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).

SocSys 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 8000
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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Open Discussions

Monday, Oct 26
OD1. Towards Explainability: Between Shadow AI and Controlling AI
Moderators:
to be announced
- presentation slides

Wednesday, Oct 28
OD2. Healthcare Challenges in Medical Systems
Moderators:
to be announced
- presentation slides

Thursday, Oct 29
OD3. Social Sustainability
Moderators:
to be announced
- presentation slides

Panels

Monday, Oct 26 at 18:30
P1. Security under AI-based Decision Solutions
Moderator:
to be announced
Panelists:
to be announced
- presentation slides

Tuesday, Oct 27 at 18:45
P2. Trends in Intelligent Sensing Systems
Moderator:
to be announced
Panelists:
to be announced
- presentation slides

Thursday, Oct 29 at 10:15
P3. Challenges in Monitoring Environmental Systems
Moderator:
to be announced
Panelists:
to be announced
- presentation slides

Tutorials

T1. The Web API Lifecycle: Requirements Analysis, Testing, and Application Integration - A Case Study of AI Services APIs
Prof. Dr. Martin Zimmermann, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- summary
- short bio

T2. Increasing Challenges on AI-related New Competences
Prof. Dr. Petre Dini, IARIA USA/EU
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- summary
- short bio

T3.  Agentic AI by Design: Using Leadership Personas to Shape AI Behavior
Prof. Dr. Bari J Dzomba, Temple University, Christopher M. Barnett College of Public Health - Philadelphia, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- summary
- short bio

Keynote Speeches

K1: (TBD) (pending)
Prof. Dr. Arkady Zhukov, Department Polymers and Advanced Materials,, University Basque Country, España
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K2. (TBD) (pending)
Prof.  Dr. Junghee Lee, Korea University, Korea
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K3. AI and ML in Microelectronics: Optimizing Semiconductor Performance for Advanced UAV sensing and Communications
Dr. Jyrki T. J. Penttinen, Senior Technology Manager, Alphacore, inc. USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K4. Secure AI-Assisted Software Development
Prof. Dr. Aspen Olmsted, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K5. Decentralized Microgrid Energy Management for Multi-Source Systems: Applications to Electric Boats, Renewable Energy, and Heat Pumps
Prof. Dr. Mamadou-Baïlo Camara, Université Le Havre Normandie, France
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K6. Sustainable Agriculture Solutions
Prof. Dr. Chunsheng Hu, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K7. Advanced Networking - Software Defined-Wide Area Networks
Prof. Dr. Eugen Borcoci, National University of Science and Technologies POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania 
PhD Candidate Georgiana Butaru, National University of Science and Technologies POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K8. Driving Analyses for Electric Cars: From being Connected to Automated Driving, Focusing on the Challenges of Range, Comfort and Efficiency
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Michler, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K9. When the Detector Knows It Doesn’t Know: Conformal Uncertainty and Foundation Models for Trustworthy Zero-Day Defense
Prof. Dr. Alexander Lawall, IU International University of Applied Science, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K10. Reconfigurable Computing: Approaches, Applications, and Trends
Prof. Dr. Sergei Sawitzki, FH Wedel (University of Applied Sciences), Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

Special Sessions

(full details to be announced once registration concludes)

CSRF 2026 series
ARID: Innovation in Sustainable Agriculture in Arid and Hyper Arid Regions: From Ecosystem Understanding to Precision Management
Chair: Dr. Jessica Schäckermann, Southern Arava R&D and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel

SECURWARE 2026 series
SSAAIQ: Secure Software Development in the Age of AI and Quantum Computing
Chair: Prof. Dr. Aspen Olmsted, Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA

Regular Sessions

(to be announced once registration concludes)

Farewell Message