Harshil Goel
Founder and CEO, Dyndrite
Presenting in Track 2: Advanced Design and Information Technologies
Presentation Title: Unlocking Metal LPBF: Breaking Qualification Barriers with Automated Toolpaths and Software Intelligence
Abstract: Despite the long-held promise that "complexity is free," metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) still captures only a fraction of the traditional CNC market. While the additive manufacturing industry continues to expand—recovering to €11 billion in 2025 and projected to exceed €21 billion by 20301 widespread market adoption remains throttled by rigid qualification protocols and high costs.
This plenary talk explores how recent hardware maturity and treating LPBF like traditional metal CNC can dismantle these historical blockers. By using Dyndrite software to define builds via precise thermodynamic energy signatures rather than locked configurations, the industry can fully automate Operational Qualification (OQ)3. Real-world adoption, including Ursa Major's integration of Dyndrite LPBF Pro for advanced rocket propulsion2, demonstrates how software automation and novel AI-driven coding techniques drastically slash file preparation and qualification overhead, establishing the self-perpetuating cost-down conditions required to exponentially scale the metal LPBF ecosystem.
Supporting References
[1] AMPOWER Report 2026: Industrial Additive Manufacturing Market Analysis. Documented global industrial AM market recovery reaching €11.33B in 2025, with a projected 13.5% CAGR to surpass €21B by 2030, heavily driven by >20% growth in aerospace and defense.
[2] Dyndrite / Ursa Major News (July 2025): "Dyndrite and Ursa Major Ink Multi-Year Deal to Power Metal Additive Manufacturing of High-Performance Rocket Engines." Outlines the deployment of Dyndrite LPBF Pro to bypass legacy toolset limitations, improving surface finish, reducing supports, and accelerating qualification for the Draper engine line.
[3] Dyndrite / America Makes News (May 2024): "Improving LPBF Operational Qualification (OQ) through Software Automation." Details a $1.3M America Makes awarded project alongside Siemens Energy and ASTM International to build a data-validated software toolkit that neutralizes machine variability and automates OQ build creation."
Biography: Mr. Goel is an inventor, engineer, and mathematician, with degrees in pure mathematics and mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley. Mr. Goel is the founder and CEO of Dyndrite™, a Google AI-backed (Gradient Ventures) - software company disrupting the $40B design and engineering industry. Mr. Goel’s mission is to “fundamentally transform how geometry is created, modified, and transmitted throughout the entire digital manufacturing process.
Dyndrite is a rapidly-growing company of mathematicians, PhDs, designers and computer scientists building a new foundation for digital manufacturing development, an "Accelerated Computation Engine" - a geometric development environment enabling 3D printer hardware and software vendors to build faster, higher-quality printers, applications, and parts.
Goel was awarded the Forbes 30-under-30 in 2020.
Dyndrite is a 2021 inductee into the World Economic Forum (WEF).