If you had the opportunity to interface with the audiences, exhibitors and attendees of not one, not two, but three other heavyweight manufacturing events at the same time, would you take it? That’s exactly what we offered this year at RAPID + TCT 2025.
SME and the Rapid News Publications Ltd., owners of the TCT Group, joined forces with three other heavyweight events in North American manufacturing ― SAE’s trademark mobility event, the World Congress Experience (WCX); America Makes’ Spring Technical Review and Exchange (TRX); and SME’s own AeroDef Manufacturing. Located right on the RAPID + TCT show floor, AeroDef Manufacturing provided unlimited access to new peers in ground systems, aerospace, maritime and space for both commercial and military acquisition personnel.
This collection of events, all colocated under one roof with RAPID + TCT at Huntington Place in Detroit, America’s Motor City and home to U.S. manufacturing, was one of the most dynamic collection of minds in additive manufacturing to date.
