4th EMMC International Workshop 2023

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Materials & Digitalisation: the backbone of the Green Transition

Materials, Digitalisation and the Green Transition form a closely connected triangle. 

Materials are at the core of industrial processes, products and their functions and properties. The Green Transition, including advances in sustainability and safety crucially depends on materials innovation, which itself relies on digital technologies from modelling to data and knowledge representations. 

Digitalisation advances materials innovation and the green transition, for example by providing the ability to carry out monitoring and tracking, simulation and forecasting, visualisation, systems and knowledge management and by enabling new levels of interactions [1].
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The EMMC 2023 International Workshop will discuss the triangle Materials – Digitalisation – Green Transition from different perspectives, including

Model development
Data and knowledge representations
Software tools
Industrial transformation
Policy frame

The EMMC International Workshop has become known as a leading cross-cutting event where stakeholders from different materials & digital fields in industry and academia get together to discuss topics of strategic importance and elaborate on gaps and potential actions to move the field forward. Previous EMMC International Workshops had more than a third of participants coming from industry, benefitting from the opportunity to get a high level overview of key trends and opportunities in materials and digitalisation.

Following events in 2017, 2019 (in Vienna) and 2021 (online), the 4th EMMC International Workshop returns as a physical event in Vienna in 2023 in its successful format combining high level plenaries with discussion sessions led by Impulse Talks. EMMC 2023 supports the importance of networking in physical events, EMMC 2023 by including 30 minute breaks between sessions as well as a poster session, a European Projects market, a joint ‘science walk’ through the centre of Vienna and an opportunity to socialise at Heurigen.

Session outcomes will provide input to future versions of the EMMC Roadmap as well as the AMI2030 initiative.

Whether you are a Modeller, Materials Data Scientist, Software Owner, Translator, Industrial R&D Manager or a Circular Economy expert, the EMMC 2023 International Workshop provides the opportunity to connect with colleagues, hear about latest developments in materials & digitalisation, get your voice heard and inform future research policy.
[1] European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Muench, S., Stoermer, E., Jensen, K., et al., Towards a green & digital future : key requirements for successful twin transitions in the European Union, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/977331

Venue

Materials, Digitalisation and the Green Transition form a closely connected triangle. 

Materials are at the core of industrial processes, products and their functions and properties. The Green Transition, including advances in sustainability and safety crucially depends on materials innovation, which itself relies on digital technologies from modelling to data and knowledge representations. 

Digitalisation advances materials innovation and the green transition, for example by providing the ability to carry out monitoring and tracking, simulation and forecasting, visualisation, systems and knowledge management and by enabling new levels of interactions [1].
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Plenary Talks

Luis de Prada (EUCAR, Belgium)
Innovation in the Green & Digital transformation
Hermann Autenrieth (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany)
Digital Twin in Metal Materials Manufacturing
Aron Walsh (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
Computer-Accelerated Materials Design
Gareth Conduit (Intellegens, United Kingdom)
Green materials in less time: accelerated discovery with machine learning
Alejandro Strachan (Purdue University, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, USA)
nanoHUB services for FAIR simulations and data: ResultsDB and Sim2Ls
Esther Hurtós (Eurecat, Spain)
EU Policy landscape in Materials & Digitalisation

Program

Day 1 - April 26, 2023
Day 2 - April 27, 2023
Day 3 - April 28, 2023

Day 1 - Wednesday, April 26, 2023

11:00 - 12:45

Registration (11:00 - 12:45) & Lunch (11:30 - 12:45)

CEST
Festsaal
13:00 - 13:15
Welcome by EMMC
13:15 - 14:00
Plenary 1 (Impact in Ecosystems) 
Innovation in the Green & Digital transformation
by Luis de Prada (EUCAR, BE)

Chair: Daniel Höche (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, DE)
14:00 - 14:45
Plenary 2 (Digitalisation & Interoperability)
Digital Twin in Metal Materials Manufacturing
by Hermann Autenrieth (Robert Bosch GmbH, DE)

Chair: Welchy Leite Cavalcanti (Fraunhofer IFAM, DE)
14:45 - 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 - 17:00

Impulse presentations each 15 min.
Festsaal
Session 1 Impact in Ecosystems
Innovation facilitation in Ecosystems supporting the twin green & digital transition

Chair: Peter Klein  (Fraunhofer ITWM, DE)

Characterisation as accelerator of advanced modelling
by Nello Li Pira (CRF, Italy)

How Digitalization enables sustainable business models for materials characterization and modeling services
by Franz Pirker (AC2T research GmbH, AT)

Impulse presentation #3
by NN (Organisation, Country)

Böcklsaal
Exhibition:
European Projects
Software Vendors
Posters
17:00 - 17:30

Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:30
Festsaal
Poster presentations
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Moderation: NN
(Organisation, Country)

Poster #1
by NN (Organisation, Country)

Poster #2
by NN (Organisation, Country)

Poster #3
by NN (Organisation, Country)

Böcklsaal
EU Projects Exhibition
Posters
18:30 - 21:00

Networking Event (Fingerfood)

Plenary Room
16:00 - 16:30

Day 1 - Session Summaries and open Discussion

Individual External Rooms

Day 2 - Thursday, April 27, 2023

CEST
Festsaal
08:55 - 09:00
Welcome by EMMC
09:00 - 09:15

Welcome by TU Wien

09:15 - 10:00
Plenary 3 (Modelling)
Computer-Accelerated Materials Design
by Aron Walsh (Imperial College, UK)

Chair: Maria Alfredsson (University of Kent, UK)
10:00 - 10:45
Plenary 4 (Software)
Green materials in less time: accelerated discovery with machine learning
by Gareth Conduit (Intellegens, UK)

Chair: Ilian Todorov (UKRI - STFC, UK)
10:45 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 13:00

Impulse presentations each 15 min.
Festsaal
Session 2 (Modelling)
Prediction or interpretation or speed-up or ... – what makes materials modelling valuable?

Chair: Kersti Hermansson (Uppsala University, SE)

Computational Chemistry: An Industrial Perspective
by Misbah Sarwar (Johnson Matthey, UK)

Measure what’s easy to measure, calculate what’s easy to calculate, use AI to fill in gaps
by Felix Hanke (Biovia R&D, Dassault Systems UK Limited , UK)

Digitalization of materials processing: the case of battery manufacturing
by Alejandro Franco (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, FR)

 

Böcklsaal
Session 3 (Digitalisation & Interoperability)
Materials Data Spaces, technologies and implementations

Chair: Anne de Baas (Goldbeck Consulting Ltd., UK)

A technology stack for semantic interoperability
by Francesca Lønstad Bleken (SINTEF, NO)

FAIR digital objects as a building block for digitalization technology stacks
by Raul Palma (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PL)

The Platform MaterialDigital (PMD) and the goal of a Materials Data Space
by Tilmann Hickel (BAM, DE)

Software
13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:15 - 15:00
Science Walk

(Karlsplatz - Musikverein Wien - Hotel Imperial - Ring - Oper - Albertina - Michaelerplatz - Heldenplatz - Natur-& Kunsthistroisches Museum - Oper - Karlsplatz)

15:00 - 16:45

Impulse presentations each 15 min.
Festsaal
Session 4 (Modelling and Characterisation)
Characterisation as accelerator on advanced physics-based modelling; from product development to Use-Cases

Chair: Costas Charitidis (NTUA/RNanoLab, GR)

Interoperable Characterization Data for Battery Models and Gigafactories
by Ferry Kienberger (Keysight Technologies, AT)

Impulse presentation #2
by Verena Maier-Kiener (Montanuniversität Leoben, AT)

Presentation by new Horizon Europe projects on “Advanced materials modelling and characterisation”
D-STANDART (Vis Dhanisetty, NLR, NL) 
MatCHMaker (Jason Ludovic, CEA, FR) 
CoBRAIN (Markus Apel, Access Technology GmbH, DE) 
Project (NN, Organisation, Country)
Project (NN, Organisation, Country)

Roundtable discussion on "Challenges and Opportunities in materials modelling and demonstrators’ testing/validation; how close we are to industrial needs and sustainable exploitation of modelling/characterization outcomes."
D-STANDART (Vis Dhanisetty, NLR, NL) 
MatCHMaker (Jason Ludovic, CEA, FR) 
CoBRAIN (Markus Apel, Access Technology GmbH, DE) 
Project (NN, Organisation, Country)
Project (NN, Organisation, Country)

Moderator:
Franz Pirker (AC2T, i-Tribomat, AT)

 

Böcklsaal
Session 5 (Software)
Software as part of the Knowledge Value Chain: From Thermodynamics EoS to AI driven ChemInformatics

Chair:  Ilian Todorov (UKRI - STFC, UK)

Software

Impulse presentation #1
by Marco Musto (Citrine Informatics, DE/US)

The path from academic research to valued software for industrial use
by Anders Engstroem (ThermoCalc, SE)

Impulse presentation #3
by Bijan Yadollahi  (CMCL Innovations, UK)

Software Business Models
by Alex Simperler (Simperler Consulting, UK), Ilian Todorov (UKRI, UK) and Stijn Donders (Siemens Digital Industries Software, BE)

16:45 - 17:00

Coffee Break

Festsaal
17:00 - 17:45
Exhibitors short presentations
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19:00 - 21:30

Joint Dinner at Heuriger
(18:15 Transfer)

Day 3 - Friday, April 28, 2023

CEST
Festsaal
08:55 - 09:00
Welcome by EMMC
09:00 - 09:20
Plenary 5
nanoHUB services for FAIR simulations and data: ResultsDB and Sim2Ls

by Alejandro Strachan (Purdue University, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, US)

Chair: NN (Organisation, Country)

09:20 - 10:20
Panel discussion
Materials & Digitalisation: the backbone of the Green Transition

Panelists: 

Alejandro Strachan (Purdue University, US)
Kwang-Ryeol Lee (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, KR)

further panelists to be confirmed

Moderation: NN
(Organisation, Country)

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee Break

10:50 - 13:00






Impulse presentations each 15 min.
Festsaal
Plenary 6
EU Policy landscape in Materials & Digitalisation

by Esther Hurtós (Eurecat, ES)

Chair: NN (Organisation, Country)

Session 6 (Policy and Roadmap)
European and national policy developments

Chair: NN
(Organisation, Country)

Title tbc
by Jana Drbohlavova (EC DG Research & Innovation, BE)

Title tbc
by Rene Martins (EC DG Research & Innovation, BE)

Overview of Advanced Materials Initiative AMI2030
by Philippe Jacques (EMIRI, BE)

Materials Digitalisation: EMMC Roadmap and AMI2030
by Gerhard Goldbeck (EMMC, BE)

13:00 - 13:15
Conclusion and Goodbye by EMMC
13:15 - 14:30

Lunch

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