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Battery Safety Across the Battery Lifecycle: From Design and Use to Collection and Recycling

28 October 2026

This MateriNex Common Interest Group, "Materials for Battery Technology" event will bring research and industry together at Sortbat in Tienen. The programme will explore safety challenges from battery design and use through to collection and recycling, with time to exchange perspectives and make new connections.

Preliminary Programme ( Registration Opens Soon)

Battery Safety Across the Battery Lifecycle: From Design and Use to Collection and Recycling

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

12:00 -17:00

Language: English

12:00 – 13:00 | Registration and networking lunch 

13:00 | Welcome Address

13:15 | Opening Keynote – Battery Safety in Practice: Risks, Regulations and Lessons Learned from Battery Collection and Processing, Benny Van den Steen, BEBAT

13:45 | Keynote - Battery Safety by Design (Subject to the speaker confirming the title.)

14:20 | Spotlight on MateriNex ICON project CRYOSTAT, Tim Deschryver, YouPower

14:40 | Keynote - Thermal Runaway (Subject to the speaker confirming the title.), VUB MOBI Research Group

15:10 - 15:40 | Networking break

15:40 | A Fireside Chat with Em. Prof.dr.ir. Annick Hubin, VUB and  Dr. Fanny Bardé, SOLiTHOR (Subject to the speaker confirming the title.)

16:00 | Guided visit to Sortbat

17:00 | End

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