Secure Approval for RAPID + TCT 2025!
Need management buy-in? Your participation in RAPID + TCT 2025 is in their best interest! Your trip to North America’s largest additive manufacturing and industrial 3D printing event will give you access to the latest AM technology advancements and provide you with visibility to the entire ecosystem. Leave motivated, knowledgeable and ready to introduce new technology and processes within your company to help elevate and scale.
Explore Your Case
- Identify exhibitors and informational sessions that could help you overcome pain points.
- Define your objectives: From lightweighting parts to maximizing budgets, what are the top problems you need to solve? When you come prepared, you can leave with solutions.
- Familiarize yourself with the Keynote Series. Talks from the industry’s top luminaries will give you fresh perspectives and insights into AM and the greater manufacturing ecosystem.
- Using the SME+ app, identify individuals with similar roles who could help you reconsider your challenges. Plan to meet up with them at networking events like the AM Industry Celebration.
Dive Deep at the RAPID + TCT 2025 Conference
For serious AM upskilling, suggest a Full Conference Pass. Whether you’re evaluating the possibilities, adopting new machinery/processes or optimizing your current state, the conference makes it easy to identify sessions that will help you meet your objectives.
- Explore case studies from end users who have implemented exhibitor’s solutions.
- Industry tracks deliver insights relevant to, and in the lingo of, your day-to-day duties.
- Clearly tiered sessions ensure content that’s designed to meet you at your place on the AM adoption curve
Put it in Writing!
Submit a formal proposal to your manager. Don’t forget to include notes outlined above in the Explore Your Case section, your intended schedule and how the outcomes of your visit will impact your company’s business. Outline your top pain points and note how specific exhibitors, sessions or contacts could help you overcome them.
RAPID + TCT’s event app, SME+, will ensure you get the most of your time and investment. AI-powered search functionality matches you with the companies and products you need to investigate at the show.
New to the world of additive manufacturing? RAPID + TCT is the best place to pinpoint what you don’t know, what you need to know and who can help you figure it out. How? Daily guided show tours, led by the event’s esteemed group of Event Advisors, will get you started on your path to AM adoption. There are no dumb questions here!
To round out your proposal, make sure to include the cost of transportation, meals and lodging.
We have a sample memo that can help you sell the idea of attending RAPID + TCT to your manager.
Post-Event To-Do List
When you return from RAPID + TCT, don’t neglect a report to your manager. Share details about your impressions, let them know the tips and strategies you learned, focusing on what you can apply in both the short and long term. Reference your proposal to include details on what you accomplished. Finally, let your supervisor know that your involvement was a great investment in you and the company.
Sample Letter
We’ve done the heavy lifting for you! Get a sample Attendee Justification Letter to make the process easier.