Events We Attend 2026-27

Fusion and plasma physics conferences, workshops, and industry meetings where you can meet the Next Step Fusion team. Each one is an opportunity to talk in person — stop by our booth, catch a talk or poster, or contact us to arrange a meeting.

July 2026

August 2026

3–7
Aug

ICDDPS-7 — 7th International Conference on Data-Driven Plasma Science

Kiel University, Kiel, Germany•icddps.org
Evgeny Adishchev · attendee

September 2026

8–10
Sep

18th Integrated Modelling Expert Group (IMEG) Meeting

ITER Organization Headquarters, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France•iter.org
14–18
Sep

ISLA-9 — 9th International Symposium on Liquid Metal Applications in Fusion Devices

DIFFER, Eindhoven, Netherlands•differ.nl/isla-9

October 2026

11–16
Oct

AAPPS-DPP 2026 — 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics

Busan, South Korea•aappsdpp.org/DPP2026
Georgy Subbotin · invited talk Georgy Subbotin · talk Eduard Khairutdinov · poster Michele Romanelli · program committee
  • Georgy Subbotin (invited talk, 14 Oct, session B1-9 Integrated Data Science 14:00–16:10, Hall E): Next Step Fusion: Enabling MCF Device Builders through Integrated Modeling and the Modular Diagnostics Platform
  • Georgy Subbotin (talk, 15 Oct, satellite meeting 14:00–16:00, “Private-Public Partnership, a Vehicle to Accelerate the Commercialisation of Fusion Energy”): The TRUST project: a Public-Private collaboration between Next Step Fusion and the University of Tuscia, Italy
  • Eduard Khairutdinov (poster MF1P-1, 15 Oct, core time 14:00–16:10, session MF1-P, Corridor, Event Hall D_k): NSFsim: A Modular Tool for Tokamak Design and Control Development
13–15
Oct

FuseNet PhD Event 2026

University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy•indico.fusenet.eu/event/66
sponsor booth Ekaterina Matveeva · panel Mikhail Drabinskiy · panel
  • Mikhail Drabinskiy (panel, 14 Oct, 14:00–15:30): Industry Roundtable Discussion, with Walter Tosto, Ansaldo Nucleare and RINA
  • Ekaterina Matveeva (panel, 15 Oct, 9:00–10:00): Roundtable Discussion - Women in Fusion
19–21
Oct

CFDT8 — 8th International Conference on Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies

Frascati, Italy•agenda.enea.it/event/1146
Georgy Subbotin · invited talk Antoine Sirinelli · poster
  • Georgy Subbotin (invited talk, 19 Oct, 14:30–14:50, Sala Bruno Brunelli): The Modular Diagnostics Platform (MDP): A Standardized, Port-Integrated Architecture for Utility-Scale Fusion Plasma
  • Antoine Sirinelli (poster, 20 Oct, 16:00, Poster session B, Corridor): Design and manufacturing of the Modular Diagnostic Platform prototype
20–23
Oct

3rd IAEA Technical Meeting on Long-Pulse Operation of Fusion Devices

Maxim Nurgaliev · poster Eduard Khairutdinov · attendee
  • Maxim Nurgaliev (poster 48, 21 Oct, 15:30 poster session): Multi-objective optimization of non-inductive scenarios using machine learning

November 2026

2–6
Nov

APS DPP 2026 — 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (joint with GEC)

booth Antoine Sirinelli · talk Alexei Zhurba · attendee Dmitri Orlov · attendee
  • Antoine Sirinelli (talk, 3 Nov, 14:00–14:12, session DPP-GO09, Hilton Chicago, Salon C 7 & 8, Lower Level): Modular Diagnostic Platform: concept and prototype design and manufacturing

December 2026

2–3
Dec

FPA 47th Annual Meeting and Symposium — “Fusion Power: Challenges and Opportunities in the Next Five Years”

UC Washington Center, Washington, DC, USA•sites.ucsd.edu/fpa
Dmitri Orlov · attendee
6–12
Dec

NeurIPS 2026 — 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

ICC Sydney, Australia, and Paris, France (held in parallel)•neurips.cc/Conferences/2026
Dmitry Sorokin · 2 accepted workshop papers
  • Dmitry Sorokin (accepted paper, RL for Experimental Sciences workshop, Paris, 12 Dec, time TBA): Dynamic Plasma Shape Control Robust to Diagnostic Dropout
  • Dmitry Sorokin (accepted paper, Sim2Science workshop, Paris, 12 Dec, time TBA): Reconstruction of Unobserved Core Electron Density in Tokamak Plasmas with a Neural Operator Transport Surrogate and Uncertainty Quantification

February 2027

June 2027

1–4
Jun

OSSFE 2027 — Open Source Software for Fusion Energy

Madison, Wisconsin, USA•ossfe.org/OSSFE_2027
participation TBD

October 2027

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Attending one of these events? Let us know and we will set up a time to talk about modeling, diagnostics, or plasma control for your device.

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