Name: Brightcon 2025, hackathon & courses in Grenoble and online
Start: 2025-10-12T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CEA Grenoble

Brightcon 2025, hackathon & courses in Grenoble and online

from Sunday, 12 October 2025 (12:00) to Friday, 17 October 2025 (18:00)

Monday, 6 October 2025
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Friday, 10 October 2025
Saturday, 11 October 2025
Sunday, 12 October 2025

14:00 Accrobranche

14:00 - 18:00

Monday, 13 October 2025

08:30 Welcome coffee & Registration
Welcome coffee & Registration
08:30 - 10:00

10:00 Hackathon: Hackathon + social event
Hackathon + social event
10:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 14 October 2025

08:00 Welcome coffee & registration
Welcome coffee & registration
08:00 - 09:00

09:00 Beginners class - detailed program follows later

09:00 - 18:00

Hackathon

09:00 - 18:00

Intermediate & Advanced class - detailed program will follow

09:00 - 18:00
Wednesday, 15 October 2025

08:30 Welcome coffee & Registration
Welcome coffee & Registration
08:30 - 10:00

10:00 Opening ceremony

10:00 - 10:15
10:15 W1: Connecting models and data to give (environmental) sustainability information
10:15 - 12:00
Contributions

10:15 Accounting for the Aging of Lithium-Ion Batteries in a Life Cycle Assessment Model: motivations and development of an open-source tool - Morgane Gillet (Laboratoire Ampère, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

10:35 A Modular Framework for Harmonized Life Cycle Assessment of Green Hydrogen Technologies: Bridging the Gap Between Technology Developers and Sustainability Analysts - Mael Mouhoub (CIRAIG (HES-SO/EPFL))

10:55 An LCA implementation of wheat production in Italy - Gianfranco Giulioni (Department of Socio-Economic, Management and Statistical Studies "G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)

11:15 A Python Package for Planetary-Boundary-Based Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment - Jan Marcus Hartmann (Institute of Technical Thermodynamics - RWTH Aachen University)

11:35 Open Integrated Circuits Database (OICDB) - Augustin Wattiez (UCLouvain)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
12:50 W2: Keynote
12:50 - 14:00
Contributions

13:00 TianGong Initiative - Xiaohui Lu

13:10 Départ de Sentier and friends: The next 12 months - Chris Mutel (Départ de Sentier)
13:45 W3: Data for LCAs
13:45 - 14:30
Contributions

13:45 Feeding Brightway with data – Automated data extraction from chemical process simulations into LCA software - Lukas Spiekermann (Energy & Process Systems Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich)

14:05 Chemical Connections in LCA: Linking Databases, Molecules and Open Chemical Data - Stewart Charles McDowall (Leiden University - CML)

14:15 Code – Utilizing LLMs (large language models) to manage Ecoinvent database - Ning An (Aalborg University)
14:30 W4: Barcamp
14:30 - 15:15
Contributions

14:30 All I love and hate about Open Tools - with OpenLCA and Activity Browser - Conrad Spindler (GreenDelta GmbH) Marin Visscher (Leiden University: CML)
15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 W5: Open tools
15:45 - 17:30
Contributions

15:45 Generating web applications from parametric inventories - Raphael Jolivet (Mines Paris PSL)

16:30 Beyond "elementary flows": Edge-based Impact Assessment for Context-sensitive LCA in Brightway - Romain Sacchi (PSI)

17:15 Scores: a brightway-based tool to improve LCA workflows - Joan Muñoz-Liesa (LCA group, Agroscope, Switzerland)
17:30 Sponsors: Sponsor presentation
Sponsor presentation
17:30 - 17:35

17:35 Wrap up & discussion of day 1

17:35 - 18:00

19:00 Conference dinner

19:00 - 22:00
Thursday, 16 October 2025

08:00 Coffee & networking
Coffee & networking
08:00 - 08:30
08:30 T1: Open data and tools for energy
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 e-Hydrogen Cost Optimizer: A Tool for Techno-economic Optimization and Environmental Performance of Green Hydrogen Systems - Holkan Vazquez (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) Monserrat Echegoyen-Lopez (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

09:00 Capturing When and Where CO₂ Removal Matters: A Modular, and Open-Source LCA of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement - Arezoo Azimi (Heriot Watt University)

09:15 Hybrid framework for multi-objective optimization of sustainable energy systems - Diego Larrahondo (CEA Grenoble)

09:30 TEA-LCA of hydrogen-based ICE-CHP in decentralized energy systems: feedback on OpenModelica-ActivityBrowser interfacing from code-curious users - Paul Robineau (IPHC - Institut pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 T2: Data - backbone of LCAs
10:30 - 11:20
Contributions

10:30 Product Category Templates (PCTs) - Open-source modeling templates to support upscaling, comparability and compliance for product categories - Conrad Spindler (GreenDelta GmbH)

10:45 Simulation based creation of LCA datasets - Hannes Schneider (TU Braunschweig)

11:05 From PDF to JSON-LD: An Automated n8n–AI Pipeline for Rapid, Validated LCA Inventory Creation - Luis Trujillo (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
11:20 T3: Discussion round: Making sense of what we have heard

11:20 - 11:45
11:45 T4: Poster spotlights
11:45 - 12:00
Contributions

11:45 Building a shared Life Cycle Inventory database for energy and process systems - Fabian Welker (RWTH Aachen University) Tim Faruss (RWTH Aachen University)

11:48 Integrated TEA–LCA: A Parametric Framework for Chemical Process Evaluation - Matthias Schiedeck (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute for a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy (INW), Jülich, Germany)

11:51 How Energy Transitions Reshape Ecodesign of Automotive Components in Battery Electric Vehicles? Retrospective vs. Prospective Life Cycle Assessment - Carlos Hernandez (Univ Coimbra, ADAI, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rua Luís Reis Santos, Pólo II, Coimbra, 3030-788, Portugal)

11:54 Parametric life-cycle inventory and eco-optimization of a small wind turbine - Adrien Prévost (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G2Elab, 38000 Grenoble, France)

11:57 Brightway in Practice: Modeling the Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind Turbines in Finland - Sara Saukkonen
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 T6: Looking back and forth
13:00 - 14:30
Contributions

13:00 Successes and Pitfalls in Building an LCI database: Five Years of BONSAI - Valentin Starlinger (BONSAI)

13:30 exploring the BONSAI database with Brightway - Miguel Fernández Astudillo (2-0 LCA)

13:45 Introducing the Cornerstone Initiative and Ambitions - Wesley Ingwersen (Stanford University)

14:00 Ecobalyse: Democratizing Ecolabelling through Open-Source LCA Infrastructure - Christophe Combelles (Ecobalyse) Vincent Colomb (ADEME)
14:30 T5: Panel discussion

14:30 - 15:15

15:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 T7: New tools
15:45 - 17:00
Contributions

15:45 MaxEnt_Disaggregation: Divide (your data) and Rule (the correlations)! - Arthur Jakobs (PSI)

16:05 flodym: A Flexible and Open Python Library for Dynamic Material Flow Analysis - Jakob Dürrwächter (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK))

16:25 Activity Browser 3 Demonstration - Marin Visscher (Leiden University: CML)
17:00 T8: Workshop
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Hands-On Product Disassembly for Open Data - Franco Donati (Leiden University) Simon van Lierde
18:15 Départ de Sentier General Assembly - for members only

18:15 - 18:45
Friday, 17 October 2025

08:00 Coffee & networking
Coffee & networking
08:00 - 08:30
08:30 F1: Importing and combining data
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Integration of EEMRIO into Brightway 2.5 using EXIOBASE Hybrid Data - María-Pilar Martínez-Hernando (ETSI Minas y Energía. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

08:50 Importing EXIOBASE to Brightway 2.5 - Ning An (Aalborg University)

09:10 A proposal for an open and generalized data exchange protocol for Digital Product Passports - Franco Donati (Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences CML)

09:30 Standardising CCUS Assessment: A Curated Platform for Transparent LCA, TEA, and Process Data - Arezoo Azimi

09:50 Faster score-only calculations in Brightway - Chris Mutel (Départ de Sentier)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 F2: Combining aspects
10:30 - 10:40
Contributions

10:30 Prospective, Dynamic, and Spatial LCA of Low TRL Biobased Products and Systems Using Brightway - Zulfiqar Ali (ADAI, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidade de Coimbra)
10:40 F3: Hackathon results

10:40 - 11:15
11:15 F4: Barcamps - what YOU want to discuss in groups
11:15 - 12:00
Contributions

11:15 Circular Futures Lab: African-Centered Pathways for Sustainable Materials and Societal Transformation - Modupe Onitiri (University of Lagos)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 F5: Keynote
13:00 - 13:45
Contributions

13:00 Industrial Ecology Data Commons – IEDC. A new type of database for industrial ecology and socio-metabolic research - Stefan Pauliuk
13:45 F6: Brightcon Awards: F6: Brightcon Awards
F6: Brightcon Awards
13:45 - 14:00
14:00 F7: Databases and LCA results
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Prototyping an Interactive Tool for Uncertainty and Hotspot Analysis in Ecodesign - Jan Klenner (LOMARTOV SL)

14:15 Beyond ecoinvent: expanding Brightway modelling capabilities importing and harmonizing food LCA databases - Furrer Cédric (LCA group, Agroscope)

14:30 ILCD format - Chris Mutel (Départ de Sentier)

14:45 Cleanly importing Agribalyse 3.2 into Brightway - Chris Mutel (Départ de Sentier)
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:15

15:15 Discussion of conference & Closing ceremony

15:15 - 15:45

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