ESAFORM 2025

International Conference

07-09 May 2025

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Hear from business and technical thought leaders about what’s possible with us, and how the latest data analytic technologies and strategies will advance your organization and your career.

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Education

Choose among dozens of sessions on everything from data warehousing, data lakes, data science, data sharing, and data application development.

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Conversation

Mix it up with over 5,000 attendees and hear how organizations just like yours are using Snowflake in innovative ways to get all the insight from all their data by all their users.

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Celebrate in a unique location & create great memories with our international community.

ESAFORM 2025

Chairs

Paestum Archaeological Site

Guided Tour
The ESAFORM 2025 Chairs and Organizing Committee are pleased to invite you to a guided tour of the Paestum Archaeological Site on Friday, May 9th, following the conclusion of the technical sessions.

Expert guides will accompany us on a memorable journey through the majestic monuments of the Greco-Roman era — a true immersion into the rich history of Magna Graecia. A bus service will be provided to transport participants from the conference venue to the archaeological site and back. Departures will begin around 16:00. Please confirm your participation at the registration desk when collecting your conference materials.

Conference

Schedule
7 May
8 May
9 May
7 May
May 7, 2025
9:00 am

Opening Ceremony

ESAFORM 2025 Paestum
7 May
Time:  9:00 am - 10:00 am
Location:  Ariston Hotel
8 May
May 8, 2025
8 May
9 May
May 9, 2025
9 May

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Plenary

Speakers

“Is current research in metal forming really innovative?”

Keynote I

Prof. Fabrizio Micari, born in Palermo in 1963, is a Full Professor of Manufacturing Technology at the University of Palermo. He has held key academic roles, including Rector of the University of Palermo (2015-2021) and President of the Italian Association of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on metal forming and machining process modeling, integrating numerical models and AI techniques. He has authored over 280 scientific papers; he is a Fellow of CIRP and ASME and has collaborated internationally as a visiting professor.

Prof. Eng. Fabrizio Micari

Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy

“The Digital Transformation in Manufacturing”

Keynote II

Senior Project Manager and Pre-sales and Academia Engagement Consultant at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Design & Engineering division. Ambassador for University Program in Italy. As a Technical manager, his main tasks currently consist in consulting, support, development, training and management of technical projects in Aerospace, Automotive and Machinery industries, in the field of multibody, multidisciplinary and co-simulation, developing integration between multibody system, finite element analysis, control systems, computational fluid dynamics, acoustic, fatigue. Developer of features and toolkits of the MSC.Adams package. Project manager and coordinator for Simulation Data Management and Vertical products integration for Aerospace companies. Technical consultant for many industries, e.g: Ferrari, Pirelli, BMW, Airbus, Leonardo, Tetrapak, CRF, CNR-ITIA, Volkswagen, and many others.

Eng. Daniele Catelani

Design & Engineering division, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence

“The importance of forming simulation in the product development of high-performance composite parts”

Keynote III

Luise Kärger is Director of the Institute of Vehicle System Technology (FAST) and head of the Division Lightweight Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She holds a full professorship in Digitalization in Lightweight Design and has 20 years’ experience in composite simulation, with a focus on composite process simulation since 2012. She completed her PhD on composite impact simulation in 2007 at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Braunschweig, Germany. In 2014, she was awarded the leadership of a Young Investigator Group on composite process simulation chains, funded by the Vector Foundation. Since 2022 she has received a DFG Heisenberg grant, which led to her current position as full professor and institute’s director at KIT.

Prof. Luise Kärger

Institute of Vehicle System Technology; Division Lightweight Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

“Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Sustainable Manufacturing”

Keynote IV

Angela Daniela La Rosa is currently a Professor of Sustainable Manufacturing at the Department of Manufacturing and Civil Engineering, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She holds a M.Sc. in Chemistry (1994, University of Catania) and a PhD (2001) in Chemistry of Polymer Composites, carried out in the Wilton International Research Centre (UK), within the Strategic Technology Group of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries). Prof. La Rosa started her education on LCA and LCC in 2006 in the Division of Environmental Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, attending in the same year an advanced course in Life Cycle Assessment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden. Since then, she has published several articles on LCA of polymers and polymer composites. Prof. La Rosa has long experience in national and European research and innovation projects, being the scientific director of the S.C. All Green S.R.L. spin-off (Romania) since 2016. She is author of over 70 articles in journals and conference proceedings (H-index: 25, Google Scholar, March 2025). One of her recent articles won the Award NAMRC51 Outstanding Paper in Manufacturing Systems (2023) and another paper was published in a Nature-branded journal (2023).

Prof. Angela Daniela La Rosa

Department of Manufacturing and Civil Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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About 4500 square meters available directly connected to rooms for technical sessions

Easily reachable by public transportation (train/bus)

More than 100 possible accommodations

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