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Software Café

12-02-2026

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.

Expect open discussions, practical insights, shared challenges, and forward-looking perspectives. This first edition focuses on one essential question: The challenges of increasing the value of software in a hardware-driven environment.

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