Ante Lausic is the Lead Process Engineer at General Motors’ Additive Industrialization Center where he focuses on industrializing OEM equipment for automotive applications. Prior to this, he spent 3 years at Exco Engineering in Newmarket, Ontario as an Additive Manufacturing Engineer. His scope of work covered design, simulation, fabrication, and deployment of conformal cooling inserts for the die casting market. In 2019, he was recognized with a PACE award by Automotive News in Automotive Supplier Innovation for a manufacturing strategy to repurpose worn tooling components with a hybrid additive technique. Ante is an alumni of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. His doctoral thesis combined 3D printing with the high strength of nanocrystalline materials for ultra-lightweight materials. He is a member of Canada’s ISO TC 261 delegation for standardization in the field of additive manufacturing as well as NADCA's efforts on developing standards for additive manufacturing in the die casting industry.