This is a preliminary program, changes may occur in the final program!
ESWEEK 2026: Barcelo Sants hotel, Barcelona, Spain
All times are Barcelona Time (CEST; GMT+2)
Friday, October 2 – Education Classes
| Virtual | Virtual | Virtual | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 10:00 CEST 23:00 – 1:00 MST 7:00 – 9:00 BST 9:00 – 11:00 EEST 11:30 – 13:30 IST |
Education Class 1 Design and Analysis of Resilient Embedded Systems |
Education Class 2 Architecting Domain-Tailored Computing Systems: Opportunities and Strategies |
Education Class 3 Title TBA |
| 13:00 – 15:00 CEST 4:00 – 6:00 MST 12:00 – 14:00 BST 14:00 – 16:00 EEST 16:30 – 18:30 IST |
Education Class 4 From Benchmarks to Bit-Flips: Systems View of Efficient and Reliable AI on the Edge |
Education Class 5 Designing Adaptive, Secure, and Sustainable Embedded Systems |
Education Class 6 Title TBA |
| 18:00 – 20:00 CEST 9:00 – 11:00 MST 17:00 – 19:00 BST 19:00 – 21:00 EEST 21:30 – 23:30 IST |
Education Class 7 ML Compilation: Multi-Level IRs and Heterogeneous Targets |
Education Class 8 Lazy by Design: Bioinspired Edge AI for Efficient, High-Performance, and Robust Vision |
Education Class 9 Reliability Challenges and Solutions for Modern AI and Emerging Accelerators |
Sunday, October 4 – Tutorials
| MR05 | MR06 | MR07 | MR08 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Tutorial 1 Accelerating Alpamayo 1 Inference via Architectural and System-Level Optimizations |
Tutorial 2 From Application Development to Design-Space Exploration with CEDR for Heterogeneous Systems |
Tutorial 3 Hardware-Aware Compilation for Analog, Digital, and Heterogeneous Computing-in-Memory Systems |
Qualcomm Arduino Hackathon |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break (North Shuttle) | |||
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Tutorial 1 Accelerating Alpamayo 1 Inference via Architectural and System-Level Optimizations |
Tutorial 2 From Application Development to Design-Space Exploration with CEDR for Heterogeneous Systems |
Tutorial 3 Hardware-Aware Compilation for Analog, Digital, and Heterogeneous Computing-in-Memory Systems |
Qualcomm Arduino Hackathon |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break (North Shuttle) | |||
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Tutorial 4 A Pragmatic Guide to Building Conservative Discrete Abstractions of Cyber-Physical Systems |
Tutorial 5 Large-scale simulation of Quantum circuits using Tensor Networks |
Tutorial 6 Octopus — An Open Framework for Prototyping and Validating Memory Solutions in Multicore Real-Time Systems |
Qualcomm Arduino Hackathon |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break (North Shuttle) | |||
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Tutorial 4 A Pragmatic Guide to Building Conservative Discrete Abstractions of Cyber-Physical Systems |
Tutorial 5 Large-scale simulation of Quantum circuits using Tensor Networks |
Tutorial 6 Octopus — An Open Framework for Prototyping and Validating Memory Solutions in Multicore Real-Time Systems |
Qualcomm Arduino Hackathon |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | Welcome Reception (North Shuttle) | |||
Monday, October 5 – Main Conferences, Day 1
| MR10+11 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Opening Session | ||||
| 09:00 – 10:00 | KEYNOTE 1: “Agentic Design Automation for Embedded Systems: The Promise, the Peril, and the Proofs”, Prof. Farinaz Koushanfar, UC San Diego | ||||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| MR05+06 | MR07+08 | MR12+13 | MR14 | MR10+11 (front rows) | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | CODES #1 Speeding up LLMs with Sparsity, Quantization, and Speculation |
CASES #1 Hardware Synthesis and Design Automation |
EMSOFT #1 Edge AI and Autonomous Driving |
CODES #2 Emerging Threats and Defenses in Hardware Security |
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | Poster Session (North Shuttle) | ||||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| 13:30 – 15:00 | CODES #3 Emerging Accelerator Architectures and Hardware-Algorithm Co-Design |
CASES #2 Efficient AI Processing and Acceleration |
EMSOFT #2 Formal Verification of Cyber-Physical and Hybrid Systems |
CASES #3 Storage and Persistent-Memory Systems |
Embedded System Software Competition (ESSC) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break & Poster Session (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| 15:30 – 17:00 | CODES #4 Compute-in-Memory for the Edge |
CASES #4 Compilation, Optimization, and Verification |
EMSOFT #3 Embedded Systems Performance, Energy, and Resource Management |
EMSOFT #4 Verified Software, Model Extraction, and Formal Code Generation |
Embedded System Software Competition (ESSC) |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Poster Session (North Shuttle) | ||||
Tuesday, October 6 – Main Conferences, Day 2
| MR10+11 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Award Ceremony (Test of Time Awards and Society Awards) | ||||
| 09:00 – 10:00 | KEYNOTE 2: “Distributed Time-Sensitive Systems”, Prof. Edward Lee, UC Berkeley | ||||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| MR05+06 | MR07+08 | MR12+13 | MR14 | MR10+11 (front rows) | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | CODES #5 Scalable and Resilient Storage Systems |
CASES #5 Efficient LLM Systems and Architectures |
EMSOFT #5 Real-Time Scheduling, Timing, and Control |
CODES #6 Design and Optimization of Heterogeneous Computing Systems |
ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition (SRC) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Poster Session (North Shuttle) | ||||
| 12:30 – 13:15 | Lunch Break (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| MR10+11 | |||||
| 13:15 – 14:00 | IEEE CEDA LUNCHEON KEYNOTE, “The Age of AI — the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, Dr. Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee, Intel | ||||
| MR05+06 | MR07+08 | MR12+13 | MR14 | MR10+11 (front rows) | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | CODES #7 Design Automation and Hardware Design with AIs |
CASES #6 Data-Centric and Near-Memory Architectures |
EMSOFT #6 Efficient AI Scheduling, Acceleration, and Hardware/Algorithm Co-Design |
EMSOFT #7 Security, Resilience, and Robustness of CPS |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break & Poster Session (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| A Special Afternoon of Discovery: Special Sessions | |||||
| 16:00 – 17:30 | CODES SS 1 Chiplets at Scale: Overcoming Design, Thermal, Packaging, and Security Challenges for Next-Generation Heterogeneous Systems |
CASES SS 2 A Cross-Stack Approach to Efficient and Scalable Generative AI |
EMSOFT SS 3 Making Time-Sensitive Networking Deployable: A Comprehensive Lifecycle Architecture |
CODES SS 4 Neuromorphic and Analog Computing for AI-Driven Autonomous Laboratories and Robotics |
CASES SS 5 Hardware-Software Co-Design of Quantum Machine Learning Systems |
| 19:30 – 23:00 | Banquet — Drassanes Reials de Barcelona (Royal Shipyards of Barcelona) | ||||
Wednesday, October 7 – Main Conferences, Day 3
| MR10+11 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Award Ceremony (Best Paper Awards, Competition Awards, and Society Awards) | ||||
| 09:00 – 10:00 | KEYNOTE 3: “Computing Without Looking Away: Embedded AI Architectures for Always-On Smart AR Glasses”, Dr. Orlando Moreira, Snap Inc. | ||||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| MR05+06 | MR07+08 | MR12+13 | MR14 | MR10+11 (front rows) | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | CODES #8 Efficient and Adaptive Edge Sensing Systems |
CASES #7 Security, Cryptography, and Resilience |
EMSOFT #8 Distributed, Networked, and Coordinated Cyber-Physical Systems |
EMSOFT #9 Embedded Software, Storage, OS, and Verified Low-Level Implementation |
PhD Forum 1 |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Poster Session (North Shuttle) | ||||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| 13:30 – 15:00 | CODES #9 Efficient and Robust AI Systems and Architectures |
CASES #8 Emerging and Specialized Architectures |
EMSOFT #10 Timing Semantics, Runtime Monitoring, and Specification Analysis |
CASES #9 Adaptive Computing and System Optimization |
PhD Forum 2 |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break & Poster Session (North Shuttle + Orbital Showroom) | ||||
| MR10+11 | |||||
| 15:30 – 17:00 | PANEL: “Beyond the Prompt: Embedded Education and Research in the Age of AI” | ||||
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Closing Session | ||||
Thursday, October 8 – Symposium and Workshops, Day 1
| MR01 | MR02 | MR03 | MR04.1 | MR04.2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:30 | SDS | NIPS | RSP | MEMOCODE | TCRS |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 – 12:30 | SDS | NIPS | RSP | MEMOCODE | TCRS |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 13:30 – 15:00 | NIPS | RSP | MEMOCODE | TCRS | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 15:30 – 17:00 | NIPS | RSP | MEMOCODE | TCRS | |
Friday, October 9 – Symposium and Workshops, Day 2
| MR01 | MR02 | MR03 | MR04.1 | MR04.2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:30 | WEEPQC | CAIESA | RSP | MEMOCODE | TCRS |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00 – 12:30 | WEEPQC | CAIESA | RSP | MEMOCODE | TCRS |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 13:30 – 15:00 | WEEPQC | CAIESA | MEMOCODE | ||
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 15:30 – 17:00 | WEEPQC | CAIESA | |||
