Event agenda
Wednesday, 11 March 2026
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch & Registration
13:00 - 13:20
Opening Ceremony
Catarina Sahlberg, Programme Director of Big Science Sweden, together with the team, will kick off the forum. Get energised for the next two days of networking and collaboration.
1 speaker
13:20 - 14:00
Pitches
13:20 - 18:00
Big Science Technology Exhibition
Swedish companies, universities, and institutes stand side by side with Europe’s major Big Science facilities and projects to meet and discover new opportunities.
13:20 - 18:00
One-to-one meetings
- Meeting point by the registration desk
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
14:00 - 14:30
Session A • Big Science Procurement Guide (BiSS Lathund)
Join a seminar introducing the Big Science Procurement Guide (BiSS Lathund), a simple and effective tool to help you navigate and keep track of procurement processes from 15 different Big Science facilities.
1 speaker
Session B • MAX 4U: an upgrade of the MAX IV 3 GeV ring
This session introduces the MAX 4U upgrade at MAX IV, boosting performance through lower emittance using a targeted, cost- and time-efficient approach with minimal disruption to users.
1 speaker
14:30 - 14:40
Short break
14:40 - 15:10
Session A • Construction of the SHiP experiment at CERN
Make sure you are on board when CERN and the SHiP project actively starts looking for new industrial and academic partners to develop and construct the facility and the detector.
1 speaker
Session B • CERN LHC Run4 computing infrastructure procurement
1 speaker
15:10 - 16:00
Pitches
16:00 - 16:30
Session A • Einstein Telescope
Einstein Telescope is a proposed underground observatory with 10 km arms, using cryogenic and quantum technologies to enable unprecedented gravitational-wave studies of black holes and cosmology.
1 speaker
Session B • Critical materials technology gaps and challenges in constructing fusion power plants
This session by Fusion for Energy (F4E) explores key needs in critical areas, highlights where new projects are needed, and outlines paths forward through collaboration between industry, universities and research laboratories.
1 speaker
16:30 - 16:40
Short break
16:40 - 17:10
Session A • European XFEL Key Requirements: From Operation to Upgrades and Development
1 speaker
16:40 - 17:20
Session B • HiBEAM and SAGA: Swedish contributions to development of instruments for ESS
HiBEAM and SAGA are two different instrument developed for ESS with Swedish contributions. These instrument have a potential to be build at ESS in the future upgrade of the facility.
2 speakers
17:10 - 18:00
Pitches
18:00 - 18:30
Short break
18:30 - 22:00
Dinner and evening mingle
We gather in the atrium for a standing dinner with a relaxed atmosphere, good food and time to mingle. A great opportunity to reflect on the day and continue discussions.
Thursday, 12 March 2026
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
08:30 - 13:00
Big Science Technology Exhibition
Swedish companies, universities, and institutes stand side by side with Europe’s major Big Science facilities and projects to meet and discover new opportunities.
08:30 - 13:00
One-to-one meetings
- Meeting point by the registration desk
Meeting duration:15 minute time slots
09:00 - 09:30
Session B • Challenges in the pre-study of FCC at CERN
09:00 - 09:40
Latest updates from EISCAT and ELI
Latest developments, technical capabilities and future plans from EISCAT and ELI, highlighting new research infrastructure, advanced instrumentation and collaboration opportunities.
09:30 - 10:10
Pitches
10:10 - 10:40
Session A • Data centre development at GSI/FAIRto meet future compute demand
Growing data volumes push facilities to rethink cooling and power. At GSI/FAIR, a new Cooling Distribution Unit supports high-density GPU clusters in an N+1 configuration.
1 speaker
Session B • EST – A new European Solar Telescope
10:40 - 10:50
Short break
10:50 - 11:20
Session A • DONES – Demo Oriented Neutron Source: from construction start to procurement needs
IFMIF-DONES in Granada (ES) is a major international scientific infrastructure project aimed at supporting the development of fusion energy by testing and qualifying materials that will be used in future fusion reactors, particularly the DEMO reactor.
1 speaker
Session B • Development of ECHIR beamline at ESS
1 speaker
11:20 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:30
Session A • TomoWISE project at MAX IV
Speaker: Fredrik Holmlund, Max IV, Lund University
1 speaker
Session B • Novatron
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Mini AIMday Big Science Technology • By invitation only
Selected Swedish companies and researchers meet international Big Science facilities to discuss concrete technical challenges in structured round-table discussions, focusing on needs and potential solutions.
14:50 - 15:50
Mini AIMday Big Science Technology • By invitation only
Selected Swedish companies and researchers meet international Big Science facilities to discuss concrete technical challenges in structured round-table discussions, focusing on needs and potential solutions.