What's Next MateriNex - 27 May 2025

27 May 2025

Our annual What's Next MateriNex event will take place for the second time on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 in Antwerp.

Focus is on Advancing Materials Science Research with Artificial Intelligence,  highlighting the latest trends and future developments in Flanders and beyond.

Programme

 Wake-Up Session (By invitation only)

Future-Proofing Flanders: Opportunities in Lithium Refining and Battery Recycling

09:30 - 10:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome and Introductions
10:15 -11:15

Premiere Screening of the Documentary: 

Europe's Lithium Paradox

11:15 -12:00 Moderated Panel Discussion
 
 
Afternoon Session (Open to all stakeholders )
Advancing Materials Science Research with Artificial Intelligence
12:00 - 13:00 Registration, Lunch & Networking 
13:00 - 13:15 

Welcome and Brief Review of MateriNex's First Year of Operation.

Speaker: Johan Vangrunderbeek, Coordinator MateriNex

13:15 - 14:45

KEYNOTES:

       Materials Discovery: The Need for a Paradigm Shift

      Lab-scale Machine Learning: Tales of the Good, the Bad and the Average

    Digital and High-Throughput Transmission Electron Microscopy for Materials Science: Seeing is Believing, to Measure is to Know

 

14:45 - 15:15  Refreshment Break & Networking
15:15 -16:45

NEW & NOTABLE: Innovative AI Solutions for the Materials Industry: Emerging Pioneers Showcase Their Latest Tools.

Concurrent Session: Kurt Peys, General Director of Team Bedrijfstrajecten at VLAIO (Flemish Agency for Innovation and Entrepreneurship). Kurt Peys will be interviewed between the pitches from young companies, discussing the VLAIO's support tools and how these resources can benefit emerging businesses.

Speakers:

From Real Scarcity to Synthetic Abundance: how generative AI can complete materials datasets.

Engineering Tomorrow’s Electric Motors with The Power of 3D Printing.

Closing the data gap: AI‑driven quality control with synthetic data.

 

 

 

16:45 - 17:00 Closing Remarks MateriNex
17:00 - 18:00 Networking Reception
End

Event location



Vestar Antwerp