One of the important activities Thor organizes is a symposium. The goal of this conference is to discuss the advancement of technologies on a specific research area. Concerning the theme of the day lectures, workshops, discussions and demonstrations are organized.

 For a successful conference, you need a good topic. You choose a topic that's hot or very new. This will ensure that a broad public is interested and that there is great interest from the business for. Organizing a conference you get in contact with a lot of different people. There has to be a committee of recommendation, which exists of people that are important in business, the lecturers are often researchers and to finance the conference you have to contact different companies.