All HI-AM Network participants meet once a year to present their research findings to the other research teams within the Network and the representatives of our industrial partners. Hosted by a different institution each year, the conference provides a great networking opportunity for the graduate students and PDFs to get to know their colleagues – future additive manufacturing experts of Canada! The 2018 conference will focus on Material Development for Metal-based AM, Advanced AM Process Modeling, Novel AM Techniques and Process Optimization, and will feature 6 sessions with 18 verbal and 14 poster presentations. For more information about the conference, please visit nserc-hi-am.ca/2018.