This event will be held in hybrid form on July, 26^th and proceeds the 5^th IFAC Workshop on Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology (AMEST). It is mainly directed to graduate students and has the objective to provide practical tools for the smart retrofitting of legacy devices to enable services in maintenance and asset management. The event is in English and free. Registration to the AMEST workshop (either in-person or virtual) automatically provides access to the graduate pre-workshop, whereas persons not attending the workshop need to register to the graduate pre-workshop.