business and career opportunities around 3d printing

Business and career opportunites around 3D Printng

Innovation Club07/11/2013

Ramun Berger, 89grad

Agenda

● Introducton 3D printng

● Overview of some business (opportunites)

● Q&A

About me and my company: 89grad

● Living in Berne (Switzerland)

● 2.5y old daughter

● Professional background: ● Communicaton Systems at EPFL

● R&D group of Swisscom

● Creaton of own startup company in 2010

● Hobbies: Sports, Tinkering, Photography, IT

● 89grad● Innovaton & Prototyping (www.89grad.ch)

● FabLab Bern (fablab-bern.ch)

Agenda

● Introducton 3D printng

● Overview of some business (opportunites)

● Q&A

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3D Printng - Possibilites and use cases

Some headlines related to 3D printng...

● 3D-printed sugar network to help grow artficial liver

● How 3D printng can revolutonise healthcare, manufacturing

● The iPhone MacPro Case: 3D-Print Yours for Free!

● Burritobot asks: Would you eat a burrito made by a 3D printer?

3D Printng has many advantages.

● (Quick) visualisatons

● Customer feedback on the real object

● Inexpensive producton of single objects

● Mass-customisaton

● Producton of objects, which are „impossible“ to fabricate in a traditonal way

● ...

3D Printng is not new – it is already being used in many industries!

● Car industry

● Fashion

● Healthcare and medical services

● Architecture

● Prototyping and development

● Arts

● Aircraf constructon

● ...

Agenda

● Introduction 3D printng

● Overview of some business (opportunites)

● Q&A

Food for thoughts.

Technology

Selling

Services

Stores

ProductionFinance

Unclear

Technology – Go and watch Kickstarter.com!

Technology – Build better 3D printers!

● e.g. Ultmaking (www.ultmaker.com): Started as a FabLab project 3y ago – 30+ person company today

● e.g. MakerBot (www.makerbot.com): Small company with some investors – recently got bought by Stratasys (400Mio).

Sell something – sell the boxes

● Conrad, Brack, Pearl.de,...

Sell something – e.g. sell supplies

● 3d printer filament: ● In 2011: 0 shops in Switzerland

● In 2013 3 bigger shops and +1 new per month

Producton - 3D walk-in stores

http://3d-model.ch

Producton – P2P Producton

http://3dhubs.com

Producton - FabLabs

http://fablab-bern.ch

http://3dpcase.sculpteo.com

Services – Selling iPhone cases

Services – Event Printng

http://89grad.ch

Financial ideas...

http://ubs.com/3dprint

Stll unclear – Object libraries

http://thingiverse.com

Stll unclear – Free 3D Apps

http://123dapp.com

Agenda

● Introducton 3D printng

● Overview of some business (opportunites)

● Q&A

Ramun Berger 89grad GmbH Eigerstrasse 12 3007 Bern

ramun.berger@89grad.ch 079 597 35 60

www.89grad.ch www.fablab-bern.ch

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