Brightcon 2026, hackathon and courses

Digital Product Passports (DPPs) will soon become mandatory for many products sold in the European Union. These digital records of product information are an important development for supply chain transparency and support of conscious consumer choices. Companies see the need for compliance, but clear guidance on data requirements is missing.
To support data collection and data sharing across...

Highlights
1. Most AI-assisted LCA research focuses on data gap filling, automated foreground system construction remains underexplored.
2. A user-driven pipeline is proposed: users input a rough system description, and LLMs automatically construct the foreground system with system boundaries and key inventory parameters.
3. The framework will be implemented in Python and integrated...

Highlights / Discussion Points
• ISAT (IPM Self-Assessment Tool) is the first freely accessible, web-based platform integrating the PLEU with GHG emissions and cost indicators for field-level crop protection scenario comparison: http://synops.julius-kuehn.de/support.
• New harmonized pesticide risk indicator (PLEU) covering 41 hazard metrics across environmental fate, ecotoxicity, and human...

Highlights/Dicussion Points:
- Present the brightway libraries used in EcoAgent
- Share jupyter code for using AI-RAG based database search and [open source repository][1] I made
- Future objective to balance self sustaining business model and open code share

Concise Description
EcoAgent is an AI assistant for LCA. It relies on a few Brightway libraries. In this talk, the...

Achieving net-zero targets necessitates large quantities of newly installed renewable energy capacity and sustainable hydrogen production. Since the projected demand of hydrogen and its derivatives in various end use sectors in Europe cannot be produced locally economically, imports from regions with surpluses of renewable energy are likely. New trade routes will emerge, transporting hydrogen...

Highlights:

• Introduction of Lighthouse, a Python package integrating Brightway and premise
• Flexible building modelling framework
• Automated generation of the solution space of phased renovation scenarios
• Time-resolved life cycle assessment with dynamic life cycle inventory
• Advanced decision-support capabilities
• Open-source, scalable, and interoperable design

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Many life cycle inventories are technically public but practically unusable: they are buried in PDFs, supplementary spreadsheets, or tables with weak metadata, unclear licensing, and no stable version history. Sharing data with interested parties is often hindered by differences in LCA software and data formats, background database versions, and other incompatibilities. CLIC (Curated Life...

Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of novel, low-TRL technologies are often constrained by low availability of inventory data. The assessment of input materials based on patent information one feasible approach to overcome the lack of data, e.g., for less-common chemical substances used as input materials for novel electrolytes.

This presentation highlights the approach applied in the SAGELi...