Avi started the key note with a story about his grandfather from Poland, who was a cobbler who perished in the holocaust.

Here are some notes I have jotted down directly from Reichental's speech: 3D Printing will change the factory, the desktop of the engineer, and the home of the future.
Company's are under increased pressure to deliver products faster, smaller, and cheaper, all of which 3D printing can help to accomplish.

"We look at it and say to our selves that this in a $30 billion dollar opportunity over the next few years" ... Calling this 3D Printing 2.0, which is real high speed, multi material, smart material, mass production of products with 3D printing.

With 3D Printing, complexity is Free. There are big opportunities in making millions of identical parts with degrees of freedom and complexity that could not occur with traditional manufacturing. This is where Reichental see the biggest opportunities within the industry, counter to many people's beliefs that the niche for 3D printing is within the printing of customized single items.

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