Discovery Day
AI × Materials Innovation Summit | Berlin, Germany
An exclusive invite-only technical deep dive for leaders in chemicals, energy, advanced materials, AI, and industrial R&D.
Discovery Day brings together ~100 C-levels, VPs, Directors, and top academic minds to explore the future of materials innovation.
Why attend: The materials and chemicals sectors are undergoing a historic shift: simulation-driven workflows, autonomous labs, and AI-enabled design loops are transforming how breakthroughs are created, validated, and scaled. This one-day summit gives you a front-row seat to this transformation.
What we’ll explore:
1) How We Got Here - The Traditional Materials R&D Playbook: A clear and candid look at how materials innovation has historically been approached
2) Reality Check - The Biggest Industrial Challenges Today: Insights into the bottlenecks that technical and commercial leaders face in real-world R&D
3) Frontier Tech Deep Dive - How AI4Materials Is Changing the Game: A look under the hood of next-generation AI-driven R&D workflows and how they are reshaping discovery and development.
Additional highlights
Tour & live demonstration of Dunia’s autonomous lab and facilities
Open discussions with technical leaders and domain experts
Multiple networking sessions, including evening social events
A selection of confirmed speakers and participating organizations:
Project Prometheus
BCG
Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC)
Hugging Face
Sandbox AQ
OMV
and other world-class institutions.
About our venue
BESSY II isn’t your typical event venue. Located in Berlin-Adlershof, it’s one of Europe’s leading synchrotron facilities. It's a place where the invisible becomes visible. A fitting metaphor, as a setting built to see the unseen is the perfect backdrop for a conversation about making the physical world programmable.
Making solar cells last longer: BESSY II has revealed why advanced materials like perovskites degrade, enabling the design of more efficient, longer-lasting solar cells.
Watching batteries age in real time: BESSY II's research uncovered how to build safer, longer-lasting energy storage.
Unlocking next-generation electronics: By probing materials at the nanoscale, BESSY II is advancing magnetic and quantum materials for faster, more energy-efficient computing.