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28

October 2026
Wednesday (timezone: Europe/Brussels)

08:00

Set-up and Registration ☕

• 1 hr

09:00

Words of Welcome

Axel Seifert from Sharp Composites • 15 mins

09:15

🚀Beyond Maturity: Unresolved Technical and Certification Challenges for Space-Qualified Pressure Vessels

Michael T. Kezirian from University of Southern California • 30 mins

09:45

🛰 SpaceSHIP: Smart Composite Propellant Tank with Embedded Sensing and Thermal Management for Small Satellites

Tomás Lineiro from Sonaca • 30 mins

10:15

🚀 Commoditization of Aerospace COPVs

Jake Walker from Hypercomp Engineering • 15 mins

10:30

Coffee Break ☕

• 30 mins

11:00

Challenges, Successes and Failures of COPV's

Pavel Novak from Novak Composites • 30 mins

11:30

🔬 Unboxing COPV Monitoring: From sensing myths to real-world results

Eli Voet from Com&Sens • 30 mins

12:00

🚛 Roadtrhyp Project: thermoplastic tanks for H2 Transportation

Olivier Merle & Philippe Papin from ARKEMA & Air Liquide • 30 mins

12:30

Lunch 🍴

• 1 hr 30 mins

14:00

🔬 High-strength glass fibre composite solutions in MEGC applications: from a dream to reality

Zakariya Boufaida & Philippe Willems from Owens Corning & Sharp Composites • 30 mins

14:30

Advanced Composites Manufacturing Technologies & Automated Prototype Solutions

Giustiniano Andreassi from ESEA • 15 mins

14:45

✈ Load-Bearing Hydrogen Pressure Vessel for Aviation Applications

Ulrich Blass from Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH • 30 mins

15:15

Coffee Break ☕

• 30 mins

15:45

🔬 Fire Behaviour of Composite Pressure Vessels

Stéphane Villalonga from CEA • 30 mins

16:15

🚛 Development of an Automated Production Line for COPVs for Hydrogen Transport

Martin Hoffmann from HydroExceed • 30 mins

16:45

🔬 Sharp Research and Innovation

Geert Nouwen from Sharp Composites • 15 mins

18:00

Network Event 🍾

• 2 hrs
29

October 2026
Thursday (timezone: Europe/Brussels)

08:30

Morning Coffee ☕

• 30 mins

09:00

Welcome Day 2

Axel Seifert from Sharp Composites • 15 mins

09:15

🏭 Engineering vs. customer value for COPVs for hydrogen mobility

Julien Etienne from JET Consulting • 30 mins

09:45

🏭 Revolutionizing Hydrogen Storage

Lukas Kalt from Water Stuff & Sun • 30 mins

10:15

Developments in Testing and Certification

Daan ten Have from KIWA • 15 mins

10:30

Coffee Break ☕

• 30 mins

11:00

Robomould: Liner Technology Solutions

Johan Potargent from AMS Hydrogen • 15 mins

11:15

💻 ComposiCAD: From Filament Winding Simulation to an Integrated Digital Engineering Platform

Hugues Massé from OPmobility • 30 mins

11:45

💻 From Design to Manufacturing: Filling the COPV Digital Twin Gaps with WoundSim's New Capabilities

Amine Abichou from S Vertical • 15 mins

12:00

🔬 Pressure vessel and Filament Winding Activities at ITA

Marcus Welsh from ITA • 30 mins

12:30

Lunch 🍴

• 1 hr 30 mins

14:00

🏭 The Shapes of Hydrogen Storage

Peter Stadthalter from PS-Hytech • 30 mins

14:30

New Concepts for FW Machines

Axel Seifert from Sharp Composites • 15 mins

14:45

🔬 What Happens in the Oven, Does Not Stay in the Oven How Manufacturing Shapes the Full-Scale Response of Composite Hydrogen Tanks

Prof. Wim Van Paepegem from UGent • 30 mins

15:15

💻 Introducing Filamath: from fundamental research to an advanced web-app for COPV analysis

Marie Hondekyn & Matteo Pastrello from UGent • 15 mins

15:30

Raffle and Closing 👋🏻

• 30 mins

COPV World Attendee

Sales end on 30/10/2026, 13:00 (Europe/Brussels)

1,250.00 €

COPV World Student

Sales end on 30/10/2026, 13:00 (Europe/Brussels)

625.00 €

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