Allison Beese is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University. She also serves as Director of Penn State's Additive Manufacturing and Design graduate program. Her multiscale mechanics of materials research group focuses on using experimental and computational methods to identify and model the links between microstructural features and deformation and failure of materials, with a focus on additively manufactured metallic materials.
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Amy J. Clarke is the John Henry Moore Distinguished Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys, and with the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center in the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She holds joint appointments with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research focuses on physical metallurgy and making, measuring, and modeling of metallic alloys during processing to realize advanced manufacturing. 
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Conor has over 20 years’ experience in the manufacturing industry, with the last seven years working in technology development and new product introduction for Stryker in their state of the art Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Cork, Ireland. In that time he has worked across Stryker’s metal and polymer portfolio of products for their multiple divisions.
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Dr. Suong Van Hoa is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University. He also served as chair of the Department from 1994 till 2000, and again from 2003 till 2006. He formed the Concordia Center for Composites in 1993, and he has been its director since then until now. He conceived and formed the Canadian Association for Composite Structures and Materials (CACSMA) in 1988. He was its president from 1988 till 1989, and again from 1999 until 2014. Read More

Amber started her career in GE Aviation in 2005 as part of the Edison Engineering Development Program. In 2008, she joined the Materials Behavior organization, taking ownership of the mechanical characterization and analysis for additive materials, including the DMLM Co-Cr characterization in support of the LEAP fuel nozzle as well as follow on GE9X and Catalyst additive alloy programs. She helped define requirements for additive material qualification and certification as well as facilitated introduction new methods for evaluating additive materials. Read More

Dr. Adams is a technical fellow at Lockheed Martin Space where he has been employed for 25 years. He led fundamental research in friction stir welding of large aluminum structures for production of NASA’s Space Shuttle External Tank, Orion Spacecraft and Space Launch System. He also served as manager for the Orion Environmental Control and Life Support System that encompasses temperature and pressure control, air quality and waste management.
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