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Registration Open: Product Visualization Forum February 24 - #1 most influential person in rapid product development to keynote

Submitted by: John Warner on Jan 26, 2010 at 5:42 am Tagged with: rapid prototyping. product visualization Source: InnoVenture

Terry Wohlers will be the keynote speaker at the Product Visualization Community Forum Presented by the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology, will be held February 24, 2010 at the SiMT in Florence from 8:30 to 4:30.

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The target audience is product development, product marketing, and industrial design professionals.

The objective of the Forum is to identify best practices and resources of professionals who attract internal support and external customers by communicating visually through 3D CAD, 3D virtual reality, and rapid prototyping technologies.

Terry Wohlers is president of Wohlers Associates, Inc., an independent consulting firm. In August 2007, Terry was voted the #1 most influential person in rapid product development and rapid manufacturing by TCT Magazine (UK) in its TCT Top 25 Influential People survey. More than 1,000 industry professionals from around the world voted. The results were published in the August issue of the magazine.

Wohlers has been quoted in The Boston Globe, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, Chicago Tribune, Discovery News from the Discovery Channel, The Economist, FORTUNE, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, and countless domestic and foreign magazines, journals, and newspapers. In October 2001, he served as analyst in a fast-paced television show on ABC, and has had radio interviews broadcast in Germany and Slovenia. In 1994, Wohlers presented a special briefing on the economic impact of additive manufacturing to the Under Secretary for Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce. His highly sought-after views and opinions come from years of collecting and analyzing market data, coupled with his work as a consultant and advisor to major organizations in the Asia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Africa.

More information about Wohlers can be found at his website.

The Product Visualization Community Forum is targeted at product development and product marketing professions, and the focus is helping them improve the effectiveness of communicating visually through 3D CAD, 3D virtual reality, and rapid prototyping technologies.

Click for more information and to register.