ESI symposium 2025

ESI symposium 2025

Date: October 7, 2025 - 09h00-18h00
Venue: Parktheater, Eindhoven (NL)
Theme: Accelerate the innovation of engineering

Accelerate the innovation of engineering

We would like to invite you to the ESI Symposium 2025.
The symposium will bring together engineering professionals, industry leaders, and researchers to explore how cutting-edge innovations in systems engineering can reshape the future of technology and society.
The symposium will focus on fostering collaboration, sharing best practices, and driving advancements that elevate engineering to meet the challenges of the modern world.

THEME: ACCELERATE THE INNOVATION OF ENGINEERING

ACCELERATE THE INNOVATION OF ENGINEERING

Building on insights from the Draghi report, "The Future of European Competitiveness" this year’s ESI symposium highlights the critical role of higher productivity in securing Europe’s competitive edge. Europe’s engineering sector plays a pivotal role in addressing the global demand for sustainable, efficient, and transformative technologies.
By focusing on enhancing research, bridging knowledge gaps, and streamlining collaboration, this event aims to inspire the next wave of engineering breakthroughs.

Join us as we explore this vital theme through various subtopics and insights. We will examine how generative AI and model-based techniques can be utilized to tackle these challenges. This theme builds on our previous focus on managing complexity in cyber-physical systems, which remains an ongoing challenge.

Program

08.30 Walk-in and registration
09.30 Welcome and opening: Masoud Dorosti and Jacco Wesselius, TNO-ESI
10.00 Academic keynote: Gerrit Muller, TNO-ESI
10.40 Innovation/poster market + break
11.10 Parallel sessions
12.30 Innovation/poster market + lunch break
14.00 Parallel sessions
15.20 Innovation/poster market + break
16.00 Industrial keynote: Wei Li, ASML
16.40 Wrap-up and closing: Masoud Dorosti and Jacco Wesselius, TNO-ESI
17.00 Drinks and networking

Gerrit Muller, TNO-ESI
Professor Systems Engineering University of South-Eastern Norway (USN)
INCOSE Fellow

Academic keynote


A vision on the future of Systems Engineering, what capabilities will we need?

The world around us is changing fast, technology keeps evolving much, and the solutions that we develop are increasingly a result of many interacting socio-technical systems. As a consequence, (systems) engineers need another competence profile, other methodologies, while organizations need new capabilities and better infrastructure. 

In this presentation, we will look at the trends and the consequences for the high-tech industry, which we illustrate with examples from the offshore industry in Norway. Then we discuss the consequences for research and education, how can we help the high-tech industry to develop the systems engineering capabilities that fit the future? 

Wei Li , ASML
Vice President Development and Engineering Software at ASML

Industrial keynote


Unlocking next wave of accelerated innovation by AI

As AI reshapes the global technology landscape, its influence on engineering innovation is profound and accelerating. At ASML, we stand at the crossroads of this transformation—both as a key contributor to AI innovation through our leading-edge lithography systems and as an explorer in applying AI to enhance our own engineering practices. In this keynote, I will discuss the dual role ASML plays in the AI revolution: driving the semiconductor advancements that empower AI, and embedding AI within our development and engineering workflows to elevate productivity, precision, and creativity. As we look ahead, we must rethink engineering—not as a static discipline, but as an evolving, intelligent ecosystem.  

P1 Future-fit organizations

The current trends in the high-tech industry present significant challenges and opportunities for organizations. It is crucial to understand and address these changes by developing effective strategies and best practices to thrive in this new era. Adopting an approach where technology and human skills complement each other can lead to more sustainable, resilient, and human-centric industrial practices, ultimately delivering better value for customers and stakeholders.

Moderator: Joana Teixeira, TNO-ESI

  • Sezen Acur, TNO-ESI - Research Fellow

  • Marloes van de Wal, Vanderlande - Managing Director Innovation Strategy and Transformation

  • Radhika Vijaykumar Nedungadi, Vanderlande - Manager Platform Integration and Quality assurance

  • Sapfo Tsoutsou, Eindhoven University of Technology - Project Manager for NXTGEN Systems Engineering

P2 The quest for engineering productivity: a synthesis-based approach 

The high-tech industry is challenged to increase productivity due to increasing complexity of its systems and a shortage of skilled engineers. Logic, code and configuration synthesis from increasingly high-level descriptions is a key promise of model-based engineering and enables automation in many areas, including logic synthesis and implementation of supervisory controllers and synthesis and deployment of product variants.
This track will explore recent advancements in synthesis-based engineering and showcase its productivity benefits using examples from various domains.   

Moderator: Ben Pronk, TNO-ESI

  • Hans Schurer, Thales Nederland BV - Study manager R&T, Technical directorate & Innovation

  • Benny Akesson, TNO-ESI, University of Amsterdam - Senior Research Fellow

  • Jeroen Kouwer, Thales Nederland - Software Architect

  • Dennis Hendriks, TNO-ESI, Radboud University - Research Fellow

  • Prabhat Kumar Sharma, VDL-ETG T&D - Mechatronics Design Engineer 

  • Lars Moormann, Rijkswaterstaat - Consultant Industrial Automation

P3 Intelligent diagnostics: Boosting equipment effectiveness

High-tech manufacturers are seeking ways to improve the servicing of their systems. This need is driven by the goal of ensuring overall equipment effectiveness, managing the ever-increasing complexity of systems, and addressing the challenge of scaling service organizations. Intelligent diagnostics leverages system knowledge, real-time data, and AI techniques to assist in designing diagnosable systems and to provide digital tools that support human decision-making.

Moderator: Marco Vicari, TNO-ESI

  • Mauro Barbieri, Philips Innovation & Strategy -Principal Architect Services  

  • Eelco Schillings, Canon Production Printing - Department Manager – Technology Development 

  • Thomas Nägele, TNO-ESI - Research Fellow

  • Leonardo Barbini, TNO-ESI - Research Fellow

Parallel sessions / tracks

P4 Gen AI to harvest legacy

Legacy systems are essential in high-tech industries but are difficult to maintain and understand. They generate vast amounts of data-code, documentation, logs, and more-crucial for tasks like code comprehension, issue resolution and requirement tracing. However, the overwhelming volume and complexity of those data make it challenging for engineers to interpret and utilise them effectively. 
This track explores how generative AI, combined with traditional techniques can help analyse and synthesise diverse data sources, provide developers with actionable insights and recommendations, improve efficiency and comprehension, and ultimately make maintenance and development more manageable.

Moderator: Rosilde Corvino, TNO-ESI

  • Alok Lele, ASML - Project Manager for Twinscan Software Research and Innovation

  • Lina Ochoa Venegas, Eindhoven University of Technology - Assistant Professor

  • Dennis Dams, TNO- ESI - Senior Research Fellow

  • Ivo Canjels - Philips Image Guided Therapy - Software Architect

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