3D Printing Industry announces AMAA 2026
3D Printing Industry has announced Additive Manufacturing Advantage: Aerospace, Space and Defense 2026 (AMAA). The online event is scheduled to return on July 9, 2026. AMAA 2026 will bring together engineers, executives, researchers and end-users to examine how Additive Manufacturing is moving from technical possibility to industrial execution.
The 2026 edition will focus on the issues now shaping adoption in mission-critical sectors: qualification, repeatability, certification, advanced materials, defence supply chains, production scale-up and operational readiness.
Speakers announced for AMAA 2026 include representatives from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, RTX Pratt & Whitney, Divergent Technologies, GKN Aerospace, Dyndrite, TANIOBIS, MX3D, JEOL USA, America Makes, Velo3D, Safran, Sakuu, Alderman & Company, Outlook Lab, the Civil Military Innovation Institute, Addlab, Theta Technologies and Farcco.
The programme will address the role of Additive Manufacturing in propulsion systems, aircraft structures, refractory metals, Directed Energy Deposition (DED), Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM), Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-EB), eVTOL battery safety and defence industrial base readiness.
“Additive Manufacturing in aerospace, space, and defence has entered a more demanding phase,” said Michael Petch, Editor-in-Chief of 3D Printing Industry. “The question is no longer whether AM can produce impressive parts. The harder question is whether these technologies can be qualified, repeated, certified, scaled, and deployed where they matter most. AMAA 2026 is designed to bring together the people working directly on those questions.”
Highlights from the AMAA 2026 agenda include NASA’s work on Additive Manufacturing material readiness for spaceflight applications, Safran’s approach to machine qualification and part certification strategy for aeronautics, America Makes’ work on unlocking AM qualification at scale, MX3D’s exploration of WAAM for defence autonomy and Divergent’s lessons from scaling AM for aerospace and defence customers.
The event will also cover advanced materials and process capability, including tungsten and niobium alloys for high-temperature space applications, PBF-EB, large-scale DED, and polymeric current collectors designed to reduce thermal runaway risk, weight and cost in eVTOL battery applications.
AMAA 2026 is free to attend and is aimed at engineers, procurement professionals, defence and aerospace program leaders, AM users, researchers, students, suppliers, and organisations evaluating how AM can support advanced production, qualification and resilient supply chains.
Those interested in attending can register here.
