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Welcome Party
The VDMA Photovoltaics Equipment Sector Group invites you to a welcome party at the VDMA Headquarters on the evening before the conference. The event is open to all PV CellTech attendees.
Opening from the Conference Chair
Speakers

Finlay Colville
Celebrating 10 years of PV CellTech; PV manufacturing in a Terawatt world
Moderator

Christian Buchner
The first special session of PV CellTech 2025 will examine the dynamics of the PV industry as it approaches the terawatt annual production landmark. Topics will include manufacturing trends across the c-Si value-chain, including a focused look at the polysilicon sector and prospects for new plants in the future outside China. Technology roadmap forecasts will also be examined closely, including the first showing of the latest ITRPV edition. The speakers feature some of the leading voices that have been at the forefront of PV CellTech conferences during the past decade.
Speakers

Finlay Colville

Markus Fischer

Johannes Bernreuter
Coffee Break
State-of-the-art PV manufacturing in 2025; leading producers, technologies & roadmaps
Moderator

Finlay Colville
As the industry moves into the final phase of TOPCon technology being the mainstream offering, which companies are driving this concept to its maximum efficiency potential? And who are the technology-leaders that will set the benchmark in manufacturing over the next 2-3 years as the industry potentially moves to Back Contact architectures as the next dominant cell type? This session will focus on the companies creating the leading indicators for technology change in 2025, including some of the major cell producers in the industry today.
Speakers

Fabian Fertig

Johanna Bonilla
Networking Lunch
New PV equipment & processes driving GW-scale production line throughputs
Moderator

Stefan Rinck
High-throughput and capex-optimized tools will play a vital part in moving single-junction cells to their optimum performance levels. This session will focus on the leading PV equipment suppliers to the sector today and next-generation solutions for GW-scale production lines with efficiencies in the high twenties.
Speakers

Damian Brunner
Coffee Break
From R&D to manufacturing technology-shifts – the research labs driving the PV industry today
Moderator

Sebastian Gatz
R&D breakthroughs and transferring the technology into mass production status has been a consistent theme within the PV industry for the past couple of decades. This session will hear from some of the R&D institutes that have shaped the PV manufacturing and technology landscape today, with a focus on what is coming next to facilitate the single-junction silicon cell reaching its limits.
Speakers

Ralf Preu

Radovan Kopecek

Charles Roux

Kaining Ding
The globalization of PV manufacturing – who, where and what for the years ahead?
Moderator

Raymond De Munnik
Day two gets off to a flying start, with one of the most exciting developments now – the prospect of upstream PV manufacturing moving back out of Asia and into the U.S., Europe, India and other regions globally including the Middle-East. This session will hear from the companies that are at the forefront of setting up and optimizing new cell fabs in these regions. What technologies are they opting for? What equipment suppliers are being used? How much of the value-chain and eco-system is being planned or under construction to supply and use the new cells produced?
Speakers

George Touloupas
Coffee Break
The future of PV metallization
Cell manufacturing has become a major user of silver powder, putting pressure on raw material supply channels. Furthermore, the percentage of cell processing costs from silver usage is now running at record levels, despite the achievements of the manufacturing sector in recent years to reduce the g/W consumption rates. This special session at PV CellTech Europe 2025 will examine what the future of PV metallization could look like, including new and emerging techniques to finally unlock the transition from silver to copper as the basis of screen printing and other novel approaches.
Speakers

Francesca Antoniolli

Florian Clement
Networking Lunch
Celebrating 10 years of PV CellTech; Special Session To Be Announced
What will PV technology look like in 2050?
Special session looking into the PV crystal ball at what technology might look like well into the future. How can we think about this? Will solar cell manufacturing in 2050 make current production lines look like vacuum tube technology? Will the industry have moved beyond triple-junction and the days of mining quartz be a thing of the past? Will there be any silver left in the world? Will people talk nostalgically about the ‘old days’ when all the solar cells were made in Asia? Or will TOPCon still be the mainstream offering! Have you say or just listen to what others think and then feel free to agree or not! Either way, hopefully there will be plenty fuel for thought.