ROSCon BE 2026
Nivelles, Belgium
November 25th - November 26th, 2026
Hello fellow Robotics enthousiasts !
For the first time, a regional ROSCon will be held in Belgium !!
The ROSCon BE 2026 will be held in Nivelles, Belgium on November 25th - November 26th, 2026. ROSCon BE 2026 is a great chance for ROS developers of all levels, beginner to expert, to spend an extraordinary two days learning, and networking with the ROS BE community. Get tips and tricks from experts, meet and share ideas with fellow developers.
ROSCon BE is a developers’ conference. The two-day program will comprise a mixture of workshops, technical talks, and tutorials that will introduce you to new tools and libraries, as well as teach you more about the ones you already know. It is a chance to learn more about where this technology is headed and how to contribute in it. The bulk of the program will be presentations, along with panel discussions, lightning talks, demonstrations, and workshops.
We aim for ROSCon BE to represent the entire ROS community, which is global and diverse. Whoever you are, whatever you do, and wherever you do it, if you’re interested in ROS, then we want you to join us at ROSCon BE. We encourage women, members of minority groups, and members of other under-represented groups to attend ROSCon BE. We expect all attendees to follow our code of conduct.
If you have questions, concerns, or ideas for ROSCon BE 2026, please contact the ROSCon BE organising team.
The ROSCon BE organising team acknowledges that the barriers to attendance for traditionally under-represented groups may be many and varied, and we are striving throughout the planning process to make the event as inclusive and accessible as possible.
We also welcome suggestions for what else we can do to encourage more participation. Contact us if you have ideas that you’d like to share.
Dates
ROSCon BE 2026 Key Dates
All dates are preliminary and subject to change
Call for Proposals (Talks & Workshops) open
March 11th, 2026
Proposal submission deadline
September 10th, 2026
Early Birds Ticket Sales Begin
April 9th, 2026
Proposal acceptance (Talks & Workshops) notification
September 24th, 2026
Early registration deadline
September 30th, 2026
Late registration starts
November 11th, 2026
Sponsors
ROSCon BE 2026 Is brought to you by:
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Event Location
ROSCon BE 2026 will be held at ID2MOVE in Cap Innove.
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Travel Information
Arrival by Car from Bruxelles
- Highway E19
- Take Exit 19 (Nivelles Sud).
- Follow signs for the “Parc Industriel de Nivelles Sud” to reach Rue de l’Industrie 20.
- Parking: Free on-site parking is available at the Cap Innove complex.
Transportation from Brussels Airports
Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) and Brussels Airport (BRU) are the main airports. The venue at Cap Innove is 18km from CRL and 45km from BRU.
Transportation from Brussels Airport (BRU)
- Train (SNCB/NMBS)
- Time: 60-75 minutes
- Cost: €15-20
- Primary Route
- Take the direct train to Nivelles (1h).
- Alternative Train Route:
- Take any train to Bruxelles-Midi (4 trains per hour).
- Transfer to a train towards Nivelles or Charleroi-Central.
- Taxi or Private Car
- Time: 45-60 minutes
Transportation from Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL)
- Taxi or Private Car
- Ride sharing apps in the region include Uber and local taxi fleets.
- Time: 20 minutes
Stay Information
- Two nearby hotels have special offers :
- Van Der Valk Hôtel - Nivelles : 10% reduction with code : « NIV- ROSCONBE » Book via this link
- Ibis Styles Nivelles: 1 Double or a twin room 80€ for 1 adult or 85€ for 2 adults. Breakfast not included (16€/pp). Book via mail to H8246-BO@accor.com, don’t forget to specify you attend ROSConBE 2026
tickets
ROSCon BE Ticketing
The ROSCon BE ticketing opens on April 9th, 2026. Please make sure to book your tickets as soon as possible to ensure tickets availability and allow organizers to welcome you the best possible conditions.
Ticket Types
| Ticket Type | Price (Euro) | Remarks |
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| Student | 60 € (Before VAT) | Only 25 available |
| Early Bird | 250 € (Before VAT) | Available until 2026-09-30 |
| General Ticket | 350 € (Before VAT) |
ℹ️ Please note that student tickets holders may be asked a written proof of their student status. Those tickets are also not available for PhD students.
Ticket Addons
| Addon Type | Price (Euro) | Remarks |
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| Social Event | 70 € (Before VAT) | Evening of 25th November |
| Beer Tasting | 20 € (Before VAT) | Evening of 25th November, only 60 tickets available |
| ROSCon BE 2026 T-shirt | 25 € (Before VAT) | Pick up at confenrence entry |
Program
ROSCon BE Program
Schedule
Workshops
To register for a workshop, please use this following form when buying your ticket. If you’ve already bought your ticket and want to register for a talk, please send an email at roscon-be-2026-oc@openrobotics.org
| Workshop | Presenter | Description |
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Reactive Robot Programming in ROS 2 with Crospi & BeTFSM
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Santiago Iregui | This workshop introduces Crospi and BeTFSM: two complementary frameworks for developing complex, reactive, sensor-based applications for (possibly mobile) manipulators in ROS 2. Crospi enables constraint-based task specification, where developers define robot behaviors by expressing task-level constraints in a high-level interpreted language. From these task specifications, real-time-safe controllers that interface with robot hardware and sensors are automatically generated. This approach integrates naturally with BeTFSM’s flexible orchestration using behavior trees and finite state machines. Together, they enable reactive robotic systems across multiple domains, including fully autonomous applications, shared control, and human–robot collaboration. This workshop aims to introduce this paradigm for robot programming in ROS 2, equipping developers with practical tools to design adaptive, real-world robotic systems. In a guided hands-on activity, participants will develop a small application on their own laptops, integrating sensing, control, and orchestration. A selected number of participants will deploy their solutions on a real robot platform. |
Motion Planning Fundamentals with MoveIt
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Yara Shahin & Timotej Gašpar | MoveIt 2 is the standard motion planning framework for ROS 2, yet most practitioners encounter it without ever being properly introduced to its fundamentals. This half-day workshop targets beginners and students who want to understand — not just use — motion planning. Using the open-source Universal Robots ROS 2 driver as a practical platform, participants will learn how path planning and collision avoidance work conceptually, and how to configure MoveIt 2 for a real robot from scratch. Through guided hands-on exercises in simulation, attendees will write integrate IK plugins, define planning groups, configure collision matrices, plan and execute trajectories, and interact with the planning scene — all with a working understanding of what is happening under the hood. No prior MoveIt experience required. |
ROS with Yocto: meta-ros
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Jan Vermaete | Sure, ROS 2 run smooth with Ubuntu. And with Debian. And also with ... Yocto! So why use Yocto. How to use it. How it is tested, or not tested. ... |
Beyond the subnet: ship a ROS 2 robot to end users with Fleetless
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André Dehne | A ROS 2 robot speaks DDS to whoever shares its subnet. Your customers are on their phones, behind NAT, with accounts and permissions. rosbridge gets a topic into a browser on the same network; shipping a robot to end users takes auth, roles, cameras that scale, realtime that survives a dropped link, and a backend somebody runs. Fleetless is that backend as a product. In 90 minutes we take a TurtleBot3 simulated in Gazebo beyond its subnet: connect it through the Fleetless Bridge, tour the Fleetless Console, and let an AI agent configure over MCP what the robot exposes. Then we clone a prepared web app template and let an AI agent adapt it with the @fleetless/sdk until the page drives the robot, shows its camera and plots its pose. The instructor drives; following along is optional. For ROS developers with an app to build and no backend to run. |
Wednesday, November 25th
| Time | Talk | Speaker(s) |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 12:00 | Workshops (see above) | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 - 15:15 | Tools & Teaching (networking & showroom open in parallel) | |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Welcome & opening remarks | Organizing Committee |
| 13:15 - 13:25 | "Somebody Already Built That Tool" | Johannes Hillig, Sergio Pertuz, Ariel Podlubne |
| 13:30 - 13:35 | apt install ros-jazzy on tier-3: a community binary repository for armhf and the conversation we need to have | Sergio Pertuz |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Nix on Wheels: Reproducible ROS 2 from Laptop to Robot | Sander van Dijk |
| 14:05 - 14:15 | RAMROS - Rally Awesome Management for ROS | Michael Johannes |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Motion Tubes: Reactive Local Navigation for Industrial AMRs | Umut Caliskan |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Impedance control of Synapticon motors from ros2_control | Timotej Gašpar, Abhilash Ingale, Maciej Bednarczyk |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee break & demos | |
| 15:45 - 17:30 | Industrial Applications & Experience Sharing (networking & showroom open in parallel) | |
| 15:45 - 16:05 | How big is your map? | Tony Najjar |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | The Seam Between Sim and Steel: PLC-Owned Motion, ROS-Owned Decisions | Renaud Bouckenooghe |
| 16:35 - 16:55 | Tour the hardware: ros2_control hardware interface lifecycle walkthrough and real world examples | Nikola Banovic |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | ROS 2 deployment strategies - Best practices for shipping distributed robotic applications | Alexander Entinger |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Demos | |
| 18:00 - 19:15 | Beer tasting (see above) | |
| 19:15 - 20:15 | Networking event | |
Thursday, November 26th
| Time | Talk | Speaker(s) |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast | |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Manipulation | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | IKFast and Furious: Bringing Analytical IK to ros2_control | Oguzhan Bozoglu |
| 09:25 - 09:45 | Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for manipulation tasks | Jennifer Buehler |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Implementation of the sense of touch in robotic applications | Milan Amighi |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break & demos | |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Mobile Robots | |
| 10:45 - 11:05 | A fast Reinforcement Learning based motion controller for Nav2 | Bram Odrosslij, Mukunda Bharatheesha, Tim Clephas |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | RoboChief: An Open-source Platform for High-speed Logistics Research | Aaron Xavier |
| 11:25 - 11:35 | Lessons Learned Upgrading TurtleBot3 to ROS2 on RPi5 | Jeremy Lebon |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 - 15:15 | Industrial Applications & Experience Sharing | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | A 2007 VW Polo now driven by ROS 2: the OVCS journey | Loic Vigneron |
| 13:35 - 13:45 | ROS 2 in Industry: From First Experiment to Deployed Product in 18 Months | Gerbrand De Laender, Jorn Deruyck |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | From Lab Prototype to Field Fleet: The Engineering Disciplines Behind ROS 2 Industrialization | Cédric Eloy |
| 14:05 - 14:15 | Swarmup: One operator, one interface to control the whole fleet: a ROS 2 orchestration layer for heterogeneous robot teams | Alexandre La Grappe, Enzo Ghisoni |
| 14:20 - 14:30 | ROS2 for Prosthetic Research: Bridging Robotics and Human Rehabilitation | Louis Devillez |
| 14:35 - 14:45 | What We Learned Releasing ROS Packages | Hajar Bartakh |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | How can ROS 2 support robotics in the age of AI? | Dr. Denis Stogl |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee break & demos | |
| 15:45 - 18:00 | Perception & Communication | |
| 15:45 - 16:05 | rmw_unix_socket_cpp: A Custom ROS 2 Middleware for Complex Single-Host Systems | Abderahmane Benali |
| 16:10 - 16:20 | tf2_rs: Bringing tf2 to rust | Théo Engels |
| 16:25 - 16:35 | Z-Control = Zenoh nostd + Embassy + ROS2 Control | Sachin Kumar |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Routerbridge_ROS - A new way to interact with ROS 2 and microcontrollers | Julián Caro Linares |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Closing remarks | Organizing Committee |
Social Event & Beer testing
Two extra events are organised on the evening of the 25th:
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A beer tasting event (From 6 to 7:30 PM): A 90-minute guided journey through 5 originals and distinctive craft beers, thoughtfully paired with artisan cheeses and chocolates. Explore how bold flavours mix and match
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The social event which consist of a three-course dinner. The price also includes drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic). See the menu hereafter:
Social Event Menu:
- Starter: Duo of prawn croquettes and abbey cheese
- Main course: Yellow poultry served in a vol-au-vent-style pastry with duchess potatoes
- Dessert: Dark chocolate cream, cocoa crumble and Chimay Bleue caramel
Vegetarian alternative:
- Starter: Abbey cheese croquettes
- Main course: Vegetarian burger served in a vol-au-vent-style pastry with duchess potatoes
- Dessert: Dark chocolate crème, cocoa crumble and Chimay Bleue caramel
Organizers
Organization team
CoC
Code of Conduct
All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We expect cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everybody.
The Quick Version
Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference organizers.
The Less Quick Version
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion, technology choices, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
Sponsors are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, sponsors should not use sexualised images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualized clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualised environment.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the conference organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff immediately. Conference staff can be identified as they’ll be wearing badges as well as there will be staff at the registration desk.
Conference staff will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.
We expect participants to follow these rules at conference and workshop venues and conference-related social events.