We now invite you to submit your proposals for presentations, keynote addresses, interviews, panel discussions, posters, and papers for IFBF 2025. Please help us create an interesting and varied agenda. The closing date is 31 January 2025.

Can you tell us how to deliver an operating flow battery? Our audience at the International Flow Battery Forum wants to know how to buy, install and operate a flow battery. It’s a broad subject area – we want to know about the applications and benefits of flow batteries, and we need to understand where the batteries have come from:  how are they made?  What is the supply chain for the materials and components? How do we improve performance, cut costs and increase reliability?

The International Flow Battery Forum brings together the worldwide community of everyone interested in the research, development, manufacturing, commercialisation, and deployment of flow batteries. Each year since 2010, we have discussed the latest developments in technology, heard about recent flow battery projects, and presented a showcase of this exciting and crucial energy storage technology. In 2024 we visited Glasgow, Scotland, and in 2025 we are very pleased to be returning to Vienna, Austria. The IFBF 2025 will be the highlight of the flow battery industry next year.

Vienna is a lively, busy city, famous for its historic buildings and cultural traditions. It’s very accessible as it has good international transport links, as well as easy-to-use local public transport. It’s the home of CellCube, a major international flow battery manufacturing company, which we have the pleasure to announce as co-host and Platinum sponsor. 

IFBF 2025 will be held in the Intercontinental Hotel from Tuesday 24^th -Thursday 26^th June 2025. The conference will be held alongside other industry meetings of the flow battery community, including a joint meeting with Flow Batteries Europe. The programme includes a site visit and our popular conference dinner.

IFBF 2025 will be a face-to-face meeting. There will be real-time, online access for remote delegates, but presenters are expected to attend in-person. Attendance at the conference is part of Continuing Personal Development and we can provide certificates of attendance upon request. The conference’s language is English.

CONTENT

Proposals can be for oral presentations, panel sessions or posters:

• ORAL PRESENTATIONS are an ideal way to promote your research, products, or services and may cover research, development, manufacturing, policy and regulations, and environmental or commercial topics. Speakers giving oral presentations must submit a 2-page summary paper for the conference proceedings to supplement their talk and further promote their work. We encourage other speakers to submit a paper too.

• We include PANEL SESSIONS to encourage discussion between panellists and delegates. This format is suitable for both technical and commercial topics, including reports on current projects, business cases, novel applications, and market assessments. Speakers will be introduced and the discussion led by a moderator. Panellists are strongly recommended to submit a paper to supplement their position and provide additional information.

• POSTERS allow you to showcase your research, products, or services. There will be a dedicated poster session at the conference. Before the poster session, selected poster presenters give a one-minute ‘speed pitch’ to introduce their poster. After the poster session, awards will be presented to the best poster presenters. Poster presenters may also submit a paper to supplement their poster and further promote their work.

Papers will be published in the book of the Conference Papers. This will be distributed to all delegates and can be cited in future work. Find here a list of the conference papers of the event’s previous editions.

IFBF 2025 will be split into sessions and will include keynote presentations, invited talks, as well as panel discussions on industrial and commercial topics. We aim to bring together the users, manufacturers, developers, researchers, financiers and policymakers so that we can share joint experiences, discuss challenges and communicate our successes in delivering a sustainable, economic and successful energy storage technology. We will be discussing flow batteries of all chemistries, for example, inorganic and organic, aqueous and non-aqueous, and of all sizes.

We are particularly interested in:

• Reports and case studies of flow battery projects, and to hear why customers have chosen flow batteries
• Operational comparisons of flow battery installations, including financial analysis and non-financial benefits of flow batteries
• Latest developments in the science and technology of flow batteries
• Supply chain for materials, components, and subsystems
• Manufacturing, scale-up, and cost reduction for flow batteries
• System integration and optimisation of the balance of the plant, including cyber security and operational security
• Environmental acceptability, recycling, refurbishment, sustainability and the circular economy
• Market requirements, including specific regional and national market issues
• Non-power system applications, for example, maritime and transport
• Insurance, finance, support, and barriers to deployment
• Flow battery research programmes and results of collaborative research
• Standards for systems, compatibility, components, safety, testing and recycling

We are looking for contributions that will be of interest to all parts of the flow battery community.  IFBF attendees include customers, potential purchasers of flow battery systems, financiers, developers, and policymakers. They will be interested in presentations from end users of flow battery systems describing their use, application, and technical and commercial results. A preliminary programme is available here.

Our priority is for recent and novel work, but we also welcome news and updates on recent and existing projects. Authors who have previously presented on a similar topic should highlight the new content in their proposal. Proposals should avoid advertising or self-promotion but may include business activities and technical progress.

SPONSOR AND EXHIBITORS

Sponsors and exhibitors are also encouraged to give a presentation or take part in a panel session or interview. Please respond to this call for proposals and further information will follow shortly. For information about sponsorship or exhibiting please check here our sponsorship brochure and contact Paolo Nouvion at info@flowbatteryforum.com

SUBMISSION

• Please submit your proposal early if possible. This helps us to allocate proposals to reviewers and gives us extra time if we require additional information from you.
• Please submit your proposal following the guidelines on the abstract submission website.
• Authors may submit more than one proposal as long as they are sufficiently different.
• Proposals have a maximum of 400 words.
• For papers with multiple authors, we request that the presenter be the first named author.
• We strongly suggest you include a one-minute video summarising and highlighting the main points of your proposal. These videos help us to arrange the conference schedule. Here is an example one-minute presentation.
• Proposals will be reviewed by the IFBF Organising and Advisory Committee.
• The oral presentation sessions are often over-subscribed so we may offer the opportunity to be included in a panel session or to present a poster. Posters are an excellent way to showcase your research, products, or services. Poster presenters can give a one-minute ‘speed pitch’ to introduce their work before the poster session. The poster session is highly interactive with good and lively discussion between the presenters and other delegates. Prizes are awarded for the best poster presenters.
• By submitting your work, the IFBF is given the rights to publish and distribute presentations, posters and papers in printed and electronic format without payment of royalties and fees to authors.

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Deadlines

Papers are required at least six weeks before the date of the conference to enable them to be collated, reviewed, and published at the conference. The papers are indexed and submitted to major libraries and reference services. 

We look forward to receiving your proposals. If you have any questions, please email info@flowbatteryforum.com or call +32 (0)2 743 29 81.