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.
Program:
9:00AM - Doors open/networking
9:30AM - Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00AM - How We Got Here: The Foundations of Materials Discovery Systems (one talk and one panel)
11:00AM - Break and Demos
11:30AM - State of the Industry Today (three talks)
12:30PM - Lunch
2:00PM - The Fronter of Materials AI (two talks and one panel)
3:00PM - Break
3:30PM - The Missing Link: From Autonomous Labs to AI-Native Datasets (three talks)
4:30PM - Closing remarks
5:00PM - Reception and IRIS tours
A selection of confirmed speakers and participating organizations:
NVIDIA
Project Prometheus
BCG
Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC)
Hugging Face
Chevron
CATL
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.
Note: Photography and video recording will take place at Discovery Day. Recordings may be used by Dunia Innovations for event documentation, press, website, social media, and future event communication. If you do not wish to appear in recordings, please contact the registration desk on arrival.