Today, June 3rd, Bank of America will host the 2014 Global Technology Conference at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, and 3D Systems President and CEO, Avi Reichental, will be presenting on 3D printing. 3D Systems is planing to broadcast the presentation through their Investor Relations section at 3DSystems.com/investor. What implications this presentation manifests in the industry may prove more insightful than either party intends.
While the presentation slot at the conference confirms the foothold 3D printing now holds in manufacturing, it will now enter an even more prominent role in the investment realm. Money speaks, often with a megaphone, and the relationships forged at this point, and onwards, will determine the essence of 3D printing. 3D Systems is considered a brand name within the industry, so sitting at the table with Bank of America and other traditional corporate entities functioning as mainstays on Wall Street would be an inevitable show of financial progress. As 3D printing proliferates and grows, will it bulge into the kind of industry too big to fail?
With the proper infrastructure and industry template, 3D printing could provide a new model for investment the same way it has proved revolutionary models for manufacturing and creative design. Most 3D printing ventures bank on the fact that part of the process involves repeated and necessary failure inherent to discovery and progress. If innovation and communal progressive practices remain pillars of the industry, the investment world will support a revolutionary model instead of steering the industry to the squall of purely financial interests.
