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Healthcare and 3D Printing Meet-Ups Pop Up Around 3D Print Week

New York City is getting ready for an invasion by the 3D printing industry, and as 3D Print Week draws closer, we are getting ready to bring you up to speed on all the happenings.  As a part of the MecklerMedia week-long 3D printing event, meet-ups associated with 3D Print Week will be popping up around New York, including one series devoted specifically to the use of the technology in the field of medicine.

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3D printing writer and evangelist Land Grant and his group HCx3DP (Healthcare Multiplied By 3D Printing) will be hosting a panel of “3D printing in healthcare” meetups from April 13th-17th.  Over the course of the week, there will be five panels discussing 3D printed food, start-ups, economics, medical devices, and public policy in New York City. The WEEK Meetups are designed to create neutral forums to educate and investigate active and dormant obstacles and solutions to the industry’s most pressing problems in New York City.

Here’s the play by play:

  • Event #1, Monday, April 13 – HCx3DP Fab(bed!) Food Vs. Chronic Disease
    “Will 3D-Printed Food Cure Diabetes While Foodies Eschew Digitally Driven, Hyper-Processed BUT Hyper-Healthy ‘Home (Printer) Cookin’?”
    Panelists: In recruitment. Venue: TBD. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
  • Event #2, Tuesday, April 14 – HCx3DP IncuLabz: Hyper-Incubating LifeSci Startups Via Hybrid NYC Labs
    “Physical Future-Making At The Compelling Intersection Of ‘Healthcare Times 3DP’ Opportunities (A Novel Experiential Workshop)”
    Panelists: In recruitment. Venue: TBD. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 PM.

  • Event #3, Wednesday, April 15 – HCx3DP Entrepreneurship, Venture Funding & Neo-Equality
    “Will New Pro-Social Perspectives & Novel Funding Help Empower HCx3DP Startups To (Re)Generate Middle-Class Jobs in NYC?”
    Panelists: In recruitment. Venue: TBD. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 PM.

  • Event #4, Thursday, April 16 – HCx3DP-Hyper’d Medical Devices
    “Succeeding With HCx3DP-Engined  Medical Devices—Despite Cost Collapse, Hyper-Fast Delivery, EPA Dithering, IoT Hacking Threats, Neo-MedTechers Horning-In…”
    Panelists: In recruitment. Venue: TBD. Time: 6:30 to 8:30 PM.

  • Event #5, Fri, April 17 – Effective Public Policy in The Age of (HCx3DP)Disruption– “Ensuring Local HCx3DP Commerce & Common-Good While Fostering A World-Dominating, Industrial-Segment, Cluster HQ in NYC…”
    Panelists: In recruitment. Venue: TBD. Time: 3:00 to 5:00 PM.

Land Grant has who been following the industry for quite some time now, and he wrote an entertaining manifesto of sorts on why he started HCx3DP.  You can read the whole thing here, but I’ve extracted the reasons why he started HCx3DP, in his words:

  • “NYC is the acknowledged center of 3DP in the U.S.
  • NYC enjoys unique, in-place 3DP infrastructure. This “platform” includes MakerBot to Shapeways; Kickstarter to Meetup; Etsy to Huge.
  • NYC boasts the unique community of Brooklyn “Techreatives.” These are the CyberHipsters who can draw a beautiful analog curve, parse its truth in digits online and then arc a startup toward profit.
  • NYC possesses the planet’s most extensive locus of higher-education institutions.
  • Metro-NYC is the world’s “Pharmaceutical Capital,” with 60% of America’s Pharma industry found here.
  • New York State is ranked #1 as a location for Life Sciences organizations.
  • NYC organizations employ 665,000 Healthcare workers, largest such population in the U.S., and—most probably—the world.”

According to Grant, the “over-arching goal at HCx3DP is to help synthesize and synergize Healthcare and 3D Printing at the sweet spot of their intersection around novel, mostly hyper-individualized healthcare solutions.”

The cost to attend each event is $20 and is only part of the larger series of meet-ups planned for 3D Print Week next month.  Be prepared, New York.  It’s coming…