COOCK Smart Port 2025 | Optimizing Energy Intensive Port Processes

About this event

FOR WHOM

Project managers, innovation managers working in port or industrial companies, technology/solution providers in the sustainability domain and port authorities.

PROGRAM

Valorisation of Energy Flexibility

  • LifePowr - Flexibility and how to valorize it in a combination of explicit and implicit flexibility.
  • Ghent University - Optimizing industrial processes in ports in terms of energy efficiency and valorizing available flexibility

Energy prediction

  • 3E - Monitoring and predictive maintenance of renewable energy sources (PV, wind)

Towards climate neutral Ports in 2050

  • VITO/EnergyVille - Decision-supporting Tool for Sustainable & Circular Business Districts by Carolin Spirinckx

SPEAKERS

  • Dries Bols (LifePowr)
  • Prof. Guillaume Crevecoeur (Ghent University)
  • Gofran Chowdhury (3E)
  • Carolin Spirinckx (VITO/EnergyVille)

INFORMATION

Hybrid session (IDLab, Ghent University – imec and online)

The session is free and open to the public, upon registration.

This event is organized in the framework of the COOCK Smart Port 2025 project. This three-year program, funded by VLAIO, aims at disseminating the vast knowledge that the University of Antwerp and Imec have in terms of Model-Based Systems Engineering Artificial Intelligence, to the port and logistics community in Flanders. As part of this project, The Beacon is organizing activities and events at which tech companies, port, and logistics operators, and academia are represented.