Tuesday 29th september

TimingSpeakerCategory
09:00Welcome coffee
09:20Keynote Speaker

Gian-Marco Rignanese
UC Louvain
From high-throughput ab initio calculations to machine learning: the new era of materials informatics
10:00Keynote Speaker

Ge Lei
Imperial College London
From trust to action: large language models for scientific discovery and decision support
10:40Coffee break
11:10Axel Pantzare
Viking Analytics
Automatic fault detection in metal manufacturing via wireless vibration monitoring using behaviour-based analytics
Quality Assurance & Safety
11:30Daniel Bartz
Aurubis AG
From pixels to PLC: architecting safe computer vision at the industrial edge
Quality Assurance & Safety
11:50Jan Fransens
Apixa NV
Learning normality: anomaly detection as a scalable strategy for metallurgical surface inspection
Quality Assurance & Safety
12:10Olivier Herbiet
CRM Group
Zinc coating monitoring at hot dip galvanising
Quality Assurance & Safety
12:30Lunch
13:30Partnership Pitch: SWECO
13:45Robby Neven
Aperam
Preventing melt failures and enhancing ferro-alloy yield via automated raw material monitoring
Supply Chain Optimization
14:05David Waroquiers
Matgenix
Accelerating alloy and coating development using AI: A case study combining active learning and atomistic simulations
Alloy Development & Material Innovation
14:25Pengru Zhao
Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Université de Montpellier
Deep learning-based grain boundary segmentation in backscattered electron images
Alloy Development & Material Innovation
14:45Antoine Hilhorst
UCLouvain, WEL Research Institute
From data to discovery of TWIP alloys by linking stacking energies, composition, and mechanical properties
Alloy Development & Material Innovation
15:05Jasper Somers
Aluminium Duffel BV
Integrating AI image analysis into filiform corrosion assessment of aluminium body sheet
Alloy Development & Material Innovation
15:25Coffee break
15:55Partnership Pitch: Bekaert
16:00Pascal Jacques
UCLouvain
Machine learning approach for the development of new β-metastable Ti alloys best-suited for additive manufacturing
Alloy Development & Material Innovation
16:20Michael Sluydts
ePotentia, UGent
Predicting real properties with fake data: how GenAI can help complete materials datasets
Alloy Development & Material Innovation
16:40Alexis Miroux
Aluminium Duffel BV
Predicting the properties of aluminium rolled products from full‑scale production data
Alloy Development & Material Innovation
17:00Nicolas Dubois
Nyrstar
Harnessing data science for zinc industry cellhouse – building a model that quantifies the impact of influencing factors on the current efficiency
Supply Chain Optimization
18:30Conference dinner