The Euro PM2015 Congress will include over 230 oral, poster and special interest presentations on a full range of powder metallurgy topics, from Additive Manufacturing (AM), Hard Materials & Diamond Tooling, Hot Isostatic Pressing, New Materials & Applications, PM Structural Parts and Powder Injection Moulding. A milestone in the history of the Euro PM Congress & Exhibition sees Mrs Delphine Auzène, Powders Department Manager, CRITT-MDTS, as the first female Co-Chair of a Euro PM event. She shares this role with Dr Ing Jean-Claude Bihr, President of the Board, Alliance SA. Both Co-Chairs will be opening the plenary session at the annual event on 5^th October at the Reims Congress Centre. Mr Ali Madani, CEO, Avicenne, will be providing the plenary presentation titled ‘Additive and Trabecular Manufacturing for Volume Production in the Orthopaedics Industry’.  The presentation will provide examples of the main AM orthopaedic applications and examine the challenges and opportunities for AM as a production technology in the medical device market.      The Euro PM2015 Technical Programme Committee have, from the papers submitted, selected the following papers that are considered to be the best within their industrial strand, to be elevated to Keynote status at this year’s event: Additive Manufacturing – “Effect of Microstructure on the Tensile Strength of Ti6Al4V Specimens Manufactured using Additive Manufacturing Electron Beam Process” by Dipl-Ing Thays Machry, Research Engineer at Airbus Group Innovations, United Kingdom.