Lisa Harouni is the co-founder of Digital Forming, working in "additive manufacturing" — or 3D printing.

Why you should listen

Lisa Harouni is the co-founder and CEO of Digital Forming, a company that works on the software side of 3D printing -- the design tools needed to run the new generaion of 3D printing processes. She has a background in economics, and worked in the G7 Economics team at Deutsche Bank AG before moving over to the consumer products business.

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“Lisa Harouni is in the vanguard of a wave of entrepreneurs who want to make it easy for anyone to design and create bespoke products at the click of a button.” — Wired UK

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A primer on 3D printing: Lisa Harouni on TED.com

January 23, 2012

2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things — including intricate objects once impossible to create. (Recorded at TEDSalon London, November 2011, in London, UK. Duration: 14:50) [ted id=1335] Watch Lisa Harouni’s talk on […]

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