| 09:30 – 10:00 | Registration & Welcome Coffee |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Conference Welcome, Main Hall (I) Welcome addresses by conference organizers and institutional representatives. Conference Welcome - Prof. Yiorgos TSIATOUHAS | Conference Chair, UoI Host Institution Greeting - Prof. Aggeliki LEKATOY | Vice Rector, University of Ioannina ETCEI Address - Konstantina TSIAPALI | Conference Chair, VP HETiA Conference Programme Overview - Assoc. Prof. Gregory DOUMENIS | Program Chair, UoI |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Keynote Speech, Main Hall (I) Prof. Konstantinos FOUNTAS , President of the CERN Council Title: State of the art technology developments at CERN Moderator: Yiorgos TSIATOUHAS, University of Ioannina |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Parallel Sessions - Paper Presentations, Main Hall (I) S 1.1 | Microelectronic Devices, Circuits & Systems Session Chair: Yiorgos TSIATOUHAS, Alkis CHATZOPOULOS 20 | Pursuing better lower bounds for the Wafer Covering Problem Christos GOGOS, Christos VALOUXIS, Olga PEZOULA, Aris MAGKLARAS, Panayiotis ALEFRAGIS and Alexios BIRBAS 31 | Low-Noise Multi-Voltage Power Supply for Weak-Signal Measurements Kyriakos KOKKINOS, Georgios CHARARAS and Vasilis PAVLIDIS 13 | Band-Aware Cycle Scheduling for the Tunable Approximate Booth Multiplier (TABooM) in a 10-Band FIR Filter Bank Georgios PAPATHEODOROU, Ioannis RIZOS and Aristides EFTHYMIOU 48 | Design of a Transformer Hardware Accelerator for PCB Heatmap Reconstruction Christoforos MARINOPOULOS, Aristotelis TSEKOURAS and Vasilis F. PAVLIDIS 49 | Mapping and Simulation of Neural Networks on Memristive Crossbar Arrays Anastasios LIONTOS and Vasileios TENENTES |
| Parallel Sessions - Paper Presentations, Hall (II) S 2.1 | Mobile Intelligence, IoT and AI at the Edge Session Chair: Alexandros TZALLAS, Nikolaos GIANNAKEAS 12 | Decision Support under Partial Observability through Multimodal Data Fusion: An Agricultural Case Study Marios DOUKAS, Alessio COSTA, Maria SOLDATOU 17| From Rail-Mounted Vibration Data to Embedded Speed Regression: Dataset, Power, and Latency Evaluation Jan CORDES, Frank SLOMKA 23 | Software Latency on End-to-End Communications for Smart Grid IoT systems Georgios VENITOURAKIS, Alexandros KARVOUNOPOULOS, Alexandros SANTORINAIOS, Georgios LYKAKIS, Georgios KONSTANTOULAKIS, Dionysios REISIS 28 | An IoT Multi-Parameter Edge Computing System for Real-Time Stress Detection Vasiliki KARAFOTIA, Gregory DOUMENIS 42 | EdgeSpace AI: Human–Computer Interaction for a Lightweight IoT Digital Twin in Smart Indoor Spaces Konstantinos SAKKAS, Niki Eleni NTAGKA, Michail SPYRIDAKIS, Euripidis GLAVAS, Alexandros TZALLAS, Nikolaos GIANNAKEAS, Andreas MILTIADOUS |
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| 12:30 – 13:20 | Networking Coffee Break |
| 13:20 – 14:20 | Meet the Teams Shaping Tomorrow's Technology ASL - Autonomous Systems Lab | Dimitris GARSOUDIS CSD - 3D Printing Laboratory Composites, Structures and Electronic Devices | 3D Printing as a Horizontal Emerging Technology: Bridging Personalized Biomedical Applications and Next-Generation Energy Storage and Harvesting Devices | Stefanos MALTEZOS, Vladimiros LIONTOS Epirus XR Center - HCILAB | Beyond Reality: Exploring Innovation through Extended Reality at Epirus XR Center – HCILAB | Niki Eleni NTAGKA HEPHEASTUS | Practical Engineering & Technology Student Group| George TSOGAS, Stella PAPASTAMOU IEEE Student Branch UOI – Arta | Empowering the Next Generation of Engineers: IEEE Student Branch UOI – Arta | Christos NOTIS VCAS - VLSI Computer Architecture System | Christoforos PAPAIOANNOU |
| 14:20 – 15:20 | Lunch Break |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Keynote Speech, Main Hall (I), Τom KATSIOULAS CEO, Archon Design Solutions, Inc Title: From Student to Semiconductor Executive: A Career Journey Moderator: Gregory DOUMENIS, University of Ioannina |
| 15:40 – 16:10 | Career Workshop Powered by kariera.gr , Main Hall (I) Nikos SYNTAKAS Recruitment Specialist, kariera.gr Title: Beyond Your Degree: What Employers Look for in Emerging Tech Talent |
| 16:10 – 16:40 | Panel Discussion, Main Hall (I) Bridging the Tech Talent Gap: Skills, Expectations & Career Opportunities What companies need, what graduates bring, and how to bridge the gap. Panelists: Manolis FRATZESKAKIS | Argo Semiconductors, Panagiotis TSOPELAS | Industrial Edge Engineering, Panagiotis ZAPARTAS | KENOTOM Moderator: Juxhin CACA, Project Manager, Tech Community | kariera.gr |
| 16:40 – 17:20 | Career Day , Main Hall (I) Company Presentations Argo Semiconductors Presentation | Manolis FRATZESKAKIS | Argo Semiconductors IEE Company Presentation | Panagiotis TSOPELAS | Industrial Edge Engineering. Kenotom Presentation | Stergios FRAGKOS| KENOTOM, NIKI Presentation | Dimitrios NYFANTIS & Nikolas ZARKADIS | NIKI ltd |
| 17:20 – 17:50 | Career Day , Foyer Meet the Companies – One-on-One Career Discussions |
| 17:50 – 18:00 | Closing Remarks – Day 1, Main Hall (I) Prof. Yiorgos TSIATOUHAS, Conference Chair, UoI |
| 19:00– 22:00 | Networking Cocktail Reception at Roof Garden to SAZ City Life Hotel | Str. 28th October 7, 452 21, Ioannina, Greece By invitation only - exclusively for ETCEI 2026 speakers & attendees |
Program
Thursday 22/10/2026 – DAY 1
Friday 23/10/2025 – DAY 2
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Welcome Coffee & Registration |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Keynote Speech, Main Hall (I) Prof. Dr. Robert WILLE | Full and Distinguished Professor, Technical University of Munich (TUM) Moderator: Xrysovalantis Kavousianos, University of Ioannina |
| 10:30 – 11:55 | Parallel Sessions - Paper Presentations |
| Sessions S1.2 | Mobile Intelligence, Robotics and AI at the Edge, Main Hall (I) Session Chair: Nikolaos GIANNAKEAS, Alexandros TZALLAS 11| Continual Contextualization of farm-specific Large Language Models for Decision Support Alessio COSTA, Evangelia PAPADOPOULOU, Maria SOLDATOU 8| A Model Capacity Index for Quantitative Evaluation of Deep Convolutional Neural Network Architectures Konstantinos STEFANOU, Andreas MILTIADOUS, Christos BELLOS, Georgios STERGIOS, Markos TSIPOURAS, Alexandros TZALLAS, Marina PLISSITI, Nikolaos GIANNAKEAS 18 | Reliability Profiling of LLMs and VLMs for Edge AI under Activation Corruption Georgios MERMIGKIS, Argiris SOFOTASIOS, Panagiotis HADJIDOUKAS, George PAPADIMITRIOU 15 | Intelligent Scenario Boundary Exploration for Cut-In Validation Using Reinforcement Learning Stergios FRAGKOS, Athanasios ATHANASIADIS, Alexandros AMARGIANOS, Konstantinos LAMARIS, Tilemachos MATIAKIS 53 | Multi-Step Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight UAV Absolute Visual Localization Athanasios KONSTANTAKOPOULOS, Dimitrios KOSMOPOULOS |
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| Sessions S2.2 | Microelectronic Devices, Circuits & Systems, Hall II Session Chair: Yiorgos TSIATOUHAS 24 | Accelerating Worst-Case Equivalence Checking of Classical Circuits via Quantum Search Lukas BOMBEL, Adrian OSTERWIND, Domenik HELMS, Nils QUETSCHLICH and Robert WILLE 41 | Memristive Crossbar Accelerators for Quantum Circuit Simulation Iason DIMOPOULOS, Iosif-Angelos FYRIGOS and Georgios Ch. SIRAKOULIS 39 | Ultra-Low Frequency Digital LPF for Neuromorphic Applications Priyanshu KUMAR, Georgios CHARARAS, Aristotelis TSEKOURAS and Vasilis F. PAVLIDIS 51 | Feasibility of Running Complex Machine Learning Models on Embedded Microcontrollers Anastasios FANARIOTIS, Theofanis ORPHANOUDAKIS and Vasilis FOTOPOULOS |
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| 11:55 – 12:10 | Coffee Break |
| 12:10 – 13:20 | Parallel Sessions - Paper Presentations |
| Sessions S1.3 | Innovation Ecosystems & Technology Transfer , Main Hall (I) Session Chair: Katerina LAMPRAKOPOULOU 21 | Modeling a Technology-Transfer and Skills Marketplace for the European Chips Ecosystem: Data Design, Architecture, and Keyword-Based Matchmaking in the HCCC Platform Ioannis CHRISTODOULOPOULOS, Evanthia FALIAGKA, Katerina LAMPRAKOPOULOU, Christos ANTONOPOULOS, Nikolaos VOROS 46 | Context-Aware Conversational AI for Immersive Virtual Reality Industrial Environments: A Domain-Grounded Architecture and Energy Case Study Irene IOANNIDOU, Marios KATSIS, Spiros SIRMAKESSIS 34 | Orientation Estimation Methods for Shape Alignment Applications Employing Ensemble of Regression Trees Ioannis BETOUNIS, Nikos PETRELLIS, Christos ANTONOPOULOS, Nikolaos VOROS 35 | The SME–Startup Collaboration Gap: Why Willing Firms Do Not Couple Vasileios TOUNTOPOULOS, Spiros SIRMAKESSIS, Zacharias DERMATIS, Athanasios ANASTASIOU |
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| Sessions S2.3 | Embedded Trust & System Resilience, Hall II Session Chair: Vasileios TENENTES, Panagiotis KOTZANIKOLAOU 14 | A Unified Simulation and Emulation Fault Injection Framework for the Evaluation of Embedded Hardware and Software Implementations Athanasios PAPADIMITRIOU, George PAPADIMITRIOU, Ioannis VOYIATZIS 45 | On the feasibility of lightweight vulnerability detection using Large Language Models through quantization Sokratis NAZLIDIS, Miltiadis SIAVVAS, Georgios KARAGIANNIDIS 47 | Energy Efficient Cryptographic Cores toward Sustainable Proof-of-Work Consensus Asimina KOUTRA, Vasileios TENENTES 10 | A Current-Mode, Array-Type, Strong PUF, based on a Multi-Current Generation Cell Dimosthenis GEORGOULAS, Yiorgos TSIATOUHAS |
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| 13:20 – 14:00 | POSTER Presentation & Snack Break, Foyer 05 | From Intrusion Detection Alerts to Contextual Risk Assessment in 5G Networks DENAZIS Spyros, KITSOS Paris, LAMPROPOULOS Kostas, VARVARIGOU Dionysia 6 | Design, Fabrication and Performance Assessment of Hybrid Additively Manufactured Thermal Energy Harvesters EVANGELOU Evangelos, KARALIS George, LIONTOS Vladimiros, SDRAKAS Evangelos, TZOUNIS Lazaros 7 | MIXYS: An AI-enhanced Cloud Platform for Design and Optimization of Industrial Mixing Systems ARAMBATZIS Antonios, CHATZIMIHAILIDIS Arsenios, DOMBOUDIS Paschalis, FELEKOS Giorgos, GERAKIS Vasilis, ORLIS Dimitris, PAPAS Dimitrios, BELLOS Christos 9 | An Edge-AI Human-Intrusion Alerting System for Restricted-Zone Surveillance on a Raspberry Pi 5 and Hailo-8L NPU BASTIMANE Avaneesh 16 | Polyoxometalate-Modulated SnO2/Perovskitebased Memristive Devices with Ultra-High ON/OFF Ratio and Low Operating Voltages EVANGELOU E.K., MASKANAKI K., SOULTATI A. 22 | 3D printing of Sandwich composites with engineered lattice structures for EMI shielding CHRISTOFILAKIS Vasilis, EVANGELOU Evangelos, KARALIS George, KECHAGIA Aikaterini, MALTEZOS Stefanos, SDRAKAS Evangelos, TZOUNIS Lazaros 25 | Free-standing Solid-State Supercapacitors Enabled by SWCNT Coating onto 3D Printed Conductive PLA with High Long-Term Stability EVANGELOU Evangelos, KARALIS George, LIONTOS Vladimiros, TILIAKOS Athanasios, TZOUNIS Lazaros 27 | BEVNet: A Beta-Evidential Network for OOD Detection BARANOV Mykola, SHCHERBYNA Yurii 32 | Statistical Process Variability Modeling: From Planar CMOS to FinFET Circuit Design TANEVA Lyudmila, TSOULANAS Loukas 33 | A Device with Web-Based HMI Architecture for Portable Diagnosis of Electrohydraulic Heavy-Vehicle Transmissions PETROULIAS Georgios 38 | Countering multi-vector security threats in Edge Devices based on a hardware root of trust GIOULEKAS Fotios, KATSAROS Panagiotis, MPAMPALA Kalliopi, SIAVVAS Μiltiadis 40 | A Conversational Interface to a Manufacturing-Resilience Toolset PANOPOULOU Eleni, VASSOS Stavros 50 | From Open Dataset to Inclusive-Building Technology: A Technology Transfer and Innovation Ecosystem Case Study of BLE-Based ISAC Sensing ALOGDIANAKIS Georgios, SKANDAMIS Theodoros 52 | Improving Early Warning Signals Based DDoS Threat Prediction via Rolling Window Selection for Critical Infrastructure Protection KOTZANIKOLAOU Panagiotis, SOULTOS Georgios 54 | GaN RF MMIC Prototyping in Greece: From Design to Fabrication through the SMARTEC Pilot Line also enabled by HCCC ASLANIDIS Evangelos, FIORAVANTI Paolo, KONSTANTINIDIS George, KONTOGIANNOPOULOS Giannis, KOSTOPOULOS Athanasios, LOURANDAKIS Errikos, MAKRIS Nikolaos, SARRIS Eleftherios, STAVRINIDIS Antonios |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Keynote Speech, Main Hall (I) Prof. Gerry TSOUKALAS, Deputy Dean for Human-Centered AI and Innovation, Said Business School - University of Oxford (online) Title: The Market Effects of AI: Open Questions for the Systems We Build Moderator: Gregory DOUMENIS, University of Ioannina |
| 14:45 – 15:50 | HCCC Side Event, Main Hall (I) Silicon & GaN: Technologies, Manufacturing and Markets From Fabrication Processes to Applications, Economics and Future Opportunities 14:45 – 14:50 Introduction – Gregory DOUMENIS, Assoc. Prof. University of Ioannina 14:50 – 15:05 Denis XENOS, Co-founder - CTO Flexciton “Silicon Foundries: Operations, Industry Collaboration & Business Perspectives” , 15:05–15:20 George KONSTANTINIDIS Research Director Microelectronics Research Group (MRG), Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (FORTH) “GaN Technologies: European Fabrication Facilities, FORTH Capabilities & Application Perspectives” , 15:20–15:35 Paolo FIORAVANTI – CEO & Co- founder, Circuits Integrated “Silicon & GaN: The Semiconductor Design Industry Perspective – From Design to Manufacturing and Markets” , 15:35–15:50 Joint Discussion & Q&A Moderator: Gregory DOUMENIS, University of Ioannina |
| 15:50-16:20 | Round Table, Main Hall (I) From Technology to Market: What Does It Take to Scale Semiconductor Innovation? Turning technology and capabilities into prototypes, investment and business opportunities Panelists: George KONSTANTINIDIS | FORTH, Paolo FIORAVANTI | Circuits Integrated, John KIKIDIS | HCCC, Emmanuel ZERVAKIS | HETiA Moderator: Gregory DOUMENIS, University of Ioannina |
| 16:20-16:30 | Conference Summary & Edge Intelligence 2027 Announcement, Main Hall (I) Conference Summary Report - Prof. Yiorgos TSIATOUHAS, UoI, Assoc. Prof. Gregory DOUMENIS, UoI, Dr. Manolis ZERVAKIS, HETiA |
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Emerging Tech Conference Edge Intelligence is organized within the framework of the HCCC project, supported by Chips JU and its members, and is co-funded by European Union and the Greek Government via the “Competitiveness” Programme.