Indepth Sessions – Afternoon

13u00 – 18u00 SIM Materials Forum
- Climate, clean energy & mobility
- Innovative applications
- Circular materials
- Modelling and digitalisation

13u00-17u00 Linking the current Belgian hydrogen academic research to our industry: key-notes and network event

14u00 – 15u30 Autonomous vehicles
- Indoor & outdoor localization in general
- Sensor-fusion for accurate in-door 3d localization of drones
- Autonomous working vehicles
- Flemish drone community EUKA

14u00-15u30 Cybersecurity in the manufacturing industry

14u00-15u30 AI in de maakindustrie
- AI Vlaanderen ondersteunt bedrijven in de adoptie van AI
- Datagestuurde toepassingen voor de industrie: hoe AI de maakindustrie geleidelijk transformeert
- Hoe kan AI de productiviteit en kwaliteit in productieprocessen verbeteren? Case studie over 3d printen
- “Levenslang leren in de Vlaamse AI Academie”

14u00-15u30 AI in manufacturing
- Flanders AI supports companies in the adoption of AI
- Ai Supporting Operators In A Flexible Manufacturing Environment
- Data-driven applications for industry: how AI is gradually transforming manufacturing
- Lifelong Learning in the Flanders AI Academy
13h00 - 18h00 SIM Materials Forum
Climate, clean energy & mobility
Innovative applications
Circular materials
Modelling and digitalisation
Wednesday
14h00 - 15h30 Autonomous vehicles
Indoor & outdoor localization in general
Sensor-fusion for accurate in-door 3d localization of drones
Autonomous working vehicles
Flemish drone community EUKA
Wednesday
14h00-15h30 AI in de maakindustrie
AI Vlaanderen ondersteunt bedrijven in de adoptie van AI
Datagestuurde toepassingen voor de industrie: hoe AI de maakindustrie geleidelijk transformeert
Hoe kan AI de productiviteit en kwaliteit in productieprocessen verbeteren? Case studie over 3d printen
“Levenslang leren in de Vlaamse AI Academie”
Wednesday
13h00-17h00 Linking the current Belgian hydrogen academic research to our industry: key-notes and network event
Thursday
14h00-15h30 AI in manufacturing
Flanders AI supports companies in the adoption of AI
Ai Supporting Operators In A Flexible Manufacturing Environment
Data-driven applications for industry: how AI is gradually transforming manufacturing
Lifelong Learning in the Flanders AI Academy
Thursday
Wednesday 24 May
Main Stage
Geert Noels & Kristof Eggermont (Econopolis): Climate Shock – 20 solutions for government, companies & citizens in Belgium
Kamila Slupek (Eurometaux): Metals for energy transition
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Blue Room
13h30 | Introductie Tech4WW project
Raf Vranken – Flanders Make
13h40 | “Het gebruik van XR technologie voor het realiseren van werker-georiënteerde Industry 5.0 oplossingen”
Prof. dr. Maarten Wijnants – Flanders Make@Uhasselt
14h00 | Wie wil een exoskeleton dragen? Acceptatie van exoskeletons op de werkvloer
Shirley A. Elprama – Imec-SMIT-VUB
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14h20 | Pauze
14h40 | Technologie en Werkbaar Werk, een complex samenspel
Dr. Milou Habraken – KULeuven – HIVA
15h00 | Belang en aanpak van training werkzoekende operatoren / productiemedewerkers verzorgen.
Marc Cloostermans – VDAB
15h10 | Digitalis: “De technologie….. waar vind ik de ondersteuning bij de implementatie?”.
Ger van den Kerkhof – Flanders Make
Tijdens deze XR espresso, die wordt georganiseerd door het XRvalley comité dat focust op Engineering, Design & Visualisatie, behandelen we het potentieel van VR/AR in product design & engineering.
Voor deze XR espresso die we organiseren van 16u tot 17u30 hebben we mooie set sprekers:
- Jelle Saldien, professor @IMEC-MICT-UGENT en Jelle Demanet manager van @HITlab_Howest @Howest en medeoprichter van @xrvalley zullen praten over hoe XR-technologieën kunnen worden gebruikt voor vroege gebruikerstests en zullen vertellen over hun nieuwe “Experience Twin” initiatief.
- Mario Matthys, CEO van @ULiA zal onder de titel “Animated Spatial Time Machine” spreken over hoe XR-technologieën kunnen worden gebruikt om de geschiedenis te reconstrueren met behulp van gamification geïntegreerd in 3D stadsmodellering, 4D web en transmedia storytelling.
- Mike Coeck, CEO van Cybernetic Walrus zal het hebben over hoe VR Digital Twins veel aspecten van uw bedrijf kunnen verbeteren.
- Bernard Francois, CEO van PreviewLabs zal spreken over hoe fast prototyping het ontwerpproces in design & engineering kan helpen.
AI-Hub
13h30 – 15h00: Plenairy pitches of AI companies
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- IMEC/IDLab // Bringing AI to Industry – Siegfried Mercelis (Program Manager AI Applications)
- MCS/Scailable // AI on Edge Devices – Wim De Wispelaere (VP Strategic Business Development)
- Faktion // A data-centric approach for industrial AI applications – Jeroen Boeye (Head of Machine Learning)
- Proximus // Computer Vision for Maintenance – Alexis Wuyts (Advanced Analytics Strategist)
Jeroen Boeye |
Siegfried Mercelis |
Wim De Wispelaere |
Alexis Wuyts |
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Thursday 25 May
Main Stage
13h30-15h00 “The Designer as a Tool” – strategic design
Designers possess unique skills that make them a valuable innovation tool. They think creatively, approach problems from different angles and prioritize functionality, usability and also aesthetics. This makes them adept at identifying new opportunities and coming up with solutions that meet user needs while delivering business results. But what is design and what can it do for your business? Get inspired by 3 design experts and discover where design can make a difference within your company.
Jurgen Tanghe, Head of Experience Design Wunderman Thompson, author Irresistible By Design
Lukas Van Campenhout, Professor at University of Antwerp – Founder of Ground Eight, Design Research Agency
David Pas, InnoLab coordinator Verhaert, Masters in Innovation
An initiative of Flanders DC, University of Antwerp and ANTWERP. POWERED BY CREATIVES.
Blue Room
13h30-15h00
Key takeaways of the collective project “Orientation and decision-making in smart product exploration” by Imec & Sirris
Dreaming of your future product, packed with smart functions, exchanging data and remotely controlled and serviced with apps?
Coming up with a strong and well-founded solution concept for a smart product can be challenging. Especially when new business models, new technologies and new skills are involved.
imec & Sirris have developed a set of tools for companies to orient themselves more efficiently and more successfully in the exploration phase of smart products. In this session you will learn about the key challenges of smart product exploration and how you can take advantage of the proposed tools.
Topics you can expect: product life cycle management, product strategy, market fit, organisational maturity, systems engineering, technological solution development
Speakers:
Geert Willems, imec
Thomas De Meester, imec
Pieter Beyl, Sirris

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Green Room
13h30-15h00
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AI-Hub
AI is a technology with a major contribution to the new paradigms of Industry 5.0 for the manufacturing industry: sustainability, human-centeredness and resilience.
This session looks at this theme from different perspectives:

- Generic AI research questions and demonstrators of new AI technologies for the manufacturing industry from the Flanders AI Research Program.
Sabine Demey, Director Flanders AI Research Program, imec
- Using AI and domain knowledge to deal with highly variable production while using limited production resources, “AI-enabled smart manufacturing”, by Flanders Make, consortium partner of the Flanders AI Research Program. Bey-Temsamani Abdel , Flanders Make, Team Leader Computer Vision & AI
- Virtual sensors for non-directly measurable process variables, data-driven machine and process setting optimization and self-learning machine controllers, by Leap Technologies, a spin-off from PhD students in the Flanders AI Research Program.
Tom Staessens, LeapTechnologies, co-founder
- A tool that detects and corrects errors in product, material, customer and supplier data, by HOGent, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, The tool is developed as part of an AI TETRA research project (funded by VLAIO). Johan Decorte, HO Gent, Department IT and Digital Innovation, teacher-researcher

Wednesday 24 May
13h00 – 18h00 SIM Materials Forum
- Climate, clean energy & mobility
- Innovative applications
- Circular materials
- Modelling and digitalisation
14h00 – 15h30 Flanders Make Session
14h00-15h30 AI in de maakindustrie Praktische cases
- The Beacon sessions
14h00-15h30 XR in product Design XR Valley
Thursday 25 May