Events
Upcoming events
Industry meeting & INPROCAP @ ASTRON
BigScience and INPROCAP join forces in this industry meeting at ASTRON, Dwingeloo to inform companies about developments and opportunities at Big Science Organisations.
Companies are welcome to get to know the BigScience network of Industrial Liaison Officers and multiple Big Science Organisations, and are invited to connect with Big Science Organisations to discuss potential solutions to specific technical challenges. Several companies will share insights into their experiences working with Big Science Organisations, showcasing the opportunities and the challenges such projects may entail. We will end the industry meeting with networking drinks, the opportunity to further connect with the ILO’s and an optional tour of ASTRON.
ET Industry Computing Workshop 2026
The workshop will explore how emerging information technologies can support the scientific ambitions of the Einstein Telescope, while also exploring potential collaborations with industry.
One theme of the workshop will be sustainability, looking at upcoming trends in computing technologies, both for hardware and data centre infrastructure. A second theme will be the evolving role of AI in large-scale scientific and research software, looking both at algorithms and at AI-assisted code development.
Einstein Telescope Vacuum and Cryogenics Industrial Workshop: opportunities and challenges
CERN, Geneva, CH
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together the leading institutes that are designing the vacuum and cryogenic systems of the Einstein Telescope and European Big Science industries specialised in vacuum and cryogenic technologies, to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead. The event will be held in CERN, where the ET vacuum pilot sector is housed.
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Past events
ZIE, Zuid-Hollands Industrie Event 2026
"BigScience.NL visited ZIE, Zuid-Hollands Industrie Event, hosted by Mikrocentrum at the Van Nellefabriek in Rotterdam on March 26th. At this yearly event, high tech and manufacturing companies, suppliers, knowledge institutes and government from the South Holland region get together. We discussed Big Science and developments in hydrogen technology, space, robotics, resilience, mechatronics and optics, AI and data and semicon. Of course, we had plenty of time to connect with the ecosystem and to invite interested parties to BSBF26. ZIE you next year, Rotterdam!"
Industriemiddag
The BigScience.NL industry afternoon at the Mikrocentrum was well attended by over 40 people. The industrial liaison officers of the various Big Science organisations to which we are connected, presented the opportunities at those organisation. Two companies shared their experience in working with these large organisations for those unfamiliar with the domain to learn from. Three companies seeking to enter the big science arena pitched their competences to the ILOs and fellow companies such that more people are aware of their competences potentially leading to new opportunities. Many new contacts were made during the networking moments the seeds for new partnerships. The BSBF2026 was promoted and the programme and opportunity to present companies' competences was well received.
7th German Fusion Forum
On a snowy Monday, people, primarily Germans, interested in the opportunities and challenges facing nuclear fusion came together in Garching, a small university town near Munich with a surprisingly bad public transport connection to Munich airport. The 190 participants would spend two days together to witness an extensive number of presentations covering the need for a new regulatory framework for fusion to the ambitious roadmaps of German fusion startups.
