Program Overview

Detailed Program

Monday July 6th, 2026 

Location: EEMCS - Building 36 (Room LB 01.010 Snijderszaal, 1st floor)

12h00 – 13h00       Welcome, Registration, and Light Lunch

13h00 – 13h15       Opening by the Organizers & ACM Europe Representative

13h15 – 14h15       Keynote 1: Challenges in LLM Reliability 

Mike Holenderski (TU Eindhoven)

14h15 – 14h45       Coffee Break

14h45 – 16h45       Lecture 1: Battery-free Embedded Intelligence (with a short break in between)

Kasim Sinan Yildirim (University of Trento)

16h45 – 17h45       Reception Drinks with Finger Food

Tuesday July 7th, 2026 

Location: EEMCS - Building 36 (Room LB 01.010 Snijderszaal, 1st floor)

09h30 – 10h30       Lecture 2.1: Closing the Loop in Multimodal Edge AI for Healthcare  

Maxim Yudayev (KU Leuven) and Louis Flynn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

10h30 – 11h00       Coffee Break

11h00 – 12h00       Lecture 2.2: Closing the Loop in Multimodal Edge AI for Healthcare  

Maxim Yudayev (KU Leuven) and Louis Flynn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

12h00 – 13h15       Lunch

13h15 – 14h15       Lecture 2.3: Closing the Loop in Multimodal Edge AI for Healthcare  

Louis Flynn (KU Leuven) and Maxim Yudayev (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

14h15 – 14h45       Coffee Break

14h45 – 15h45       Keynote 2: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Energy-Efficient Edge Intelligence  

Chang Gao (TU Delft)

16h15 – 17h15       Social Activity: visit to the Royal Delft Museum

Wednesday July 8th, 2026 

Location: Echo - Building 29 (Room Arena, ground floor)

09h30 – 10h30       Keynote 3: Low-power Hardware-software Co-design for Efficient AI at the Edge  

Charis Kouzinopoulos (Maastricht University)

10h30 – 11h00       Coffee Break

11h00 – 12h00       Lecture 3: Preparing for the Hackathon "Tiny Machine Learning on Microcontrollers"

Qing Wang (TU Delft)

12h00 – 13h15       Lunch

13h15 – 16h45       Hackathon "Tiny Machine Learning on Microcontrollers" (with a coffee break in between)

All Participants

18h30 – 21h30       Banquet (at Loetje Delft, Address: Korte Geer 1A, 2611 CA Delft, Netherlands)

Thursday July 9th, 2026 

Location: Echo - Building 29 (Room Arena, ground floor)

09h30 – 10h30       Keynote 4: Good Old Trees, New Lessons 

Kuan-Hsun Chen (University of Twente)

10h30 – 11h00       Coffee Break

11h00 – 12h00       Keynote 5: Fundamentals of Language Modeling: Concepts, Principles, Developments in Embedded AI  

Jie Yang (TU Delft)

12h00 – 13h15       Lunch

13h15 – 16h15       Hackathon "Tiny Machine Learning on Microcontrollers" (with a coffee break in between)

All Participants

16h15 – 16h45       1-minute Research Pitch

Interested Participants

Friday July 10th, 2026 

Location: Echo - Building 29 (Room Arena, ground floor)

09h30 – 10h30       Keynote 6: Systems for AI, AI for Systems: Lessons from the Extreme Edge 

Salvatore Tedesco (Tyndall National Institute)

10h30 – 11h00       Coffee Break

11h00 – 12h00       Lecture 4.1: Edge Perceptual AI: practical usage of the ST unified AI core technology through sensors, MCU, and NPU

Danilo Pau (STMicroelectronics)

12h00 – 13h15       Lunch

13h15 – 15h15       Lecture 4.2: Edge Perceptual AI: practical usage of the ST unified AI core technology through sensors, MCU, and NPU

Danilo Pau (STMicroelectronics)

15h30 – 15h45       Closing and Awards