Event Announcement
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The annual gathering for the next era of materials discovery
Discovery Day is Dunia’s annual invite-only gathering at the frontier of AI, materials discovery, and autonomous experimentation. Each year in Berlin, Discovery Day brings together C-level executives, VPs, directors, and leading researchers across chemicals, energy, advanced materials, AI, robotics, automation, and industrial R&D.
The future is gated by material innovation. Materials underpin technological revolutions across energy, manufacturing, compute, mobility, and more. But the way new materials are discovered has not kept pace with the scale or urgency of what industry now needs.
Discovery Day exists to gather the people building that future together.
Why Discovery Day exists
For more than a century, progress in materials and chemicals has shaped the physical world: energy systems, electronics, industrial production, transportation, climate technologies, and modern infrastructure.
Today, AI models, autonomous labs, high-throughput experimentation, simulation, robotics, and real-world scientific data are beginning to converge into a new materials acceleration platform. This shift will reshape how breakthroughs are created, how R&D organizations operate, and how industrial companies compete.
Discovery Day combines technical talks, industrial case studies, curated panels, lab demonstrations, and high-signal networking, not to discuss AI in the abstract, but to ask the harder questions:
What is hype vs what is substance?
What remains unsolved?
What infrastructure is missing?
How do we generate the reproducible, validated, real-world data needed for scientific AI?
And what will the R&D organization of the future look like?
Participating organizations
Leading organizations across AI, materials science, chemicals, energy, automation, and industrial R&D, including:
The invited audience is heavily weighted toward senior decision-makers and technical leaders. Together, the following profiles represent more than 80% of the invited audience:
Director: 24%
C-level/MD: 19%
VP: 18%
Global Head of: 14%
Senior Business Development Manager: 6%
Additional highlights
Live demonstrations of Dunia’s autonomous lab and discovery infrastructure
Technical deep dives with leaders across AI, materials, robotics, and industrial R&D
Candid conversations on what is working, what is not, and what needs to change
Curated networking across industry, academia, startups, and investors
Reception and IRIS tours at Dunia Innovations