Industry and Accelerator Science, Technology, and Engineering - the Need to Integrate (Building Bridges)

Finally, after two years of many virtual-only events, IPAC22, the International Particle Accelerator Conference 2022, could be held in person in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 12-17, 2022. Following up on the conclusions reached in the Industrial Session of IPAC21, remotely hosted by the Laboratories Nacional de Luz Synchrotron (LNLS) in Campinas, Brazil, the industrial session of IPAC22 had the opportunity to renew the discussions along with new ideas and opportunities. At IPAC22 (Fig. 1), an innovative and integrated approach was adopted, and new impactful strategies were discussed and proposed to foster a true and realistic as well as effective and global accelerator ecosystem/network. One key point of the session was that the collaborative and fertile environment between industry and research laboratories will continue to be crucial for the successful development and implementation of the technologies required in the next years. These collaborations and associated technological developments will have to satisfy and allow the progress foreseen in exponentially growing markets such as those of particle accelerators. The session also discussed the importance of universities for basic and more advanced technology insertions into the labs and industry as well as for the workforce pipeline. Further, we also discussed the importance of interactions with governments and not-for-profits, e.g. professional societies, consortiums. Enhanced across the board collaboration will be beneficial both for industry and for advancing the science, technology and engineering (STE): when well-integrated, accelerators help solve global problems, as proven in solving societal puzzles such as in developing the COVID vaccines, and the industry can grow, this brings in more tax income, more budgets for STE, more applications, etc. in a virtuous circle. During the Industrial Session of IPAC22, much was discussed considering the different points of industry, laboratories, universities, and other collaborating entities. The aim was to generate and compile novel ideas and concrete actions on how best to implement and apply strategies that would help the integration and co-innovation between industry and collaborators for STE, with the purpose of building a global, collaborative accelerator economy: making accelerator-based research sustainable over the long-term, increasing at the same time the benefits of particle accelerators for society are the main challenges to the accelerator community in the century after ne