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It is now possible to register for NWO ICT.OPEN2025, the ICT conference in the Netherlands. NWO ICT.OPEN brings scientists from all ICT research disciplines and industries in the Netherlands together to learn, share ideas, and network. The theme of NWO ICT.OPEN2025 is ‘Building digital bridges’. The conference will take place on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 April 2025 at the Beatrix Theater, Jaarbeurs Utrecht.

Register now!*

* If you are entitled to a free registration, you will receive an invitation in the coming days. In this case, please do not register via this link, but await the invitation for a free registration link.

Programme

NWO ICT.OPEN2025 offers a lot of interesting presentations, posters and demos that showcase the best and most exciting ICT developments. The conference also hosts seven interactive sessions on a wide range of topics and a closing award ceremony. Moreover, NWO ICT.OPEN can already announce three inspiring keynote speakers! Benny åkesson from TNO-ESI, Marieke Huisman from the University of Twente and Alexandru Iosup from the VU University Amsterdam. More information about the programme, speakers and interactive sessions will follow soon on the website: www.ictopen.nl.

Tracks

NWO ICT.OPEN2025 hosts the following tracks:

• Algorithms and Complexity
• Applications in AI
• Bridging the Gap between Research and Industry through Application-Oriented AI Innovations
• CompSys Research for a Sustainable and Equitable Digital Infrastructure
• Digital Phenotyping: using mobile sensing data for tracking health
• Diversity in ICT
• Formal Methods
• Human-Computer Interaction and Societal Impact in the Netherlands
• Mastering Complexity for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Poster track of the Research Schools: ASCI, IPA, and SIKS
• Responsible Applied AI in Society and Education
• Security and Trust
• Software Engineering
• Sustainable ICT in the Netherlands

More information and track descriptions can be found on the NWO ICT.OPEN website.

Questions?

For questions regarding registration, please contact Congress by Design at ict.open@congressbydesign.com. For any other questions about NWO ICT.OPEN2025, please contact NWO at ictopen@nwo.nl.

See you at NWO ICT.OPEN2025!

The Dutch Prize for ICT research 2021 goes to Dr. Felienne Hermans. The PERL group leader at Leiden Institute  of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, receives the prize for her research into making computer science and programming accessible to a wide audience, as well as for her pioneering role in establishing a new direction within Dutch ICT research and education. Attached to the prize is a cash prize of € 50,000, which may be freely used by the winner to strengthen her research.

Six candidates were nominated for the ICT Prize 2021. The jury was impressed by the quality and diverse nature of the entries. From the candidates the jury, consisting of Prof. Dr. J.C.M. (Jos) Baeten (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science), Prof. Dr. B.P.F. (Bart) Jacobs (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Prof. Dr. R.L. (Inald) Lagendijk (Delft University of Technology), selected Hermans as a worthy recipient of the Dutch ICT Research Prize 2020. The jury praises Hermans for her efforts to make programming and programming languages more accessible to children, resulting in the programming language Hedy.  Hermans enjoys much national and international recognition with her work.

The prestigious Dutch Prize for ICT research is awarded annually to a scientific researcher, maximum 15 years after their PhD (at the time of the decision), who has carried out innovative research or is responsible for a scientific breakthrough in ICT. The prize is made available by the ICT research platform Netherlands (IPN) in cooperation with NWO through the Royal Dutch Science Society (Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen). In addition to the aforementioned prize money that will be made available to the winner, Hermans will, together with NWO, record a video explaining the award-winning work and its importance to the general public.

During ICT.OPEN 2021, which takes place on 10 and 11 February 2021, Hermans will receive the Dutch Prize for ICT research.

Previous winners of the Dutch Prize for ICT Research are:

• Pablo Cesar – Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)/TU Delft (2020)
• Dr. Elmar Eisemann – Delft Technical University (2019)
• dr. Joost Batenburg – CWI / Leiden University (2018)
• Peter Schwabe – Radboud University Nijmegen (2017)
• dr. Alexandru Iosup – Delft University of Technology / Free University of Amsterdam (2016)
• Birna van Riemsdijk – Delft University of Technology (2015)
• dr. Marieke Huisman – Twente University (2013)
• Cees Snoek – University of Amsterdam (2012)
• dr. Bettina Speckmann – Eindhoven Technical University (2011)

About KHMW

The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, KHMW) was founded in 1752 to promote science and to link science and society. It does this by holding competitions, awarding prizes for outstanding scientific achievements, and organising lectures and scientific conferences. The KHMW has been located in the Hodshon Huis in Haarlem since 1841.

About NWO

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is the country’s independent science funding body, tasked with promoting excellence in Dutch scientific research through national competition. NWO awards over €500 million of funding every year for top-level research and researchers, innovative instruments and equipment, and institutes at which this research is carried out. NWO currently funds the research of over 5300 talented scientists at universities and other institutes. Selection is performed by independent experts using peer review. NWO also promotes the transfer of knowledge to society and the business world.

Contact

NWO Domain Science (ENW): Joep van Wijk, policy officer, +31-(0)70-3494459, j.vanwijk@nwo.nl.

ICT.OPEN takes place at MartiniPlaza in Groningen on 17 and 18 March 2020. Every year, NWO and IPN organise this event, aimed at bringing scientists from all ICT research disciplines and from ICT industry together. Register now for ICT.OPEN2020.

Read more on the ICT.OPEN2020 website.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday NWO and IPN organised ICT.OPEN. The Dutch conference for ICT-research where more than 500 researchers and professionals from ICT bring together fundamental and applied ICT research.

With keynote lectures by Edward A. Lee, Holger H. Hoos and ICT Prize winner Elmar Eisemann, over a 100 lectures, poster and demo presentations, workshops and speeddates. ICT.OPEN2020 will be organised on 17 and 18 March.