Plenary and Invited Talks
Plenary Talks
Provisional title *
| Title | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Update on ITER achievements, challenges, and path to operations | Kathryn McCarthy, US ITER Project Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Fusion Energy’s Apollo – How STEP plans to stimulate a new industry for a new technology | Paul Methven, Director of STEP, UKAEA |
| JET DT campaign and decommissioning * | Damian King, UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Target gain at the National Ignition Facility | Alex Zylstra, Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Wendelstein 7-X in the steady-state regime, Assembly, Commissioning and Operation | Hans-Stephan Bosch, Head of Operation W7-X, Max.Planck-Instut für Plasmaphysik |
| Development of Virtual KSTAR and Digital Twin Technologies for Fusion | Jae-Min Kwon, Principal Researcher, Korea Institute of Fusion Energy |
| The Global Fusion Industry in 2023 – An overview of the plans, timelines, and investment in commercial fusion | Andrew Holland, CEO, Fusion Industry Association |
| Recent EAST experimental results and CRAFT R&D progress for CFETR in China | Yuntao Song, Director, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences |
| Status and prospects for fusion developments in Europe | Gianfranco Federici, Head of Department, EUROfusion |
| Current status of JT-60SA operation and future upgrade | Sam Davis, JT-60SA, Fusion for Energy |
| Strategy and progress of JA DEMO development | Yoshiteru Sakamoto, Group Leader, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology |
Invited Talks
Provisional title *
| Title | Topic Area | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Present status of SPIDER upgrades | A | Diego Marcuzzi, Head of NBTF Engineering, Consorzio RFX |
| Innovative concepts in the DTT Neutral Beam Injector | A | Piero Agostinetti, Researcher, Consorzio RFX |
| Engineering Challenges of Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX) Steady-State High Heat Flux Components * | B | Aftab Hussain, Senior Design Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Variable-Radii-Spiral Optics for X-Ray Spectroscopy: Dramatically Improved Performance Through Complex Shaping and Advanced Fabrication | C | Novimir Pablant, Principal Research Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
| Engineering Challenges in ITER to realize Diagnostics * | C | Mike Walsh, Division Head, ITER |
| Overview of UNITY blanket testing station | Satoshi Konishi, Co-founder & Chief Fusioneer, Kyoto Fusioneering | |
| Overview of CHIMERA combinatorial IVC test facility | D | Thomas Barrett, Mechanical Engineer, UK Atomic Energy Authority, UKAEA |
| Developing a fast, low-cost, and repeatable system to decarbonise the global coal fleet with fission and fusion by 2050 | E | Kirsty Gogan, Co-founder and Managing Director, LucidCatalyst and TerraPraxis |
| Fusion Regulation * | F | Sehila Gonzalez, IAEA |
| Development of High Intensity Steady Neutron Sources HINEG | F | Dr Qi Yang |
| Plasma facing materials and related test facilities and requirements for material and component qualification | G | Gerald Pintsuk, Laboratory Head, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH |
| Status of Research on Lithium-6 Enrichment and Development of New Technology Using Ionic Conductor | G | Kenji Morita, Senior Researcher, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology |
| The DIII-D National Fusion Facility, supporting ITER and the Reactor Path | H | George Sips, Director of DIII-D Operations, General Atomics |
| From Z to a Next Generation Pulsed Power Facility | (H) | Daniel B Sinars, Director, Sandia National Laboratories |
| Spherical Tokamak Power Management | I | Steven Wray, STEP Product Lead – Power Infrastructure, UKAEA |
| ITER hot cell facility * | J | Magnus Gohran, Acting Division Head, ITER |
| Status of Plant Construction in ITER Tokamak Complex Buildings | K | Ingo Kuehn, Engineer, ITER |
| Progress in maturation of critical technologies for the EU DEMO fuel cycle | L | Christian Day, Project Leader Tritium, Matter Injection and Vacuum Technologies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) |
| TBC | Award (2021) | Dennis Youchison |
| TBC | Awards (2022) | TBC |