business and career opportunities around 3d printing
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Some food for thought to come up with the next business idea around 3d printing, 3d scanning, 3d services etc.TRANSCRIPT
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
[email protected] 079 597 35 60
www.89grad.ch www.fablab-bern.ch
Get in contact!