish to hear in regards to the girls 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 subsequent 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 could have the tough job 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 12 months TCT will becoming a member of with our companions at SME to mix our awards programmes into one night time celebrating world additive manufacturing excellence.
