On this episode of TCT’s Additive Perception Podcast, Laura Griffiths is joined by Materialise CEO, Brigitte de Vet-Veithen.
Talking forward of this 12 months’s RAPID + TCT occasion in Detroit and Materialise’s thirty fifth anniversary, de Vet-Veithen displays on her first 12 months as CEO of the Belgian additive manufacturing firm and the ‘big potential’ she sees for the know-how within the medical sector and past.
All through the episode de Vet-Veithen discusses AM worth, the functions that already exhibit it and why creating worth will likely be essential to the business’s survival; Why ethics are the third key consideration in connecting AM applied sciences with rising markets like defence; and why AM’s actual competitors is in non-additive industries, not in itself.
De Vet-Veithen additionally touches on AI, tariffs, and why we shouldn’t cease speaking about collaboration.
“There’s perhaps one or two issues that have been actually stunning to me,” de Vet-Veithen mentioned of her first 12 months as CEO. “The primary one is definitely the negativity of our business. To begin with, I hadn’t fairly seen that coming, that the overall sentiment was going to be that damaging. However second of all, and most significantly, I additionally assume it isn’t well-deserved as a result of the potential of additive remains to be there. And sure, it is taking a while. We have at all times mentioned it’ll be a gradual revolution, and it’s. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless a revolution. So there’s an unlimited potential and we see many functions the place the potential is already very seen. So, with some endurance and a imaginative and prescient of the long-term, I feel, we’ll all get there.”
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