Business events

The ITER Organization holds regular events to inform industry on current or upcoming procurement opportunities. Scroll down below for a list of events or to download presentations from past events.

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Attention small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Domestic Agency in charge of the European in-kind contribution to the ITER project, is organizing SME Day on Wednesday 13 November 2024.

It will take place in person at F4E premises in Barcelona, Spain (limited to 70 people) or remotely (technical details for remote access given at the registration).

SME Day aims to foster collaboration between Fusion for Energy and SMEs who have an interest in the fusion energy sector as well as in developing a better understanding of respective needs via fruitful exchange. 

The ITER Organization (the IO) has launched a procurement for the Hot Cell Facility Project Integrator. The Call for Nomination procedure deadline was 28 January 2022 (link). 

In this context, the IO has organized a virtual Information Day to present this procurement to Industry and to potential candidates. The online event took place on 24 January 2022.

For further information about this past event, and/or the Hot Ccell Facility project, please contact us as HCC@iter.org.

The ITER Organization (the IO) is organizing a Virtual Information Meeting with the interested potential industrial players in the related countries to present the general procurement strategy for the Engineering Design of Port Integration Facility (PIF) and tooling.

The online event will take place on 5 October (Tuesday) from 14:00 to 15:00 CET.

The ITER Organization is organizing a Virtual Information Meeting to present to industry the general procurement strategy for the ITER In-Vessel Assembly Works Phase I.

The online event will take place on 3 September (Friday) from 14:00 to 16:00 CET.

Following the COVID-19 outbreak across the world, the ITER Business Forum (IBF) is postponed to take place in Marseille on 5-7 April 2022.

Instead, the ITER Organization will host a 2-day Remote ITER Business Meeting presenting the coming business opportunities, and the latest highlights of the Project on Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 April 2021.

The ITER Organization and the European Domestic Agency (Fusion for Energy) are co-hosting a Virtual Information Day for industry on the general procurement strategy for the ITER Hot Cell Complex. The online event will take place on 4 June 2020 (Thursday) afternoon, and will be held via Skype or equivalent (to be confirmed to all participants on sign up).

The IBF/2019 will be held in Antibes, France from 26 to 28 March 2019 with the participation and support of the ITER Organization, Fusion for Energy (F4E) and the other Domestic Agencies

The aims of IBF/19 are the following:

to learn about ITER status and next business opportunities
to facilitate partnerships between industries, within Europe and outside Europe
to foster collaborations between industries and Fusion laboratories

The ITER Organization is organizing a workshop from 28 to 30 June 2017 on beryllium applications and health and safety aspects for ITER. The objective is to promote awareness and a beryllium safety culture within the ITER Project by sharing the ITER Organization beryllium issue management plan and also by learning from the experience of other beryllium actors.

This event is by invitation only. If you would like more information please contact rene.raffray@iter.org or russell.eaton@iter.org.

Following the February 2016 MIIFED-IBF event in Monaco, the next event planned on business opportunities at ITER is the ITER Business Forum (IBF/2017), which will be held in Avignon, France from 28 to 30 March 2017. Registration is open now.

The ITER Organization is pleased to invite interested industrial companies to participate in this special event aiming at presenting the scope and the procurement strategy of the cable supply, electrical, instrumentation & control installation works for ITER.

For further information please contact ecic-infoday@iter.org.

On receipt of your request for participation you will be sent a link for registration. (As the number of participants to this event will be limited, the registration will be available on a first come first served basis.)

In 2016, the Monaco-ITER International Fusion Energy Days joins with the ITER Business Forum to propose a three-day world-class event on ITER and fusion that particularly targets industry. The conference theme, "ITER and industry — building the world's biggest fusion machine together" will be brought to life thanks to the participation of companies already involved in ITER, as well as companies seeking upcoming business opportunities.

Project Managers from international industry, science and the arts scene will gather at ITER headquarters on 4 September 2015. "Fusing the Project World" is the title of the one-day conference organized by "eVa in the UK" in collaboration with the ITER Organization, offering a first-hand opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with world-leading project managers.

The list of high-level speakers includes CERN's leading engineer Roberto Saban, Didi Hopkins from the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Harvey Maylor from the Said Business School.

Covering fusion will be ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot and Steven Cowley, the CEO of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

The ITER Organization cordially invites interested Electrical Energy Suppliers and Balance Responsibility Entities ("Gestion d'Equilibre") to participate at the ITER Headquarters in this Infoday aimed at presenting the scope for the Electricity Supply Contract to the ITER site.For those unable to attend personally, the event will be broadcasted via live-stream.

The ITER Organization is hosting an Industrial Information Day on 21 May 2015 to present the scope and the procurement program of the ITER assembly and installation phase.

The full-day event will include overview presentations on the management of the planned work scope, tender rules and regulations, and presentations on specific work contracts.