The European Energy Research Alliance-EERA Joint Programmes "Advanced Materials and Processes for Energy Applications" and "Digitalization for Energy" cooperate with the COST-Action 222123 EU-MACE (European Materials Acceleration Center for Energy) to hold their first joint workshop on "Digitalization and Automation boost Energy Materials Research." The 2-day workshop is dedicated to showcasing the latest numerical tools, methodologies, and applications that are revolutionizing the way we design, analyze, and develop advanced energy materials. It will be a platform for experts, researchers, and innovators from diverse backgrounds to converge and share their insights into the latest and future autonomous materials acceleration platforms. The workshop has been conceived for encouraging experts in the fields to present the state-of-the-art progress in numerical and automation methodologies for materials research, without delving excessively into technical details while demonstrating their relevance to addressing the broader, overarching challenges encountered by the community.