TRACK 01
Offshore Energy & Subsurface
Geomechanics, well integrity, CCS and CO₂ storage, geothermal energy, and decommissioning or reuse of North Sea assets.
Call for abstracts opens 1 November 2026
1st edition · Aberdeen
Aberdeen eXchange for Industry & Science — International Conference on Energy Transition & Mechanics
Welcome reception on Burns Night,
Monday 25 January 2027.
Offshore wind & floating structuresHydrogen & energy storageCarbon capture & storageFracture, fatigue & corrosionDigital twins & AI for integritySubsea & well engineeringDecommissioningGeothermal & geomechanicsPolicy & just transition
Why Aberdeen, why now
Dr Henry Tan · Dr Turan Mutallimov · Dr Nurhasnita Hamzah — Conference Chairs
Aberdeen powered the North Sea for fifty years. Now it is building what comes next. AXIS brings the people who will engineer the transition into one room for three days in January: researchers, operators, regulators and the students who will inherit it.
Dr Henry Tan · Dr Turan Mutallimov · Dr Nurhasnita Hamzah — Conference Chairs
The idea
Two axes.
Two axes.
One transition.
Science runs along one axis, industry along the other. Progress happens where they cross. AXIS is designed around that crossing point, so research results meet field realities in every session.
Every track has an academic and an industry co-chair. Every session mixes research with field experience. Every student gets time in front of the people who will hire them.
Six scientific tracks
Six tracks, each with real field problems behind it.
The scope is narrower than our earlier symposia on purpose, so that researchers and partners alike know exactly who they will meet. Keep scrolling to see all six.
TRACK 02
Offshore Wind & Marine Renewables
Floating foundations, moorings and dynamic cables, wave and tidal systems, metocean loads, installation and O&M.
TRACK 03
Hydrogen, Storage & Conversion
Electrolysis and hydrogen infrastructure, batteries and beyond-lithium chemistries, fuel cells, e-fuels and thermal storage.
TRACK 04
Mechanics of Materials & Structures
Fracture, fatigue and corrosion; composites; nano- and micromechanics; multiphysics and computational modelling. The ECM heritage, applied to the field.
TRACK 05
Digital Engineering, AI & Robotics
Digital twins, machine learning for inspection and integrity, autonomous and robotic systems, sensing and data standards.
TRACK 06
Energy Systems, Policy & Just Transition
Economics and regulation, skills and workforce, communities, supply chains and energy security: the system around the technology.
Why attend
What you take home from AXIS.
A route to indexed proceedings and a journal special issue.
We have proposed a Springer Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering volume (Scopus and EI indexed, subject to publisher approval) and a partner journal special issue for extended papers.
The Challenge Exchange
Companies bring real problems and researchers respond. Matchmaking slots continue the conversation afterwards.
Four awards
Best Paper, Best Student, Industry Impact and the Research Image Competition.
CPD certificate
Every delegate receives a certificate of CPD hours to record with their professional body (IET, IMechE, EI and others).
Talent wall
PhD, postdoc and graduate roles from partners, plus a dedicated PGR showcase session.
Hybrid-ready
Virtual passes and remote presenting, a format the series first offered in 2018.
Burns Night, granite and northern light
A civic welcome on Burns Night, a gala dinner in a baronial hall, and a proposed technical visit to the Energy Transition Zone.
A global meeting point
Delegates from 56 countries have come to Aberdeen before.
Since 2014 our symposia have brought researchers and engineers from China, the US, Korea, Germany, Japan, India, Malaysia, the Gulf and across Europe to Scotland. AXIS builds on that network and adds industry to it.
10symposia since 2014
1,400+presentations
56countries at one edition
6focused tracks for 2027
Delegate originsAberdeenDrag the globe to rotate it
ECM1Jul 2014
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
ECM2Aug 2014
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
ECM3–42015 · Big Picture & Small Scales
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
ECM5–62016
Inverness
Inverness
Energy72017 · 56 countries
Manchester
Manchester
Quantum1Jun 2018
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Mechanics1Jul 2018
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Energy8Aug 2018 · online participation
Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AXIS 202726–28 Jan 2027
A new chapter
A new chapter
Your journey
From abstract to Aberdeen in five steps.
01
Create your account
One account for submitting, reviewing, registering and downloading your certificate.
02
Submit an abstract
A 300-word abstract to one of six tracks, the industry case-study track, or the PGR showcase.
03
Get a fast decision
Rolling review by the scientific committee, with a decision in about ten days and reviewer feedback in your portal.
04
Register and pay
Pay by card, or request an invoice with your university purchase order. Early-bird rates run until 5 January.
05
Present, connect, publish
Present in Aberdeen, meet partners at the Challenge Exchange, and submit an extended paper for the proceedings or special issue.
Keynotes
Speakers will be announced from 1 November.
We are inviting an operator chief executive, a senior regulator, a leading academic voice in mechanics for energy, and one rising-star researcher.
TBAIndustry keynoteChief executive, North Sea energy operator
TBAPolicy keynoteSenior leader, energy regulator
TBAPlenary lectureMechanics for the energy transition
TBARising-star lectureEarly-career researcher, chosen by the committee
Registration
Clear pricing, with no hidden extras.
Every pass includes all sessions, lunches and refreshments, the Burns Night welcome reception, the exhibition and a CPD certificate. Prices include 20% UK VAT.
£450 early bird
- Full three-day pass
- Present an oral or poster
- £525 standard · £600 late
£650 early bird
- Full pass plus Challenge Exchange
- Matchmaking meetings
- Group of 3+ saves 10%
£150 from
- £250 presenting · £150 attending
- PGR showcase and awards
- Sponsored travel grants
Aberdeen in January
Granite, northern light and a Burns Supper.
Aberdeen has been home to the North Sea industry for fifty years and is now becoming the UK's energy transition hub. Delegates arrive on Burns Night for a civic welcome, then spend three days within walking distance of medieval Old Aberdeen.
Easy to reach
Aberdeen International Airport has direct links to London, Amsterdam and other hubs. Edinburgh is 2.5 hours away by train.
Burns Night
A Scottish welcome with haggis, pipes and poetry on Monday 25 January.
Elphinstone Hall
A 1930 baronial hall, the planned home of the exhibition and gala dinner.
Hybrid backup
Speakers can present remotely if January weather disrupts travel.
Partners
In good company.
Partner logos appear here, on every delegate badge and lanyard, in the programme book, on the stage screens between sessions and in every email we send. Each open slot below is still available.
Headline partner
Gold partners
Silver partners
Supporting organisations & media partners
Partners & exhibitors
Put your engineering challenge in front of the researchers who can solve it.
Headline, Gold, Silver and Bronze partnerships, exhibition stands, and named awards and travel grants. Limited places, allocated in order of commitment.