2026 Seminar Program

Wednesday, 25 November 2026

12:30 – 13:30	Registration Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Building A, SUT (B. Krzywoustego Str. 2, Gliwice)
13:30 – 15:00	Workshop on SORPAS® with the Latest Developments and Applications New versions of SORPAS® 2D and 3D and case studies (Open to all participants)
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00	Workshop on AI-enhanced Digital Optimization of Spot Welding Processes Presentation, demonstration and discussions (Open to all participants)
18:00 – 20:00	Welcome Reception

Thursday, 26 November 2026

08:00 – 09:00	Registration The Education and Congress Centre, SUT (ul. Konarskiego 18 B, Gliwice)
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome Prof. Dr. Janusz Adamiec, President of Polish Welding Society
09:15 – 09:50	Keynote: Recent Developments and Future Trends in Resistance Welding Technology by Prof. Dr. Zygmunt Mikno, Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz – GIT, Poland
09:50 – 10:30	Keynote: Numerical and Experimental Perspectives on Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing and Hybridization with Metal Forming by Prof. Dr. Paulo Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break - (Exhibitions)
Session 1: Resistance Welding of AHSS and Dissimilar Materials
11:00 – 11:30	Thermal History Analysis of Spot Welding Process for Concurrent Suppression of LME Cracking and Enhancement of Joint Strength Steel Sheets Shinsuke Komine, Tomomi Kanazawa, Chikaumi Sawanishi, and Koichi Taniguchi, JFE Steel Corporation, Japan
11:30 – 12:00	A Methodological Approach for Predicting the Resistance Spot Weldability of Giga-Grade Advance High Strength Steel Sheets Dr. Duyoul Choi, and Sangho Uhm, POSCO, Korea
12:00 – 12:30	Numerical Prediction of Joint Formation in Two-Stage Resistance Element Welding of Three-Sheet Steel-Aluminium Joints Marcel Heitmann, Paderborn University, Germany
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch - (Exhibitions)
Session 2: Resistance Welding of Aluminiums and Dissimilar Materials
13:30 – 14:00	Estimative of solidification parameters by RSW of AW-7075 based on FEM simulation Pedro Bamberg, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
14:00 – 14:30	Resistance Spot Welding in Automotive Lightweighting: Joint Performance from High Strength Steels to Aluminium Sheets Dr. Sahm Alden, Ákos Meilinger, Mariann Fodorné Cserépi, Marcell Gáspár, University of Miskolc, Hungary
14:30 – 15:00	High-Speed Resistance Projection Welding of thin CuNiSiP Alloys Dr. Tobias Broda, Harms & Wende GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee break - (Exhibitions)
Session 3: Digitalization, Machine Learning and AI
15:30 – 16:00	AI-enhanced Digital Optimizations and Digital Twins for Spot Welding Processes Dr. Wenqi Zhang, SWANTEC Software and Engineering ApS, Denmark
16:00 – 16:30	Deep Learning-Based Splashing Detection of Resistance Spot Welding Dr. Xiaolei Chen, ArcelorMittal Maizieres Research, France
16:30 – 17:00	Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Projection Welding Process for Training Advanced AI-Based Ultrasonic Quality Control Systems Pawel Kustron, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
18:00 – 21:00	Conference Dinner

Friday, 27 November 2026

08:00 – 08:30	Registration The Education and Congress Centre, SUT (ul. Konarskiego 18 B, Gliwice)
Session 4: Resistance Welding Process and Micro Resistance Welding
08:30 – 09:00	Power Electronics for Supplying and Controlling the Resistance Welding Process Prof. Dr. Mariusz Stepien, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
09:00 – 09:30	One Technology, Many Challenges: Advanced Micro Resistance Welding for Medical Applications Dr. Marcin Alexy, AMADA WELD TECH GmbH, Germany
09:30 – 10:00	Different Scale, Different Rules: The Specifics and Physics of the Micro-Resistance Welding Process Bartosz Apanasewicz, APWELD / Harms+Wende, Poland
10:00 – 10:30	Latest Developments on Micro Resistance Welding Neven Micic, Huys Industries Limited, Canada
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break - (Exhibitions)
Session 5: New Technologies and Weld Quality Assessments
11:00 – 11:30	Generative AI for Material Joining: From Trial-and-Error to Instant Answers Dr. Li Huang, AlphaMatl Co., Ltd., USA
11:30 – 12:00	Analysis of the Effect of Resistance Spot Welding Parameters on the Properties of Joints Made of High Strength Materials Slawomir Parzych, Wiktoria Zbyrad-Kolodziej, Rafał Dziurka, Zbigniew Mikno, Krakow University of Technology, Poland
12:00 – 12:30	Robust and Calibrated Machine Learning for Weld-Quality Assessment under Variable Measurement Conditions Przemysław Frankiewicz, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch and Closing Remarks
14:00 – 15:30	Visit to the GIT Welding Center Laboratories