America Makes Members Meeting & Exchange (MMX)

Date

August 3, 2027

Format

In-Person

Location

Youngstown, OH

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About

MMX is America Makes’ annual member-centric event for strategic discussions, presentations, and panels on additive manufacturing, Institute accomplishments, technology adoption, and the U.S. industrial base. The program includes an America Makes State of the Union; a panel on the polymer AM crisis and opportunity; the next phase of the Institute and contracts; the Defense Logistics Agency’s advanced manufacturing program and how to sell to DLA; additive production of airworthy parts; CMMC requirements and implications; 3D printing for drones; industrial competitiveness in a new manufacturing era; and updates on America Makes technology, industrial-base integration, education and workforce development, the Youngstown Innovation Hub, and project calls. The program is open to members and nonmembers.

Speakers(22)

Mara Hitner

VP Strategic Partnerships, MatterHackers

Matthew Sermon

Executive Director, Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager Submarines, Department of War

John Wilczynski

Executive Director, America Makes

Kimberly Gibson

Industrial Base Integration Director, America Makes

Dayton Horvath

Senior Director of Emerging Technology, Association for Manufacturing Technology

Tim Gornet

Senior Applications Engineer, Stratasys

James Klett, Ph.D.

Distinguished Scientist (Ret), Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Catherine DeLeal

JAMWG Co-Facilitator, JAMWG

Alexander Steeb

Senior Operations Director, America Makes

Carmen Pillitteri

Procurement Analyst for Weapons Support, Defense Logistics Agency

Steve Fournier

Technical Director of Additive Design & Manufacturing Center of Excellence, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

Travis Mayberry

Technical Portfolio Manager, Divergent Technologies

Stacy Bostjanick

Vice President Government Services Strategies

Fernando Machado

Chief Information Security Officer, Cybersec Investments, LLC

Brandon Ribic, Ph.D.

Technology Director, America Makes

Ken Hix

Chief Consulting Engineer of AM Process & Technology, GE Aerospace

Edward Herderick, Ph.D.

Education & Workforce Development Director, America Makes

Tom Sullivan

Co-Founder, Strongpoint Labs

CWO3 Matt Pine

Innovation Officer, II Marine Expeditionary Force Innovation Campus

Master Sergeant Quincy Reynolds

United States Marine Corps

Staff Sergeant Devan Siler

United States Air Force, Air Mobility Command

Douglas Thomas

Research Economist for the Engineering Laboratory’s Applied Economics Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Topics

Defense Tech
Policy
Technology

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