The international competition for additive manufacturing and advanced technologies, the \"3D Pioneers Challenge\", offers visionaries a platform with a global network. Industry leaders and experts shed light on the multi-layered fields of innovation from their own perspectives. The initiators of the platform, Simone and Christoph Völcker, thus provide an outlook and impulses for future-makers in architecture and design, research and development, as well as politics and industry - in the spirit of \"pushing boundaries\".