For 2026, all events will be held in a hybrid mode with five options: on site or virtual choices (live, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, and .pdf slides).

ComputationWorld 2026 Congress

Conference will be mixed online and on location at

Mercure Lisboa
AV JOSE MALHOA 23
1099-051 LISBOA
PORTUGAL

Phone: +351 21 720 8089
Email: h3346@accor.com

Note: This event is a mix of online and on site participation. All contributions are posted below; those presenting onsite have their own schedule, as a subset of the entire program.

Opening Welcome

On Site Program

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Tutorials

T1. Designing Clinical Studies and Navigating the FDA Approval Process in the United States - On Site
Carlos Peña, PhD, MS, Chief Regulatory Officer and Chief Quality Officer, Jacobs Institute - Buffalo, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- summary
- short bio

T2. Current State of LLM/SLM-based Code Generation and Future Directions - On Site
Srinath Perera, Ph.D., Chief Architect, WSO2 Inc., Santa Clara, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- summary
- short bio

Keynote Speeches

K1. Internet of Things - Toward a Better-connected World? - On Site
Lect. & Adj. Prof. Dr. George R S Weir, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K2. Software Engineering in AI/LLM Era - On Site
Kunal Rao, NEC Laboratories America/Integrated Systems Department - Princeton, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K3. Cybersecurity – Current Threats and Future Challenges - On Site
Prof. Dr. Andreas Aßmuth, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K4. Rise of the Robots: From Mechanical Turtles to Intelligent Humanoids - Virtual
Dr. Robert Polding, Assistant Vice Dean of Computing and Data Science, IE University, Spain
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K5. AI-based Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - On Site
Prof. Ph.D. Eugen Borcoci, Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica Bucuresti, (UNSTPB), Romania
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

Open Discussions

OD1. The Danger of Synthetic Use Cases (Wed, April 22) - On Site
Moderators:
Prof. Dr. Maik Drozdzynski, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany 
Prof. Dr. Petre Dini, IARIA, USA/EU
- presentation slides

OD2. Useful Conversational Chatbots or Social Junk Food? (Thu, April 23) - On Site
Moderators:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kristina Schaaff, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany 
Prof. Dr. Petre Dini, IARIA, USA/EU
- presentation slides

Panels

P1. Theme: Cybersecurity, (Mon, April 20) - On Site
Moderator:
to be announced
Panelists:
to be announced
- presentation slides

P2. Theme: Clouds and Data, (Tue, April 21) - On Site
Moderator:
to be announced
Panelists:
to be announced
- presentation slides

P3. Theme: Cognition, (Wed, April 22) - On Site
Moderator:
to be announced
Panelists:
to be announced
- presentation slides

P4. Theme: Systems, (Fri, April 23) - On Site
Moderator:
to be announced
Panelists:
to be announced
- presentation slides

Special Sessions

Hyper-CC: Hyper-Distributed Systems and Applications for the Computing Continuum - On Site
Chairs:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Herodotos Herodotou. Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Dr. Iakovos Michailidis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece
Dr. Vassilis Papataxiarhis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece

GenAI4Cloud: Generative AI for Cloud Computing - On Site
Chair: Kunal Rao, NEC Laboratories America, USA

BIMS: Modern BI Architectures for Enterprise Performance Management and Company Steering - On Site
Chair: Prof. Dr. Maik Drozdzynski, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany

CPAI: Cognitive and Psychological Impacts of AI Adoption - On Site
Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kristina Schaaff, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany

BRAINCOMAUG: Brain Computer Interface for AI Augmented Human Cognition - On Site
Chair: Dr. Jayfus T. Doswell, The Juxtopia Group, JUICE-Lab, USA

Regular Sessions

(to be announced once registration concludes)

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