The 2026 Girls 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 by means of our submissions course of, and there are at all times loads that shock us once we study their – typically 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 number 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 are able to now develop the subsequent era of implants that assist regenerate misplaced tissue and finally grow to be ‘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 a number of the craziest issues come to us. You’ll be able to print nearly every thing, however do you have to? No.”
Materialise CEO Brigitte de Vet-Veithen is main one of many trade’s oldest firms by means of 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 can be TCT’s sixth yr working with Girls in 3D Printing to ship this award. When Amanda Hull, Nora Toure and I obtained collectively in 2019 to determine this joint collaboration, we wished to shine a light-weight on the work being executed by girls inventors, researchers, adopters and advocators. With nominations now open, that is your likelihood to focus on the feminine innovators who’re main the way in which in our trade.
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 Govt 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 dwell panel with every of our finalists early subsequent yr to be able to get to know them earlier than casting your vote.
How do I nominate somebody for the TCT Girls in 3D Printing Innovator Award?
The TCT Girls in 3D Printing Innovator Award nomination course of is open to anybody. We need to hear concerning the girls who’ve proven ardour, experience and innovation inside the 3D printing trade. For instance, this could possibly be:
- Engineers creating new processes
- Researchers paving the way in which for brand new know-how developments
- Customers exploring novel functions
- Educators championing AM
You’ll be able to 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 Girls 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 can be thought of on particular person benefit by WI3DP and TCT who could have the troublesome 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 Girls in 3D Printing Innovator Award be introduced?
The winner can 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 night time celebrating international additive manufacturing excellence.
