[Announcements] IEEE PerCom 2026: Few Tickets remain! Call for Participation

[Peter Zdankin]

Dear colleagues,

Due to strong interest, registration is nearing capacity for IEEE PerCom 2026.

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                          FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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                              IEEE PerCom 2026
Twenty-Fourth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications


                           https://percom.org/


                            Pisa, Italy
                           March 16 - 20, 2026
                   Area della Ricerca del CNR




                                Sponsored by:
 
                  IEEE Computer Society (IEEE TCCC, IEEE TCPP)
                     Institute for Informatics and Telematics
                        Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
               Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier)
                        National Science Foundation
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https://www.percom.org/registration/


Main Features:
*** Two Keynotes: Federated AGI: A Generational Opportunity for Pervasive Computing – Prof. Nicholas Lane & Beyond Accuracy: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown in Sensor-Based Human Behavior Modeling – Prof. Silvia Santini – https://www.percom.org/key-note-speakers/
*** 34 Full Papers (3 Best Paper Candidates) – https://www.percom.org/technical-program-main-conference/
*** Academic Panel: What AI Did (and Didn’t) Do in Our PerCom Papers. Moderator: Prof. George Roussos; Panelists: Prof. Delphine Reinhardt, Dr. Georgios Bouloukakis, Prof. Takuya Maekawa, Dr. Ella Peltonen, Prof. Dr. Sajal K. Das
*** Industry Panel: AI Beyond the Lab - Are We Solving the Problems Industry Actually Has? Moderator: Dr. Claudio Cicconetti; Panelists: Dr. Novella Buonaccorsi, Dr. Giada Landi, Dr. Alessandro Erta, Dr. Markus Sauer
*** Work-in-Progress Session – https://www.percom.org/accepted-papers-wip/
*** Demonstration Session – https://www.percom.org/accepted-papers-demo/
*** PhD Forum – https://www.percom.org/accepted-papers-phd-forum/
*** N2Women Event
*** Fourteen Workshops – https://www.percom.org/list-of-workshops/


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Preliminary Program Outline
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March 16: Pre-Conference Workshops
March 17-19: Main Conference
March 17-18: Keynote Talks
March 18-19: Panel Discussions
March 17: Demo and PhD Forum
March 17: Welcome Reception
March 18: Work-in-Progress Session
March 18: Conference Banquet
March 20: Post-Conference Workshops




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Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Nicholas Lane, University of Cambridge, Flower Labs
Federated AGI: A Generational Opportunity for Pervasive Computing


Prof. Silvia Santini, Università della Svizzera italiana
Beyond Accuracy: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown in Sensor‑Based Human Behavior Modeling


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 Panel Discussions
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ACADEMIC PANEL


Topic: What AI Did (and Didn’t) Do in Our PerCom Papers
Moderator: Prof. George Roussos, University of London


Panelists:
Prof. Delphine Reinhardt — University of Göttingen
Dr. Georgios Bouloukakis — University of Patras
Prof. Takuya Maekawa — Osaka University (Institute for Advanced Co-Creation Studies)
Dr. Ella Peltonen — University of Oulu
Prof. Dr. Sajal K. Das — Missouri University of Science and Technology


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INDUSTRY PANEL


Topic: AI Beyond the Lab - Are We Solving the Problems Industry Actually Has?
Moderator: Dr. Claudio Cicconetti


Panelists:
Dr. Novella Buonaccorsi — Valmet
Dr. Giada Landi — Nextworks
Dr. Alessandro Erta — Cisco
Dr. Markus Sauer — Siemens Foundational Technologies


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Technical Program – https://percom.org/technical-program-main-conference/
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BEST PAPER CANDIDATES


Wandatch: Infrastructure-Free Point-to-Command with Smartwatches and Speakers
Lin Chen, Yandao Huang, Minghui Qiu, Shuxin Zhong, Jun Chen, Kaishun Wu


HoloQRam: Efficient Real-Time Spatial Video Delivery via Animated QR Codes
Jaewon Choi, JeongGil Ko


MentalCare: Contrastive Disentanglement and Positive Transfer for Psychiatric Disorder Detection with a Wristband-Smartphone System
Yufei Zhang, Wenting Kuang, Zite Huang, Changhe Fan, Yongpan Zou


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Workshops – https://www.percom.org/list-of-workshops/
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Monday, March 16


BRAIN – 7th International Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Laura Ricci, Nishanth Sastry, Matteo Loporchio
https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/brain-2026/home
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DIGITA – 2nd International Workshop on Digital Twin Ecosystems & Applications
Samuele Burattini, Lukas Esterle, Sara Montagna, Marco Picone
http://digita-percom.github.io/2026/
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PerFail – 5th International Workshop on Negative Results in Pervasive Computing
Ella Peltonen, Peter Zdankin, Tanya Shreedhar, Malte Josten
https://perfail-workshop.github.io/2026/
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PerRad – 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Radars
Abdelwahed Khamis, Anuradha Ravi, Sandip Chakraborty, Suchetana Chakraborty
http://perradar.github.io <http://perradar.github.io/>
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PerVehicle – 7th International Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems
Susumu Ishihara, Hiroshi Shigeno, Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Yanqiu Huang
https://www.pervehicle.org <https://www.pervehicle.org/>
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TrustSense – 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Computing Challenges in Trustable Crowdsensing Systems
Luca Bedogni, Stefano Ferretti, Debasree Das, Christine Bassem
https://sites.google.com/view/ieee-trustsense2026/home
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WiSense – 3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Sensing and Edge Computing
Eyuphan Bulut, Muhammad Shahzad, Michele Rossi
https://ebulutvcu.github.io/WiSense26/


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Friday, March 20


CoMoRe-AI – 22nd International Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition with AI
Gabriele Civitarese, Pascal Hirmer, Jadwiga Indulska, Shruthi K. Hiremath
https://sites.google.com/view/comoreai26
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EmotionSense – 1st International Workshop on Human-centred Emotion-Awareness and Sensing in Pervasive Computing
Judith Simone Heinisch, Flavio Di Martino, Klaus David, Franca Delmastro
https://sites.google.com/view/emotionsense2026/start
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PeRConAI – 5th International Workshop on Pervasive and Resource-Constrained Artificial Intelligence
Lorenzo Valerio, Franco Maria Nardini, Mario Luca Bernardi, Riccardo Pecori
http://perconai.iit.cnr.it/
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SayGreeN – 1st International Workshop on AI Sustainability in/for Green Networking
Greta Vallero, Daniela Renga, Vincenzo Mancuso
http://saygreen2026.polito.it/
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SPT-IoT – 9th International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Things
Shantanu Pal, Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Helen Paik
https://sites.google.com/view/spt-iot-2026
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TELMED – 5th International Workshop on Telemedicine and e-Health in the Digital Society
Piero Castoldi, Anna Lina Ruscelli, Lorenzo Mucchi, Matti Hämäläinen
https://telmed.santannapisa.it <https://telmed.santannapisa.it/>
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URBSENSE – 1st International Workshop on URBan SENSEmaking and Intelligence for Safer Cities
Natalia Selini Hadjidimitriou, Marcello Pietri, Angelo Furno, Thorsten Koch
https://www.urbsense.org/
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