Talks & Conference Appearances
Talks and conference appearances by Stephan Bökelmann (MaxClerkwell). Recordings, where they exist, live on the organisers’ channels.
Conference talks
- “Poor Man’s Introduction to Wire-Bonding” — given twice in 2025: at KiCon Europe 2025, UFO, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 12 September 2025 (programme entry), and at KiCon Asia 2025, Shenzhen, 15 November 2025 (programme). Two years of hands-on wire bonding of CLICpix and MuPix detector chips on a Delvotec bonder, in 25 minutes. Recording on YouTube.
- “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” — keynote at PDSC4K, Practical Data Science Congress 4000, ZESS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 22 May 2026. The four zones of a real data pipeline, from analog front-end to Provider API; write-up on this blog.
- “RTCS” — emBO++ 2024, Bochum, March 2024. Plus the conference opening on both days and “Roast for Clarify” on the Introduction to Programming course at THGA Bochum (recording on YouTube).
- “Wer viel misst, misst Mist? Ein Plädoyer für modernere Datenanbindung von Messgeräten im Namen der Industrie 4.0” — Data Science Ruhrgebiet Kongress 2019, Bochum.
PANDA collaboration meetings (2019–2025)
Progress talks on parts of the PANDA luminosity detector at the PANDA Collaboration meetings at GSI Darmstadt, held roughly three times a year (talks are collaboration-internal, not public): CM 19/1 (Mar 2019), 19/3 (Nov 2019), 2020-III (online), 21/1–21/3 (2021, online), 22/1 (May/Jun 2022), 22/3 (Oct 2022), 23/1–23/3 (2023), 24/2 (Jun 2024), and subsequent meetings through 2025.
Workshops & teaching appearances
- “Plötzlich Chef*in. Vom Gründen zur Führung” — leadership workshop for founders, Hochschule Bochum / TZR, 27 October 2025 (instructor).
Organiser roles
- emBO++ — International Technical Symposium for Embedded Systems Development, Bochum. Principal organiser since 2015.
- KiCon Europe — KiCad conference. Organiser since 2020, host of KiCon Europe 2024 in Bochum.
- PDSC4K — Practical Data Science Congress, Bochum. Co-organiser since 2024 (via open Skunkforce e.V.).
- pottCPP — Ruhr C++ User Group. Organiser since 2017.
- IHK Mittleres Ruhrgebiet — examination board for IT specialists (Fachinformatiker), board member since 2020.