Name: Brightcon 2026, hackathon and courses
Start: 2026-09-20T15:45:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-25T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Aalborg University & Online

Brightcon 2026, hackathon and courses

from Sunday, 20 September 2026 (15:45) to Friday, 25 September 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 14 September 2026
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Thursday, 17 September 2026
Friday, 18 September 2026
Saturday, 19 September 2026
Sunday, 20 September 2026

15:45 Social Activity for Early Arrivers: Aalborg Street Art Walking Tour
Social Activity for Early Arrivers: Aalborg Street Art Walking Tour
15:45 - 18:00

Monday, 21 September 2026

08:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
08:30 - 09:00
Room: AAU Innovation

09:00 Hackathon
Hackathon
09:00 - 12:00
Room: InnoLab (A.301)

12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00

13:00 Hackathon
Hackathon
13:00 - 17:30
Room: InnoLab (A.301)

19:00 Hacker's dinner (Restaurant Textur)

19:00 - 21:30
Tuesday, 22 September 2026

08:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
08:30 - 09:00
Room: AAU Innovation

09:00 Beginner's Course
Beginner's Course
09:00 - 12:00
Room: C.104 a

Hackathon
Hackathon
09:00 - 12:00
Room: InnoLab (A.301)

Intermediate Course
Intermediate Course
09:00 - 12:00
Room: C.104 b

12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00

13:00 Beginner's Course
Beginner's Course
13:00 - 17:00
Room: C.104 a

Hackathon
Hackathon
13:00 - 17:00
Room: InnoLab (A.301)

Intermediate Course
Intermediate Course
13:00 - 17:00
Room: C.104 b
Wednesday, 23 September 2026

09:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Hall, Ground Floor

10:00 Opening ceremony
Opening ceremony
10:00 - 10:15
Room: Auditorium, Ground Floor
10:15 W1 - Open data, shared foundations
10:15 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium, Ground Floor
Contributions

10:15 From LCA Database to AI-Enabled LCA Infrastructure - Jianchuan Qi Xiaohui Lu (Tsinghua University)

10:35 ElecImpact: An Open, Modular, Graph-Based Platform for Collaborative Construction of Life- Cycle Inventory Data - Vincent Corlay (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, Rennes, France)

10:55 naKnow: a collaborative initiative to bridge data gaps in ICT life cycle assessment using parametric modelling - Thibault Simon (Resilio) Marie Reinbigler (Resilio) Arthur Removille (Resilio) Anish Koyamparambath (WeLOOP)

11:15 Reproducing Agribalyse 3.2 in Brightway: an open pipeline for matching, scoring, and SimaPro parity - Laurenz Bougan (Départ de Sentier)

11:30 TRAILS: Deeply Temporalised Life Cycle Assessment with Climate Emulator Coupling - Romain Sacchi (PSI)

11:50 Discussion & getting engaged
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Hall, Ground Floor
13:00 W2 - Keynote I: Artificial Intelligence
13:00 - 13:45
Room: Ground Floor, Auditorium
Contributions

13:00 Keynote I: LCA & AI: Friend, Foe, or Future? - Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen (AAU)
13:45 W3 - AI Fishbowl
13:45 - 14:45
Contributions

13:45 The Bitter Lesson for LCA: Context Engineering as the Key to General-Purpose AI in Sustainability Assessment - Wei Xing

13:45 Can AI Be Your Sustainability Consultant? Evaluating LLMs for LCA Interpretation and Circular Economy Modeling - Jan Klenner (LOMARTOV SL)

13:45 AI-Assisted Extraction and Harmonization of Life Cycle Inventory Data for Emerging Technologies - Javid Isayev (PhD Student)

13:45 Designing Energy‑Efficient AI Workflows for Life Cycle Assessment - Anastasija Mensikova (University of Vermont)

13:45 Compiling global oil supply-chain data with Agentic AI - Simon Schulte (University of Freiburg)

13:45 AI-induced Uncertainty Framework for Life Cycle Assessment - Ning An (Aalborg University)
14:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:45 - 15:15
Room: Hall
15:15 W4 - Uncertainty & Sensitivity
15:15 - 16:25
Room: Ground Floor, Auditorium
Contributions

15:15 Life Cycle Trade-offs of Soil Carbon Sequestration Systems from Field to Supply Chain - Christhel Andrade Díaz (1 Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI), INSA, INRAE UMR792, and CNRS UMR5504, Federal University of Toulouse, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, F-31077, Toulouse, France. 2 Laboratory for Agroecosystem Functioning and Climate Change FAGROCLIM, Department of Chemical, Processes, Food and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Universidad Técnica de Manabí (UTM), 130105 Portoviejo, Ecuador)

15:25 A Python Package for the Simultaneous Global Sensitivity Analysis of Foreground and Background Parameters in Life Cycle Assessment - Jonathan Larochelle (Institute for Energy Efficient Mobility (IEEM), Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences)

15:40 Reconciling stochastic inputs with stochastic backgrounds in LCA: a framework for natural hazards in LCA - Xavier Tanguay

15:55 A Penny for Your Impact: Uncertainty from economic allocation in LCA - Arthur Jakobs (PSI)
16:25 W5 - Sponsors & DdS presentations
16:25 - 16:50
Contributions

16:25 Flow control: keeping data, methods and standards compatible - Haitham Ghaida (One Click LCA/SimaPro)

16:35 Better Data. Better LCA. Better Decisions - Jannick Schmidt (AAU)

16:40 Trusted data for sustainability decisions - Katerina Tsampazi (ecoinvent)

16:45 Départ de Sentier: Who are we? - Xiaojin Zhang (DdS)
16:50 W6 - Parallel Workshops I
16:50 - 18:00
Contributions

16:50 Workshops short introductions (3 min pitches)

17:05 MyLCA: A Generic, Parametric, and Modular Modelling Framework for Brightway25, Application to LCA of Batteries - Victor MANEVAL (CEA - LITEN)

17:05 Lost in Reconstruction: A workshop on reproducibility in Life cycle assessment - Agneta Ghose (Aalborg University)

17:05 Modeling competition for biomass in a constrained bioeconomy - Fabio Sporchia (Aalborg University)
19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Thursday, 24 September 2026

08:00 Coffee
Coffee
08:00 - 08:30
08:30 T1 – Applications, case studies & experiments
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 When Heat Pumps Are Not Green: Using Brightway2 to Reveal Grid-Dependent Environmental Impacts in Morocco - Yassine El Ouakour

08:40 Scenario-Based Life Cycle Assessment of e-Diesel Production for Maritime Decarbonization: A Saudi Arabian Case Study - Monserrat Echegoyen Lopez

08:50 SALCA-PY: An open-source implementation of the Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment models in Python - Laura Scherer (LCA group, Agroscope, Switzerland)

09:05 Volca : an open-source LCA platform built from scratch using AI - Christophe Combelles (Ecobalyse)

09:35 Improving Efficiency and Reusability in Electronics LCA: An Open-Source Framework - Augustin Wattiez (UCLouvain)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 T2 – Methods & frontiers
10:30 - 11:45
Contributions

10:30 A new brightway LCIA method to better quantify manufactured materials - Joanna SCHLESINGER-MARTINAT (Mines Paris - PSL) Raphaël JOLIVET (Mines Paris - PSL)

10:55 Formalising product systems which represent dispersed functions with metabolic time-explicit LCA - Thomas Arblaster (Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands)

11:20 Intrinsic Circularity Assessment in Life Cycle Assessment: Accounting for Cut-off Product Flows - Louis Freboeuf (University of Bordeaux)

11:35 Discussion & getting engaged
11:45 T3 - Poster Spotlights
11:45 - 12:00
Contributions

11:47 Managing Complex Data in Organisational LCA: Data Governance Challenges from a University Case Study - Søren Løkke (Aalborg University)

11:49 A Modular Digital Twin for Electromethanogenesis Bioelectrochemical Systems: From Cell-Level Validation to Industrial Scale-Up and Sustainability Assessment - Özge Özkılınç (Universidad de Burgos (UBU), ICCRAM - University of Burgos - Spain)

11:51 Natural Language Processing-Assisted Unit Process Selection from Industry-Specific Component Descriptors in Product LCAs - Alexandre Bouffard (Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University)

11:53 Uncertainty-aware Ecodesign: Assessment and Visualisation of Uncertainties in LCA during early product development - Amélie Pötzke (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
12:00 Lunch break + Poster session
Lunch break + Poster session
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 T4 - Keynote II: Real-world relevance of Brightcon topics
13:00 - 13:45
Contributions

13:00 From Promising Tools to Trusted Workflows: Bridging the Implementation Gap in Open-Source LCA - Maëlys Courtat (Unilever)
13:45 T5 – Building & connecting models
13:45 - 15:00
Contributions

13:45 Co-Simulating Brightway Life Cycle Assessments with the Functional Mockup Interface - Kathryn Hinkelman (University of Vermont)

14:00 bw_feedback: A brightway-based package for environmental feedback modeling - Pierre Jouannais (INRAE)

14:15 Regionalization in ecoinvent: harnessing trade data for accurate life cycle assessments - Maxime Agez (CIRAIG, Polytechnique Montreal)

14:35 mescal: a tool for coupling energy system models with life-cycle assessment - Matthieu Souttre (CIRAIG, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal)
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 T7 - Open data
15:30 - 16:45
Contributions

15:30 An LCA Data Package Manager (LDPM) - Andrew Beck (Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG))

16:00 Open all the way down: a food database rebuilt on BAFU, live in Firefly for Brightway - Manuel Klarmann (Eaternity)

16:15 Growing open data in a changing world: State-of-the-art and approaches - Laurenz Bougan (Départ de Sentier)

16:30 Discussion & getting engaged
17:00 T8 - Parallel Workshops II
17:00 - 18:05
Contributions

17:05 Workshops short introductions (3 min pitches)

17:20 Great Data Ambitions: building a collaborative network of distributed laboratories for product data transparency - Franco Donati (Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences CML) Heather (Heath) Logan (Leiden University)

17:20 MODASTI: A Modular Open Platform for Composable LCIA Configurations - Nico Mumm (University of Augsburg)

17:20 From Battery LCA Data to Queryable Knowledge: A Hands-on Introduction to Battery Ontologies and SPARQL for Industrial Ecology - Cyrine Soufi (INSA Strasbourg, Laboratoire ICube)
18:15 DdS General Assembly - for Members only
DdS General Assembly - for Members only
18:15 - 19:00
Friday, 25 September 2026

08:00 Coffee
Coffee
08:00 - 08:30
08:30 F1 - Performance, integration & late-breaking
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 From 8 minutes to 4 seconds: solving large systems with Jacobi+GMRES - Romain Sacchi (PSI)

08:40 Using Edges in BONSAI: Spatializing Water Scarcity Impacts of French Consumption - Valentin Starlinger (BONSAI)

08:55 Operationalising Life Cycle Assessment: Surrogate Models for Real-Time Decision-Making in Production - Kay Langhammer (Wuppertal Institut)

09:10 Brightway development in the age of AI - Chris Mutel (Départ de Sentier)

09:25 Temporal LCA in Brightway and openLCA - insights from intermediate Brightcon course - Alexander Koch Amelie Mueller (Leiden University & VITO) Timo Diepers

09:40 Shrecc: Smooth-Hourly Resolution Electricity Consumption Calculation - Sabina Bednářová (LIST)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 F2 - Demo Derby
10:30 - 11:30
Contributions

10:30 EcoAgent: Mechanics, Learnings, and the Future - Hemant Sharma (International Zinc Association)

10:30 Open platform for a Curated Life cycle Inventory Collection (CLIC) - Karin Treyer (PSI)

10:30 Expanding Transport Options for Hydrogen and its Derivatives in premise - Tobias Schliess

10:30 Development of an IPM assessment tool for comparing crop protection scenarios - Vera Krause (Julius Kühn Institute)

10:30 Lighthouse: Navigating the Solution Space of Phased Building Renovations through Time-Resolved LCA - Maxime Dasse (Université Catholique de Louvain)

10:30 A Digital Product Passport data collector and compiler with Brightway integration - Sander van Nielen (CML - Leiden University)

10:30 An AI-Supported Framework for LCA Foreground System Construction and Evaluation - Ning An (Aalborg University)
11:30 F3 - Hackathon results

11:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00

13:00 F4 - Panel discussion: Open, trusted, maintained, and high-quality LCA background data: where and how to head towards - together

13:00 - 14:00
14:00 F5 - Plenum discussion: Collaborating on open data
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 A Collaborative Systematic Review of LCA data formats: Benefits, Limitations, and Silos - Robin Dethienne (Université catholique de Louvain)

14:10 Discussion Session: Open Collaboration on the BAFU:2025+ LCA Databases - Clemens Wingenbach (ifeu Heidelberg)
15:15 Closing ceremony
Closing ceremony
15:15 - 15:30