Global supply chain friction and scaling geopolitical threats are driving the need for digitized manufacturing more than ever. Additive manufacturing, in particular, is a valuable tool for defense, OEMs, and other critical industries looking to produce metal and polymer parts faster and more efficiently to stay competitive – or stay in the fight. Secure file sharing is a key component of this ecosystem – how do these organizations share digital part files without compromising Intellectual Property (IP) rights for the owner of the design and print parameters? This panel will have a discussion around the current landscape of digital file sharing and the next steps associated with an accelerated roll-out.
Overview
In this webinar, experts from the defense, additive manufacturing (AM), supply chain/operations, and security industries will discuss the current landscape in manufacturing and how now, more than ever, the need for digitized solutions, including secure file sharing, for intellectual property (IP) is critical.
With 13 years as a professional military engineering and logistics officer in the U.K. and Australian defense forces, Calum Stewart will open the discussion with his perspective on where we are with security in AM and what he's seeing and hearing from the field with SPEE3D.
Len Pannett, also a former military officer with more than a decade in the Royal Navy, and now an expert on operations and supply chain, will provide his insights into the overarching issues facing critical industries like defense, OEMs, aerospace, and oil and gas, among others, to work faster despite geopolitical and other constraints.
Lior Polak and Nigel Robinson, both on the front lines to provide security solutions to the manufacturing industry through their software companies Assembrix and Vistory, will outline how we define IP for AM and how they see IP owners working with customers and security providers to simplify the process and enable adoption.
Key Takeaways
- Learn about the current landscape for digitization of the additive manufacturing ecosystem
- Hear why secure file sharing is so critical for many industries and who is driving it forward
- Understand the next steps to moving forward and current success stories of roll-out
- Leave with a fundamental understanding of this component of digitized manufacturing for critical industries
Speakers
With 13 years as a professional military engineering and logistics officer, Stewart has spent his last 5 years as SPEE3D’s in-house defense expert. His role is in leading SPEE3D’s military programs in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
Polak co-founded Assembrix after gaining 15 years in hands-on experience with technology management. He managed high-performing teams in enterprise software, e-commerce and cyber security industries, ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations. Prior to co-founding Assembrix, Polak was a director of marketing and business development at the cyber and intelligence division of NICE Systems. Before that, he held marketing and product management positions at OpenTV UK. Polak holds BA in economics and business administration from Bar Ilan University and an MBA from INSEAD, France.
Robinson is a commercially focused operational specialist working for Vistory Group Limited, which is an industry leader 5.0 company from the digital sector. He joined Vistory with a solid foundation in engineering, lean manufacturing, Six Sigma and business improvement.
Robinson has gone on to work in a variety of engineering companies across the world supplying to various sectors including marine, rail, defense, oil and gas, aerospace, medical and motorsport. On returning to the U.K. in 2014, he joined one of the largest additive manufacturing companies based in Newbury, becoming CEO in 2018. In 2020, Robinsonl became the one of the founding members of the Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC), Silverstone. The DMC is a state-of-the-art best in class innovative facility enabling digitally connected AM Production.
In 2024 he joined Vistory Group Limited, which specializes in cybersecurity software development, particularly for supply chain security.
Pannett is an internationally recognized expert in the application of additive manufacturing for supply chains, with over 25 years' experience of helping organizations worldwide to overcome their operational challenges. He is an ExCo Member for Project TAMPA, the joint U.K. Ministry of Defense-Industry initiative to accelerate the use of AM in the defense sector, a member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) European Board and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. A visiting lecturer at several business schools, speaker and writer on supply chain topics, Pannett is the author of the bestseller 'Supercharg3d: How 3D Printing Will Drive Your Supply Chain'.