Workshop "Digital Bioeconomy: Convergence towards a bio-based society“: significance and outlook

The Workshop "Digital bioeconomy: Convergence towards a bio-based society“, organized by IBG-4 (Prof. Dr. Holger Gohlke), was held at the Central Library of Forschungszentrum Jülich on 20.2.2024.

Digitalization and bio-based industries are starting to make impacts in the chemicals and materials sectors. Engineering biology needs digitalization and vice versa. Yet, many other ways of converging technologies and digitalization can be applied to bioeconomy. Against this background, topics covered in the workshop related to data standardization, findability, and reusability as well as modeling and data science approaches to bioeconomy-driven biotechnology, agrosphere, and plant research.

With 50 participants and 10 invited speakers from all career stages, coming from across Europe as well as academia and industry, the workshop was a great success. It brought together the many disciplines of how converging technologies and digitalization can be applied to bioeconomy and fostered academic and industrial alliances in our region and beyond. This workshop could be a starting point for similar successor events.