ICTEAM Day 2025

The ICTEAM Day 2025 took place on Thursday May 22, 2025 at the Ferme du Biéreau (Place Polyvalente, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve), in "La Grange" auditorium.  

Programme

08:30 Welcome Coffee
09:00 Welcome Address by Julien Hendrickx, Head of institute
09:15 Research Themes in ICTEAM :

• Martin Andraud : Electronics and Microtechnologies
• Guillaume Berger : Dynamical Systems, Control, and Optimization
• Ramin Sadre : Communication Systems and Networks

10:00 Best ICTEAM Thesis Award 2025 by François-Xavier Standaert, chair of the selection jury and talk by Florian Quatresooz, winner of the Award
10:30 Poster Highlights
10:45 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:15 Industrial Applications in ICTEAM :

• Benoît Legat : Applied Mathematics Engineering (JUMP)
• Cristel Pelsser : Computing Science Engineering (Chair and MUSE)
• Benoît Macq : Electrical Engineering (ImagX)

12:00 Lunch (& group picture)
14:00 Presentation of the Technological Platforms : Winfab, Welcome, Openhub
14:30 My Job in ICTEAM in 180 seconds
15:15 Coffee break
15:45 "Do you really know your institute?" (interactive session) [Winners: Julien Hendrickx and Charles Pecheur - both really know our institute]
16:30 Best Poster Award [Winners (ex aequo): Philémon Beghin "A Quantitative Study of Violin Geometry Using Contour Lines" and Jérôme Eertmans "Towards Generative Ray Path Sampling for Faster Point-to-Point Ray Tracing"]
17:00 Transition ICTEAM Day into Night : Blind Test [Winners: INGI team with Achille Morenville, Lucile Dierckx, Benoit Duhoux, Damien Sprockeels, Bastien Wiaux - they really know about music ;)]

New this year: meet our industry guests

Several companies will be present during the first part of ICTEAM Day. We warmly encourage you to meet their representatives and explore opportunities for collaboration!

• ALSTOM: Vincent Froidmont, Site Global Planning Director
• Buildwise:  Violette Labrouche , researcher & Samuel Dubois R&D expert
• Engie: Olivier Daxhelet, chief expert
• Euranova: Benjamin Chiêm, Data scientist
• IBA: Nancy Van Overstraeten, R&D manager
• IntoPix: Gaël Rouvroy, CEO & Director of Technology 
• Mind: Olivier l'Heureux, Sr Embedded Software Architect 
• Nokia Bell Labs: Mickaël Hamaide, QA Automation Engineer 
• Simac: Joël Thys, Business Management Solutions Director
• Synthesis: Antoine Vekemans, CEO
• The Place of Digital: Anne Cambier, CEO & Nicolas Brixko, Customer Success Professional

ICTEAM Night 

Ferme du Biéreau, inner courtyard and "Voussettes" auditorium.
Live music, food, drinks and fun!

18:00 Food trucks (until 20:30)
21:00 Live concert by Fat Cat (the band will be amplified, so we recommend you bring hearing protections)
22:15 Festive night
23:30 End