At North America's Largest Advanced Design and Manufacturing Event
Where Manufacturing Minds Meet
Pacific Design & Manufacturing connects you with serious professionals for three days of industry immersion you can't find anywhere else. Connect with over 20,000 engineers and executives who are ready to forge business partnerships. Learn from industry luminaries presenting their insights. This is your chance to find answers to your current design engineering challenges — from CAD software to 3D printing — while keeping up with the latest innovations reshaping the industry.
The nation's largest advanced design and manufacturing conference offers three in-depth, expertly curated educational programs covering 3D printing, smart manufacturing and medtech. Learn from renowned experts and get the latest insights that can help advance your projects, and your career – all with unlimited track hopping.
Test drive new technologies, find suppliers for all your design engineering needs, and get inspired by the latest innovations at the largest advanced design and manufacturing showcase. The expo also offers free educational sessions, demos, tours and teardowns, plus exhibitor-attendee matchmaking and fun prize giveaways.
After the expo it's time to unwind and have some fun! We're hosting a very special attendee event at the House of Blues and we want you to be there. Once you register for the expo, you'll receive an email that will allow you to RSVP to the party. You must be on the RSVP list and bring your expo badge to attend the event. Space is limited!
Five Leading Shows. One Powerful Event.
Advanced design and manufacturing's leading trade shows come together on one floor for the nation's most comprehensive industry event. Your pass gives you access to a full spectrum of solutions spanning medtech, automation technology, plastics, packaging, and design engineering. Join over 20,000 industry professionals and more than 2,000 top suppliers as you explore groundbreaking technologies and gain new insights.
Expanded Conference Series: Smart Manufacturing, 3D Printing & Medtech
The global smart manufacturing market is predicted to be worth more than $390 billion by 2020. 3D printing alone is expected to be worth over $30 billion by 2023.
Offering its biggest conference program yet, Pacific Design & Manufacturing gives you access to the expanded three-day Smart Manufacturing Innovation Summit and a brand new 3D Printing Innovation Summit, plus three days and four tracks of up-to-the-minute medtech thinking. This is your chance to join industry leaders to understand where manufacturing is headed — and how new breakthroughs can help your projects.
Celebrate exceptional efforts — by start-ups and giants alike — at America's biggest awards event for the advanced design and manufacturing industry. Don't miss meeting 2018's innovative winners, including the Rising Engineer Star and Gadget Freak of the Year.
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Advanced Manufacturing 2017 Schedule Viewer
Use the scheduling tool below to browse all the available sessions, speakers and topics at this year's event. Find the content and sessions to fit all of your educational needs and ensure you get the most out of your time at the show.
Dan Yarmoluk (ATEK Access Technologies), Michele Nash-Hoff (California Chapter of the Coalition for a Prosperous America), Frank Raya (Brenner-Fiedler & Associates)
Raised in Indiana farm country, Jamie's father ran an apple orchard and his mother was a librarian. Other than being a prolific reader and having a penchant for creative ways of avoiding chores around the farm, Jamie showed no hint of what was to come.
After Jamie hitchhiked around the country for a number of months by himself at the age of 14, his parents insisted that if he was going to be that adventurous they wanted him to have some formal survival training, which he went through in the wilderness in Wyoming. Jamie acquired a taste for disappearing into the wilderness for weeks at a time, which he did periodically for decades after.
Graduating from Indiana University with a degree in Russian, and having worked as a cook on a cattle farm, as a pet-store owner, a building inspector, and a Slavic collection librarian at the United Nations in Geneva, Jamie decided to go to the Caribbean and work on a charter sailboat. Six months later he owned his own boat, obtained his captain's license and dive masters rating, and was running his own diving and sailing charter business. Four years of captaining in the islands proved to be a great teacher, but also eventually became a routine.
Jamie sailed back up to the states, regrouped and thought carefully about what he wanted to do. He decided to try his hand at special effects. The diversity of the work and the creativity required intrigued him, so he methodically went about acquiring the required skills, starting as a simple shop assistant. Within 2 years in the New York City area, Jamie had worked on several feature films and dozens of commercials, several of which he supervised. At this point he decided he needed to make the next leap and moved to the San Francisco bay area in California to get on the crew of some effects intensive major feature films.
Over the years he worked on Robocop, Arachnophobia, Naked Lunch, and numerous other films until he was hired to manage the Colossal Pictures model shop in San Francisco. After several years of involvement with Colossal, Jamie was offered the opportunity to take over the model shop when Colossal was forced to downsize during the dot com bust. This is how M5 Industries was born. Jamie evolved M5 into a successful versatile effects business that has specialized in problematic custom builds for over 15 years.
Through the course of his 25 years of work in the effects industry, Jamie has had his hand in producing effects for over 800 commercials, dozens of feature films, and hundreds of prototypes.
Although Mythbusters occupies the majority of M5's focus today, Jamie manages to keep a steady flow of R&D projects running in the background.
Jamie has been awarded an honorary engineering degree from the University of Maine, and an honorary doctorate of engineering from Villanova University, where he gave the commencement speech to the Class of 2010. He and Villanova's College of Engineering have an ongoing collaborative relationship to develop new safety concepts for the military.
The holder of several patents and the winner of numerous industry awards, Jamie is also a long-standing member of the Screen Actor's Guild.
Jamie is a voracious reader and admittedly doesn't watch much television. His wife has been a high school science teacher in the Bay Area for 15 years, and students from her school were recently chosen for participation in the Archimedes experiment requested by President Obama. A true inventor at heart, Jamie can usually be found at M5 refining his latest ideas alongside his large and loveable canine.
Title: IoT and Data Science Business Development Company: ATEK Access Technologies
Welcome! You can use the Session Scheduler tool to browse sessions and build a custom event schedule. Once you've saved your personal schedule, you can access it from the free GDC Europe Mobile app (available approximately 30 days before the event). Note: use the same login/password on the Mobile app that you set up on this web site.
Instructions
Step 1. Create an account. Use the "Create Account" button at the top of the right-hand corner.
Step 2. Choose a view. Select either the "List" or the "Grid" icon. (It's the same data, just a different view of the sessions.)
Step 3. Choose your sessions. Click the "Add" or "Remove" button next to each session to add it to, or remove it from, your personalized schedule.
Step 4. Review your schedule. Push the "My Schedule" button in the left column to view your selected sessions.
