Submit your practice-oriented presentation now and take the opportunity to present your methods and solutions to an interested specialist audience and make new contacts!
Submitting a presentation proposal does not confer any legal right to have the proposal included in the final programme of the ZVO Surface Technology Days 2027.
Key topics for 2027:
- New developments in corrosion protection
- Hazardous substances management
- Fire safety in electroplating and coating companies (preventative, organisational, technical, FBU insurance)
- Diversification of decorative electroplated surfaces (customer requirements, compatibility, integration options into existing plants, requirements for process and wastewater technology)
- Characterisation and properties of Cr(III) coatings
- Best practice: Chromium(III) surface systems in day-to-day practice
- Best practice: Transformation/new business areas for electroplating and coating companies (including B2C)
- Micro-electroforming (e.g. for the manufacture of micro- and nano-embossing tools)
- Electroplating in (micro)electronics
Recurring topics
- Bath and/or surface analysis
- Entrepreneurs’ Forum: Management Meets Surface Technology
- Women in surface technology: challenges, opportunities and prospects
- Consultation session: Regulatory developments, nationally and internationally
- Digitalisation in Surface Technology
- Artificial Intelligence in Surface Technology
- Research Findings – Reports from Young Colleagues
- Cathodic Corrosion Protection
- Wear protection & tribology
- Functional coatings
- New Challenges for Electroplating and Surface Engineering
- Future topics in surface engineering
- From process monitoring to product quality
- Advances in plant and control technology
- Automation options in electroplating and coating companies
- Alternative surface treatment technologies – painting, plasma technologies, thermal spraying …
- Real-world damage cases and damage analysis for fault prevention and cost reduction
- Recycling, the circular economy and circularity in surface technology (processes, products, product design)
Information on submitting a paper
Each presentation is allocated 30 minutes, including 5 to 10 minutes for discussion.
The programme is intended to consist of practice-oriented or scientific presentations. Presentations focusing on products, sales, advertising or brand image will therefore not be accepted. Please avoid mentioning trade marks, product names, etc., as well as any content aimed at advertising or sales promotion, in your presentation title, abstract and the presentation itself. The reviewers of presentation proposals will be paying even closer attention to such unwanted advertising than in the past and will reject presentations containing it.
Each presentation proposal must be submitted with an abstract and a short CV of the speaker – both in continuous text format – and a profile picture in jpg format is desirable. Missing abstracts or CVs will result in the rejection of the presentation proposal.
In February 2027, the reviewers will examine and evaluate all presentation proposals. The programme of talks will then be finalised by mid/late March 2027. All applicants will be informed by email whether their talk proposal has been accepted or rejected as soon as the programme has been finalised.
When using the online submission process, please use an existing user account. If this is your first time submitting a presentation proposal, please create a new user account. You can use your login details to log in at any time to update your personal details or revise your submission.
Abstract submission and evaluation are supported by the CONVERIA conference management software.
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