The 15th CONASENSE Workshop on Cognitive, Energy-Efficient IoT-Edge-Cloud Resource Orchestration took place on 10 November 2025, co-located with IEEE WPMC 2025. Hosted in a hybrid format across fortiss and Sofia, Bulgaria, the workshop brought together researchers, engineers, and industry practitioners for a full day of technical sessions, invited talks, project demonstrations, and a panel discussion focused on the CONASENSE Working Groups’ vision and priorities for 2026.

As part of the CODECO Innovation and Research Community Engagement Programme (IRCEP), a Best Paper Talk Award was presented to recognize outstanding contributions at the workshop. This year’s award went to Paulo Sergio Rufino Henrique and co-authors for their presentation titled “Designing for 6G Adoption: A Market-Driven Framework for Trustworthy, Personalized, and Inclusive Next-Gen UX,” delivered during the Technical Session chaired by Rute C. Sofia.

The awarded work addresses key challenges in next-generation connectivity, with a focus on trustworthy and human-centric 6G adoption, personalised and inclusive user experiences, and market-driven frameworks aligned with real-world deployment realities. The research represents a timely and concrete contribution to the evolving international 6G roadmap.

The CODECO project congratulates the winning team on this well-deserved recognition and thanks the CONASENSE community, the IEEE WPMC 2025 organisers, and all participants whose engagement made the workshop a success.

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Best Talk Award, ML4ECS, HiPEAC 2025

IRCEP, which aims to support researchers, SMEs, and developers in key areas related to CODECO, awarded the Best Talk Award at the ML4ECS Workshop during HiPEAC 2025 to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of cloud-edge computing. The winners, whose presentations received the highest votes, were Georgia Christofidi, Francisco Alvarez Terribas, and Anastassios Nanos, each receiving a total monetary award of 2800€*. The awarded talks are as follows:

• Georgia Christofidi, Francisco Alvarez Terribas, Jesus Alberto Omaña Iglesias, Nicolas Kourtellis, and Thaleia Dimitra Doudali for their talk on CaRE: Towards Carbon and Resource Efficient Orchestration at the Cloud-Edge Continuum.
• Francisco Alvarez Terribas and Ferran Diego Andilla for their innovative approach in Scheduling Inference Workloads on Distributed Edge Clusters with Reinforcement Learning.
• Anastassios Nanos, Charalampos Mainas, Georgios Ntoutsos, and Ilias Lagomatis for their presentation on Scalable and Lightweight Cloud-Native Application Sandboxing.

These cutting-edge presentations showcased some of the most impactful research in optimizing cloud-edge systems, highlighting their potential for future advancements in this rapidly evolving field.

More opportunities will be available here very soon!

*The monetary value of 2800€ is the reference amount that was agreed upon specifically for this event. This amount may differ in other events due to a variety of factors. Each event may have its own set of circumstances that influence the final award value, and as such, the value may vary accordingly from one occasion to another. The awardees were required to sign a Statement of Discharge, acknowledging this, and future recipients will also need to do the same.