DATE: 22-25 September 2026

VENUE: Hotel NH Palermo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Metal Forming 2026 is the 21st in a series of international conferences organized since 1974 by AGH University of Krakow. From 1994 to 2010 the conference was organized biannually, jointly with the University of Birmingham, UK.

To provide a forum for academics and industrialists to discuss and disseminate recent developments, innovations, and advances in metal forming processes.

The conference will be an opportunity for those working in physical and numerical modelling, as well as those involved in industrial applications of the results of theoretical research.

Micas Simulations Ltd, QForm Group is a platinum sponsor of the conference. Nikolay Biba will introduce the works:

• Automated FEM-Based Optimization of Gas-Vent Channel Positioning in Hot-Forging Dies to Prevent Underfill Defects.

• An Automated Approach to Creating AI-Driven Microstructural Models in Hot Deformation Processes.