?????? Brightcon 2023 - Registration and Talk Submission Now Open! ????

Registration for the Brightcon 2023 conference is now open:

??? Date: 16th - 20th September 2023

?? Location: Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg // https://canapii.com?

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The theme this year is "Broad Open Sustainability Community", and we invite submissions for talks, demonstrations, and special sessions. We especially encourage talk submissions from LCA-adjacent domains, such as MFA, IO, and Industrial Ecology. As software developers and sustainability experts, the open sustainability community has an immense power in shaping a sustainable future for our planet. At Brightcon 2023, we are committed to exploring innovative ways to combine our technical expertise with environmental consciousness.

As in previous years, all talks and sessions should be interactive, with Jupyter Notebooks or similar technologies used so that the audience can follow along and explore your awesome software and data. This also makes for a fantastic experience for those attending, as each talk bridges theory with practice and directly engages the audience. You can see talk materials from last year.

Hackathon

On September 16 & 17, we will have a hackathon with the HESTIA team. HESTIA provides detailed and validated activity data on agriculture and food supply chains (currently the data are from more than 400 published studies and 35,000 farms). HESTIA also makes available nearly 500 models to gap fill farm activity data (e.g., to quantify ruminant grass consumption), to estimate agricultural emissions (e.g., N2O emissions related to fertiliser application), and to quantify resource uses. It is an open-source, open-access project and still in the development and testing stage, but is already the largest open dataset and model archive in this area. In the hackathon we will focus on integrating HESTIA with open LCA software, and simplifying the process of entering data into HESTIA.

Conference

The conference itself will take place from September 18-20, and will be a mix of talks, special sessions, and short courses. Being there in person is a lot of fun, but this year, with support from ecoinvent, we are also offering online attendance via https://canapii.com. Physical attendance is limited to 80 people, and we expect it to sell out, as it did last year.

You can also find information on sponsorship packages on the conference website.?

Registration fees

In-person participation with hackathon: €400

In-person participation without hackathon: €220

Virtual ticket (conference only): €100

Virtual ticket (non-OECD): Free, registration required