dAIEDGE Innovation Days

Pioneering Europe’s resilient, human-centric and distributed Edge AI Future

21–22 October 2026
Malta — Radisson Blu Resort,
Golden Sands Bay
Plenary session | Showcases | Demos
Research, innovation & networking
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From three years of research to the
next generation of Edge AI


The dAIEDGE Innovation Days 2026 mark the culmination of the dAIEDGE Network of Excellence and bring the European Edge AI community together to share achievements, technologies and ideas for what comes next.

Researchers, industry representatives, technology providers, innovators, European initiatives and stakeholders will meet to explore how distributed intelligence can move from research into real-world applications.

The 1.5-day programme combines strategic discussions with concrete results: keynote presentations, project highlights, scientific contributions, innovation pitches, use cases, live demonstrations, panels and networking.

3 years

Of European collaboration, research and innovation across the Edge AI.

One event

Research results, technologies, people and opportunities in one place.

See what dAIEDGE has built.
Meet the people behind it!


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Strategic vision

Discover the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and the key directions shaping Europe’s Edge AI ecosystem.

02

dAIEDGE‑VLab

Discover our Virtual Lab and find out how our resources, technologies and expertise in distributed Edge AI can help you.
Enter dAIEDGE V-Lab

03

Innovation Showcases

Meet FSTP projects and discover solutions, technologies and ideas emerging from the dAIEDGE ecosystem.
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04

Research Results

Explore the scientific outcomes and publications produced across three years of dAIEDGE research and experimentation.
See results

05

Use Cases

Discover real-world Edge AI use cases developed and validated within the dAIEDGE ecosystem.
Discover

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Networking

Meet researchers, innovators and industry partners driving the future of European Edge AI.

Co-located event. EEAI 2026


The European Conference on Edge AI Technologies and Applications takes place from 19–21 October 2026 at the same venue.

It brings together researchers, technology developers and industry representatives working across Edge AI hardware, software, architectures, algorithms, frameworks and applications.

Attend the dAIEDGE Innovation Days, EEAI 2026, or combine both to connect the wider European Edge AI community with the dAIEDGE ecosystem.

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Programme

EEAI 2026 runs from 19 to 21 October. The dAIEDGE Innovation Days take place on the afternoon of 21 October and all day on 22 October.


EEAI 2026 dAIEDGE Innovation Days

Monday, 19 October — Edge Collaborative Intelligence

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome and Registration

09:00 – 10:30

Plenary Session PS01: Intelligence at the Frontier

Room Ballroom

  • PS01-1 Overview Presentation. 09:00 – 09:15
  • PS01-2 Edge AI for manufacturing: real-world robotics applications from Malta. 09:15 – 10:00 · Laurent Filipozzi, STMicroelectronics, Malta.
  • Project Pitch Presentations. 10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00

Morning Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session A01: Accelerating Next-Generation Edge Hardware

Room Ballroom

  • A01-1 Charge-Summing Hardware Engine for Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks. Ahmed Mohey, Jacek Flak, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland.
  • A01-2 ML-Driven Latency and Area Estimation for NoC-Based CNN Accelerators. Hana Krichene, CEA, France.
  • A01-3 KRIA UltraScale+ MPSoC based system for EdgeAI hardware acceleration. Laurentiu Acasandrei, Silicon Austria Labs, Austria.
  • A01-4 Intelligent Mesh Lighting Powered by Predictive Edge AI. Weronika Bak, NxTech AS, Norway.

Session B01: Securing the Trustworthy Edge Stack

Room Swizzles

  • B01-1 Building Trustworthy Edge AI: From Design-Space Exploration to Secure Deployment. Alessandro Biondi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy.
  • B01-2 Full-Stack Supply-Chain Integrity for Edge AI Using Immutable Bootable Containers. Casper Van Gheluwe, imec, Belgium.
  • B01-3 An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Communication Framework for IoT Sensors. Azarm Yeganehfallah, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland.
  • B01-4 Who Verifies the Verifier: Evidence-Anchored Validation in Multi-Stage LLM Pipelines. Oksana Dikareva, GradeBuilder S.L., Spain.
12:30 – 13:30

Networking Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Session C01: Neural Optimization and Cascade Pipelines

Room Ballroom

  • C01-1 Confidence-Shaped Regression Cascades for Efficient Edge Inference. Kyrylo Tymchenko, INRIA, Université Côte d’Azur, France.
  • C01-2 Beyond the Current Stage: Looking Back and Ahead in Multi-Model Cascade. Ying Zheng, Université Côte d’Azur, France.
  • C01-3 Smart Water Tank Energy Optimisation with Edge AI. Weronika Bak, NxTech AS, Norway.
  • C01-4 QuantAM: Attention-Guided Mixed-Precision Post-Training Quantization of Vision Transformers for Edge AI. Raffaele Mineo, University of Catania, Italy.

Session D01: Federated Continuum and Orchestrated Learning

Room Swizzles

  • D01-1 Presentation. TBC.
  • D01-2 Collaborative Intelligence Across the Edge-Cloud Continuum: Practical Federated Distillation for Resource-Constrained Edge Environments. Gleb Radchenko, Silicon Austria Labs, Austria.
  • D01-3 Agentic AI for Trustworthy Autonomous Optical Inspection at the Edge. Alberto Faro, Deepsensing Srl, Italy.
  • D01-4 Presentation. TBC.
15:00 – 15:30

Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 – 17:00

Session E01: Neuromorphic Computing and Event-Based Processing

Room Ballroom

  • E01-1 ARTEMIX-NeuroForge: A Mixed-Signal Design and Simulation Environment for Spiking Neural Networks. Saeid Jamili, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, RAME s.r.l., Italy.
  • E01-2 Enabling SNN Plasticity on FPGA for Low-power System Personalization on SYNtzulu. Paola Busia, University of Cagliari, Italy.
  • E01-3 Neuromorphic Optical Flow for Event-Based Visual Odometry. Filippo Samorì, University of Bologna, Italy.
  • E01-4 Robust Audio-Visual Speech Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction on Neuromorphic Edge Hardware. Panagiota Moraiti, PLAIXUS IKE, Greece.

Session F01: Robust and Private Federated Learning

Room Swizzles

  • F01-1 VGIA: a Verifiable Gradient Inversion Attack in Federated Learning. Francesco Diana, INRIA, Université Côte d’Azur, France.
  • F01-2 Secure End-to-End Federated Aggregation over Encrypted Model Updates. Varesh Mishra, KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • F01-3 Secure Explainability at the Far Edge in Federated Edge Learning. Philippe Massonet, Xavier Lessage, CETIC Research Center, Belgium.
  • F01-4 OMPF-EDGE: Privacy-Preserving Real-Time Workout Analysis with Personalisation and Federated Learning on Consumer iPhones. Bohdana Savchuk, BEZRYMA GROUP LLC, Ukraine.
17:00

Closing Day 1

Tuesday, 20 October — Transformers, Autonomous Agents and Vision Systems

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome and Registration

09:00 – 10:30

Plenary Session PS02: Sustainable Autonomy Continuum

Room Ballroom

  • PS02-1 Keynote Presentation. 09:00 – 09:30
  • PS02-2 Keynote Presentation. 09:30 – 10:00
  • Project Pitch Presentations: REBECCA. 10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00

Morning Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session A02: Quantized Transformers and On-Chip Acceleration

Room Ballroom

  • A02-1 Q-WiSE: Quantized Deep Wiener-Filter Speech Enhancement for Ultra-Low-Power Micro-Edge Processors. Mohamad Hasan Bahari, SENSIFAI, Belgium.
  • A02-2 On-Device Continual and Federated Adaptation for Multi-Site Solar Irradiance Forecasting. Mateusz Piechocki, Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
  • A02-3 Fitting Vision Transformer Attention on a Low-Cost SoC FPGA: A Sparse, Integer-Only Accelerator. Simon Vellas, SYPHOS, Greece.
  • A02-4 ARTEMIX-PACE: Design and Implementation of Compact VLM and LLM Inference on the SoC-FPGA. Saeid Jamili, RAME s.r.l., Italy.

Session B02: Autonomous Agents and Robotic Planning

Room Swizzles

  • B02-1 Small Models, Specialized Skills: Enabling AI Agents on the Edge. Christos Kozanitis, FORTH, Greece.
  • B02-2 Trusted AI Agents at the Edge. Pramod Bhatotia and Teofil Bodea, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
  • B02-3 Locally-Deployed, Modular LLM-based High-Level Planner for Robotic Systems. Toms Eduards Zinars, EDI, Latvia.
  • B02-4 The rise of physical AI. Valeria Tomaselli, STMicroelectronics, Italy.
12:30 – 13:30

Networking Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Session C02: Advanced Vision and Semantic Mapping

Room Ballroom

  • C02-1 Embedded Open-Vocabulary Semantic Mapping: A Comparative Profiling of Foundation-Model-Based Methods. Calvin Galagain, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA List, France.
  • C02-2 Extending Domain-Agnostic Semantics in Terrain Segmentation: Language-Guided to Self-Supervised. Peteris Racinskis, EDI, Latvia.
  • C02-3 Automatic Pseudo-masks Generation for Real-Time Vine Segmentation on the Edge. Lucas Mohimont, Université de Reims Champagne Ardennes, France.
  • C02-4 Advanced Vision Processing Trends at the Edge. Alain Pagani, DFKI, Germany.

Session D02: Adaptive Allocation and Reconfigurable Scheduling

Room Swizzles

  • D02-1 Efficient Resource Allocation with Dynamic Regret Guarantees through Quantized Online Gradient Descent. Isidoor Pinillo Esquivel, INRIA, France.
  • D02-2 GEAR: GPU Elastic Allocation and Reconfiguration for Zero-Downtime, Priority-Aware Sharing at the Edge. Ádám Kiss, HUN-REN-BME Cloud Applications Research Group, Hungary.
  • D02-3 EdgeMan: Automated Resource Allocation for Edge Testbeds. Christos Kozanitis, FORTH, Greece.
  • D02-4 EXPANSE AI – Empowering X-sector Pilots for EuropeAn and interNational Scale-up and compEtitiveness in AI. Inessa Seifert, VDI/VDE-IT Berlin, Germany.
15:00 – 15:30

Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 – 17:00

Session E02: Efficient Multimodal and Vision Models

Room Ballroom

  • E02-1 What Does Visual Token Pruning Really Save? A Hardware-Aware Study of VLM Inference. Martyna Poreba, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List, France.
  • E02-2 Token Reduction Beyond PyTorch: Benchmarking Vision Transformer Deployment on NVIDIA Jetson. Victor Bercy, CEA, List, France.
  • E02-3 From Detection to Multimodal Refinement: A Hierarchical Three-Stage Edge-to-Server Pipeline for Weapon Recognition using Large Multimodal Models. Oscar Deniz Suarez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  • E02-4 Presentation. TBC.

Session F02: On-Device Adaptation and Edge Control

Room Swizzles

  • F02-1 Enabling Efficient On-Device Model Adaptation with COTS Edge Inference Accelerators. Alessandro Capotondi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Mateusz Piechocki, Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
  • F02-2 Precision Provisioning in Programmable Architecture for On-Device Learning: The Hidden Cost of Synchronization. Rohit Prasad, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, List, France.
  • F02-3 See-Before-Grind: Edge AI for Vision-Guided Robotic Surface Rework. Hacı Mehmet Güzey, AdaGuzey Engineering Software Mechatronics Ltd., Sivas University of Science and Technology, Turkey.
  • F02-4 Adaptive RUL Prediction for Automotive MOSFETs under Variable Operating Conditions at the Edge. Alberto Faro, Deepsensing, Italy.
17:00

Closing Day 2

20:00

Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 21 October — Connected Mobility, Autonomy and Industrial Platforms

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome and Registration

09:00 – 10:30

Plenary Session PS03: Resilient Edge AI in Action

Room Ballroom

  • PS03-1 Keynote Presentation. 09:00 – 09:30
  • PS03-2 How AI-powered Synopsys technology is accelerating innovation and engineering productivity. 09:30 – 10:00 · Brian Clerkin, Synopsys, Ireland.
  • Project Pitch Presentations. 10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00

Morning Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30

Session A03: Connected Vehicles and Immersive Edge

Room Ballroom

  • A03-1 A Workflow-Driven Edge-Cloud Framework for Heterogeneous Stream Processing in Connected Vehicles. Md Forhad Hossain, Keval Dharmendrakumar Patel, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
  • A03-2 A Heterogeneous CPU-FPGA Pipeline for Real-Time Driver Monitoring on ZCU102. Mhd Rashed Al Koutayni, DFKI, Germany.
  • A03-3 Deploying Agentic Multimodal Edge Systems in Autonomous Systems. Ovidiu Vermesan, SINTEF AS, Norway.
  • A03-4 M.AI.ESTRO: Virtual Reality Skill Guidance Through Edge AI. Graham Pellegrini, University of Malta, Malta.

Session B03: Energy-Constrained Scheduling and Processing

Room Swizzles

  • B03-1 Computing, Communication, and Mission Constraints: A Scheduling Perspective on Extreme Edge Autonomy. Jérémy Turi, Safran Electronics and Defense, France.
  • B03-2 Energy-Constrained Real-Time Edge Scheduling under Intermittent Connectivity. Lorenzo Carnevale, University of Messina, Italy.
  • B03-3 Metabolic Perception: Energy Expenditure as an Allocation Problem in Continuously Operating Edge AI. Michal Szczepanski, CEA, List, France.
  • B03-4 Kalman Linear Attention: Efficient and Uncertainty-Aware Sequence Modelling for Edge AI. Vaisakh Shaj Kumar, University of Edinburgh, UK.
12:30 – 13:30

Networking Lunch

dAIEDGE Innovation Days

13:30 – 15:00

Plenary Session: Distributed and Collaborative Edge Intelligence

Room Ballroom

  • Welcome to the dAIEDGE Innovation Days. Alain Pagani, DFKI, Germany.
  • Europe’s Edge AI Ambition. Address from DG CNECT A1. Cécile Huet, Head of Unit, and Miguel Rubio, Project Officer, European Commission, Belgium. (TBC)
  • Keynote Building Europe’s Intelligent Edge: From Connected Systems to Autonomous AI. Patrick Pype, NXP, Belgium.
  • Presentation European Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for Edge AI. Ovidiu Vermesan, SINTEF, Norway, and Alain Pagani, DFKI, Germany.
  • Panel Future of Edge AI in Europe: Distributed, Generative and Agentic Intelligence.
15:00 – 15:30

Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 – 17:00

Session C03: Predictive Edge and Pipelines

Room Ballroom

  • C03-1 One Agent per Zone: Decentralised Active Inference under Partial Observability for Multi-Zone HVAC Control on Edge Hardware. Panagiotis Kasnesis, Waldiez P.C., Greece.
  • C03-2 Fault Tolerance and Error Sensitivity Analysis in Transformer-Based Models for Reliable RAG Systems. Ussama Zahid, Synopsys Inc., Ireland.
  • C03-3 Aidge-Supported Neural Optimization Pipeline for Edge Intelligence in IoT-Based Systems. Teresa Jacqueline van Dam, Almende B.V., The Netherlands.
  • C03-4 Accelerating Heterogeneous Block Floating-Point Quantized LLMs at the Edge. José Cano, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Session D03: Industrial IoT and Cross-Sector Applications

Room Swizzles

  • D03-1 Industrial Edge AI for High Frequency Data. Ander Garcia Gangoiti, Vicomtech Foundation, Spain.
  • D03-2 CANDLE – Concealed Weapon Detection Leveraging Edge AI. Michael Vasilakakis, PLEGMA LABS, Greece.
  • D03-3 Bayes2Real: Uncertainty-Aware Dynamics Learning and Real-Time Edge Deployment for Tendon-Driven Bipedal Locomotion. Linus Schwarz, NEXT PROTOTYPES E.V., Germany.
  • D03-4 Knowledge Distillation for Burst Attack Detection on DPU at the RAN Edge. Arkadiusz Czuba, IS-Wireless, Poland.
17:00 – 17:30

AI on Demand – Accelerating AI adoption

  • Antonija Mrsic Radas.
17:30

Closing Day 3

19:00

dAIEDGE Innovation Cocktail

Thursday, 22 October — Ecosystem Building and Community Impact

dAIEDGE Innovation Days

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome and Registration

09:00 – 10:30

Plenary Session PS04: From Innovation to Impact

Room Ballroom

  • From Innovation to Impact. Alain Pagani, DFKI, Germany.
  • Keynote Marko Bertogna. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and HIPERT, Italy.
  • Presentation of dAIEDGE main results and achievements.
  • The dAIEDGE Virtual Lab.

dAIEDGE Use Cases

  • A04-1 Distributed Edge AI in Urban Environments: Results from the dAIEdge Smart City Demonstrator. Micaela Verucchi, HIPERT Srl, Italy.
  • A04-2 The dAIEdge space use case. Stefan Wiehle, German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany.
  • A04-3 The dAIEDGE Smart Warehouse: Agentic Edge AI Across the Compute Continuum. Miguel de Prado, PRAESC GmbH, Greece.
10:30 – 11:00

Morning Coffee/Tea Break · Networking in Poster/Demonstrator Room

11:00 – 12:30

Edge AI Innovators on Stage

  • B04-1 SPOT-LIFT: Uncertainty-Aware Bayesian Decision-Making for Edge Robotic Grasping. Konstantinos Tsintotas, International Hellenic University, Greece.
  • B04-2 EDGEWISE: Energy- and Trust-Aware Orchestration for Federated Learning Across the IoT–Edge–Fog–Cloud Continuum. Dimitar Stefanov, Sunesis d.o.o., Slovenia.
  • B04-3 ENERGIZE: Hardware-Aware Compression and Edge Deployment for Privacy-Preserving Energy NILM. Sotirios Athanasoulias, Greece.
  • B04-4 ViTFireEdge Accelerator: A Compact Vision Transformer Accelerator on FPGA for Edge AI. Saeid Jamili, RAME s.r.l., Italy.
  • B04-5 Cormorant: An Open-Source Inference Framework with a Verified Scheduler for Low-Cost FPGAs. Oksana Dikareva, GradeBuilder S.L., Spain.
  • B04-6 SYNAPSE: SYNergistic LLM and Active Inference Policy-aware Agents for the Spatial Web. Panagiotis Kasnesis, Waldiez PC, Greece.
  • B04-7 ThermoGun – Real-Time Thermal Imaging for Handgun Detection. Yang Li, Nitesh Narayan, Vypno GmbH, Germany.
  • B04-8 SPARTA: Sparsity-aware Transformer Acceleration on Resource-Constrained FPGAs. Simon Vellas, SYPHOS, Greece.
  • B04-9 DARIUS: Edge-Enabled Federated AI for Urban Scenarios. Panagiotis Paltsokas, DOTSOFT S.A., Greece.
12:30 – 13:30

Networking Lunch · Networking in Poster/Demonstrator Room

13:30 – 15:00

From Vision to Demonstration

  • C04-1 Privacy-Preserving Access and Settlement for Distributed AI Resources. Varesh Mishra, COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • C04-2 Secure Federated Learning. Philippe Massonet, Xavier Lessage, CETIC Research Center, Belgium.
  • C04-3 The Next Frontier of Edge AI: Integrating Deliberation and Resource Orchestration. Jérémy Turi, Safran Electronics & Defense, France.
  • C04-4 Weapon Detection for Public Surveillance in Public Buildings. Oscar Deniz Suarez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
  • C04-5 NX-CGRA: Energy-Efficient and Programmable Hardware Acceleration for Edge Transformers. Rohit Prasad, CEA, France.
  • C04-6 Trust as a Middleware Layer: Verifiable Identity, Licensing and Provenance for Shared Edge AI Infrastructure. Raúl López Blanco, University of Salamanca, Spain.
  • C04-7 Reliable Neuromorphic Computing. Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos, Sorbonne Université, France.
  • C04-8 License Management for Shared Hardware in the dAIEDGE VLab. Venkata Satya Sai Ajay Daliparthi, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.
  • C04-9 Probabilistic in-memory computing processors for massively scaled-up probabilistic AI applications. Thomas Dalgaty, CEA, France.
15:00 – 15:30

Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break · Networking in Poster/Demonstrator Room

15:30 – 16:00

Finding opportunities and strategies

  • David Dana, Dana & Co Ventures, Luxembourg.
16:00 – 16:50

Networking in Poster/Demonstrator Room

16:50 – 17:00

Closing Remarks

17:00

Closing Day 4

Speakers

Meet some of the FSTP-funded innovators presenting their projects at dAIEDGE Innovation Days


Simfero (GradeBuilder SL)

Oksana Dikareva

Cormorant: An Open-Source HLS Inference Framework for Low-Cost FPGAs

SYNAPSE (Waldiez PC)

Panagiotis Kasnesis / Lazaros Toumanidis

One Agent per Zone: Decentralised Active Inference under Partial Observability for Multi-Zone HVAC Control on Edge Hardware

Oh My Perfect Form (Bezryma Group)

Bohdana Savchuk

ENERGIZE

Sotirios Athanasoulias

ViTFireEdge (RAME s.r.l)

Saeid Jamili & Sabereh Taghdisi Rastkar

A Compact Vision Transformer Accelerator on FPGA for Edge AI

ENSURE

Haci Mehmet Guzey & Zeynep Yağmur Çalta

Compact Liquid Neural Networks for 500 Hz Edge Control: Hardware Validation in the dAIEDGE ENSURE Project

SPOT-LIFT (International Hellenic University)

Konstantinos Tsintotas & George Kokkonis

Hardware-Aware Edge AI for 6-DoF Robotic Grasping

EDGEWISE (Sunesis)

Dimitar Stefanov

EDGEWISE: Energy- and Trust-Aware Orchestration for Federated Learning Across the IoT–Edge–Fog–Cloud Continuum

SPARTA (SYPHOS LP)

Simon Vellas & Panagiotis Roditis

Fitting Vision Transformer Attention on a Low-Cost SoC FPGA: A Sparse, Integer-Only Accelerator

DARIUS (DOTSOFT)

Lisa Filippidou & Panos Paltsokas

CANDLE (Plegma Labs)

Michael Vasilakakis

Q-Wise (Sensifai)

Mohamad Hasan Bahari

Continual learning acceleration with on-device training on resource-constrained hardware

Mateusz Piechocki

On-Device Continual and Federated Adaptation for Multi-Site Solar Irradiance Forecasting

ThermoGun (Vypno)

Yang Li / Nitesh Narayan

NAVIR (Plaixus P.C.)

Panagiota Moraiti

BRAINS

Alexander Palatnik

BRAINS

Linus Schwarz

Bayes2Real: Uncertainty-Aware Dynamics Learning and Real-Time Edge Deployment for Tendon-Driven Bipedal Locomotion (Oral)

BRAINS

Pilar Gil

More speakers to be confirmed soon.

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