Stefanie Brickwede

Managing Director – Mobility goes Additive e.V. & Head of AM – DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung GmbH

Stefanie Brickwede graduated from the TU Hanover as an economics major and started her career in the mobility sector. She held various management positions at the Deutsche Bahn AG – the national railway company of Germany - before taking over as Head of the corporate project 3D printing within the DB in 2015. As such she is responsible for the successful introduction of Additive Manufacturing throughout the DB group. Together with her team, she has already been able to provide 100,000 parts with over 500 different applications using more than a dozen different manufacturing technologies. This has prevented the unplanned standstill of vehicles and infrastructure and achieved effects in the high millions.

With this railway background came an understanding of the opportunities and challenges for AM users and Stefanie Brickwede passionately set up the international leading network "Mobility goes Additive" in 2016 with the aim of pushing industrial 3D printing into series production. With the „Medical goes Additive“-division launched in 2019 the focus of the network was widened to assist Hospitals, companies and institutions throughout the medical sector to extent the use of Additive Manufacturing. Now, MGA has more than 140 member companies active in close to 20 working and focus groups.

Laslty, Ms. Brickwede is the initiator of the “Women in AM” network and actively promotes women in the AM industry.