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).

InfoSys 2026 Congress

Conference will be mixed online and on location at

Holiday Inn Express Valencia-Ciudad Las Ciencias
Escritor Rafael Ferreres 22
Valencia, 46013
Spain

Phone: +34 963 16 25 30
Email: recepcion@expresshivalencia.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. A Web-Component Primer for Database Developers - On Site
Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmidt(1,2), Tizian Berger(2), Tobias Münch(3,4)
(1) Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
(2) Department of Computer Science and Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany
(3) Münch Ges. für IT Solutions mbH Lohne, Germany
(4) Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- summary
- short bio

T2. Challenges and Opportunities of Intelligent Systems in Forensics - On Site
Prof. Dr. Dirk Labudde, Hochschule Mittweida, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- summary
- short bio

Workshop

Theme: Typed Graph Models versus Databases
Lecturer:
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Malcolm Crowe, University of the West of Scotland, UK, Scotland

Keynote Speeches

K1. Using Drones for Enhanced Communications in Cases of Emergency - On Site
Prof. Dr. Ivan.Ganchev, University of Limerick, Ireland / University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K2. Domain Adaptation in Machine Learning - On Site
Prof. Dr. Sagar Naik, University of Waterloo, Canada
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K3. Intelligent Energy Management Systems - On Site
Prof. Dr. Juho Mäkiö, University of Applied Sciences, Emden / Leer, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K4. Preventing Large-Scale Emergencies in Modern Power Systems: AI Approach - On Site
Prof. Dr. Michael Negnevitsky, University of Tasmania, Australia
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K5. Emergence of Universal Engineering - Virtual
Prof. Dr. Pavel Loskot, ZJU-UIUC Institute, China
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K6. Bridging AI and Social Computing to Mitigate Socio-Cognitive Threats - On Site
Prof. Dr. Nitin Agarwal, COSMOS Research Center, UA Little Rock | ICSI, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K7. Smart Grids, Cyber Security, and the Big Spillover (What Connects Fridges to Smart Grid Cyber Security and What can we do About it?) - On Site
Dr.-Ing. Eric Veith, OFFIS e.V. - Oldenburg, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

Open Discussions

OD1. Technology Adoption and Product Delivery - "Just in time" is better than "Perfection" - On Site
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Petre Dini, IARIA, USA
X Persona - Panelist-as-a-Service
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Malcolm Crowe, University of the West of Scotland, UK, Scotland
- presentation slides

OD2. Society Evolution and Human-Machine Cohabitation - On Site
Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Fernanda Eliott, Grinnell College, USA 
Prof. Dr. Dennis Folds, Human Systems Engineering, USA 
Prof. Dr. Nitin Agarwal, COSMOS Research Center, UA Little Rock | ICSI, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- presentation slides

OD3. Boredom Relevance for Creativity in the Digital Age - On Site
Coordinators:
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Malcolm Crowe, University of the West of Scotland, UK, Scotland 
Prof. Dr. Fernanda Eliott, Grinnell College, USA  
Prof. Dr. Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- presentation slides

DEMO (Open from Tue -Thu in Conference Room A)

SmartCHANGE Web Application: An AI-Driven Digital solution for Personalized Health Lifestyle Change Interventions
Demonstrators:
Elena Mancuso, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA, Italy 
Valentina Di Giacomo, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA, Italy 

Panels

P1. Society Benefits from Digital Systems and Smart Services (Monday afternoon) - On Site
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Dirk Labudde, Hochschule Mittweida, Germany  Dirk
Panelists:
Dr. Christopher Bayliss, University of Portsmouth, UK 
Sr. Lect. Dr. Amit Resh, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel 
Dr. Ing. Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez, Flanders Make, Belgium 
Tech. Lead Nieves Salor Moral, Starion Group, Spain 
Prof. Dr. Frank Heckel, Hochschule Anhalt - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- presentation slides

P2. Challenges and Advantages of the Coexistence of Raw Data, Metadata, and Synthetic Data (Tuesday afternoon) - On Site
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Schmidt, University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany
Panelists:
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Malcolm Crowe, University of the West of Scotland, UK, Scotland 
Prof. Dr. Steve Zhou, University of Houston Downtown, USA  
Prof. Dr. Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- presentation slides

P3. Success and Warnings: Medical Decisions Using AI-Advanced Tools Under Scrutiny (Wednesday afternoon) - On Site
Moderator:
Prof. Dr. Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Karim Zahed, American University of Beirut, USA 
Prof. Dr. Michael Massoth, Hochschule Darmstadt - University of Applied Sciences, Germany 
Meghan Conroy, CEO & Founder, CaptureProof, USA
Eden Solomon Awulachew, Department of Public Health, Rift Valley University, Ethiopia 
Dr. Elena Mancuso, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA, Italy
- presentation slides

P4. Energy Challenges and Green-energy Related Models (Thursday morning) - On Site
Moderator:
Dr.-Ing. Eric Veith, OFFIS e.V. - Oldenburg, Germany
Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Michael Negnevitsky, University of Tasmania, Australia 
Prof. Dr. Vivian Sultan, California State University, Los Angeles, USA
Prof. Dr. Huamin Ren, Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Norway - Virtual
- presentation slides

Special Sessions

INTELLI/SENSE-CPS: Smart and Sustainable Engineering for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Gil Gonçalves. Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Rui Pinto, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

ENERGY/WRE: Wildfire Intelligence, Remote Sensing, and Smart‑Grid Resilience
Chair: Prof. Dr. Vivian Sultan, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

Regular Sessions

(to be announced)

Farewell Message