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Rhino User Meeting Basel 2025 🎉
📅 When? March 28, 2025
📍 Where? Hosted by McNeel Europe and Herzog & de Meuron at Scala Basel
Looking for a day packed with innovation, creativity, and hands-on action? Join us for the Rhino User Meeting in Basel and dive into the latest and greatest in Digital Design and Fabrication.
Here’s the deal:
👉 Learn from industry pros in Architecture, Design, Footwear, Automotive, 3D Printing, Robotics, AI and more!
👉 Discover cutting-edge updates on Rhino 8, Grasshopper, and other tools.
👉 Check out live demos and get inspired by exhibitors showing off what’s possible.
💡 Bonus? It’s not just all tech talk—there’s networking and drinks to wrap up the day! Perfect for meeting like-minded folks and making connections.
🎟 Tickets:
- SOLD OUT
🚀 Interested in exhibiting? Drop an email to carlos@mcneel.com.
Check out what went down at past events: https://events.mcneel.eu/
Mark your calendar—we’ll see you there!
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SPEAKERS

Verena Vogler
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Verena Vogler (Dr.-Ing.) joined McNeel Europe in 2014, where she leads R&D and the Educational Course Program. She holds Diploma/Master’s degrees in Architecture and Computational Design, along with a doctorate in Engineering from the Chair of Computer Science in Architecture, Bauhaus University Weimar in computational Artificial Coral Reef Design, and has experience working for international architectural firms. With over 15 years of expertise in construction, software development, and research, she focuses on fostering synergies between practice and applied research. Her work centers on creating ecosystem-aware design approaches by integrating environmental and living system knowledge through advanced computational methods.

Carlos Pérez Albà
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Carlos Pérez Albà (Barcelona, 19th March 1975) is currently the EMEA Sales, Marketing and Business Development Manager at McNeel.
Studied Economics (Universitat de Barcelona, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg), Illustration (Massana Art School Barcelona) and Management (IESE Business School Barcelona).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosperezalba/ www.mcneel.com www.rhino3d.com www.food4rhino.com

Michael Drobnik
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René Medel
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Martin Siegrist
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I’m a self employed industrial designer from Liestal, Switzerland. I’ve been working with Rhino and Grasshopper since 2010. My field of work is mainly sports and art. I own an Artec Leo handheld 3D laserscanner which paired with my Rhino skills got me a part time job in the innovation team at Tudor Pro Cycling.

Daniel Koehler
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Daniel Koehler is an Assistant Professor at UT Austin. Before, Daniel researched at the UCL Bartlett and Innsbruck University, where he wrote his Ph.D., published as “The Mereological City,” a study on part-design in modernism. Daniel is also co-founder of lab-eds and consults with startups in the field of architecture and computational design. His work has been exhibited internationally, including venues in Prague, Milan, Venice, Montreal, London, and Austin, and is part of the permanent collection at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His forthcoming book “Synthetic Cities” (Routledge) examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the design practice of cities and their architecture.

Stefan Alt
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Mathias Fuchs
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Duann Scott
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Duann is founder of Bits to Atoms, the CDFAM Computational Design Symposium Series, Executive Director of the 3MF Consortium and is also a teaching assistant at MIT’s online additive manufacturing course.

Andreas Niggl
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Head of Development at SOFiSTiK. SOFiSTiK is one of the leading European manufacturers of software for analysis, design and detailing. Over 2000 customers worldwide use the company’s solution to analyze and build large and complex infrastructure including the 3rd Bosporus Bridge in Instanbul or the Azrieli sprial Tower in Tel Aviv.

Andreas Ginter
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Andreas Ginter is team lead and project manager at wh-p Engineers, a Germany based structural engineering consultancy founded in 1993 with subsidiaries in Stuttgart, Berlin and Basel. His project references include buildings such as the Roche Research and Development Centre in Basel, the Stream Office Tower in Berlin or the Bitzer headquarters in Sindelfingen.

Lila Panahi
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Computational Design Specialist

Oana Taut
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As the co-founder and product lead at infrared.city, I am dedicated to bring AI solution to the service of Architecture and City planning professionals, in a way that benefits the industry, the users, and the environment above all. With almost a decade of hands-on experience in architecture practice, I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges faced by design teams and their clients when addressing sustainability and finding ways to navigate efficiency, functionality, compliance and cost effectiveness in an environmentally performant project.
As a researcher and educator, I collaborate with students and AEC professionals in developing AI driven solutions to real industry problems from the micro to the urban scale. I share thoughts and experiments on AI workflows applied to design, summaries of recent academic work as well as updates from our building journey @infrared.city
If you are looking for AI solutions that can empower AEC professionals with data and performance insights for sustainable design, let’s connect and explore how we can drive resilience for the built environment together.

Martin Schulte
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Peter Salzmann
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Ilmar Hurkxkens
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Clemens Preisinger
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Judith Wiesinger
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Judith rigorously develops the big picture, takes pragmatic decisions, communicates effectively, and knows how to bridge business and technology.

Stephanie Bose
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Mark Pauly
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Daniel Wunsch
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Daniel Wunsch is an experienced model maker who combines traditional craftsmanship with modern digital fabrication. He trained in model building at R. Hammerschmidt in Berlin and has worked with prestigious companies in both Berlin and Barcelona.
From 2008 to 2014, he taught architectural model making at UIC Barcelona and was a member of the Research Group in Genetic Architecture.
In 2018, he joined McNeel Europe as a Rhino training and support specialist.
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Keyshot
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seamless collaboration from sketch to market launch, helping businesses of all sizes
design with precision, align processes with clarity, manage workflows with efficiency,
and deliver impactful products.
KeyShot Studio is a cutting-edge 3D rendering tool that brings your design to life with
photorealistic accuracy. It is the culmination of decades of innovation and collaboration
with product industry leaders. Designed for those who demand ultimate accuracy and
instant results in 3D rendering.
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ShapeDiver
ShapeDiver is a self-service, cloud-native, SaaS platform that helps individuals and businesses build applications based on parametric CAD models made with Rhinoceros 3D and Grasshopper. Our clients use our technology to create very cost-efficient 3D product configurators and internal collaboration tools that help them automate, modernize and improve their design, production, sales and marketing efforts. Our platform has over 5,000 registered users from 95+ countries. We work with companies from over 15 different industries, such as Furniture, Jewelry, Medical Devices, Apparel, and AEC, ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
Romantic Technology
Romantic Technology builds thinking systems that supercharge human ingenuity. We contributed to open research of creativity tools with a step change in expressive power. Now, we are turning these insights into vehicles to for latent space exploration at Romantic Technology. We believe artificial intelligence will be the racing bike of the creative minds. We are proud to push the frontier with open research and empowering creativity tools. Raven is our first tool, empowering Grasshopper scripting with AI — making designing quicker, more intuitive, and more fun.