We are excited to invite you to submit your proposals for presentations, panel discussions, posters, and papers for IFBF 2025.

Please help us create an interesting and varied agenda. The closing date for submissions is 31 January 2025. Click here for further information and submission form.

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 return to Vienna, Austria on 24-26 June, at the Intercontinental Hotel (a preliminary programme is available here). The IFBF 2025 will be the highlight of the flow battery industry next year.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.

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.

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.

To find out more: https://flowbatteryforum.com/call-for-proposals/