Lecture's IaaC - Additive Manufacturing in Design

Where: Espai 1 SE, DHUB Montcada (Montcada, 12)
Date: Thursday the 4th of November
Time: 7:30-9:30pm

Title: Additive Manufacturing in Design
Speaker: Ward Callens and Janne Kyttannen

Ward Callens' biography
Ward Callens is heading .MGX by Materialise, a business unit of Materialise. With its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium and branches all over the world, the Materialise Group is well known for its activities in the field of rapid industrial and medical prototyping, for over 20 years.

Through its unique .MGX by Materialise business unit for design products, Materialise has opened the market for customized Additive Manufacturing. .MGX products have meanwhile been acquired by several museums and are available through selected retailers and galleries worldwide.
Ward is leading the .MGX team of product developers, marketers, technical specialists and support professionals, based in Belgium and in the USA. Together with his creative direction team, he manages the development and commercialisation of the .MGX by Materialise collection and editions.
Ward has 10 years of management experience in international, highly technological environments. Before joining Materialise in 2008, he worked in the telecommunications sector and was active in several markets across the globe. He holds a master's degree in law from Leuven University and an MBA degree from the Vlerick Management School.

Janne Kyttanen's biography
Janne Kyttanen was born 1974 in Hameenlinna, Finland. He started his industrial design studies at the Escola De Disseny Elisava in Barcelona. He then moved to The Netherlands and graduated from The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam 2000.

After his graduation he was offered a position as a designer and 3D visualizer at one of the leading industrial design bureaus in The Netherlands, Sinot Design Associates. During his 2 year stay at SDA, he worked with clients in the banking, public transport, aviation, consumer electronics and cosmetics industries. During his studies Janne explored the potential of RP techniques used as manufacturing tools. He introduced a line of Augmented Reality and Rapid Manufactured based products as his thesis for graduation. This project laid the foundation for FOC and Janne registered the company in Helsinki, Finland (2000).