Last November, the 2024 edition of the international SOFA Week took place from the 25th to the 29th November 2024. Open and free, this SOFA Week is designed to gather the entire SOFA community, to present technological and scientific advances, while fostering the networking within the community.

International Symposium

Researchers and companies from the SOFA community joined the Symposium in order to present their on-going research or products based on SOFA, to share ideas, experiences and build new collaborations! Five different sessions were organized with a total of 16 oral presentations. 150+ participants (including 100 continuously throughout the day) from 25 different countries took part to the Symposium online event.

150+ registered participants
15 talks within 5 sessions
25 countries represented

Award ceremony

The open-source award program was organized to reward the best open source SOFA contributions. Five contributions were competing this year and the quality of these submissions must be stressed out. The winners were announced during the Symposium:

• Jury’s prize: Pasquale Ferrentino for his project SofaViscoElastic.
• Public’s prize: Rafael Palomar for his project Slicer-SOFA

Read more about the SOFA Awards on the dedicated article here.

STC#18: Technical Committee

The week ended with the SOFA Technical Committee #18. This bi-annual technical committee governs and takes all technical decisions for the roadmap towards upcoming releases.

Open and free, the STC is the occasion for all SOFA developers to meet and discuss the on-going and future developments in SOFA. It is therefore a unique opportunity to get closer from the dev community and code all together during the coding sprint session. A summary of the STC#18 will be available online (see the roadmap page).