Marleen Vogelaar is the co-founder of Shapeways, the leading 3D printing service and marketplace. In 2008, she and her co-founders launched Shapeways’ upload-to-3D-print service, and since then she’s built it out to the current community of buyers and sellers for 3D designs with HQ in New York City and two other factories. Prior to Shapeways, Marleen was at the boutique consulting firm IMCG Solving, in M&A and strategy, where she worked with clients on due diligence, post-merger integration, operational improvement, and privatizations. Earlier in her career, Marleen was in operations and quality management at a paper manufacturing plant at SCA Hygiene Products. She started her career at SCA as a local demand manager, focusing on using logistics and value-added services as a competitive advantage in a highly commoditized market. Marleen holds a M.S. in industrial engineering and management science from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Marleen is a former heptathlete and spends her spare time in the outdoors as much as possible.
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Can 3D Printing Revive America’s Middle Class?
3D printing has been posited as the catalyst of the next industrial revolution. To make a difference to America’s middle class, whose median annual household income has dropped by more than $4,000 since 2000, the technology will have to bring about an economy as bustling as the first industrial revolution. Fewer than one-third of Americans believe economic conditions will improve next year. Could 3D printing turn things around?
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Can the Maker Movement Re-Make America?
Matt Clayson of the Detroit Creative Corridor Center, Etsy's Chad Dickerson, Ford's K. Venkatesh Prasad, and Marleen Vogelaar of Shapeways join McKinsey's Lou Rassey to discuss the impact of the maker movement on the U.S. economy. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
Conferences
Techonomy 14
This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.
Conferences
Detroit 13
On September 17th, Techonomy returns to Detroit and Wayne State University to continue a series of conversations and workshops we began last year at our first Detroit conference.
