Friday, 20th March, 2026 – Full Day
Registration and Welcome (8:30-9:00)
First Session (9:00-10:30) Chair: Shantanu Pal, Deakin University, Australia
9:00-09:45: Keynote: Rethinking Security and Privacy in the Era of Pervasive Edge Intelligence, Prof. Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Technical Session Theme: Secure & Trustworthy IoT Systems and Networks
9:45-10:00: HOURS: Lightweight, Orchestrated Security for UAV Swarm Telemetry, Mohamed El-Hadedy (California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
10:00-10:15: Security Risks in Multi-Hop Preconfigured Remote Environments for IoT and IIoT Networks, Marek Michalski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland & Institute of Communications and Computer Networks, Poland)
10:15-10:30: Offloading of Security Tasks in Multi-access Edge Computing for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices, Marten Fischer; Ralf Tönjes (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany)
Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)
Second Session (11:00-12:30) Chair: Shantanu Pal, Deakin University, Australia
11:00-11:45: Keynote: Security, Privacy and Trust for Resource-Constrained Connected Devices, Prof. Stephan Sigg, Aalto University, Finland
Technical Session Theme: Privacy-Preserving AI & Digital Twins
11:45:12:00: Privacy-Preserving Multi-Layer Human Digital Twins with User-Controlled Data Management, Francesco Franco; Lorenzo Lamazzi; Emanuele Zarfati; Luca Bedogni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
12:00-12:15: Selective Data Sharing for Digital Product Passports using Heterogeneous Twins, Ranjit Kannappan (Telecom Sud Paris & Orange Innovation, France); Julien Hatin (Orange Innovation, France); Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France)
12:15-12:30: A Benchmarking Framework for Privacy-Preserving Human Pose Estimation on Edge Devices, Matteo Mugnai; Francesco Pistolesi; Francesca Righetti; Giuseppe Anastasi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Lunch (12:30-14:00)
Third Session (14:00-15:30) Chair: Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan
14:00-14:45: Keynote: From IoT Security to Infrastructure-Native Trust: 5G Core, O-RAN, and SDN as Enablers of Zero-Trust IoT, Dr. Domenico Scotece, University of Bologna, Italy
Technical Session Theme: Federated & Encrypted Learning for IoT Analytics
14:45-15:00: PEMPEM: Encrypted Ensemble Training for Internet-of-Things Time-Series Forecasting, Alessandro Falcetta; Manuel Roveri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
15:00-15:10: TruFedSense: Trust-Aware Federated Learning for Multi-Fault Heterogeneous IoT Sensor Streams, Sukitha Kondagurle; Suchetana Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)
15:15-15:30: Resource-Efficient Streaming Feature Extraction for Real-Time IoT DDoS Detection, Drixter Velayo Hernandez; Yu-Kuen Lai; Thi-Thanh-An Nguyen (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan)
Coffee Break (15:30-16:00)
Fourth Session (16:00-18:00) Chair: Shantanu Pal, Deakin University, Australia
Technical Session Theme: Communication, Networking & Applied Security Technologies
16:00:16:15: Authenticity and Confidentiality in Flow-Based Closed-Loop Molecular Communication Systems, Yannick Specht (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Stephan Sigg (Aalto University, Finland)
16:15-16:30: embedded-cal: A Formally Verified Cryptographic Provider for Embedded Platforms, Elsa Lopez Perez (Inria Paris & AIO, France); William Takeshi Pereira; Thomas Watteyne (Inria, France); Christian Amsüss (Austria); Franziskus Kiefer; Jonas Schneider-Bensch (Cryspen, Germany); Karthikeyan Bhargavan (Cryspen, France); Mališa Vučinić (Inria, France)
16:30-16:45: Environment-Aware Probabilistic Distributed Scheduling for Emergency LoRa Networks, Yuto Inaba; Tatsuya Amano; Akihito Hiromori; Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
16:45-17:00: Enhancing Maritime Security with Blockchain-Enabled IoT Drone Networks, Saurabh Agrawal (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India); Anusha Vangala (National Institute of Technology Warangal, India); Ashok Kumar Das (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India); Neeraj Kumar (Thapar University Patiala, India)
Workshop Closing (17:00-17:15)