Program Schedule

All times are in Continental Portuguese Summer Time (Local time) which is Western European Summer Time (WEST).

23 Jun 202624 Jun 202625 Jun 202626 Jun 2026
TuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
08:45RegistrationRegistrationRegistration
09:00OpeningKeynote: Paul CastroKeynote: Luís Rodrigues + João Leitão
09:15
09:30Security and Privacy
09:45
10:00Poster session + Coffee BreakCoffee Break
10:15
10:30Stream/Complex event processing
10:45Coffee Break
11:00
11:15Keynote: Sara BouchenakAI/ML/Serverless computing
11:30
11:45Closing
12:00
12:15LunchLunch
12:30Lunch
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30
13:45
14:00Test of timeKeynote: Miguel Filipe
14:15
14:30 Registration
14:45
15:00WoAISIndustry Session IIndustry Session II
15:15
15:30
15:45Coffee BreakCoffee Break
16:00Coffee Break
16:15WoAISPhD Symp / DiversityBusiness Meeting
16:30
16:45
17:00SC Meeting*
17:15
17:30Registration
17:45
18:00Welcome ReceptionSocial event + Conf. Dinner

Detailed program:

Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Begin–EndSubject
14:30–15:00Registration
15:00-15:45 Keynote: Luo Mai
What Primitives Get Us to 1000× Serverless AI Inference?
15:45–16:00WoAIS Workshop (Demos)

Blocks-DB – Octavio Iacoponelli
 PyRun Cloud: AI-Powered Educational CloudLab Democratizing Distributed Cloud Computing – Daniel Alejandro Coll Tejeda
 Architecture-Aware Load Distribution in Heterogeneous Edge FaaS Systems – Gabriele Russo Russo
16:00-16:15Coffee Break
16:15–16:35WoAIS Workshop (Paper Session 1)

LLM-Assisted Interpretation of Graphene Image Analysis in Serverless Workflows – Sepideh Shamsizadeh; Barry Hardy; Valerio Schiavoni; Josef Spillner
 InferenceProfiler – Austin Bomhold; Xinghan Chen; Morteza Nabavinejad; Wes Lloyd
16:40-17:15 Keynote: Gosia Steinder
AI Operating System
17:15–17:35WoAIS Workshop (Paper Session 2)

Benchmarking Serverless AI Architectures: Modular RAG, Serverless RAG, and Long Context Inference – Florian Alexandru Serb Petrusel; Pedro Antonio García López
 Evaluating Large Language Models for Automated Serverless Workflow Generation – Sashko Ristov; Philipp Gritsch; Florian Unterhofer; Ruth Breu
17:30–18:00Registration
18:00Welcome Reception
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
Begin–EndSubject
08:45–09:00Registration
09:00-09:30Opening
09:30–10:45 Security and Privacy
Chair: Ruben Mayer

Lean Gossip: Big Gains From Small Talk – Ankit Kumar; Panagiotis Manolios; Panagiotis Manolios
 Enhancing Effectiveness of Ethereum Rollups with a Byzantine Fault Tolerant Finality Layer – Emanuele Valzano; Matteo Nardelli; Valeria Cardellini
 SHIELD: Evolutionary Synthesis of Privacy-Preserving Pipelines for Live Stream Data Sharing – Silvia Perelli; Eric Medvet; Vincenzo Gulisano
10:45-11:15Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 Keynote: Sara Bouchenak
Trustworthy Distributed AI and Machine Learning - Challenges and Opportunities
Chair: Sukanya Bhowmik
12:15-14:00Lunch
14:00-15:00Test of time
Chair: Boris Koldehofe
15:00-15:45 Industry Session I
Chair: Sukanya Bhowmik

Chill: Runtime Reconfiguration of Windowed Stream Aggregates with Semantic Guarantees – Jingyu Liu; Vincenzo Gulisano
 BPFComposer: Towards deterministic and safe composition of eBPF Programs (and their Shared state) – Prankur Gupta; Takshak Chahande; Miao Xu; Prashanth Kannan; Tejas Birajdar; Lilian Liu; Rajiv Krishnamurthy; Theophilus Benson
15:45-16:15Coffee Break
16:15-17:15PhD Symp / Diversity
18:00Social event
+
Conf. Dinner (@Zambeze restaurant)
Thursday, 25 June 2026
Begin–EndSubject
08:45–09:00Registration
09:00-10:00 Keynote: Paul Castro
Serverless for AI, AI for Serverless
Chair: Ruben Mayer
10:00–11:15 Poster Session + Coffee Break
Chair: Bernardo Almeida

Poster: CIRRUS – Data-Driven Preprocessing Pipelines for Eye-Tracking Data – Jennifer Landes; Meike Klettke; Oliver Ring
 Demo: ZSS — In-Zenoh Shared Subscription with Raft-Based High Availability – Cheanfei Shee; Hailong Zheng; Yudai Tanabe; Sho Isobe; Shin Owada; Nobuyasu Seki
 Poster: Pixelate: An Event-Driven System for Scalable Distributed Multi-User Interaction on Public Displays – Joseph Kenny; Samuelle Bourgault; Philippe Maman; Soulaf Aburas; Daniela Mitterberger
 Demo: Exploring Time Series Data from Massive Sensor Systems through Change Point Correlation – Lucas Weber; Martin Bühl; Richard Lenz
 StreamFröst: Collaborative Definition and Execution of Cross-Organizational Stream Processing Pipelines – Liam Tirpitz; Jannis Tölle; Roman Bobekh; Sakshi Gupta; Divyashree Sreenivasa; Ushasree Tella; Maximilian Breuer; Sandra Geisler
 Poster: Event-Based Detection of Rare Action Boundaries in Streaming Manufacturing Videos using Adaptive Windowing – Piyush Yadav; Kostas Kouramas
11:15–12:30 AI/ML/Serverless computing
Chair: Paul Castro

Label-Flip Attack Detection via Trust-Weighted Aggregation in Federated Learning for Underground Mine Security – Md. Sazedur Rahman; Sanjay Madria; Samuel Frimpong
 Spec2FaaS: using AI Agents for Autonomous Serverless Function Development and Deployment – Martina Lupini; Gabriele Russo Russo; Valeria Cardellini
 Size and Frequency Aware Warm Container Management for Resource-Constrained Serverless Platforms Under Skewed Workloads – Sabyasachi Gupta; John Lusher; Paul Gratz
12:30–14:00Lunch
14:00–15:00 Keynote: Miguel Filipe
DuneCP: An Event-Driven Control Plane for a Blockchain Data Platform
Chair: Valerio Schiavoni
15:00–15:45 Industry Session II
Chair: Nuno Cruz

StreamPerf: Predicting SLA breaches at different latency percentiles in mission critical stream processing – Diogo Pacheco; Rodrigo Rodrigues; Paolo Romano; João Barreto; Ana Sofia Gomes; Alberto Ferreira; Pedro Bizarro
15:45-16:15Coffee Break
16:15-17:00Business Meeting
17:00-17:45SC Meeting (@6.3.27)
Friday, 26 June 2026
Begin–EndSubject
09:00–10:00 Keynote: Luís Rodrigues + João Leitão
Efficient and robust large-scale event dissemination: the PlumTree story
Chair: Vincenzo Gulisano
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30–11:45 Stream/Complex event processing
Chair: João Leitão

Alloy: Transparent Proxy-Based Coupling Between Stream Processing and Storage – Guillaume Rosinosky; Donatien Schmitz; Etienne Riviere
 FlushSync: The Hidden Synchronization Bottleneck in LSM-tree based Stream Processing – Prajwal Basnet; Shungeng Zhang; Jianshu Liu; Jing Zou
 KRAKEN: Joint Optimization of Operator Placement and Communication for Distributed Stream Processing – Ariane Ziehn; Finn Glück; Philipp Emanuel Meran; Steffen Zeuch ; Volker Markl - Best paper award
11:45-12:15Closing
12:15–13:45Lunch