Events
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Software Café
The Software Café is a brand-new meeting place and knowledge platform for software professionals in the high-tech and manufacturing industries. It is part of the Software Community, a collaborative initiative launched earlier this year by Mikrocentrum together with five leading high-tech companies: ASML, Canon, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Vanderlande Imdistries, and VDL ETG. The goal is to strengthen software development in hardware-driven environments.
BSBF2026 Site visit to ITER
On 18 February, BSBF2026 hosts an exclusive site visit for suppliers to the ITER facility that is being built and to get a grasp of where your company's competences can play a role, in the framework of the Big Science Business Forum 2026, to be held in Maastricht 27 - 30 October 2026, we organise a visit to the main site of ITER.
The visit will include expert briefings and guided access to the Assembly Hall and Tokamak pit. Insight into the procurement strategy of ITER will be given and how industry can engage.
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Past events
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.
Deep Tech Day UvA 28 january
The UvA faculty of Science organised their first Deep Tech Day at Amsterdam Science Park. During this event, the focus was on the road from deep technological science to societal impact. The programme featured plenary sessions with keynotes and panel discussions by, among others, Tjerk Opmeer (Director of Innovation Policy, Ministry of Economic Affairs), Constantijn van Oranje (Special Envoy at TechLeap), Dr. Emilia Olsson (Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, and ARCNL), and Renée Frissen (AI Plan). There were several parallel sessions for example focussing on Knowledge & Technology Transfer or the Faculty of Science Startups.
General Industry meeting BigScience.NL
BigScience.NL organises general industry meetings in different locations in the Netherlands to inform companies about developments and opportunities at Big Science organisations. This time the general industry meeting took place at Demcon Kryoz in Enschede to specifically address companies in this region. More than 25 companies joined the event.
