Fireside Chats on 3D Printing, Industry's Future

The 15th annual EFI Connect Users Conference will include multiple “fireside chat” keynotes with industry leaders including RR Donnelley President/CEO Thomas J. Quinlan III and Avi Reichental, president/CEO of 3D Systems.

Quinlan will address conference attendees at 8:30 a.m., on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at The Wynn Las Vegas. He will join EFI CEO Guy Gecht for the fireside chat, which will touch on Quinlan’s leadership experience, the industry’s future and RR Donnelley’s strategy for success. RR Donnelley brings in nearly $11.5 billion in annual revenue from more than 500 locations.

Quinlan has been with RR Donnelley since joining the company in 2004 as executive vice president, after holding multiple senior executive management roles at Moore Wallace. In 2011, he received the Prism Award from the Advisory Board of New York University’s Graphic Communications Management and Technology Program, and the AJC’s Human Relations Award.

Reichental’s fireside chat with Gecht at 8 a.m., on Friday, Jan. 23 at the Wynn will conclude the conference. Reichental’s company invented 3D printing with its Stereolithography (SLA) printer and was the first to commercialize it in 1989. 3D Systems has more than 1,200 patents, and its comprehensive range of 3D printers is the industry’s benchmark for production-grade manufacturing for aerospace, automotive, patient-specific medical device uses, as well as for a variety of consumer, electronic and fashion accessories. The fireside chat will cover the opportunities 3D printing presents to the broader printing industry.

Reichental, who has been the president and CEO of 3D Systems since September 2003, was named as one of Fortune magazine’s Top 50 business leaders last year. Under his leadership, 3D Systems has emerged as a global 3D content-to-print leader that is redefining and shaping how we design, produce, consume and live our lives. Through his passion to democratize the design-to-production process, the company has evolved and expanded its business model from a supplier of 3D printers to a provider of end-to-end solutions. Reichental is a recipient of the regional 2011 E&Y entrepreneur of the year award, two Innovator Awards, and holds 25 U.S. patents.

His fireside chat will conclude an eventful and educational conference at one of the printing industry’s most successful users group gatherings. EFI Connect 2015 will bring hundreds of executives from many of the world’s leading graphic communications companies. Next year’s conference features expanded content designed to drive businesses in commercial printing, publishing, packaging or digital print and/or marketing services toward better productivity and higher profits.

EFI Connect 2015 will have more than 200 education and breakout sessions, including an additional keynote session on January 21 featuring Andrew Paparozzi, chief economist of printing association AMSP/NAPL/NAQP. And, for the first time, the conference will be co-located with the 2015 AMSP/NAPL/NAQP Executive Leadership Summit.